I'm Here

  
Moving is not fun. Half of my belongings are in this trailer in storage, and the other half is in my mom's garage. It will be roughly six weeks (cross your fingers) before I can move into my new house.

In the meantime I've set up a sewing station at my mom's. Don't you love the little side table, I got it at a garage sale.

I have been able to do a little bit of sewing, I'm even further along than this picture shows. One more strip and I'll be able to start laying out the blocks.

At the same garage sale I bought this beautiful little quilt. The label on the back dates it to November 1998.

Look at those points! And how small the pieces are! The quilt is 18 inches square.

I think it may have been paper pieced. I'd love to find the pattern and make a new version. I wonder how difficult it is to draw your own paper piecing templates?
 

Moving Stuff

I've been taking truckloads of boxes and stuff up to my mom's for the last five months. Yesterday I moved fabric...

and more fabric...plus a few finished quilts.

What you don't see is that the truck is a cab plus and the plus was also full of fabric, the Juki sewing machine and other odd sewing room stuff.

My mom definitely loves me. Instead of hauling everything down to the basement as originally planned, she decided we should stack everything in her dining room. What you don't see is the other side of dining room which has large tote boxes stacked up.

Ha, ha, ha, you didn't think that was all my fabric did you? I'll be taking another load up Thursday.
 

What day is it?

  
The house sold again. This time I think it will stick. Escrow closes on September 26 so I am doing some serious packing. I took a load up to my mom's this past weekend and will probably take at least one load a week. My poor little truck is starting to have some mileage - I bought it three years ago, it is a 2001 Toyota Tacoma. When I bought it it had about 34k miles on it, now it has a little over 40k. It is a very basic truck, manual transmission, manual locks, and manual window handles - when was the last time you had to turn a handle to lower the windows? It is a cab plus so it does has a little bit of extra room. Right now I don't know what I'd do without it.

There are so many little things that need to get taken care of, making repairs to the house (or hiring someone to do the repairs), changes of address, homeowners insurance, scheduling movers (can you say $$$), open enrollment for medical insurance; cancelling utilities, cancelling TV/internet; and trying to see friends one last time before I leave for Oregon. I have lists, multiple lists.

I'll be staying at my mom's for 6-8 weeks until my new house is available, then I'm sure there will be more lists.

I'm trying to say positive and think all the possibilities of the new house.  Which room should be my sewing room? The office with all the built-in selves and cabinets?

Or the smaller bedroom with lots of windows? (tried to talk the seller into leaving the vintage Dresden quilt and treadle sewing machine but she said no)

Or both? The quilt frame and Juki will go in one of the rooms and the little Bernina in the other.

Bella was so helpful, she packed herself in this box. She then tried to eat it.

I have had time to sew a bit in the evenings. Making very slow progress on the log cabin blocks.