While Erik was off on a recent fly in fishing trip, I used the first few days to make some changes and re-organize my Longarm Studio.
A big thank you to my Dad and brother who came over and put my new IKEA Alex cabinets together for me.
My pantographs now have a new home and are wonderfully organized! There is even room to add more!
All of my thread, rulers, and other long arm supplies are all organized and it looks all neat and tidy. It was all organized before however I had wanted a more streamlined look.
The drawer units that were replaced have a new home and purpose, they are now under the table of my long arm and they now hold a lot of my fabrics and are sorted by colour, these fabrics will eventually find their way into scrap quilts.
I spent some of the time cleaning, sorting and purging it’s amazing how things can accumulate. Though I will add that there wasn’t as much to purge as I suspected there were things that just needed new homes as in my daughter’s homes!
I am vigilant when it comes to caring for my APQS Millennium longarm and I spent a little time on her as well, the motor brushes were replaced. I love how well these machines are made and that they are designed so that the owner can maintain them themselves!
Of course as soon as I finished organizing another quilt was loaded and completed on the longarm!
While I did use my time alone to get a lot of quilting done on the longarm there was also some play time as well…the garden was planted and my JUKI and I spent many hours together playing!
Wendy’s Quilting and Life 
I think I’m going to reorganize by color too. Mostly. I’ll still keep my square bins where I store 2, 2.5, and 3.5 squares. With recent projects, I’ve sorted the 2 and 2.5 by color inside those bins. I’ve always kept the 3.5 bins with color vs. neutrals. But all the rest of the print strips I’m going to redo with color families. The solid strips are already stored by color, not size.
Go Wendy!
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