March Studio Organizing
Posted on March 26, 2025 by prairiemoonquilts in Studio Organizing ChallengeI know, I know, I’ve been MIA this month!
My mojo has kind of vacated the premises. I haven’t been sewing much at all, only running the longarm, and not even doing that as much as I should.
I was off to such a good start, but events have conspired to knock the wind out of my sails. I’m hoping that the warmer weather brings calmer times, so I can recover my mojo and get back at it.
So right there, you can tell that I didn’t do much with my books or magazines over the last month! I did manage to move another pile over from the old house, but still no bookcase in place. It did rain and storm a lot, so if I would even have had a chance, it would have probably been too muddy anyway, so I’ll regroup and hope for less mud and more free time to get that done in the near future.
Meanwhile, there’s still a lot to organize! What shall we do for this challenge?
I think I’m gonna leave this one up to each individual, according to what you think you have the time/energy/motivation to get done in your own space — a WILD CARD!
Choose your own task
I may choose several, in my natural flitting style, but one thing I’d like to do is get rid of at least one more annoying pile in the floor here. So I’m hoping to eliminate at least one pile, I want to work on my big scrap box some more, and I need to deal with a lot of paper now that my taxes are done. So I have lots of options — how about you?
I know I said I haven’t been sewing much, but I did manage to finish this top from the Made & Found Quilt-Along I joined in on a while back. There were 36 block patterns, but when I got to the 20th block, I started running out of my chosen prints, and I didn’t want to add in any others, so I just stopped and used the 20 blocks I had done, and I’m glad to call this top finished!
And this is what’s on my longarm frame at the moment. A vintage Irish Chain quilt. I’m seriously behind schedule, but chipping away at it as much as I can.
Let me know what organizing challenge you think you’ll tackle this time. It might give us all some more ideas for what we can work on!
The quilting on your Irish Chain is beautiful! ❤️
Love your quilting on your Irish Chain quilt! It is absolutely gorgeous!
I am a day from finishing my LongTimeGone quilt. The floor is a mess not to mention the four tables I am using to make filler blocks. What a mess! I am not going to do the border- it looks easy enough, I am done. So my thing will be sorting/sweeping/binning the remains. Clear the tables to start my next, maybe final Jen Kingwell pattern. The others may have to go in a donation bin!
Your Irish chain quilting is super!
Here, I cleared my cutting table and have been reorganising my fabrics, refolding and putting them in order. Then I realised I’d put away one that I was using and it was right on the bottom – ugh!
Your quilt pattern is now a completed top and have just washed and ironed the backing. Need to do the batting now. Meanwhile I’ve joined another quilt group and they sew all day (you stay as long as you want) and I’ve been cracking on with lots of blocks!
But it has also been fine weather, so not much sewing at home, more outside tasks to be done.
Check out my blog post https://melsquiltingblog.blogspot.com/2025/03/prairie-moon-studio-organization.html
I am in a reorganization because of replacing all out windows.
Your quilting is beautiful! Organizing… I need to work on a better way of organizing my stash. Also tame the scrap basket. Maybe just a complete sewing studio cleaning makeover.
Your quilting is as fabulous as ever. Love that first quilt.. Hope your mojo cooperates. Blessings,
Im going to drop off donation quilts! The pile is getting too big to carry!
My longarm had to go to the shop so while it was gone I spent several days organizing the storage around it. Still need to continue the organizing to the fabric storage area. Working on a demo that I have to do next month has made quite the mess of the cutting table, ironing board, and sewing area. That will come first.
All sewing areas may not look like it, but I’ve been doing some folding and placing. Cut and pieced a QOC this month and, at long last have a workable fix for my sewing machine that allows me to quilt with it. I’ve been able to sew; but, not quilt since a week before Christmas. My Brother dealership likes to pretend Brother doesn’t make straight stitch mechanical machines so they have been zero help. Just pushing to get a wall hanging quilted & finished for my college BFF whose b’day is next week. That 2.5 month downtime made sure it didn’t get finished in January as planned! Good thing my quilting plan is not as elaborate (and gorgeous) as your Irish Chain!
In March I didn’t clean up much because a couple quilty friends and I raced to make a pile of donation quilts to send with my daughter and her team on a missions trip. SO….my organization for this next month will be to clean up all the messy piles from the race and to clean out a closet in our group sewing area to make room for my daughter’s sewing stuff, which she barely uses right now, and turn the wall in her area into a more stable planning wall.
Beautiful Quilting. I finished an Irish Chain but it is all 2.5” squares not solid fabric for my the plain block. My long armer put clovers and hearts for quilting.
This month I’m working on Chelsi Stratton’s Hearts at Home Pattern as a Block a day along with Pat Sloan. (Pat is using a Log cabin type block.). I’m counting the heart as one block and the logs as the other daily block. I keeping up.
Organization is just not my strong suit, but paper may be what I do. Lots of shredding ahead.