Well, my house is getting put back together. Like so many quilters, my sewing room shares the dining room. We moved furniture around so that my Koala sewing cabinet can be opened to the max; hopefully I can contain the fabric mess to the Koala instead of the dining table! (Husband installed my new chandelier! Oops..burned out bulb.)
Susan, over at Blackberry Creek Home Arts (
http://www.blackberrycreek.typepad.com/) is hosting an IN-HOME Quilting Retreat this week, and I have decided to join in! I am busy preparing for it...
Sewing machine....Check.
Good lighting....check. (put all 60 watters in that new chandelier, pulled in the torch light from the living room, added the little Ott light to the Koala.)
Cutting and Ironing center....Check.
Plenty of thread...Check!
Let's see...what else do I need?
Oh! Projects, of course! I would love to complete the flying geese top:
Or how about putting the Sunshine Quilt together?
Then there are Christmas projects. This one (from last year) still needs binding:
Here is a new project that is completely cut out...a zigzag quilt in the holiday/winter theme:
Oh, dear. I had hoped to work on this Christmas sampler all spring/summer....one block a week. That obviously did not happen. There are applique blocks in this one, and even though the pieces are fused to the background, I need to get the other machine out for stitching the edges down.
One non-quilting item...last year I told a little girl who comes to Bible Study (with her parents on Sunday evenings) that I would make her a bag. Nothing fancy, and it should sew up rather quickly, but I just have not had the time to put it together. Maybe this should be my first project?
The fun starts tomorrow! I hope to post a couple of times a day to show what progress I am making. Homeschooling takes top priority, of course, but Daughter will be at Shakespeare class for part of the day! And maybe I will get up early for a change?
Here are the two blocks I have made so far today. (I don't know why blogger posted this one sideways.)
We overslept this morning...so much for getting up early! We were five minutes late to the Early American History class (homeschool), where I am the assistant to "General Kelly" (aka the teacher). This afternoon Daughter is in Shakespeare class, so I had a short window of time to sew these blocks. Now I am off to pick her up and drop off others in the class...
Susan, over at Blackberry Creek Home Arts (http://www.blackberrycreek.typepad.com/) is hosting an IN-HOME Quilting Retreat this week, and I have decided to join in! I am busy preparing for it...
Good lighting....check. (put all 60 watters in that new chandelier, pulled in the torch light from the living room, added the little Ott light to the Koala.)
Cutting and Ironing center....Check.
Plenty of thread...Check!
Let's see...what else do I need?
Or how about putting the Sunshine Quilt together?
Then there are Christmas projects. This one (from last year) still needs binding:
Here is a new project that is completely cut out...a zigzag quilt in the holiday/winter theme:
Oh, dear. I had hoped to work on this Christmas sampler all spring/summer....one block a week. That obviously did not happen. There are applique blocks in this one, and even though the pieces are fused to the background, I need to get the other machine out for stitching the edges down.
One non-quilting item...last year I told a little girl who comes to Bible Study (with her parents on Sunday evenings) that I would make her a bag. Nothing fancy, and it should sew up rather quickly, but I just have not had the time to put it together. Maybe this should be my first project?
The fun starts tomorrow! I hope to post a couple of times a day to show what progress I am making. Homeschooling takes top priority, of course, but Daughter will be at Shakespeare class for part of the day! And maybe I will get up early for a change?
...which is why I am unable to do any sewing! We are now trying to paint both ceilings and walls; everything is covered in plastic and pushed to the middle of the rooms!
And then there is the outside. One half of the house is now painted a lovely green. The rest will wait for Indian summer or spring, as it is now too wet to do any more. I love the color, but I need to do something about that white front door! And the roof really looks awful with the new paint color! Well, replacing the shingles is on our schedule of things to do next summer.
This is the garage door, still the old color. I decided to pull off the late-60's decorative accents, and now I need to do some sanding and filling before the door can be painted green.
And then there is the yard work. These are my pole beans; I let the final crop hang on the plants...
...until they are monsters. I will let the beans dry; the seeds saved will be for next year's crop!
Everything is pretty much out of the garden, except for the carrots. They are so sweet; I am skeptical about just leaving them in the garden; my common sense says that the carrots will deteriorate while just sitting in the wet dirt. So this is my experiment. I will pull the carrots as we eat them, and see if they do last in the ground for a while longer!
I've still got some colorful flowers. The fuschia is blooming really late this year, and I am loving the color of the coxcombs!
And for fall color, I planted some mums outside my dining room window.
