Destash Redux

My quilt guild is having another fabric sale at the end of April, so when I finished the January craft room declutter, my plan was to go through the overflow room* (aka OMG how much fabric do you have?!?j and trash or donate a bunch - fabric to the guild and “stuff” to wherever.

“Before” pictures

Then we went to CO for Rachel’s birthday… and came back to 4 solid weeks of (probably) Influenza A… and the ongoing eye drama and… yeah, not much has gotten done. But hubby wants to move forward on installing a Murphy bed in the upstairs guest room, so today I started on the first wall of shelves.

Top shelf will be for oversized Christmas decorations 

Two+ bags of trash and a hallway full of donations later, that part is close to being done. (I cheated and also emptied several center section shelves near the back window since they were easy).

Red to Goodwill, blue to Guild, green to trash.

Then comes the center section where most of my yardage lives - the donation pile should be huge when it’s done; some of that fabric has been around since I started quilting 13+ years ago.

I’d worked on the front section before we went to CO. It was mostly photo albums and supplies from my (long gone) scrapbooking days and most went to a buddy who still scraps. The shelves on the right are almost completely empty, as are the middle shelves on the left. Making progress! And hoping to get some sewing done too…

* its not just fabric, honest! Suitcases, unwieldy vacuums, former craft hobbies and stuff that magically accumulates are all well represented here.