I'll start with the good stuff first. Last night Richard put up the door to the main bath. We didn't have any interior doors up and I was so excited to have a door on the bathroom. That sure beats the quilt that I had hanging over the doorway.
I tried to take a photo of it but it was hard to get the door at the right angle since it is down the hallway. I had to take the photo straight in front of it and I couldn't get the bottom panel, just the top. I also had a hard time with the flash on the doorknob. I'll try to get the whole door later. I love the antique hardware on it. Did I tell you that I have skeleton keys to fit the doors? I love the wood tones on these doors too.
I also received more pillowcases! I sure hope that I get these right because Hunter pulled them out of the packages to look at them and I'm not sure that I got which ones go with what name. So if I don't, please correct me. This first set is from, Faye in MI. She even sent a little book along. I'm sure the books will be greatly appreciated too. Thanks Faye!!
This second set is from, Carline in WA. She even sent along a piece of fabric for me. Thanks so much, Carline!! All of these pillowcases will be greatly appreciated. In a few days I will post the big stack that we have. I can't wait to deliver them in a few weeks.
Now it starts going down hill from here....
Yesterday Hunter got off of the bus and was sick. Again!! This is the second time in the past few weeks. He was running a fever and he just walked in the door and hit the couch. I gave him some Motrin and he ended up sleeping until 8pm. That is not like him because most of the time, Motrin hypes him up. So this morning he was fevered again and I took him to the doctor instead of sending him to school. He seemed to be feeling a little better tonight.
After everyone went to bed a few hours ago, I wasn't sleepy so I decided to go upstairs to my sewing room. That was a mistake. Actually it started off pretty good but quickly went down hill.
I finished up a few more blocks to my Rocky Road to Kansas. I now have 20 out of the 30 blocks needed. I was pleased with that.
Oh before I go on, I have another quilt on the frame. It's not mine but I sure wish it was. It is very pretty. It is a big one measuring in at 102" square!!! I'll just quilt on it a little at a time. I couldn't quilt on it tonight because my sewing room is directly over the master bedroom and it will wake Richard up. I know you really can't tell that much about it here but I have just started the quilting on it.
Now here is the bad part....UGH! Do you remember in my last post that I was so excited to finish up all of my Green Scrappy Bargello blocks? Well....
Due to lack of attention or brains, I really messed them up!! I didn't even notice it until a little while ago when I finished those Rocky Road to Kansas sections and decided that I would start sewing the green blocks together.
Do you see anything wrong with the photo below?
Yep! My blocks are NOT the same size! When I did these last sets of blocks over the weekend, I forgot to change out the foot on my machine and was in too big of a hurry to notice that they were NOT the right size. :( They are NOT even square! They are half an inch longer than they are wide.
At this point, I just threw my hands up and came downstairs. I have enough of the right sized blocks to make a 4x6 setting but I wanted a big quilt, not a lap quilt. The way it looks, I'm going to have 2 lap quilts. I figure that I can take the remaining rectangle looking blocks and keep them all turned the same way and make a lap quilt with those, even though that is not what I wanted. At this point, I don't think I could stomach taking all of those seems apart and redoing the blocks. I guess I'll sleep on it and deal with it tomorrow...maybe. Good night...
Kristie
Well, I survived the weekend....barely. UGH! It was crazy! Sunday evening I did get a little bit of sewing done. That felt great and I really needed that after the weekend. So I'll fill you in on it all...
I'll start with the sewing on Sunday evening and go backwards. After Hunter's busy time with his friends he decided that he needed some "mommy time" we went upstairs to my sewing room. He loves it up there. He has a tote that he calls his art box. Lots of papers, markers, glues, pencils and such. He is a creative little guy so my sewing room is OUR creative space. I love that he enjoys it so much.
As I was piecing some blocks on the table next to him, he was doing some drawing while we watched, "The Nightmare Before Christmas" Giggle...I think we had a little too much pop. I see a can of his and 3 cans of mine.
