Quilting...Just One Of My Many Hobbies

My First Quilt

This is my first quilt.  The colors just scream Katie and the pattern was easy enough that I was willing to tackle it.  I love looking at new fabrics at the local quilt shop and thumbing thru the patterns and seeing what I "think" I can make.

My mom and I went to a couple of different quilt shops today and they have renewed my interest in one of my many hobbies.  My mom and I started quilting in 1998 and I have been collecting fabric ever since!  She has finished far more projects than I have, but the ones I have completed hang proudly in my living room and bedroom and one is draped over the back of my recliner.  

When we got home today, I was so pumped I wanted to run upstairs and start sewing!  So?!?  Did I?!?  No!  Why you might ask?  Because my quilting/scrap booking room is such a disaster right now I can't even begin to be creative until I clean it up.  I need to somehow get it all organized and whatnot before I can finish my latest quilt for my bedroom.  

So I've been making list after list (usually my first step in getting organized) of how I want to organize my room or maybe even rearrange it.  I think I need (okay, I KNOW) I need to get some cute fabric baskets to put already started projects in, but this in itself will be a small investment.  When I was at Walmart the other day, they had some really cute baskets in their office supply section that I'm going to check out tomorrow morning before I go for my walk.  My hopes are that on the next round of days off, I will be able to tackle that room and maybe get it under control so when I go up there, I'm not overwhelmed. 

Above are a few of the dream sewing rooms I have come across.  Mine will never look anything like these, but it's okay to dream, right?  So, where was I?  Oh yes, the way fun baskets from Walmart.  After I pick up a few of those...more like 10 or so that should help a ton in getting things up off the floor and into a place where I can look at what needs to be done instead of just piling things up all over the place.  After that I will have to figure out a way to store all of my different cuts of fabrics.  Do I place them all together?  Separate the fat quarters from the regular cuts of fabric?  Stick them all in a dresser drawer and forget about them?  The decisions are endless...I'm already stressing out about this and I haven't even started yet!  I will have to keep you up to date as I progress and for some more inspiration, I think I might do some shopping online as well!