Binding a few quilts...

It's been 10 days since my last post, just been busy with things here. Just busy with everyday life. Working a little out in the new house. I've come to terms with the fact that I will not be able to load a quilt on my frame until ALL of the upstairs drywall is finished!!! :( Just too much dust from the sanding! Since my quilting area is an open loft there is nothing there to keep the drywall dust from floating in there from the 2 bedrooms and bathroom upstairs. So it may be a couple more weeks before I can get back to machine quilting.



Hunter has been sick, but went back to school today. He is still a little under the weather but not as bad as he was. I guess his antibiotics are kicking in now.
On to quilting...I did get all 20 of my dresden plate rings finished. I have put them aside until I decide on the center fabric and pick up some background fabric. I am really pleased with how they have turned out so far.
In the late evening while trying to wind down after cleaning, sorting, and working in the new house, I have been working on some binding. While refolding a pile of quilts I found 3 of them that still needed bindings done. They are all queen and king sized quilts so it takes me a little while to get the hand work finished. This first one, is an older quilt that I pieced but quilted it a few months ago. Since it was an older top and I don't have most of the fabrics anymore I just did a simple scrap binding on it and it turned out just fine.Now I am working on the binding on this sailboat quilt. Another older quilt that was quilted several months ago. I have made 2 of these sailboat quilts, one for each of my boys. The other one has been finished for a few years. As far as I know, I still have one more quilt that needs binding and it is a huge king flannel quilt. I'll get to that one next. I am so behind on reading blogs and answering emails. I'm really sorry and hopefully I can get to all of those this evening. Right now, I am out the door to milk the goats!!!!! I am getting about 1 1/2 gallons a milk a day from the two that are being milked! So that is more than we can drink, so I give some to my mom and sister and sent a little to my brother and have several quarts in the freezer that will be used for goat milk soap real soon! Oh and I already have some butter and cheese put away too!
Kristie

9 Down and some painting...

I have a few more dresdens ready for applique. I now have a total of 9. I will probably try to work on them again later tonight. I'm really liking how they are turning out. Never thought they would be this easy.

I had few people ask about what size that I cut them, I cut my wedges 6 inches and that should make a 14.5 inch dresden. But there are several different dresden rulers out there and as I was looking they are not all the same size. I ordered mine online instead of driving 40 minutes to pick it up. This is where I got mine it is priced $6.95 and ONLY $2 shipping!

We had a hail storm earlier today and tons of rain. Here is a photo of the hail in the yard when it first started. They ranged from nickel to quarter sized hail. Not good at all! Hunter has a friend over that spent the night last night and they wanted to go out in it to play! I told them they were crazy!!! Long story short.....they didn't get to go! LOL!

Early this morning, I started painting my sewing room (sweat shop). I tried to take a photo but you really can't tell anything about the color because it was so dark up there due to the storm coming. It's not even dry in this photo so that is why it looks so spotty and that dark spot near the bottom is the shadow of my head when I was taking the photo. This is the actual color, Valspar, Cincinnatian Hotel Briggs Beige. If you click on the link you will see that it is totally different than it looks in the photo. Maybe I can get a better photo of it later. I didn't get it all painted, I got the short wall where my storage closets are behing my frame and the big 24 ft wall where the big window is. I stopped there in the corner and when I start painting again, I will be painting the BIG 40 ft long wall that is 12 ft tall!!!! I do dread that wall! Lot's of ladder work on that baby. Then I will come back and do all of the trim before I move on to another room. Well.....I'm off to start supper and maybe work on a couple more dresdens for tonight.

Kristie

***Sorry, I just realized that my links do not work! I'll try to get a better photo later!

Two Down...

Another long day. Got up early this morning and did the laundry before I got Hunter up for school. After he got on the bus, Richard got a call from a friend that wanted him to go help get a big load of hay. He milked the goats before he left, so I strained it and put it all away. After I got all of that cleaned up, I started cleaning again! Today I still work mostly on the kitchen, cleaning out some cabinets and the windows, plus my regular daily chores.

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I took a little break and made a dresden plate out of some of the wedges that I cut yesterday. Not sure what I will use for the centers yet.

After that, I went out to the new house and tinkered around out there. So much dust upstairs from the sanding so wasn't any sense in trying to sweep that until he is finished up there.

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Came back in and put on supper, BBQ ribs, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob and cornbread. While I was watching supper I worked on another dresden plate. So far today I have made two of them. I'm not in a rush, I just want to enjoy the process. Most of the blocks will probably look the same because I picked out the fabrics that I wanted to use out of my scrap bin and I cut it up until there wasn't anymore of it. So some fabrics I may have in every block, I just wanted to use up the scraps and be done with them.

Hopefully tomorrow I will have one or two more finished. We will have to wait and see...

Kristie