One step has been taken!

Well, all your advice has paid off - some progress has been made.  I've gone from:

The books are now in another  room on a different shelf unit, but still accessible to the sewing room.  Gosh I have over 200 books - I must do a weeding!  And I've just ordered 2 more - LOL!  Any way I decided to put the 15 UFOs I'll be working on for Judy's challenge on the shelf.  That way even if I haven't made  a lot of progress, I'll know I can just go around the corner of my sewing area and find the project I am suppose to be working on and not panic that I can't find it.  The added bonus is that I was able to unearth my grandparents' antique rocker, and I can now enjoy it while I do some hand sewing.  That is until I move it in April when I take on watching little Alan while Momma Em goes back to work.  Looking forward to that! 

And here's the rocker:                                      Big change from this:

My UFO 2011 List

My progress this Thursday is I found the 12 UFOs plus 3 extra for the upcoming challenge.  I didn't have to look far - they were all on the rocking chair!  I'm doing Judy's UFO Challenge for 2011.  You can find the button for this on my left sidebar.  Here are the ones of the many I have that I am going to work on in 2011. I'm suppose to finish one per month as she calls them (number that is).

1.  Floral charm square exchange to make a lattice quilt - least done on this one.

2.  Women's Voices blocks made by Dorothy

 3.  Mod quilt I need to QAYG.

4.  BOM quilt only 3 blocks made so far - 9 to go!



 5. Mary Ellen Hopkins - design your own quilt - I started with the cat panel block and came up with this top I call it "Watching all the Birds go By"

6.  Charity quilt top I made making blocks I saw in a Connecting Threads catalog.

7.  My Carolina Christmas blocks - I'd sure like to get this done before NEXT Christmas!  Please call this number early, Judy.

8.  My daughter's quilt that I"ve worked on this year until I put the wrong fabric as a backing when making a row by QAYG.  I wasn't thinking!

 9.  A Judy Sisneros pattern and kit  needs to be sanwiched and quilted.

10.  Here's my coverlet - sure would be nice to finish it by July to go on our bed.

11. A quilt I wanted to finish for Leo that I'll now finish for Alan.



12.  My grandson, William, arranged these blocks when he was 3 years old for me to quilt.  He's 8.

If I finish a UFO early in the month I"ll work on these:
   A.  Here is another BOM set I won - these are made from Christmas material.

B.  The Shop Hop Blocks

C.  Two fabrics I must make into something this year - maybe not a quilt project.



Listing UFOs or Not

Over at Judy's blog, Patchwork Times, she is hosting a UFO challenge.  First step is to find your ufos and make a list of 12 of them you want to finish in 2011.  If you're fortunate enough not to have 12 to finish, you  divide them into steps so that you can work on one part each month.  On the last day of the month, she'll draw the number we're suppose to work on.  Thing is I have so many, it will take me longer to do that than to finish one - LOL!

Here's my dilemma - my sewing room is a big mess.  My stash is in all kinds of places.  I can't find anything most of the time.  That may be why I've become a Serial Project Starter because it's easier to begin something new than to find that project I was working on.  Sighhhhhhhhhhhh!

Can't be that bad?  Check these out:

My primary stash on left - yep, I'll have to find a place for my books other than a shelf.  Right is rest of that wall with shelves of magazines, odds & ends, some orphan blocks.Continuing to the right is my cutting table, ironing board, and machine and under it 9 boxes of strips, scraps and projects.  That's 2 walls.   The third wall is mostly windows but there are 3 boxes filled with clippings, file folders and, yes, more projects and fabric plus an antique rocker piled high with projects and odds and ends. You can see the buried rocker on the left of the third photo.

 On the last wall there are more boxes plus bags of fabric, my Janome, a 4 drawer plastic bin and the heater which keeps me unfrozen in winter - it's portable.



Then come the large drawers under the closets - 3 of them - 2 stuffed with projects and fabric and one only half filled with more stash.

 

and finally in the guest room closet there are 2 boxes of fabric.  In the addition there are 2 boxes of fabric and stuff.  How did this happen?  Sadly 2 dear quilter friends died in 08 within months of each other and their husbands decided I needed their quilt stuff.  I gave tons away and the rest you see.  This year I hope to get rid of a lot more as I do stash reduction and get rid of some of those ufos - mine, Becky's and Dorothy's.                                                                                                                                     

So where do I start?