What really happened was that Ali came over and started twitching at the sight of my sadly crammed-full shelves that had no organization what-so-ever. She promptly started pulling and folding and I happily let her! I was happy for the push to get it done and her folding/organizing system is pretty great.
Maybe I'll do another post and show the easy peasy way she folds everything. So then it's sorted by color - go read Jeni's "Art of Choosing" series on color over at In Color Order, which are excellent - and size of cuts. My child also looked at all this and said "you better get all this out of the dining room before DADDY gets home". Smarty pants.
TA-DA! OK, don't look at the solids yet as I haven't gotten to them yet. But for everything else, TA-DA! I love love love it! It makes me so happy just to sit and stare at it. I got brave and broke up most of my FQ sets - very liberating. I also realized where I have some real holes in my stash. Tone-on-tone mostly with very little red, true blue or kelly green (medium green?). Anyway, now I know what I'm looking for and what will and won't be good stash builders. I can also tell that I'm moving more towards using solids and tone-on-tone fabrics and that I need to stop buying things that are multi-colored as I seemingly have a lifetime supply of those type prints already.
This was such a great exercise in seeing what I have and making the most of it. I feel like I've been sewing more since I finished than in several previous months. Yay for actual sewing! Next up is getting the solids done and a better system for organizing scraps.
Turns out I wasn't the only one longing for a more neat and orderly stash! And yes, all the fabric was out of the dining room before Daddy got home. Whew!