Back to Work.... But Where to Start?

Quad War has come and gone. The left-over stock and all the teaching materials are back in my basement again (still in various boxes, waiting to be sorted).

The week of minding the grandchildren full-time has come and gone. I took a pile of fabric with me and succeeded in cutting out a lot patterns late in the evenings when the kids finally settled down. Now that's all ready to be sewed....

But wait -- my sewing room and my cutting room (spare bedroom/playroom for grandkids) were not cleaned up after that pre-Quad sewing marathon! There's fabric everywhere! And partially-finished projects! There's no room to work in that disaster area __ and the only way to make more room is to process some of that fabric.....

I need a Plan.
Hmmmm.... any one or some combination of the following options:
1. Play some more computer games while deciding where to start.
2. Blog about it. (Much more productive than computer games, right?) There's always the possibility that after sufficient self-ridicule I'll be motivated to deal with the sewing mess.
3. Make room by throwing out the never-to-be-finished projects. Could I actually do that?
4. Make room by sewing all the ready-to-sew and nearly-finished stuff. All those leaning stacks will keep me busy for a few weeks....
5. Sort through the boxes. Who knows what forgotten treasures may hide at the bottom....
6. Re-fold and re-stack the uncut fabric pieces. Maybe I'll remember what plans I had for them when I bought them....
7. Go sit outside, listen to the birds and the fountain, and work on a hand-sewing project while the weather is nice, and save the basement for a rainy day.

8. Go work on wine instead. There are several carboys to be racked and several new batches to be stirred up. Wouldn't want to run low on wine....
9. Go for a walk. It would help to clear my mind and add steps to my pedometer.
10. Chocolate?

That's the sewing room, west wall. Not much room to work on that table

And that's the south wall....

The east wall isn't much better but at least there are some finished items. Don't know what I was thinking, putting that trim on that tunic....

The corner behind the door, on the north wall. I know some people would be thrilled to have an 8'x11' sewing room but really it's not very big. That's why I have a cutting room across the hall.

I can't really use that table for cutting. It's covered and surrounded by boxes and bags that came back from Quad and from my stay with the grandkids.

A bit discouraging, but it's not all bad. Occasionally I finish an item which had been relegated to some dark closet. Like the red cloak. It was buried for seven or eight years while I contemplated how to deal with lining gone wrong.  (It's a full-circle cloak and it took up a lot of space.)  Finally I realized I just had to replace the lining. I finished it just before Quad.

Warm and woolly -- much too warm for a summer day.

With an unusual clasp that was a belt buckle in a previous life. "Is that period?" Probably not....