I started it yesterday and it was more than just cleaning out my studio, it was a purge.
I was in my studio making some potholders and suddenly I get the feeling that I needed to move some of the old fabric in my studio. Some of the stuff I’ve had for years and never used. I couldn’t help but feel it as weighing me down.
So I started going through it, all of it, every piece and scrap.
Some of the fabric I put aside to donate to our thrift store in town. Some of it I actually threw away. I filled two bags with clothes I had bought at thrift stores and never used to go in the clothes bin at the American Legion. I have another box of fabric I’ll donate to the High School Theater Club if they want it.
The stuff I kept I refolded and put on different shelves. It was about shaking things up, moving the energy around.
And as I went through it all I felt a shift in my studio. A clearing. I also got reacquainted with the fabric I do have. It also reminds me to use what I have, not to save it for someday. Because there’s a lot of fabric in the world and a lot of it comes to me in one way or another.
Tomorrow I’ll go into my studio knowing there’s more space there, with the weight of the unusable fabric gone.
That’s awesome! The last 2 days at work we’ve been sending records to offsite retention & recycling old stuff that we don’t need to save.
I do have a twin size quilt that my grandmother made & my mom repaired. It has similar colors to “That’s Enough”; it’s been sitting the closet for the last 15 years since it has a few ratty sections. I could send you a picture to see if you want it?
It must be in the air. I’d love to see it and I have room for it now. In more ways than one.
What a great pic of your studio in the process of being “refreshed”. I can almost feel the new energy flowing in and around your studio as you “remove the old weight”. Annie
I love clearing space.