How will I ever drain the swamp?
After the near disaster of the last delivery of building
materials, I decided that the last 2 doors should go in the garage space
upstairs when they were delivered, so they could be finished where I could walk
around them. Simple goal, right?
All that should have been needed was to move the black totes
that held the last of the books from the train room. I thought there should be
room for some of them on the metal shelving in the garage. They were about ½”
too tall for the bottom shelf, so I measured and found that they should fit on
the shelf that held an assortment of lids for plastic bins/totes that I use in
the current quilt room. I moved the lids to a table temporarily residing in the
garage.
The big black totes fit. However, they were too heavy for
me to lift. I used a slightly smaller tote and transferred part of the books
into it. Then I could lift the first tote up on the shelf – not filling it as
full. I needed another tote for the leftover books that would fit on the empty
shelf that was too short for the black tote. I went on a search and found one
the perfect size in the quilt room. It was labeled antique quilt tops. I gently
dumped it out on Black Bart and resumed my job in the garage.
I was able to move the remaining black totes around stacked
2 high to use as temporary sawhorses for one of the doors. I brought a table up
from the downstairs garage and set it up at the tallest height. I did the same
with the matching table in the garage so now had a second set of “sawhorses”
for the doors. I managed to accomplish all of that in time for the 10 AM
delivery of the doors! One goal accomplished – but what should I do with the
quilt tops I dumped on Black Bart? What about the plastic lids now on the table
in the garage?
One of the planned uses for the long, skinny closet
downstairs is to hold unquilted tops (flimsies) on hangers. I had purchased a
rolling cart with 2 hanging bars. It was awaiting assembly. I’ve assembled a
lot of wire shelves in my lifetime. It usually isn’t a problem. This one,
however, did not cooperate. The plastic fasteners that hold the shelves in
position on the poles did not want to hold where I put them. (The grooves in
the poles are not deep enough.) It took forever to finally get the bottom shelf
to stay in one position and be level. After about 2 hours the usually 20-minute
assembly was finished, although it remained a bit unstable. Lesson learned:
Don’t order Amazon Basics. Buy the good stuff.
I took the cart to the quilt room and decided to just hang
up the quilt tops that were on Black Bart. They could journey downstairs that
way when it was time to move. I measured each top as I hung it up, noting any
repairs that might need to be made before quilting. I thought that while I was
there, I might as well go ahead and empty out the second large bin of old quilt
tops. Done. Then I remembered there was a small bin of more old tops somewhere.
I found it and added its contents to hangers.
There are now 22 antique quilt tops hanging on the cart I
had planned to hold the 30 or so flimsies currently residing in the master
closet (Don’s side). [Becoming a widow gives you more closet space but it is SO
NOT WORTH IT!] Time to order another wire cart with hanging bars.
Now to deal with the stack of plastic lids currently on the
table in the garage. I told myself I would keep that table cleared off until it
could move down to the new quilt studio. . . . .
Happy quilting / building / sorting
Becky
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