After my last post in May 2020, I continued to explore various ways to use strips of fabric. Some orderly, some more chaotic. I lay them all on the bed and took a picture. The one from the previous post is near the middle.
Some of them are large enough to make a bag. Eventually I ran out of gas and found that my fabric stash was in chaos... and it was spreading! My beads were in chaos! In fact, the entire room was a mess, and spilled into the guest room. I escaped to the attic where I brought a sewing machine and table. I planned on working on Chris's T-shirt quilt just to help clear out the guest room.
I didn't work on them right away but I did eventually with great success!
It isn't quite done. Chris noticed a few key ships were missing so he dropped off a bunch of other shirts which I haven't tackled yet.... but soon!
Meanwhile, I was working on organizing the fabric and the result is satisfying:
The shelves contain longer pieces of fabric wound around cardboard. Also fabric baskets(another project) with strips of various sizes that make scraps easier to work with:
I was playing around with some sampler blocks.
I also worked on bead organization but I'm not happy with the result yet. I got everything 'put away' but decided to try working on a project and it was difficult to find what I wanted. I need to work on it.
However, as a result I have created a bunch of small pouches. I'm getting better at following the gridded design. It is tricky because the rows are offset.
Here's what I'm working on today:
Also made a bunch of these little card holders:
