Friday, November 19, 2021

Collecting

I've been having a happy time choosing fabrics from my stash. I have quite a lot of fat quarters and other material but it does all fit in one smallish cupboard. Nevertheless I have no chance, at my age, of ever using it all up.

I've been doing this. It's very simple but soothing. 

Occasionally, of course, the mind wanders and this happens. Oops. 

It'll probably become less easy when I start joining the blocks together and find that they don't meet at exactly the right places. Still, I'll get them to meet. And very few people will ever see the quilt, anyway. 

I should really try something more challenging but don't at the moment feel like being challenged. The quilt is just for one of the bunks that we put in the study for the rare occasions when all of our distant grandchildren visit at the same time. Then after this I'll make a quilt for the other bunk. In the same fabrics, I think, but a different design, as yet to be decided. 

Mr L brings me a cup of tea in the mornings (lucky me) and I've developed a habit, as I drink it, of looking at my phone, which often offers me, on Facebook, an extract from an American programme about extreme hoarders. I watch this with horrified pity. I had always imagined that hoarders kept piles of newspapers or shoes or something, but these poor souls keep everything: household items in huge quantities, more clothes than anyone could ever wear but also unwashed dinner plates, half-eaten takeaway meals, fridges full of out-of-date food... . Often the men have multiple decrepit vehicles in their gardens that they plan to (but never will) renovate and sell. 

Then teams come in and help them sort their stuff, throw away the junk and clean and redecorate their houses. But it's obviously deeply painful for the hoarders to discard things, even obviously ruined items. And will they be able to keep themselves from filling their houses all over again? 

I'm so sorry for them - living in crowded and dirty houses and unable to stop accumulating more and more stuff. I like pictures and glass, but it's all arranged tidily. And dusted. Though of course there's the fabric stash... .

Isn't the human mind remarkable? - in both a good and a bad way. 

 

6 comments:

  1. The quilt will be beautiful! I love blues. I have rarely watched that show; it upsets me. The people are mentally ill and the conditions filthy and disgusting. I feel so sad for them. A good friend's sister is a hoarder and my friend cleaned up her house for her a number of years ago. However, it's now beyond full and cluttered and my friend (for her own health and safety) won't deal with her sister's messes again.

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  2. I have tried to help a hoarding friend (at her invitation) but the problem goes far beyond simply sorting and leaving. There was a rash of television programmes a few years back about extreme hoarders that were cathartic and satisfying for the viewer but I’m sure would not bear revisiting now.

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  3. The clearing out for the hoarders doesn't solve their problems...if they see it as a problem.

    You make lovely quilts. Just a thought..the Amish quilters would purposefully sew a mistake, as only God is perfect...

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  4. I do love the hoarding shows, but it is definitely a guilty pleasure - watching other people's mental illness for entertainment should not a thing, but here we are ... it has certainly broadened my mind and made me more sympathetic, so that's a silver lining. I think I could be a hoarder myself, in a more trauma-filled alternative life, so perhaps that's the fascination. On a more cheerful note, your colours in that quilt are beautiful! Blue and brown together have a lovely harmony.

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  5. Among friends here, we often joke that we're just a few steps away from being on hoarders. Not in the take-away garbage sense, but in the things sense. And probably a non-quilter would think I'm already there LOL. Speaking of which, I love your new blocks - can't wait to see the quilt. We have two sets of twin quilts (one made by me, one by mom years ago) that are from the same fabrics but different patterns -- I think it's so fun to make them that way, rather than have them completely matching. If you need any more blue fabrics, let me know ... you're just a mailman or ten away ;-D.

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