All Our Bags Are Packed...

...and we're ready to go. Well, not everything is packed, but a good portion was done yesterday. That took a lot longer than I had anticipated. Not only did we pack stuff, but going through our dressers/closets we found stuff we needed to donate or recycle. 

Interestingly enough, we found a set of locks we can't find keys for and we found a set of keys we have not a clue what locks they go to. And if we throw them away, the missing pieces will surface.

Before we started packing, this announcement came through on IG and FB...

Number Seven on the way

We knew about this already, but were told to keep our mouths shut until she passed her first trimester. That was tough! So grand baby number seven is due in January!

Saturday I was getting ready for the fair trying to find a small project to take to work on. It was pouring rain and I wasn't looking forward to the trip, and then I received a phone call from our daily point person indicating all the raffle tickets were sold in the preceding days of the fair and I didn't need to make the trip up. 

But while searching for this small project to take along, I found two WIPs that needed to be dealt with. Actually, I found four but I trashed two of them because they were no longer interesting to me.

Here is WIP number one...

Another studio-themed wall hanging

I had eight of the paper pieced blocks done. Could not find the book to do another, so put a quilt-themed block in the center. I sashed and bordered it out and then put it into the "to quilt" pile. 

Next. Part of a Farmers Daughter top. Again, the book is gone, I had no interest in making more blocks, and the colors in here aren't where I gravitate toward anymore. What blocks I did have done made a nice throw once I constructed them into rows, inserted sashing, and a small border...

A nice throw-sized quilt top

Those took me until later in the afternoon to complete. So much for "working" since I decided to squirrel instead. Jim got his first batch of spicy pickles up while I was doing all of this so we were both having a ball on Saturday. 

I'll finish Patty's table runner this morning and then get the next Tilda Sampler loaded onto Marty. I don't know how much of that I'm actually going to work. Patty has a few more smaller quilts in there that I think I'm going to get off the queue list before leaving Friday.