Time To Clean My Mess

This morning, was a quiet morning. Patrick was up before me and watching TV, usually it's the other way around. I have just been sleeping in later. But today I didn't get much sleep last night, so I still got up earlier than usual. 

We were having breakfast when we received a text that Uncle Bob passed away. I didn't take it as bad as I thought I might. It's sad, but because we didn't get a long all that well, it wasn't as sad as Dad and Uncle Bill. I felt guilty I didn't have tears for him. Maybe when they bury him in Tahoma I will. My brother Patrick was on the road to see him and about 30 mins from their place. He's helping them with getting him into Tahoma's military cemetery. I think he picked that because dad is there. He was originally going to be next to Uncle Bob and his parents in Seattle. Not sure why he changed his mind. Uncle was in the Army in the 60's but only for 4 years. May he RIP. 

I went downstairs to get some bread from the freezer and decided right then and there, I needed to get those boxes of material put away! It's been there for a week, and I kept putting it off. Sue is coming next week, and it needed to be put away!

Started with this mess! I took a couple of the flat boxes and got started.

I got moving and was getting a lot done when I was talking to Colleen. I told her there is a lot of scrap stuff but I'm not going to give them all to her. I kept some for mom to cut into strips or squares. I am going to have to work on a few scrap quilts and that's not my thing. But Colleen doesn't need to do them all. 

I put those boxes in the bookshelf. Debbie was laughing and said I had the one shelf that would make more room. I told her the person who has that shelf probably wouldn't give it up. Sure enough, Patrick looked at me like I was crazy and said to "deal with it." lol I did. See the bolts on the left side? 

They are now on the table. The floor is clear and the fabric is all put away. My cutting table is back to normal and I can finish the quilt top I have on the wall. 

Now I can get back to this and get to work again. My foot is still having issues, but I will deal with it and move on. I want to get this going. The quilt is going to be a "sideways" quilt. I love this panel. We will see how it goes. The panel box is full and I need to get working on more quilts. Hopefully others will get moving as well. Connie has decided to take a break, hence why I had all that stuff. I also worked on garage sale stuff since we have our garage sale on the 28-29th. I will need to borrow Patrick's truck, ugh. 

After all this was done, so was I! My leg said, "Enough!" So, I came up and played games while chatting with friends. I have boxes of stuff for the garage sale and a box for Colleen. I will go to her place around 1 pm tomorrow. I need to get it out of the house. I have a bag of material for mom and Nancy to cut into 2 1/2" strips. I have an idea for a quilt that uses strips. It will take a bit for me, because I really don't like doing that, but I will. Scraps are going to be the death of me yet! We have more fabric than we know what to do with. It's going to be awhile before we get all this into quilts. But I am going to have to try and get some done! 

Even though I wasn't stitching or sewing, I was working on QOV stuff. It still doesn't make me Happy Quilting/Happy Stitching!