I am going to admit it, I have stalled in cleaning up the sewing room closet. The leather resides on the coffee table I use to sort and purge. It has been a thorn in my side for the past couple of weeks.
The leather has a lot of emotional attachment to it. It is from when I made rodeo queen clothing. It gives both positive and negative emotions when I look at it. I have struggled with boxing it up and putting it away but I know that can't happen. I am reluctant to give it away. Why? I don't know but I think it is the emotional attachment. As I did some hand sewing around the piles of leather, I tried to deal with my feelings. Not very successfully to say the least.
Yesterday daughter talked about making a faux suede dress with real leather fringe on it. I had an aha moment, I am going to offer to send her the two silver hides and the royal blue pieces for fringe on shirts. If that works, I will then talk her into taking the teal leather and using it for fringe on a dress. This will allow her to use up the leather and I enjoy looking at the creations she makes. A win-win if my idea works.
Now that I have an idea and if it works, I can get back to work cleaning the closet. The faux suede can be donated to a thrift store or sold at our garage sale in the spring. I have no emotional attachment to it. The bold of muslin will be made into simple bags that can have Cricut designs pressed onto them. I will start cutting them out in January -- a few at a time.
The beads are going except for a few that I use on fancy doll clothes. I don't use them so someone else can enjoy them.
My next stall area will be the doll's fabrics. I am going to have to have a serious talk with myself about how much I want to keep and what I can let go of. I need to go through each bin and make some hard decisions. I know it is going to create a lot of stress but I also know I need to do it. One bin hasn't been looked at for two years now.
I will do an update in a couple of weeks. I am trying to balance sewing gifts with painting upstairs, and decluttering the sewing room closet.
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