We moved across country last year, from Georgia to Washington state. I have this wonderful area that is all set up just for me! There's a big window on one side of the room. My quilting machine fits in it just fine up under the window and out of my way when I'm not using it. I have my shelves set up and my stash unpacked, just sitting there mocking me. The sewing machine is tuned and ready to go. My ironing board and iron are in just the right place, and I even have my table and machine facing through the hallway so I can keep an eye on the kids while they're in their TV room/play room. Sounds like heaven, doesn't it? Well, it's not. Every time we go to unpack a box that is full of things that we aren't sure what to do with, I just say "put it in my quilting room" while I figure out what to do with it. It's my fault. I know it. See, here's the thing . . . we haven't been able to sell our house in Georgia in the last 18 months, which mean we haven't actually closed on this house here in Washington. I'm superstitious enough that I refuse to unpack the last few boxes until we close on both houses. Finally, we have gotten a signed contract on our house and hope to close in January. We only had to drop the price 79,000 from the original asking point. That's not even the worst part. We had to go below not only what we originally paid for it 5 years ago, but we had to go below the mortgage payoff! We're going to be taking money to closing.
Now that it looks like the end is near and this house will officially be ours in a month or so I'm absolutely itching to get my fingers on my stash. I'm going to do a scrappy log cabin with 30s repros. Or maybe a Double Irish Chain from the Mardi Gras fabric I've had for a couple of years now. I don't care if I just sew squares together, I'm going to do some sewing!
But not yet . . . after I unpack the few remaining boxes and hang pictures on the walls. (That's another thing I won't do until we officially own this house. Superstitious or not, I don't want to take any chances!)
Saturday, December 29, 2007
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You sound so much like me! We moved from CA to AR this summer. Our house took forever to sell in CA. We dropped the price over $50,000 before we had an offer and the offer was even lower, PLUS we had to pay all the buyer's closing costs...around twenty thousand MORE. We feel fortunate though, that our house even DID sell!
I still have boxes in my studio that don't belong in my studio but it was the place to put them until I could get around to figuring out where to put them.
That is my January project. Of course it was my July, August, September, October, November project too. :)
Good luck with the sale going through and getting your quilting groove back soon!
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