.: light at the end of the tunnel :.

So, nearly a whole month ago, I mentioned that I was starting to sort out my stash.  

I'm nearly there.

Please don't for a minute think I've been ironing and folding and sorting and culling fabric endlessly for a whole month.  Good grief, that's a thought.  It HAS though, taken me this long to iron, fold, sort and cull a lot of fabric, in fits and starts, amidst the rest of life over the past month.   

But finally - I'm *nearly* there.

All my fabric is now ironed, folded onto mini-bolts and sorted into colours.  For the life of me, I cannot get the next two photos to sit next to each other, so they give the effect of the cupboard being opened right up.  Sometimes my complete lack of techno-ability amazes even me.

Anyway, here's the left-hand side of the cupboard.

{{yep.  that's a whole lot of fabric}}

I've gone with a neutrals, texts, then greys and blacks, then a ROYGBIV rainbow kind of arrangement (except it's actually a RPOYGBP rainbow - red, pink, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple ... though I just noticed in the photo above I need to swap out my yellow and orange ...).  

The very top shelf has fat quarters and quarter-yards in that neutrals-text-greys-black-rainbow order, right across the top.  On the lower shelves - half-yards and yardage - it's exactly the same, but with neutrals, texts and greys/blacks on the first shelf, then RPOYGB on the next shelf.  And then things went a little crrrazzzyy for the bottom shelf.  That one has Heather Ross, then Melody Miller and Echino, then purple (random, yes), and then a currently empty spot (but for one awesome Winterkist bolt) waiting for my mini-Christmassy-fabric stash.  Since it's not nearly Christmas, those fabrics are sitting patiently in a laundry basket underneath the ironing board, waiting til I can be bothered to iron them while watching 'Toddlers and Tiaras' or a 'Real Housewives of' episode or something equally trashy.    

Here's the right-hand side of the cupboard. 

{{ah yes, that's even more fabric}}

My Christmassy-stash isn't as big as that gnoma-guarded-waiting-area would suggest ... The plastic bins you can see are for scraps (and they act as 'book-ends' to help keep the fabric standing up).  

{{hmmm, something's happened with that rainbow-ordering system here}}

I honestly can't tell you how relieved I am that my fabric is now sorted and under control.  I'm a messy person, but the fabric chaos was driving me nuts.  I was having trouble finding the fabric I needed for projects, and just felt a bit hemmed in by the endless mountain of un-put-away fabric.  

There's still a bit of tidying and sorting to do around my sewing space, but I'm just about there.  There's also a *very* big pile of fabric headed for charity-sewing, a medium-sized pile for destashing in our shop, and yet another *smaller* pile for a giveaway via instagram or here - Vee and I still need to figure that out. 

The other very-awesome benefit of this epic sorting-marathon, has been unearthing drawings and messages that my kids had done for me - they'd fallen off the wall above my cutting table, so we've stuck them back up again today.  The gorgeous painting up the very top was by my youngest - probably when she was in grade 1, or maybe even Prep.

And this one was by my oldest, quite a few years ago now too.  So very happy to have them back up on the wall where I can see them. 

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Hope your weekend has been a good one.    xoxo cat