Comments on: Progress http://turningturning.com/progress-stash-fabric/ An art therapist on creativity, healing, and the power of making. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:38:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: elizabeth http://turningturning.com/progress-stash-fabric/comment-page-1/#comment-599 elizabeth Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:02:16 +0000 http://turningturning.com/?p=608#comment-599 i am so sad that i am a day late to enter for a stack of fabric :( those stacks are so beautiful. i can imagine what it is like to be overwhelmed from the stash. when my grandma passed away, she had a whole sewing room to be gone through (think thousands of patterns)...and we had very little time to go through it with family not cooperating....so i had to grab somewhat blindly at such an emotional time...unfortunately, i didnt end up with much usable....it is a wonderful thing you are doing to share the stash! i have enjoyed your blog and will continue to check in....and hope for more giveaways is an added bonus! (did anyone ask for white - i dont think i saw any...just a curiosity) i am so sad that i am a day late to enter for a stack of fabric :( those stacks are so beautiful. i can imagine what it is like to be overwhelmed from the stash. when my grandma passed away, she had a whole sewing room to be gone through (think thousands of patterns)…and we had very little time to go through it with family not cooperating….so i had to grab somewhat blindly at such an emotional time…unfortunately, i didnt end up with much usable….it is a wonderful thing you are doing to share the stash! i have enjoyed your blog and will continue to check in….and hope for more giveaways is an added bonus! (did anyone ask for white – i dont think i saw any…just a curiosity)

]]> By: Gigi http://turningturning.com/progress-stash-fabric/comment-page-1/#comment-574 Gigi Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:25:59 +0000 http://turningturning.com/?p=608#comment-574 You remind me a lot of myself! There is the desire to be creative and artistic while maintaining control and order - these two characteristics do not often coexist peacefully within one person. :-) Given the choice, I would choose to be surrounded by my art supplies since they bring me so much pleasure. I am impressed with the progress you are making on the fabric project. I can think of nothing lovelier to display on living room shelves! Enjoy all of those beautiful fabrics - has a painter ever complained about having too many tubes of paint? You remind me a lot of myself! There is the desire to be creative and artistic while maintaining control and order – these two characteristics do not often coexist peacefully within one person. :-) Given the choice, I would choose to be surrounded by my art supplies since they bring me so much pleasure.

I am impressed with the progress you are making on the fabric project. I can think of nothing lovelier to display on living room shelves! Enjoy all of those beautiful fabrics – has a painter ever complained about having too many tubes of paint?

]]> By: Emma http://turningturning.com/progress-stash-fabric/comment-page-1/#comment-570 Emma Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:18:37 +0000 http://turningturning.com/?p=608#comment-570 Keep going Mal, you are doing a wonderful job. Baby steps will get you everywhere. All those colour coded, neat piles of fabric appeal greatly to my Virgo eye. I think your little apartment can only be enhanced by this display. It's an art installation in its own right! Keep going Mal, you are doing a wonderful job. Baby steps will get you everywhere.

All those colour coded, neat piles of fabric appeal greatly to my Virgo eye. I think your little apartment can only be enhanced by this display. It’s an art installation in its own right!

]]> By: Emma http://turningturning.com/progress-stash-fabric/comment-page-1/#comment-569 Emma Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:18:18 +0000 http://turningturning.com/?p=608#comment-569 Keep going Mal, you are doing a wonderful job. Baby steps will get your everywhere. All those colour coded, neat piles of fabric appeal greatly to my Virgo eye. I think your little apartment can only be enhanced by this display. It's an art installation in its own right! Keep going Mal, you are doing a wonderful job. Baby steps will get your everywhere.

All those colour coded, neat piles of fabric appeal greatly to my Virgo eye. I think your little apartment can only be enhanced by this display. It’s an art installation in its own right!

