The Greek Murder Mystery quilt from 2024 is finally finished! I did murder mystery quilts in both 2023 and 2024, and now both of those are finished. I used the colors the designer used, but I felt like the quilt wasn't cohesive. I had the border print in stash, and it had a lot of colors in the main quilt, so I added another border. I think it brings the quilt together fairly well.
I'm almost halfway done quilting another large quilt. It would be nice to have another finish to show you soon, but we'll see. My decluttering has turned into doing some rearranging in both my fabric room and my sewing room, so they are both a hot mess right now.
The disaster that is my fabric room. It gets worse before it gets better, right? One part of my fabric room that does look better is the bookcase. I still haven't dealt with the leftover fabrics from Christmas sewing. I didn't take a photo of my sewing room today, but at one point you couldn't walk through it because of rearranging things, but now I can get to all the sewing machines without a problem. There are still things to be dealt with, but the fabric room is the bigger disaster.
My goal was to get the magazines, and quilt books all on this narrow corner shelf. I was OK with the FMQ books staying in the sewing room, but you know what? I got rid of enough that all my books are on this shelf, along with all the larger quilt patterns that don't fit in the drawer I use for those, plus I still have space!!! I was really glad I went through all the quilting magazines and books in about a week. It really made me realize how many patterns are just re-done with different fabrics and republished. One book I bought for a specific pattern, I realized I had the same pattern in the same fabrics in TWO quilting books, plus in a magazine! I kept enough books that I have plenty of eye candy, but what really helped me to let things go was looking through my quilt closet. Most of the quilts hanging in there were not made from a pattern at all. They were either based on something I saw online, or I designed it from scratch.
There is still so much to do, but I think in the end I'll be happier with the changes. I've also been busy sewing up all the stacks of quilt blocks I keep finding into quilt tops. I haven't taken many photos of the design wall, but here is one of the latest.
Lest you think I am all work and no play, I did catch a beautiful sunset.
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