WOW: Another Pomegranate

WOW: WIPs On Wednesdays

I've uncovered another packed away treasure whilst tidying up my sewing room: it's my pattern Pomegranate. It's a popular pattern that was released in a magazine and I made two of the wall hangings. The red and white published version and this started and set aside black, white and red version. I've looked for this quite a few times as I would like to finish it sometime! That makes it a newly discovered WIP and I'm happy to add it to my list of quilts to get done.

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Oma's Blues Part 7 is Launched

Oma's Blues is my current free BOM: you can download all the parts over in my Yahoo BOM Group and currently all the parts are available for free, so if you haven't started this quilt, you can still join in! I've just started Oma's Blues myself and I'm looking forward to showing my progress here very soon. If you'd like to see some other quilters working on this BOM, check out the galleries in my Yahoo BOm Group, there are some stunning Oma's Blues being created. 

LE: Look What I Found!

Sometimes I think I do too much: there's really no other way to explain how I could have packed away an entire Love Entwined project box... and forgotten about it completely. 

In fact I found two LE project packets.

One full of shapes (that I knew about for returning to when I have time for hand sewing)

and another withe the original border fabric I had set aside for Love Entwined initially. I completely forgot about this fabric. All these months of hunting down LE border fabric and I didn't even know there was this stash put aside for consideration!

 It's beautiful and instantly familiar. Even though I had forgotten about its existence before now.

I still have my LE paper template up on my design wall, so I've just pinned the fabric into position over the template, where it will actually go.

I'll leave it pinned here until I get around to unpacking my LE. My room is too messy at the moment to unpack my precious heirloom, so I'll just look on and let it grow on me until I'm ready. I think it will work, tone wise. But I'll have to consider it properly later when I'm in the right mood.

Have you ever found anything unexpected when tidying your sewing room?

The Mess

Creativity has a nasty doppelganger called Mess. It just creeps up on you. At first you don't notice and you just work around it...until that day comes when you can't find your scissors and think you must have last seen your laptop...um... around here somewhere. My DDs visit and have no sympathy for my predicament. They gather up the creative nests I've left around the house and bring them all into my sewing studio ...so that there's really no room left for me to do anything. Except tidy.

It somehow looks worse when photographed in HD. If I saw this in anyone else's room, I'd think it was a disgraceful mess. In fact, it -is- a disgraceful mess. AND ITS ALL MINE!

I'm spending the day sitting here instead of out shopping with my DDs. They can't believe I get anything done in amongst all the stuff and looking at these pics, I can't believe it either. Honestly you wouldn't believe it to look at this room, but I am actually a very organised person.

I've got some clear plastic boxes for sorting things out. I'm packing things away in 'lots' of usefulness. Now that I'm volunteering in a school, I'm seeking out fabrics that appeal to children.

 Like this one, isn't it great?

 OK enough blogging for today, I have things to organise, pack, label and do...

How do you keep your creative space under control? My own theory about keeping space has been rather free range these last 10 years and as you can see, it's not working for me. I need a new system. 

WOW: Polka Dots ...Of Course

WOW = WIPs On Wednesdays 

The polka dots win. I think they always do. I love them.

For the rest of today, I'll be cleaning up my sewing room - it's out of control again.

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