Other projects... A Quilter's Alphabet wall hanging

I got this "A quilter's alphabet" muslin wall hanging from Austin Sew and Vac in Austin, TX a few years back.  I had it on my sewing room door taped with masking tape.  A "new and improved" sewing room needed a "proper" door hanging.  Here's the process of my progress.  Oh and here's this great scissor fabric I got at Gather Here in Cambridge, MA.  Great place btw!!!  I added ribbon my sister had gotten me from Ribbon Jar online and some I had gotten from the Franklin Mills Store in Franklin, MA.  The area where all the writing is was a little puffy so I quilted just that area.  I like the way it turned out!

Tackling unfinished projects

I started these potholders from fabrics I was inspired by for an apron.  The apron turned out ok but what wowed me was working with bits of these different fabrics.  I didn't have a plan... I just started putting them together, quilted them, and finished binding them.

cleaned up sewing room with some improvements

Fabrics  and books organized and books ...yeah!

Idea wall where I pin my inspirations and I organized my fav fabric and yarn store business cards in these :-).

Then I wanted to show you all my new ribbon holders. I used toilet paper tubes and covered them with scrapbook paper, wrapped my french ribbons on them. The pins are caught in the hollow tube area so you don't have to worry about sticking yourself accidentally. Oh and above is my cleaned up ribbon bulletin board with my new wire-yarn "SEW" courtesy of my dear daughter :-).

ALmost finished projects

This was the sad part, as I piled things into categories; unfinished projects, quilt projects vs apparel projects, and such, I realized these were really were almost finished...just needed a binding or something small.  So I made a list of them and got to it. Pot holders done, 2 of the 3 flannel lap quilts now have bindings.  Encouraging.  This kind of thing reminds me of chore work...which is sometimes fun and sometimes not.  I will do the binding flannel lap quilt #3 tomorrow and then I have to get back to creating!!

Not so clean sewing room

THis is my sewing room prior to cleaning...ugh.