Black Friday Finishes

I've got lots of finishes for this Friday.

First up is a dozen gift bags of various sizes from Christmas fabrics

for a charity sale tomorrow.

I was teaching beginner sewing again this fall,

and my students made some of these lined double drawstring bags

for the same sale.

These are the five projects one student made.

She was very proud of her tote bags and her infinity scarf, 

pictured at the bottom.

Another student was thrilled to make tag stuffies for her new granddaughter.

Here's my only quilty finish of the week:

sewing the binding on my Hillary quilt I made before the election.

Disclaimer: I'm Canadian, and I didn't vote 

and I'm not interested in having a political debate,

but I am a feminist and I made this quilt

to commemorate breaking the glass ceiling 

for women in politics.

Now I'm going to hang it in a my sewing room

as a reminder that we are better together.

My biggest finish this week: organizing/cleaning/decluttering my sewing space.

I folded and sorted all my fabric.

It may not look too neat in the picture, but its a big improvement.

And I found a few things I was missing,

including the melon template for my double wedding ring quilt,

which is now living in that plastic project box on the bottom right.

Happy long weekend to my American readers.

I'm linking up with other Friday finishers at

Crazy Mom Quilts

Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Purging

It took most of the day,

but now my sewing space is transformed from

looking like a fabric bomb went off inside it

to a place where I could actually work.

My shelves may not look neat to you,

but I removed 20 years of fashion fabric scraps

and rearranged all my quilting fabric inside.

Check out those project boxes on the bottom shelves.

Now I have room for them!

I purged alot -- a package of at least 12 metres of yardage and fat quarters

going to my friend Y, who often shops at thrift shops 

and never says no to free fabrics.

I decided to pass on fabrics that are perfectly lovely

but no longer speak to me.

And my table is cleared off for the first time in months!

Lots of scraps went into the dog bed pillows,

some landed in the garbage, especially fashion fabric leftovers,

and quite a lot is headed to the thrift shop

and my quilty friends.

I couldn't moved in my space before,

and now I can.

 I even have a couple of small bins that are completely empty!