Cleaning out the stash

With things in my life changing I find that I need to clean out my stash of fabric, yarn ,patterns and so on. I find that by cleaning out the stash looking at fabrics some are leftovers from things I made some for  myself but far more of it haven't been for other people, and some are fabrics I got to make things for myself. But sadly I find that most of the things I got to make for myself I have never made, now it's not as if I don't sew or crochet just about all the time but not very much for myself. That got me to thinking.
     Why is it always so hard for those of use that work with fibers to clean out not only out stash but time in our life's for our selfs?
 Here's the answer I came to, when things in our life's are hard we by fibers, and even if we don't use them the Emotions that we felt at the time of buying the fibers comes back when we look at it. It's not till we are ready to deal with those feels that we can clean out our stash. This is why we keep leftovers from things we make at happy times because we think of the people we made things for or if we are lucky what we made for our selfs. So when cleaning I'm in no way saying give it all up. But we have to give up what's not good for us now things from the past we don't need to make room for the new and hopefully the new things in the stash will be mostly leftovers with  great Memories. This is what I'm working on doing, I'm not sure just how well I'm going to do with it but its the plan.

blocking....

Blockking is the most important step in making anything; be it sewing, crocheting, knitting or the most important of all - life.  Far too often we put something together and don't understand why it doesn't look and feel right. The number one reason is that in the rush of making and finishing the piece. That when it comes time to  putting it together, we forget to take the time to block. (I do this just as much as anyone else)  Life is the same way we get wraped up in doing what others want and making them happy. We forget to block in the time for ourselves needed to stretch and renew ourselves. In this very busy time of year it's even more importen that we set aside time for our selfs. In this season of giving we offent for get about giving to our selfs so, Dont forget to make something for yourself this season.