Sewing Room Closet Transition

I made a huge mistake with my closet reno....forgot to take a before.

Before was really jammed and ugly.  

I looked back at all my old posts and pictures.

I could have sworn I have blogged about closet redo's a while ago.  

Can't find much, a few but, not much.  

This is when I first took over the room, before I had my knee replacement

It was so I could avoid going up and down the stairs.  

When I first started using the photo boxes to store my overdyed flosses.  

This system works really well for me.  

Only about a third of what was in the closet.  

Repainted the closet.

Sections up minus a few shelves

Starting to put things back.  

I think during the whole process, I walked 20 miles, 10 feet at a time. 

I wish I had kept track of how much time I have invested in putting it back together.t

If I had guesstimate, I would say, I have at least 20 hours in organizing.

It doesn't look too bad.  

I know I had taken pictures of when I first I had bought the brown baskets

The drawers have tools, quilt cutting templates, spools of thread, silk threads, ribbons, charms,

plastic project floss boxes, patterns that are in half size (5x7) plastic bags, batting, interfaing and probably other stuff I am forgetting.  

I have a laundry basket of stuff that I will see if the stitching group wants:  some quilt fabric and yarn.

What they don't want, I will take to St. Vincent.

Finished my first WTN&T Summer Schoolhouse project.  

OMG, do I love how these turn out but, started something completely different, for now.  

In 2001, long time ago, Arttie and I went on a retreat sponsored by Garden of Stitches.

It was a store in Appleton, WI.  

The retreat was at the Green Lake Conference Center in a big, old house.  

It rained so hard one night, we had water coming in our window.  

We just moved the beds away from the wall....I digress. 

I found one of the projects we started, Stitcher's Pocket from Just Nan.  

I figured after 16 years, it might be time to finish it.  

I don't think it will take too long.  

It was the only project, out of what we got, I really liked.  

I figured I should finish it.  

We have gotten a ton of snow.  

We got eight inches on Saturday, the most we have gotten at one time this winter.

We have another snowstorm going on now.  

We should get a couple more inches out of it.  

On Friday, before it started snowing, the snow had melted.  

I think that about does it.  

Hope your weekend was good!

Keep on Stitching

Monica