Upstairs Update

I have been working upstairs almost daily this past week & I've worked especially hard this morning.  I have been sorting things in order to put like items/boxes together, made a pile of boxes that need to be put inside other boxes & brought downstairs, made a mental note of boxes that need to be brought upstairs from downstairs in order to make room for the aforementioned boxes I'll be bringing downstairs, & marveled again at how very much craft stuff one person can accumulate in a couple decades.  It's hard to imagine that there was a time when John & I moved from Florida to Montana & sold just about everything we owned except our clothes & special momentos.  It's also hard to imagine that there were times when I decided "I don't want to do this anymore" & sold more crafting supplies than I can shake a stick at.  How is it that I have so much stuff?!?!?  I got to do a count of my huge Rubbermaid containers packed full of quilting fabric.  There are 13 of them.  There are an additional 5 smaller containers which are holding quilt tops I've finished but have never quilted, quilt blocks I've made but have never sewn into quilt tops, & various fabric pattern pieces cut out & waiting to be made into quilt blocks.  Then there is a huge container filled with quilts that are almost finished ... they only need the binding sewn on.  I'm guessing there's about 10 of those binding-deprived quilts.

I have the 4 huge containers crammed full of wool strips cut & ready to be made in to braided rugs.  I was surprised to find an additional container filled almost to the brim with yards of wool ... some solids, some herringbones, & some plaids.

There are a lot of boxes packed with things I know I'm not going to use but I really don't have the time to go through them all to sort things out right now.  My main focus is to get everything rounded up, looking neat, & out of the way for when prospective buyers come to look at the house.  I'm still flip-flopping on what to do with the yard sale stuff.

I am maybe done upstairs for today.  John is having a lot of pain with his teeth so he wasn't up very long this morning before he went back to bed.  He has been sleeping for about 2 hours now & I don't think there is much more I can do up there without making too much noise & disturbing him.  I'm therefore going to treat myself to some lunch, maybe read a bit, & take it from there.