A MAJOR JANUARY PROJECT
For a long time...not months but years, I have wanted to reorganise and make my sewing room a usable room rather than a giant walk-in closet. It has always been the room where we dumped the stuff that didn't have a home. There was a pathway to the ironing board but other than ironing, it was a room I and everyone else avoided.
I knew this was a massive job which was why I procrastinated. I also was afraid that as soon as I got rid of stuff, I would want it and not be able to find the discontinued patterns, antique buttons, perfect piece of fabric, etc.
After a brief discussion with Doug in which I demonstrated the instability of the current shelves, he agreed that changes needed to be made. I'm not sure if he realised that he was also agreeing to painting.
Early in January, I started. Trip after trip down the stairs I emptied out the shelves. After a full day, the room was empty.

My living room looked like this.
After painting and building new shelves, I still had to deal with piles of stuff. Never junk. Treasures I accumulated over the years. Necessary Stash to create Works of Art.
There were many trips up the stairs with armloads of books. I sorted and filled boxes for charities. I filled bags for the garbage collectors. I had second thoughts and pulled stuff out of the boxes. I filled more boxes. I had more second thoughts and pulled stuff out of the closet and threw it into the charity boxes. I filled more garbage bags. Many more trips up to put threads and yarn in the shelves.


I finally found room for everything I decided to keep. Some things are left on shelves for everyone to see.
Other things are kept neatly out of sight. Even my closet door closes again!

Today I hung some of the pictures. There are still some changes that I want to make but for now, I'm done.
Oh yeah, How long did it take before I was looking for something only to discover that it was gone, never to be seen again? Less than a week.

RESOLUTIONS AND PLANS
In the spirit of the New Year and keeping with tradition, I felt that I should make a number of resolutions to make me a better person. First of all, I thought that I should not procrastinate anymore. Check the date. That one ain't gonna happen!I then thought that maybe would be a better person if if I became more active. That one died on the treadmill on January 5.Okay, maybe I should try for the easy ones. I will Knit more! This the Mystic Waters Shawl that was started in November and finished on January 15. A lovely pattern. I enjoyed knitting it and love that it's a huge shawl...even though at times it felt like I would never finish it.Another hat for LD. It's a size 2-4 so hopefully it will fit him for more than a month.Cables in the square. Why do I always pick large lace patterns. In a moment of weakness, I decided this one should be even bigger and cast on one extra panel to make it a square shawl. The malibrigo yarn I received for Christmas is so soft and squishy and wonderful to knit with that I'm also considering increasing the length of this shawl. As long as I'm resolving to knit more, I might as well fall into the completely crazy level of knitting obsession.The Unst Bridal Shawl. I've wanted to knit this pattern for awhile and decided that 2008 is the year for it. The fact that it's a bridal shawl has nothing to do with my S#1 and his oh so perfect girlfriend coming over and showing us "the Ring". The wedding isn't planned until '09.
My fourth resolution for 2008 is to finish DH's Christmas socks before the end of January. 6 days to go. I think I can do it.

Organization may or may not happen in 2008.

Finally, I will blog more! No more waiting for a month between posts. They will be interesting comments on the state of the world and educating knitting essays. Okay, that's a lie. There might be pictures.