Sometimes I think I have more bad habits than the average person! Especially now when I am faced with all the junk I keep - forever! One REALLY bad habit is pinning things to walls. I have three in the dining room, which is where I sew, and one in the front hall next to the door. I can't remember when I last cleared them off - probably a decade. After all, nobody comes in my house except the plumber once every year or so. But now I must take everything down and make some decisions about keeping or disposing. And where shall I put what I keep?
This wall is home to half a dozen small quilts waiting to be quilted and also lots of 'special fabric'. Like the piece in the top middle - red and white striped fish with blue tails on a black ground. I love this fabric, but I haven't found the perfect place for it. In the lower left corner are a few San Blas Indian patches someone gave to me - wonderful birds.
On another narrow wall are these orange fabrics. I love orange and keep thinking I will make an orange quilt. I've shared cuts of different oranges with fellow guild members, but they actually MAKE the quilts.
This is truly a junk wall. There are a couple ribbons from shows, a postcard from the "Put A Roof Over Our Heads" (the Alliance fund raiser last year) and below it a great fabric I got in a grab bag somewhere, higher up is a funky angel I made a few years ago with waxed thread hair that fans out beautifully and, at the very top, a photo of a quilted car cover that was displayed at a number of quilting events some years ago.
This is a narrow wall behind the front door with mostly gifts that people have given me. And a few things that I purchased - the exotic lady on the left made by doll maker extraordinary Judy Hasselkus of Mission Viejo, CA, and the three little lapel dolls by Debra Lunn. The flamingo is actually a coin purse - a sort of "in" joke from a friend.
I know I need to set aside an entire day to de-pin my walls - an awful lot of decisions. Corky has gone home and Liz with be here on Wednesday, so things should get moving again - rapidly, not at a snail's pace as they have been this past week.
3 comments:
I loved seeing your walls here! I am like that, but only 'permitted' to have one patch like that, in my sewing room! It really is a curb, living with someone else!
I, too, am going to write a post about this.
Why de-pin your walls? If you enjoy the colorful momentos leave them out.
Well, the furniture will be moved which will change the wall spaces and everything needs to be repainted - it has been over twenty years! I read a book once in which the protaganist kept layering newspaper and magazine clippings by pinning them over each other for years; the layers were six inches deep. Scary, eh?
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