The leather and some fabric have been boxed and shipped to daughter. It no longer owns me and my emotional attachment has disappeared. What makes me happy is that will be used by daughter to make fringe for rodeo clothes. That was what it was originally bought for.
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 bolt 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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