From the depths of the sewing pile

[fred_mouse]

One of the things I'm trying to deal with in February in order to reduce clutter is the sewing pile. This is a multi-box monster that has eaten the floor space in the room that is variously the sewing room, the music room, and my study (depending on which wall one is facing). What I'm finding is that there are a number of things that are fiddly, and for a long time I've been ignoring them. 

This week, I've been wandering in there, and just picking something up, working out 'what next'. Thus I have repaired a pair of work trousers*, a child's jacket, and a child's skirt. The latter two items have been added to the declutter pile - I'm hoping that one of the friends-with-smalls I catch up this week will be enthused about taking them home (and the slowly growing mound of outgrown clothes). 

Plus, middle child came home from dance to report that there is another child in the dance school in need of a specific and unusual item**, and could we please bring in any outgrown such items, which I found two of. So not only may I manage to rehome those, but I might get actual cash for them as well!

*which had been there so long I'd forgotten I owned them