SQUIRREL!!!! (organization of the charity room)

It's time to get the "charity room" organized prior to the first guild meeting starting next month.  

If you remember, I am taking over as Charity Chairperson for the guild and ALL the fabric was brought to my house.  We prepped a room by cleaning it out, painting, putting in a cutting table (old kitchen island) and made a big board for ironing some of the fabric as needed.

So this is where I started on Friday.

Day 1

After looking at those pictures once I have been in that room for almost 8 hours, I am thinking it was pretty neat.  It's not now!

My goal is to touch each piece of fabric and get it organized into "like" piles.

Sounded like a good plan, except when you have to empty ALL the bins before you can start putting it all back together organized.

It's getting worse by the minute.

Oh heck......squirrel!   

I found something that would make a cute pillowcase kit, so I had to iron that and cut it out.

I can't be doing that all day or nothing else will get done., but I couldn't resist.  Those fabrics were just calling my name.

I did get the solids organized.

I may have to lay the fabrics down in the bins ; otherwise, they aren't going to stay as neat as I had hoped.  

I, also, got the plaids in a bin, but couldn't lay my bin down so that the fabrics could be seen easily.  I'll have to see what I can do about that.  

But that's it for tonight.  I am bushed and it was really getting hard to move around in there.  So I will save the rest for another day.  At least it is headway.  One more day and it will be done and ready to start making kits, although I think I counted 27 kits left over from the previous gal

Day 2.....

Did I say one more day?  NOT....

I worked  several  more hours.  I took a lot of the fabric off the cardboard holders because I felt I could fit more fabric on a shelf without them; I refolded several pieces (yardage) of the fabric because whoever had them before folded them inside out (?);  started stacking the shelves; cut a couple more pillowcases (just because).....

Here's where I stand at the end of day two.

I'm getting there.   

Dare I say one more day?

Yeah!  Day 3 was short.

It's all put where it belongs.  I can move in there, Everything is much neater and organized.  That's the way I like it.

Here's a little tour of the finished project.

First the whites/ivories went from this to this.

All ready to iron.

There is still a bin of pre-made kits from the previous committee, but my committee and I will be going through those later this week.   I am just happy that all the fabric is organized and now  a day or two can be called my own and I can  do something for myself before the committee shows up this weekend to starting moving forward full steam ahead.

There is a UFO that will be completed within those couple  days  of me time and I am anxious to get it done and share it with you.  

Well, thanks for coming on the tour.  I'll share what we produce from  someone else's stash.  I don't foresee it to be like working from your own, but that's the challenge.