Sunday and Monday

[vynehorn]

Sunday was my "attempt to reorganize the sewing room / guest bedroom / SCa library room" day. Old shelving and bookcase came out, and new (and smaller) IKEA shelving was assembled and put in place. After that, it was just a matter of purging and finding a place for the things I want to keep. I still have three plastic bins in the room. One is full of velvets and stays because it helps the cats reach the cutting table, where they love to perch. The other two are devoted to linen fabric and patterns, and both are full. I might be able to transfer some of the linen to the new shelves, but not all of it, and there's simply no other place for me to put all the patterns. Must think about creative alternatives.... At any rate, by the time the purge was done, I'd brought out two garbage bags to the dumpster, and filled three more with fabric to donate to Goodwill. I was fairly ruthless this time - many of the survivors from my last purge 3 years or so ago didn't make the cut this time. It was a wrench to get rid of some of it, but alot was stuff I'll never miss, and not worth my time to try to sell it at an event. 

I took a break in the middle of the day to go see Cowboys and Aliens with mom. It was a great summer movie - action, no thinking required, and it had one of my favorite actors, Harrison Ford. What more can you ask for?

Today's fun was my first trip to WEBS in Northampton, MA. Mom came along and ended up buying the wool to make a shawl that was displayed. Despite shopping in the sale warehouse portion, I came out with a much larger dent to the purse. I bought mostly yarns to use to make scarves on the rigid heddle loom, which means I need to weave them all by the end of the week, when the loom needs to go back. I wove one scarf today which was meant for my sister but will probably go to my niece, warped another scarf, and wove a bit. Tomorrow I hope to get two more done between other things. They do work up pretty fast.