My Stash Room

HI all,
Well, I have been spending a good deal of time today cleaning and organizing my stash room. Since we put in the carpet, I have had stacks of patterns, kits, and UFOs (Unfinished Objects -- meaning unfinished stitching projects) in the room, but have not had a chance to get in there to organize all of it in the allotted space. I did add two bookcases in my stash room which hold my books -- both needlework and other Christian books I have collected. I also have two large 70" x 32" cabinets that are filled with Christian tapes and more of my cross stitch charts and kits.

Today I managed to sort through all the things that were in the room except for a few stacks of patterns which I will work on tomorrow. For now, I have sorted all my UFOs into one basket (a fairly large one), and all my new kits or kitted projects into another basket. There was one basket that I had already sorted and it has more of my Works in Progress (WIPs) turned UFO - - at least for the moment. I'll be getting back to the UFOs in my brown basket sooner because they were abandoned so I could concentrate on about 3-4 of my projects. AS I finish the ones I am currently working on (Marquoir Sampler, Quaker Huswife, Quaker RR, And They Sinned, Hannah Pepper), I will go back to these other projects and eventually empty out that brown basket. That still leaves me with literally dozens of other UFOs that I have started in the past and for whatever reason abanadoned for something else. AT this point, it will take a while to get them all done, but I have every intention of working through those baskets and emptying them eventually.

I'll take some pictures of my stash as soon as I get the room organized wellenough to take some photographs. I"m getting close though, and honestly, it is really nice to go in there and at least see the piles worked into baskets instead of heaps, and the threads are all in a couple of bags. I have more fibers to file into their little drawers, but that will happen soon enough. I do hope to start doing my stitching in that room instead of using the livingroom for my stitching spot. Thsi way I keep the livingroom cleaner, and can pull out my projects as I work on them in the stash room.

There are a lot of projects in that room, and I have plans to do a lot more stitching now that Fall has arrived. Stitching time improves considerably for me during the Fall and Winter months, and I hope to finish at least two of my larger projects before the end of the year, and at least two small ones. This will give me room for a few more small projects, a UFO or two, and another large project. AT this point, I am tossing between Edcina Pieters as one of the big ones, or starting the Houses Of Hawk Run Hollow. I'm not sure which one will win out though...still tossing them in my mind . Here is a link to the Edcina Pieters Sampler
http://wyndhamneedleworks.com/Magazines/Sampler Antique Needlework/Volume_40a.jpg
and one to the House of Hawk Run Hollow Design by Carriage House Samplings http://wyndhamneedleworks.com/Carriage House_Samplings/Houses_of_Hawk_Run_Hollow.jpg

They are both great designs -- and I'd really love to start both of them.

My 'tradition' of the last few years is to start a project on Thanksgiving, one on Christmas Day and one on New Years, so I could easily 'justify' starting these two and one more ....but I also want to finish some of the older things -- so we'll see later how this turns out.

I will be posting pics of my stash room in the next week....so come and look later on .

Cathy C