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In which I am grateful for my quilting stash.
These two books helped to prepare me for the daunting tasks ahead. To downsize our home and my studio space to 30%. Yes, you read that right. We only took 30% of what we owned in the trailer to move to Texas. Many people are “amazed” by the suggestions that Marie Kondo gives, because they’re foreign to our way of thinking — but she has good solid advice in how to pare down and appreciate what we have owned.
Margareta gave me the brilliant idea to have a party for my dear friends and gift to them whatever they wanted to carry away. It enriched them and me.
Okay — are you ready for the photos? Here we go:
Here is the studio (12′ x 20′), ready for opening day. It may seem less that exciting, that isn’t all that much for sale, but looks can be deceiving. There is about 10′ of more studio behind where I stood to take the picture.
This photo represents about half of the fat quarter boxes in the sale. There were over 200 books and 200 magazines.
Look closely at the shelves, which are filled with folded yardage. No precuts or small cuts here. Remember that 1 pound of fabric equals 3+ yards of fabric. I sold over 300 pounds of fabric and donated at least 200 pounds.
This is my drawer of Mettler thread spools. This picture is also deceiving, as it looks like there’s just one row of spools in each tray. In fact, there are 4 layers of spools in each tray — so you’re looking at about 500 spools of thread. I also had 70 large cones of machine quilting threads.
Here’s my Koala sewing cabinet that worked so well for me for 14 years. The dimensions are 72″ deep and 108″ wide — quite the mammoth, with repositionable storage cubbies. Farewell, my friend.
Shelves after the friend’s luncheon, ready for donation boxing.
Upstairs sewing room (10′ x 12′), boxed up and ready for the moving van. Everyone who came for the studio sale kept apologizing for buying out my items, thinking that I was parting with everything. I reassured them that I was taking 40 boxes of fabric with me.
Here is the final moving day. Empty Studio space, design walls gone, all shelves, lighting and fabric — all now just a really great memory. It was great for ten years.
We chose ABF to move us. The biggest draw for this solution was we could use as much or as little of the trailer as we needed, and only pay for what we needed. Out of 28′, we used 19′. Included in the price was the driver and fuel, delivered door to door. A win/win all the way around.
The army of friends that came to move us left us with this caution on the side of the trailer. Our belongings were well padded with all of the boxes of fabric.
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Annie
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