2026 OneThing #22 - Downsize RaDon Fabric

My wonderful boss Don Sibbet, owner of RaDon, Inc., let me take lots of horse blanket fabric scraps home. I've used this sturdy fabric for lots of different projects (a few shown below) and gave some to other people to use, but still had a lot here.

 

I've been trying to get rid of excess in my sewing room and having two large bins dedicated to this fabric was too much. By refolding and rearranging, I got it all into one bin. (It's a full bin with a lid that doesn't quite shut, but it's one bin.

I used the emptied bin for larger pieces of different kinds of fabric. Slowly but surely, I'm trying to minimize my stuff and use what I have.

 

Ever since I rearranged my sewing room for my new piece of furniture, I've had a certain number of things that have "lived" in the guest room so I can deal with them / sort them / etc. It was 18 distinct items to start with! Every time someone is coming over to stay, I pile the things back into my sewing room to prepare the guest room. Then when the guests leave, I put the extra stuff back in the guest room so my sewing room has room to move. Right now, I've only got six bins of "stuff" in the guest room. That's a big improvement! I've been adding fabric to my bag for donating freebies, which I'll do in July at an MQ meeting.

 

Here are some of my fun RaDon projects:

 

Because we've got storage on a home cloud that I can no longer access, I can't share pictures of my Kitchenaid mixer cover, the carry sack for our campfire kettle, and so many other things I've made over the years! This ugly red bag is for garbage and recycling on the pontoon boat. I have a big rock in it to keep it from blowing away. (I think the mini red bag is one I keep with crazy quilting to put loose threads and stuff in . . . )

 

On to a new week!