Marathon Sewing

  
Stephanie spent the weekend here and Nancy joined us for sewing on Saturday.

Nancy finish up this quilt top:

The fabric is Seattle themed with fish, coffee, the space needle and more.

I got the flying geese made to go with the trapezoids and laid it out on the design floor.

This isn't the final layout but it's close.

Sunday it was just Stephanie and I. I got the last of the Threadology blocks make and laid it out on the design floor.

Stephanie and I moved that light square in the bottom left all over and it always looked off. I was going to be stubborn and not remake the square with a different fabric but I've changed my mind. So this is not the final layout either.

Stephanie worked on Jaybird Quilts Snack Time. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of it.

While we were sewing on Sunday we watched all three How to Train your Dragon videos on my laytop. Bella really enjoyed watching the videos also.

 

Do I want to move it?

  
I am in the process of cleaning out everything! I have a huge garage sale pile and I've started packing up things I know I want to keep but will not be using soon. I'm not asking myself "do I love it?" or "does it bring me joy?", I'm asking "do I want to move it?" Most of the time the answer is no.

I had a slight panic attack this afternoon as I found a real estate listing for the house NEXT DOOR to the house I put an offer on. It was totally updated, new kitchen and baths, huge bedrooms and not a bad price. Panic attack went away when I noticed it had a pool. I can't swim, I definitely don't need a pool.

I've been doing a little bit of sewing almost every night. The trapezoids are now sewn into pairs.

About half are ironed. Doesn't look like much does it? I hope I did the math right and don't need to make more.

This little baggy is full of the trapezoid corners I cut off. I see a new leader ender project in the near future. ;o)

I made a scrappy binding for the quilt I finished last week.

 
I went searching through my blog to find out when I made this quilt. ??? I couldn't find it anywhere! I've never shown it before! I did find a picture where it was included with a bunch of other to-be-quilted tops in November 2017. I think I made it earlier that year. Huh. Anyway it's done. The pattern is Scrap Basket Treasure from Turning Twenty. And without even realizing it I used my flannel Turning Twenty quilt for the back.

Doubly scrappy.

Nancy came over to sew last weekend. I cut out my Threadology and Aunt Addie blocks while Nancy finished this quilt.

She started it the last time we got together to sew. Between the two days I think she made it in less than eight hours.
 

Home

I went and visited my mom for Mother's Day, and to check out a few houses for sale in the Grants Pass, Oregon area. I actually put an offer on one (with a great sewing room). Unfortunately the guy had multiple offers (bad timing on my part as the house had been for sale over 60 days), he didn't accept mine. Probably a good thing as I had a minor panic attack over having to sell, and more stressful, pack up my house. When I moved into this house it was almost empty. Now...not so much. Now I have some time to seriously downsize all the crap treasures in the house.

On the quilting side of things, I did go to the local quilt show hosted by the Rogue Valley Piecemakers Guild. It was a small, but nice show. This quilt was my favorite:

 Can you say tiny?

From the tag, this will be the guild's 2020 opportunity quilt. I'm definitely buying tickets for this one.

I also stopped by the local quilt shop, Jordan Fabrics. They sale at a lot of west coast larger quilt shows. Primarily pre-cut kits. In the store they sell the bolt ends by the pound. The pieces can be anywhere from 1 inch to almost half a yard. These are a few pieces I picked up:

I am behind on my Threadology and Aunt Addie blocks. Hopefully I'll get caught up this week.

I did get the quilt on the frame quilted, but didn't have time to do much else.

I'll get it squared up and the binding sewn on this week also.

Bella thought the quilt looked much better with her on it.

Plugging away

  
Nothing exciting on the quilting front. The trapezoids are done, now I'm sewing them into pairs, then I'll lay them out on the design floor.

I'm loading another quilt on the frame:

I'm hoping to get the top loaded and hopefully the first two passes done tonight then finish it tomorrow. I have to wait for Bella to go to bed first, she thinks quilts loaded on the frame make great trampolines.

I decided to break out my checkbook and have someone else take care of all the backyard chores.  These pictures are for my mom...

All of the bushes were trimmed. You can see the fountain again...although it looks like it is in a green tunnel.

Fresh tan bark in the front and all of the backyard plant areas. You can barely see Spooky  laying under the bench.

Fresh rocks and the most noticeable item is the patio, I had it power washed. Took the guy over two hours just to do that. My checking account may be crying, but I'm happy.