How to get ready to do some machine quilting!

Perhaps if I were a bit neater in my sewing room it wouldn't be such a production (and sometimes it really isn't, honestly) but for today, this is what I need to do before I can even take one stitch - clear some space on the sewing table:

• Take rulers back to cutting table



• Put papers with phone numbers in organizer to be filed later



• Put away misc. spools of thread from the weeks sewing



• Throw away blue jean scraps from mending job



• Put patterns for quilt shop where I will see them when I go out



• Put package of cording in drawer with other supplies



• Put away small and large rotary cuts (mental note, find hooks or nails to hang these with)



• Take daughters headband to bathroom to put away (ignore laundry, finish that later)



• Sort paperwork for future project, put with fabric on tray to keep together



• Move table runner projects to cutting table to work with later (I hope!)



• Found - 1 coffee punchcard, put in wallet (ignore piles of paperwork on desk - later)



• Diaper coupons - put near purse and make a note to take to church on Sunday!



• Joann's flier, need to look and see what I need on sale this weekend!



• Put away new fat quarters purchased on Wednesday



• Put stack of potholder supplies on cutting board



• Put pens in drawer at desk and pins in drawer on shelf!



• Move stack of misc magazines, notebooks, and calendars



• Put scraps on pile to be processed for scrap quilts



• Dust off table

Now it's all clean and ready for a weekend of quilting (ignore organizer full of paperwork to be filed, I'll work on that tonight!). But first I need to clean out my machine, oil it, and wind some bobbins - then I'll be ready for some fun!