My car is Stuffed Full of Stuff.
I brought the serger (repaired, yay! Wally is A+++ I now have the Sewing Machine Repair Hookup, this is amazing!!) and the embroidery machine. The embroidery machine is in a hard-sided traveling case I finally got off my ass and put on my amazon wishlist, and my mom got for me, so it’s actually safe in there and I’m excited about that.
I also loaded all of the old cast-off draperies I’ve been hoarding into boxes, and I’m going to actually sew them into insulation panels for the yurt. I’m going to, I’m really going to. And if I don’t, I’m not bringing them back to my house.
This means an entire carload of clutter is out of my basement. So that’s something.
I also have a box that’s all of the pairs of jeans I cut into pieces. I’m going to make them into things, I swear it. If nothing else, I’ll embroider patches.
I can’t work on big projects anywhere in my house because there’s too much clutter. But if I set up the workshop upstairs in the granary at the farm, I can have both the serger and a sewing machine set up at the same time.
I tend to get more stuff done when I’m at the farm. Granted, much of it is housework to keep the farm household going, but. I’m hoping I can parlay that activity into getting some longer-term projects done. And maybe I can ride that momentum, once I’m back in my own, less-cluttered house, and do some of the projects I’ve been putting off.
As I was packing this morning, I sorted no less than three Blue Apron boxes full of t-shirts I want to reconstruct into better garments, and stacked them under the guest bedroom desk. My long-term goal is to get rid of all of the clothes i don’t wear, and make myself an entire wardrobe of stuff I’ve made myself, because I’m happiest with things I’ve sewed.
Also last week at work when I cleared out things I don’t think we can sell online, I took home a lot of camera straps that were too weird/gross/ugly/old/broken to sell, and I want to cut them apart and use the findings to make straps of my own. So I threw a plastic bag full of those into one of the boxes I brought along. Maybe I’ll make some cool homemade camera/purse/luggage straps while I’m sewing. We’ll see!