He decided that he wanted a bowl of cereal too. See the cars on my cutting mat.
Here are the blocks that I pieced! I finally finished up all 30 of the blocks needed for this quilt! It is a UFO that I had been working on. Now I just need to sew all of those blocks together. That may be a few weeks from now because I want to finish painting my sewing room before I put my design wall back up.
Oh, I found these little things at Walmart on clearance for .50 each. They are the perfect size for my fat quarters. I love that I have them right in front of me and can see them.
I snapped another photo of a few of my babies upstairs.
Now on to the rest of the weekend. An elderly friend of the family moved from her home and the water plant bought the lot for the property, not the house. The house was going to be torn down. The house is a small house but it is 100+ yrs old. So when my MIL called to tell us that the lady wanted to know if we needed some stuff, we jumped on it.
Saturday Richard left early to go in town to the house and started removing some things. As soon as all of those kids were picked up, Hunter and I headed to town to help him. I know that this stuff looks old and horrible, but I promise by the time we get it all redone, it will not look so bad. :)
First off, here is the hardwood flooring that we pulled up. The rooms were tiny so it took 4 rooms of hardwood just to get enough to do my living room. Here it is still piled on the trailer. See, it looks bad, doesn't it?
Then Richard grabbed a small piece and ran it through a planer to get the old stain and roughness off. It looked good at that point. Then I grabbed the can of stain and this is the end look!!!
So what do you think??? If you look close you will see that part of the board has 2 coats. I'm loving it and can't wait to get it all refinished and sealed.
We also got this claw foot tub! I've been wanting one for my master bath and finally found one. Of course, it has to be refinished too. That will come with time. I'll post photos of that once it is finished.
I know it is hard to tell anything about this photo but here are some interior doors. They need cleaned and waxed. I'm loving the old hardware on them. I also have the skeleton keys for them.
We also got the front and back doors and a set of pocket doors. I can't get to those to take a photo. So this is what we did on Saturday and then again Sunday after Church. I'm excited about all of this but lets just say, my back is feeling it.
Kristie
My design wall this Monday morning is a little bit of a mess. Lots of odds and ends on there. Just several different projects in the works.
First off is my Wheel of Fortune or Road to Fortune, it is called both. This is the UFO that I started working on the other day. I still only have 4 completed blocks done but have a few more half blocks ready. I do love this one but I think I need a better selection of scraps than I currently have so that may make this one a slow finish as I gather scraps.
Then at one point I got a little bored but didn't really want to drag out anything major to work on. I made 2 more blocks for my scrappy stars. We are making 2 blocks a month so these will be for October, but by the time October comes around I will probably make a couple more. These are great to use up those scrap 2.5" squares.
I've also added a few more bowties. I can't remember my exact count right now but I have it written down upstairs.
I also worked on my block for Barbara Brackman's block of the week. I made the block that was posted last week, it is the one on the bottom. The one for this week is a hard one, so I will try to get it done sometime this week.
Last but not least, I pulled another UFO out to work on. This one is an older scrappy bargello, (quiltville pattern) that I started doing in greens. I had to do a ton of pressing because it was all smashed in a box.
I had 11 blocks finished and the strips sewn together for another 13 blocks for a total of 24 blocks. Well, now I know why I put this one away....I didn't have enough green strips to make the 48 blocks that I had intended. :( I will work on it as far as I can get with what I have.
I pulled a few more green strips from my 2.5" strip tote and now I have enough for a total of 30 blocks. I may be able to get one or two more done over that but for now that it all. I will just get it as far as I can and see how I like the size. My biggest problem is the OCD in me that wants it to come out even on the sides and bottom. LOL!
So that is what I have on my design wall! To see what others are working on go over to Judy's blog and take look.
Oh, I got a few more pillowcases in for donation, I'll post those in my next post! If anyone else is interested in donating pillowcases for a good cause, click on the tab at the top of my blog to read the details.
Kristie
