Organization

[multipurposegoddess]

I love the accoutrements of organization. File folders, sorters, everything at the Container Store, I'll happily surround myself with it. And maintaining the organization, that's wonderful and satisfying. But going from chaos to order even with all my beloved accessories, hard.

This seems to be all of a piece with my tendency to buy yarn and fabric and then not getting any sewing/crocheting/knitting done. Cutting out patterns is my least favorite part of sewing, and that's always what has to be done first. Yarn, I just love yarn, I'll fall in love with the color and feel of a yarn and buy it thinking I will come up with something to do with it, and then it will hide in my cupboard for ages. Which is a shame, because I can actually be quite productive with knitting and crocheting once I have the project figured out.

As habits go, it's not as bad as IV drugs or compulsive destruction of Faberge eggs, but it's not great.

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[fufaraw]

And it only gets worse! I'm getting rid of vintage fabric I accumulated twenty years ago for quilt and doll repair and replacement doll clothes. I haven't worked on any of that, I know, for ten years, and I won't, again. Space, give me the space it's taking up.

But it's so hard to make myself let it go, and the impulse is still to acquire when I see an appropriate fabric.