My name is Charlotte, sometimes known as Ms Lottie, occasionally as The Slightly Mad Quilt Lady. This is my blog, where you'll find me writing a lot about my quilting and textile arts and a little about my family's life in a small seaside town in New Zealand. Haere mai!

Friday, August 15, 2014

How to tell when it's time to do housework.


I cleaned off my trestle table and my ironing board so I could use them to surround my Sew-ezi table.  I decided to spend some time quilting my big blue and white quilt and I need to support the mammoth  weight of the quilt while I'm working on it.


I put all the bits and pieces that were on my ironing board and trestle table onto my chest freezer, which doubles as my cutting table.  But now I want to make some soup and I need to get into that freezer.  Where can I put that junk highly important bits and pieces?


On the laundry bench?  Nope, that's my ironing space (see previously mentioned repurposed ironing board), a repository for washing-needing-to-be-folded and storage for art stuff that hasn't made it back to the cupboards.


I know, I'll put it on the studio chair aka cat bed.  Oh shoot, that's being used to store quilts, zip pouches, patterns I'm writing and fabrics I'm auditioning.

Maybe I don't want to make soup.

But there are kids to be fed.

Sigh.

It's time to do some housework, isn't it?

(and how, oh how, am I going to work in the smaller space of a boat?)

13 comments:

  1. Think of the boat as a chance to reorganize! Lol! I have this same problem often with every inch of space covered. Hoping to tidy up in the fall. My ironing board is a catch all right now.

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  2. I think no matter how much space you have, it gets covered!! Good luck with finding things...!

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  3. Never ever do you get ahead on that one :)

    viv

    ps it's even worse when the builders cover your things with their things!

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  4. doesn't matter how much space you have, we could always do with more! Don't you wish for a magic wand at these times!

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  5. I take comfort from your mess, it looks like mine xxxx

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  6. Oh, oh! I can see another problem ... where are you going to put that freezer on a boat?!? Elizabeth xx

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  7. Haha! I'd feel right at home in your place! Boat comment brought back memories too. Storage shed Adelaide, little one in Sydney, oh... One in Yamba too! Car....also full! Life of a cruiser living on a boat! Such fun!

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  8. Take heart - between hockey, hockey and more hockey, school and music we have layers upon layers of debris and no time. Things calm down after October - time to clean then :-)

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  9. I have a decent sized studio, and I still have to move things around to find space to work. I bet you'll do just fine on your boat.

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  10. Hi Charlotte I'm a quilter/embroiderer/teacher from UK, www.yvonnebrown.co.uk have been peaking at your blog from time to time. I've been to NZ a couple of times and taught at the Queenstown Symposium, I'm coming back to NZ early next year to teach for ANZEG but first my husband and I would like to have a holiday coming to Northland first, we don't know the area at all and would like to stay self catering for about a week before going back south, can you recommend anywhere?

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  11. Oh Charlotte - how I can relate to this and am afraid I did giggle :) I hopped here for an advance peek from Elizabeth's blog just now. I tagged her in the blog hop - which means that even less housework gets done here as everyone has such fascinating tales to tell.

    Hugs, Di xx

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  12. Hi there... just meeting you bloggily via Monika .... I had a good laugh at your pictures... my Hubz came the other day and said "do I need to put this in quilt room 1, 2, 3 or 4 (it was a bit of ironing).... we need so much space don't we?
    Hugz

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