But by this time next week I hope to have it all carpeted and all my stuff returned to normal. Fingers crossed. They said it would take two days - one to lay the carpet in the rooms, and the other to do the coving (which requires special woven borders) and the light cutouts on the stairs.
In the meantime, I did get a bit of stitching done. I quilted a Halloween quilt that Cousin Kim assembled. I don’t have a picture of it yet because she hasn’t added the binding yet. Anyway, I plan to show the last several quilts that Kim has finished in an upcoming blog post - she’s been on a finishing tear these last three months.
But Purple Posies did get basted, quilted and bound. Yay! In fact, it’s coming with me today (along with about 17-18 other quilts) to our Quilts for Kids workshop this morning. The weather looks threatening in this picture, but it had been beautiful all day and then clouded up about a half hour before this picture. We hurried out to get a picture (I also wanted a picture of the blossoms on the tree before the storm hit) before it began raining. Only it didn’t rain. A half hour after this picture, it was bright and sunny again. Pffffft......
Last week I was having tension issues with my machine. I had tried adjusting everything and cleaning and oiling as per usual. Nothing had helped. But my friend Pat suggested using canned air to blow out the tension discs. I hadn’t thought of that. Once I did that, the issues disappeared! Who knew? I made a quilt sandwich and played with my walking foot, free motion foot - just playing and speeding, etc. Perfecto! YAY!! Thanks, Pat. That precipitated my quilting frenzy this week!
Since this is the last Saturday of April, I’m linking up with Scrappy Saturday at the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Here are the light blue scrappy blocks that I finished this month.
I didn’t get a picture of all the string blocks I made, so the picture in the lower left of one block represents the 18 that I made and inserted in one of the light blue quilts for this month. Eighty blocks total, a good showing. Next week I’ll show all the quilts for the month. I’m hoping I’ll have time to get my studio back together and finish two more quilts before month end.The second flimsy contains the pinks and more of the floral and pastel blocks, again measuring 42x48”.
I had a piece of multi-colored polka-dot backing fabric in my stash that split perfectly in half to make the backing for these two tops.
Finally, last weekend we had dinner with son Ryan and his wife Kim, plus our two grands Lauren (17) and Easton (22) at their place. Ryan is becoming an excellent cook/chef! He reads and watches a lot of cooking shows and experiments with new recipes. And the new gadgets (special grills, meat grinders, etc) attest to that. That evening we had birria tacos (I hadn’t heard of them before this) and they were to die for. OMG, my mouth waters just thinking of them. My DIL Kim wisely lets him do the cooking! Anyway, we celebrated the March birthdays (me and Ryan) and Lauren’s April birthday. Easton is graduating from Utah State University in two weeks, and we will attend his (virtual) graduation. In June we’ll have a real, in-person family gathering/send-off for him as he heads out to New Hampshire to begin naval officer school and their nuclear engineering program.
Life is good.
14 comments:
Your windmill quilts are beautifully cheerful: perfect for a donation!
Congratulations on the new carpet! Stuff like that is a pain in the butt, but it does make things so much nicer and fresher. Love the blue projects and the windmills quilt. Congratulations to your grandson! I'm glad someone understands nuclear engineering, because I sure don't. I'm sure you can't wait for June! :)
You were very productive this month! 80 blocks, oh my! I really like the 2 windmill quilts! Nice job! Take care putting your space back together!
Hi,
Love the purple posies quilt. Your BLUE blocks are really nice.
I really like your Windmill quilts, so colorful...have a great day!
A new carpet makes it feel like a new house. A chance to move things around a bit?
Yea for new carpet! It will change the feel of the whole space. But sorry you've had to do all the prep work and the reset up work to come. Your windmill blocks look great. A friend of mine is a NICU nurse and has been responsible for giving away quilts to parents with kids in her unit. She says men absolutely do not want pink on any quilt for a son! Because of that I've made way more "boy" quilts than "girl" quilts for her. Another observation is there are more boys in the NICU than girls. Strange but it helps me plan my quilts.
You have achieved a lot of sewing despite getting ready for the new carpet. The two windmill quilts look great and the purple one is lovely. Hope the new carpet installation goes well, don’t be tempted to do much lifting and moving.
Congrats on finishing up the Posie quilt, Cathy!! I really must look for my blocks sometime soon. You finished SEW many BLUE blocks! Are there really more quilt finishes, too? You are quilt the wonder, you are.
Hooray for new carpet. I am impressed with all that you accomplished with your studio moved about to get the work accomplished. Beautiful blue blocks! String blocks always tug at my heart!
Hooray for new carpet. I am impressed with all that you accomplished with your studio moved about to get the work accomplished. Beautiful blue blocks! String blocks always tug at my heart!
Easton must be a very smart cookie! Do all those empty shelves normally hold fabric? I'm always curious about how much stash people have, and what they consider to be the 'right' amount. Purple Posies is a pretty finish :)
You accomplished a lot this month even though you had to pack up and move everything. I'm glad cleaning the tension discs solved the problem. It only take a tiny thread or piece of lint or dust to screw up the works. It's so nice that families are finally able to see each other in person and catch up on celebrations. Hope the new carpet smell isn't too overpowering in the basement. Probably hard to ventilate down there.
Pat
So you must have your carpeting in by now! Thinking of all that moving and cleaning gives me a headache ;-)
But your Posies and Twin Sister Windmills don't give me a headache. All are fantastic. Oh, and so are all the blue blocks.
Lots of great storage! I have a rust stain on the vinyl flooring in my basement sewing room. Mine was caused by a flooded window well and metal ironing board legs. I haven't gotten it out either.
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