]]> By: Leslie http://turningturning.com/progress-stash-fabric/comment-page-1/#comment-566 Leslie Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:23:17 +0000 http://turningturning.com/?p=608#comment-566 Hey I'm likin' this dialog. V said it all has 'emotional baggage attached to it'. I *knew* that on some level, but never quite put it into words. Tx! I understand your struggle, used to sew on one corner of the kitchen table while my boys were growing, had to pick it all up - daily. Now that they've moved out, I have a 'room of my own' for creating. It still gets totally crazy, messy. Just cleared the desks this weekend; sorted, put stuff away, tossed. It was very helpful to the creative process. Then I could *focus*. Hang in there. :) Hey I’m likin’ this dialog. V said it all has ‘emotional baggage attached to it’. I *knew* that on some level, but never quite put it into words. Tx!
I understand your struggle, used to sew on one corner of the kitchen table while my boys were growing, had to pick it all up – daily. Now that they’ve moved out, I have a ‘room of my own’ for creating. It still gets totally crazy, messy. Just cleared the desks this weekend; sorted, put stuff away, tossed. It was very helpful to the creative process. Then I could *focus*.
Hang in there. :)

]]> By: V http://turningturning.com/progress-stash-fabric/comment-page-1/#comment-561 V Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:32:17 +0000 http://turningturning.com/?p=608#comment-561 Miss Mal. I would Get a big box, stack some of it aside, and take some creative time for myself and come back to it... I would need a little to keep me going! I get crazy if I don't get to do that. I would be more productive if I kept the creative juice flowing. With the emotional baggage attatched to it all, I would invite you to pick some happy pieces and make a mini free flowing, soemthing... ;-) Miss Mal.

I would Get a big box, stack some of it aside, and take some creative time for myself and come back to it… I would need a little to keep me going! I get crazy if I don’t get to do that. I would be more productive if I kept the creative juice flowing. With the emotional baggage attatched to it all, I would invite you to pick some happy pieces and make a mini free flowing, soemthing… ;-)

]]> By: Mal http://turningturning.com/progress-stash-fabric/comment-page-1/#comment-556 Mal Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:44:40 +0000 http://turningturning.com/?p=608#comment-556 @Dee: I think that because the fabric (and all my art supplies) are so much a part of the apartment's "decor," I feel a great need to have everything tidy and neat. If it were hidden behind doors, I probably would just toss everything on the floor in a great pile of potential and rifle through it at will! @Dee: I think that because the fabric (and all my art supplies) are so much a part of the apartment’s “decor,” I feel a great need to have everything tidy and neat. If it were hidden behind doors, I probably would just toss everything on the floor in a great pile of potential and rifle through it at will!

]]> By: Mal http://turningturning.com/progress-stash-fabric/comment-page-1/#comment-555 Mal Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:41:08 +0000 http://turningturning.com/?p=608#comment-555 @Julochka: What a great way to look at it! Hopefully you can tell from my post that I am trying to give myself an attitude adjustment, and your words went a long way toward helping me with that! @Julochka: What a great way to look at it! Hopefully you can tell from my post that I am trying to give myself an attitude adjustment, and your words went a long way toward helping me with that!

]]> By: Dee http://turningturning.com/progress-stash-fabric/comment-page-1/#comment-552 Dee Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:05:23 +0000 http://turningturning.com/?p=608#comment-552 mal, I just finished reading your entry and feel less bad about what I just posted on Julie's guest piece... I want to say, I feel your pain. While it is lovely to think in an abstract sort of way that art is everywhere (in particular, I like the idea of my two sons being exposed to it all), it is a drag when supplies flow into food, into TV-watching, into boot storage, or whatever. It is draining when the mess is left out, and it is draining to keep putting it away. I have noticed that I go in cycles... going for long periods of tolerating mountains of it (and I mean mountains -- ALL over the dining room table, ALL over the kitchen table, in bins by the reading chairs, on trays near the fireplace, and in more bins by the bookshelves)... and then suddenly, I can't stand it anymore... Then, I have to devote an entire day (or more) to putting stuff back down the cellar... THEN I go through an extended period of time (partly b/c I have a kinetic memory, and find things by their 'place') of not being able to find anything because it has moved... and then there is MORE frustration. I don't really have any answers except that as one who doesn't spend enough time organizing, I think that has to be built in to my 'art time' -- I am noticing lately that when I am hunting through some of my fabric bins (I fold almost NOTHING, by the way), I make discoveries that are happy, that suggest a direction with a piece, that sometimes feel like finding long-lost friends... I guess I need to institutionalize some of that rifling... any and all suggestions welcome. Anyway, there is more I could say, but it's time for dinner here! love your blog! keep up the good work... Dee mal, I just finished reading your entry and feel less bad about what I just posted on Julie’s guest piece… I want to say, I feel your pain.

