I love crafting. I also love how I go through phases in my life where different things become more intriguing and compelling for me. I got a little burned out on crafting over the holidays. I made 2 aprons for my husband's brother and his wife and then I made a 2 sided appliqued fleece blanket for my brother. They both turned into last minute works, delaying our departure to my husband's parent's house to finish the aprons, and cutting off the extra fabric for my brother's blanket in the car to the airport. So I came home to a messy, disorganized craft room.
Needless to say, I haven't really entered back in except while looking for index cards (which I couldn't find). So I've decided to make organizing and cleaning up (and out) the room my new crafty priority. One thing I have is 2 giant boxes full of random fabric (from quilting cotton to corduroy to lining material to who knows what this is for). Another thing I have is a pile of clothes that I either almost love or have bizarre, unreasonable attachment to and can't get rid of, but I haven't bothered to do anything with them yet. I have been following Amanda Jean on Crazy Mom Quilts and she has this goal of making 101 projects purely from scraps to help control her quilting fabric. So I was thinking I could do the same sort of thing.
I plan on:
1st, picking an article of clothing that I either need to alter or rework and give myself 30 days to do something with it. If the 30 days goes by and nothing happens with it, it's being donated.
Once that first one is done, I pick the next article of clothing that day and have 30 days to work with that. So worst case - I end up giving away 12 articles of clothing by the end of the year (meaning this may take a few years to get through all of them), or best case - I'll have 12+ new items in my wardrobe by the end of the year. And some I may refashion and realize I don't like the new one any more than the old so off it'll go.
2nd, picking a number (101 seams...ha totally unintentional pun!...seems a little high, but maybe it's good to aim high. Go for Gold!) of projects that I'd like to complete that use up my 2 boxes of random fabrics. While doing that, I'll go through and decide if some fabrics just aren't worth saving (or should be used as filler or batting for another project). The idea is to hold off on the next quilt until I get rid of a bunch of this other fabric. So I'm going bold, but not too bold. 57. I plan on doing 57 projects with the box fabric before I can look to do another quilt.
I like this kind of pressure. Not overwhelming, but for the box fabric, it'll be great motivation to be creative and think of what I need in life and how I can make it out of fabric! It'll be like my 31 projects in 31 days that I used to do (hey, it's February! I totally missed it this year! Awkward embarrassment) except that this time they have to all contain fabric. But that's cool, most of my other one's did anyway.
Already I've got my mind thinking hard. Like, if I plan on organizing my craft room, I'm going to need some nice containers for things and I really have loved all those fabric boxes/baskets that I've been seeing and I've got some heavy weight material that would stand the test of time.
Do you have ideas for me? I've got a lot of projects to do and any piece of inspiration is helpful! I'll post them as I do them and I'll show my clothing article that I plan to redo as well, and show the finished product if I end up refashioning it! So excited for progress. And cleanliness. And orderliness. I like those things.
See you soon...
(with projects!)
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