Not Forgotten

Hubby: “Weren’t you working on a bird quilt…”

Kingfisher in-progress.

Why yes, I was, but it got pushed aside by Halloween must-makes (still using - and loving - my Ghost Party quilt, even if Halloween is over) and the remodel/rebuild/remove-more-stuff project.

Hubby finished clearing out the second bedroom/storage room, 

and I have an entire closet to hang quilts and wallhangings, with a shelf for photo albums and scrapbooking supplies. (Poor Gary. This closet was filled with his stuff - and it’s now taking up space in his garage. 😂)

All the sewing/quilting stuff that was upstairs is now in this section, along with the yarn and crochet/knitting supplies I’m still holding on to. (Cyrus is coming! And she loves to crochet and wants to learn to knit and weave.)

Foosball table is in front of this wall.

Weaving/spinning supplies are in this section with the earthquake supplies. Some shelves are still empty til I figure out if this layout works or not. 

Bobbin lace (someday I’ll get back to it, I hope!), yarn tools, odd pieces of batting and kid art supplies are on these shelves, with ice chests and two suitcases stacked and covered beside them. 

I still need to sort these art/Legos/kinetic sand supplies… some day. 

Best thing about sorting and moving was finding things I’d forgotten about or lost. This thread stand was still in its original packaging, from a quilt store that’s been gone for 10+ years. Now I don’t have to use a coffee cup and swear every time the thread flips out onto the floor. Progress!

Placemat Roundup

Last week I spent two full days cooking and baking so I could sew this entire weekend guilt free.

It worked! 

Tula Pink!

Finishing always takes longer than I expect but once I figured out a quilting plan - 

and found the new episodes of The Great British Baking Show - 

it went faster. 

 Three placemats have pretty pastel butterfly backing

Or I maybe because I was entertained distracted I didn’t care how long it took? 

 Sunflower backing is odd-man-out but I like the fabrics together.

The last four placemats are done and ready to go to guild on the 13th.

And Jennifer’s table runner is ready to go in the mail tomorrow*.

Now I just need to bind the two Tangled quilts so they can go out the door toooooooo.  Love the flower quilting!

* I *hated* the batting I picked for Jen’s table runner - too fluffy and difficult to quilt. So I ripped out the (almost finished 🤬) stitching, carefully pulled the spray-basted layers apart and redid it with thinner batting. So much nicer, but… the top got pulled out of shape during all that and I didn’t realize it until I was taking photos. Think I’ll call it the ‘leaning tower runner’ and hope she likes it anyway…