While it is lovely to think in an abstract sort of way that art is everywhere (in particular, I like the idea of my two sons being exposed to it all), it is a drag when supplies flow into food, into TV-watching, into boot storage, or whatever. It is draining when the mess is left out, and it is draining to keep putting it away. I have noticed that I go in cycles… going for long periods of tolerating mountains of it (and I mean mountains — ALL over the dining room table, ALL over the kitchen table, in bins by the reading chairs, on trays near the fireplace, and in more bins by the bookshelves)… and then suddenly, I can’t stand it anymore… Then, I have to devote an entire day (or more) to putting stuff back down the cellar… THEN I go through an extended period of time (partly b/c I have a kinetic memory, and find things by their ‘place’) of not being able to find anything because it has moved… and then there is MORE frustration.

I don’t really have any answers except that as one who doesn’t spend enough time organizing, I think that has to be built in to my ‘art time’ — I am noticing lately that when I am hunting through some of my fabric bins (I fold almost NOTHING, by the way), I make discoveries that are happy, that suggest a direction with a piece, that sometimes feel like finding long-lost friends… I guess I need to institutionalize some of that rifling… any and all suggestions welcome.

Anyway, there is more I could say, but it’s time for dinner here!

love your blog! keep up the good work…
Dee

]]> By: julochka http://turningturning.com/progress-stash-fabric/comment-page-1/#comment-550 julochka Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:48:40 +0000 http://turningturning.com/?p=608#comment-550 mal--i think you're very lucky, in a studio apartment, the ENTIRE SPACE is a CREATIVE SPACE! and what could be more decorative next to the t.v. than stacks of beautifully ironed and folded and color-coded fabrics. :-) it's all a matter of how you think about it. xox, /julie mal–i think you’re very lucky, in a studio apartment, the ENTIRE SPACE is a CREATIVE SPACE! and what could be more decorative next to the t.v. than stacks of beautifully ironed and folded and color-coded fabrics. :-) it’s all a matter of how you think about it.

xox,
/julie

]]> By: Jocelyn http://turningturning.com/progress-stash-fabric/comment-page-1/#comment-546 Jocelyn Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:06:58 +0000 http://turningturning.com/?p=608#comment-546 Wow what a job! Wish I could come over and give you a hand. But little by little you will work on this and then it will be done. The fabrics look beautiful by the way. Wow what a job! Wish I could come over and give you a hand. But little by little you will work on this and then it will be done. The fabrics look beautiful by the way.

]]> By: Elizabeth http://turningturning.com/progress-stash-fabric/comment-page-1/#comment-545 Elizabeth Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:25:26 +0000 http://turningturning.com/?p=608#comment-545 Hold on Mal, you will get rid of your surplus of fabric. It is only temporarily although I feel for you. I think I would go crazy with so much in my environment. So complain if you need too, get it out of your system and in a few weeks you might get the chance to exhale. Hold on Mal, you will get rid of your surplus of fabric. It is only temporarily although I feel for you. I think I would go crazy with so much in my environment. So complain if you need too, get it out of your system and in a few weeks you might get the chance to exhale.

]]> By: Julie in WA http://turningturning.com/progress-stash-fabric/comment-page-1/#comment-544 Julie in WA Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:57:52 +0000 http://turningturning.com/?p=608#comment-544 Wow, those stacks of fabrics look beautiful to me! I have no one to give me stacks of fabric, so I am forced to scour the bargain bins at JoAnns and to take advantage of every quilt store sale in order to build a stash. Well, you have inspired me to once again get back on track with my organization challenges. Just a little every day and projects will be finished eventually! Wow, those stacks of fabrics look beautiful to me! I have no one to give me stacks of fabric, so I am forced to scour the bargain bins at JoAnns and to take advantage of every quilt store sale in order to build a stash. Well, you have inspired me to once again get back on track with my organization challenges. Just a little every day and projects will be finished eventually!

]]> By: Liz http://turningturning.com/progress-stash-fabric/comment-page-1/#comment-543 Liz Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:56:33 +0000 http://turningturning.com/?p=608#comment-543 OOh so pretty! I love the teal on your walls and your crisp white cabinets. I can understand feeling of being overwhelmed. OOh so pretty! I love the teal on your walls and your crisp white cabinets. I can understand feeling of being overwhelmed.

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