Much of my energy in the studio has gone to reorganizing the past few weeks. Since this is also the time of year that my tomatoes are at their peak, much of my time has gone to the garden and the kitchen!

Even though I would have rather been weaving at my loom, this was productive work. I’ll feel less distracted and more inspired with all my yarns and fiber supplies in one place. Before it was scattered about in sundry closets and dresser drawers. Now all of my husband’s computer and war strategy game boxes are in the house in the “computer room,” and all my hobby stuff is in the studio, as it should be. 

There is a replacement tension bar for my inkle loom waiting for me at Yarns Etc..  My sewing machine was serviced and repaired at McKinney Sew and Vac on Battleground Avenue and is ready for pick up.  Hopefully I’ll remember how to use it!  I nearly balked at the $79.95 price but the guy working there said that if I bought a new one near that price that it would be a piece of plastic that wouldn’t last.  This Kenmore is definitely NOT a piece of plastic - very heavy!  I’m glad that I was able to use locally owned small businesses to take care of these repairs.

The studio is still not a place that I would want to show off, though.  We have some things, like tents and tent poles and greenhouse poles and tarps and gardening stuff stored in there, and I have boxes of old stuff that I had forgotten about that I need to go through.  But at least it is all in one area.  Now the trick will be figuring out how to hide it.

Some of it I will definitely get rid of.  It is very hard to make myself get rid of good yarn that I screwed up one way or another, but I’ll never use it again and I need to face up to it.   I’m ditching some of my earliest weaving projects from twenty years ago too.  For a while, other weavers were giving me their thrums because I was a tapestry weaver and could use short pieces.  Do you know how hard it is to store and organize hundreds of pieces of yarn?  They’ve gotta go.

I found some great stuff I’d forgotten about too.  Some expensive hanks of silk and cones of perle cotton, for example.