An Empty Wall

I was going to put up a photo of my design wall--but it's empty!  I finished up the baby quilt I showed last week (I think) and it is now washed and ready to take to my friend.  I'm impressed with myself--the baby's not due until next month!  Now I just need to decide what I want to put on the design wall next.  The blocks that were up there are being trimmed and the sashing cut, but that's a hand piecing job and only needs to go up for me to design then it will come down as that will be a long job.  Then it gets hand quilted--I may really hate that quilt before I'm done!  Everyone says you get faster at the quilting as you go but I am not finding that to be true on Ryan's quilt.  Guess I haven't put in my 10,000 hours yet!  I have started some log cabin blocks to use up 1 1/2 inch strips.  Started cutting for a quilt a long at guild but I don't think I have enough of the right fabric.  I'm thinking those cut pieces will just hit the scrap system, that's twice now I've decided that! I have plenty of projects with out that one!

It snowed here yesterday, maybe two inches, and is to snow again tomorrow, not that much though.  The roads are clear but slick-depending on road conditions I may be staying home again!  My truck only had rear wheel drive and is horrid when it snows.  Every year I say I'm going to get a new vehicle, but it's paid for so I don't do it.  I'm really glad I do not live in Boston!  8 feet of snow, another big storm to hit there tomorrow and possibly one on the weekend.  Scott, Bri and Ryan are scheduled to fly up on March 3rd-well Scott is driving so they have a car there-I really hope the storms stop before then!  Of course, the thaw will likely cause flooding-such a mess.

Feeling so much better.  I'm starting to find my house bit by bit.  Likely have it mostly clean by this time  next week.  I also got back on the bike (inside) and started doing my stretches and exercises again, gearing up for warmer weather!

Thursday's accomplishments

Today, I played with my new blow dryer!  My old one (probably one of the first ones out) just took so long to dry my hair that I didn't ever want to wash it if I had to go somewhere.  I had been watching the daily deals on Amazon for one-I think they have such things pretty regularly-and one came on Tuesday so it arrived today.  Gotta love Prime!  It dried the hair really fast!  So recently I've bought a hair straightener, curling iron and blow dryer--what ever will I buy next?

I also finished the tidy up (except for vacuuming and dusting) in the studio, trimmed some blocks (have to stretch that out as I really hate it) and cut the fabric for a long held small quilt piece.  Oh, and I finished the knitting and bound off the shrug.  Tomorrow, I'll have to sew it up.

That about covers it!

Tomorrow, I'll run some errands and restock the frig.  There's talk of significant snow on Monday, I'm not holding my breath.  I need to go to the sewing machine store for a new quarter inch foot and some oil.  I really need to take my machine in but I don't think I can live without it at the moment.  I'll do that when next I leave for St Louis!  I'm playing with the boys tomorrow night, we'll go eat and then to the gymnastics place for open gym--burn lots of their energy.  Should be fun and Ethan will be asleep before we hit the highway coming home!

Cleaning, at last!

I spent the day in my studio--cleaning.  I've still got another day or so until it's completely clean but at last I managed to do something constructive!  Much fabric was ironed, folded and put away, some blocks were measured and pressed for trimming, my hand work bag was loaded up, baskets of projects (most I couldn't even remember what the fabric was for) were sorted,  I cut backing, got out batting and I did some knitting, Whew!  Tomorrow in the morning and evening I'll work on it some more.  Must remember to take down the dust cloth and the dyson.

Rotten night's sleep last night, the cough arrived.  This cold is really dragging on!  I'm off to fold and hang clothes so I can go to bed early.

The Flimsy is finished!

I cut out this baby quilt for a friend's new grandson last month and finally got around to getting it sewn together!  I think it's kind of cute, bright and happy for a little boy.  Hope she likes it!  Tomorrow I hope to at least get it sandwiched and maybe marked for quilting-nothing fancy there.  The back is blue flannel so it will be soft and warm.

Otherwise I'm busy doing not much of anything.  Can't seem to find the motivation to do much of anything.  It's a good thing I have a dog or I might not get out of bed!

Finished!

I finally finished the bag I began at Quilt guild in January!  I think it is designed to carry quilts,  I don't have enough quilts to carry!  That said here it is drawn up and holding a blanket.

And this is how it looks unfolded.  It does fold up nice and flat for storage.  It was super simple so I might one day make another and take more care with fabric etc. (or not.)

On other fronts, I have been knitting up some yarn into a shrug.  It will be finished when I use all the yarn!  It's dark yarn and I haven't been able to get a good photo yet, I'll have to try tomorrow in the sun so I can show you.  It too is simple and mindless enough that I've been able to work on that even while I was sick.  Mindless projects can be a blessing!

 Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon I go here.  I used to actually get a paycheck from here but now I volunteer.

I work in here:

On these:

The first full set of shelves you see are finished with the exception of two large boxes of things to be filed into other boxes.  Can you see all the sticky notes on the end of boxes?  Those are the ones I have yet to enter to the computer, sigh.  I should be able to just fly through the final step in this project-that of entering it in the database-but no.  I am still finding staples I missed the first time through (they'll rust, the rust will damage the paper, so they must go.)  And I have to photocopy every piece of newsprint, toss the original and file the copy (again, news print damages the other paper in the file so it has to go.)  Today in three hours I finished 5 folders.  Two of those were completely full of newsprint!  I spent a lot of time at the copier!  I hope the rest of the files in the box don't have too many news clippings as I'd really like to finish this entire project in the next few months.  Then I can go off to the mountains with a clear conscience.

Way Behind

I'm still struggling to get over this cold!  Because of that I am also WAY behind on everything!  I hope to get back on track this week, I did get a significant amount of work done today and a bit more will get done before I sleep!  (Must make the bed and put away clean clothes before I can hit the hay.)  For now though I'm off the the studio for Telly viewing and stitching.