Two steps forward, one step back.

 Yesterday was spent in the basement, as Friday's are laundry days.  Faced with more purging, I came to a realization--I had forgotten about my not worrying about anything more than a week away.  My worry about being ready to move by early spring had taken over and I was turning into a Whirling Dervish-again.  Time to slow down and try to take it one day at a time-again.  Or maybe I need to go back to the routine I used during my last "big purge"-- an hour a day of purging and then back to the current stitching project.

Yesterday I had decided to include the wonderful quilt, found in a drawer, into my donation quilt pile.  However wonderful the piece was I really had no use for it, and there are two pieces ahead of it in line to be "kept because I love it".  DH had mentioned some loose threads on the piece, so I attacked it with a pair of fine scissors.  What a mess!  Yes, this quilt is not the treasure I had thought it was.  I'm not even sure that it measures up as a donation quilt.  After all of the threads and thread ends were cut off, I was left with several somewhat dirty areas.  I'm going to treat it and wash it today.  If it doesn't clean up as well as I had thought it might--off to the thrift store.  

Today's other project is dealing with my hand dyed fabrics.  I had planned to sort them out into about 4 different piles according to potential use.  Clearer thinking has prevailed and they're all off to the thrift store.  They just need to be bagged up.  My "purge" hour for the day.

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