Pictures of my Stash Room "In Progress".....

October 25, 2005

Boy, this month is zooming by! of course, it doesn't help that I have had a sinus infection for nearly 3 weeks, and a flu, and my husband has been in the hospital for a week, unexpectedly, I might add. All that makes for a busy month and not much productivity.

But, I do have some temporary pics (not really finished with the work in my stash room) of my stash room -- and here are a few of them to give you an idea of what it will look like, and what I am busy with right now. I hope to have it all put together by the end of this month, or in another week -- other than the new furniture which I hope to get nearer to Christmas. I hope to buy a new chair, lamp, and a ottoman for the room, as well as a television with a DVD player so I can watch movies or hear music as I stitch away the Winter.

This first picture above is of the North wall in my Stash room. The frames are not filled yet, but will have Quaker Designs in them eventually. I put them on the wall both because they are out of the way there, and to be a constant reminder to me of the stitching I need to fulfill to get them all filled with designs. A great way to be nagged 'silently' .

This is a picture of the bookcase in my Stash Room -- there are two of them, and I will post the second one later in this blog. They hold my books, some needlework books, though most of my needlework books are on the top shelf of my closet, which you will also see in a moment. It has helped me organize my books to some degree, though I have many more containers of books in the garage at the moment. What I really need is an additional room, preferrably a study added to my house . IN this photo you can see two of my floss cabinets that I put together to hold all my flosses. They are in the File a Floss type bags that have little "pendaflex" type tabs that can be hung on metal rods. I added the metal rods to my cabinets, and then all the little tabs with floss bags. These two cabinets with 5 drawers contain my DMC, Anchor, Sampler Thread, Weeks Dye Works, and Olde Willow Threads. I have two other cabinets that hold my Silks and perle cottons. It makes a great way to keep all your stash in place, and much easier to find a particualr floss when you need it.




This is a picture of my cabinets on the North wall -- there are two - 2 door cabinets; They are filled with all sorts of books and tapes, and magazine files with charts and more charts and some kits, and miscellaneous needlework gadgets.
The doors are wonderful as they hide all my 'stuff', and it makes the whole room look neater .

The following picture is of the baskets I filled with my projects. The larger basket is filled with UFOs of all kinds, from previous years, and the interesting thing is I love them

all, so they will all eventually be stitched on and finished. The second smaller basket is filled with kitted projects, and things I am looking forward to stitching on in 2006 and beyond most likely . These are wonderful pieces, and oh how I wished I had more time for stitching so I could get to them all sooner.

This is my second basket of UFOs, but more recently abandoned for other projects. At the moment I am working on the Quaker Huswife as a SAL project, the Marquior Sampler which I am down to the last 4 squares of 9, And They Sinned, which is still on the first page; Hannah Pepper which is still on the first section from the Fine Lines magazine and the borders. I am also finishing up two UFOs which are Heart in Hand's Bless You. I have the frame for this one and will complete the finishing and get it into the frame when I am done with it this week. I am also working on an old UFO which is Eileen Bennett's Rockhome sampler. I started this maybe 2 years or so ago and am down to the last band on this one. Will get that finished but it has to be professionally framed, so won't be on the walls right away. I'm glad to be finishing a few things though as I hve not had a lot of productive stitching time this year, and certainly not enough finishes as yet. But there are still 2 months in the year and I hope to finish the Marquior Sampler, and the Quaker Huswife front panel of stitching at least by the end of the year. There are some gorgeous works in progress in that brown basket, including a Sampler in a Year by Linda Driskell, which is a drawn thread project; Lily and Laurel by The Heart's Content which I intend to finish as a memorial sampler for my Mom Rosalie, who was also called Lily. I'll make a list of all my UFOs and post them here for you to view before long. I really do want to get to these projects and finish them, though I think it may take me several years to get to them all. But I will enjoy the process of working on each one I"m sure and that makes it enjoyable 'work'.

It seems I am having a little difficulty loading my pics tonight, so I'll try adding them in another post. Yes, there are more, and more stash as well, so check out the next post .

Have a great day today too!

Cathy C