Going to the Beyond

Jim's cousin passed away two weeks ago. Jim's great aunt back in May. My brothers girlfriend had a daughter who hung herself on Tuesday. Jim's moms boyfriend just passed away this morning. With the way the world is turning out, they are probably all in a better place.

This is why I quilt. It's my passion and it's where I want to be ALL THE TIME! This is my "better place" until the next one is ready for me I guess. 

Nail appointment first thing this morning, had to do a little shopping, ran over the Pieces to pick up a backing and some insert fabric for the turtle sitting here waiting to get onto the frame. Now I'm home and have to finish chores before I get into this quilt...

One of the blocks

It looks to be a portion of the Stitchers Garden I've done two of, but not quite. I see some similar or same blocks from that quilt in it. I've already mapped out the first portion of the quilting so it should go rather fast. 

Meanwhile, Chris is coming to pick up her quilt this afternoon and it's a good day to stay in and long arm since it's supposed to be a hot one out there today. 

I received something in my email this morning from Quilted Joy (the place where I get all my thread). It's a color card with the colors arranged in numerical order and a sample of each color next to it. I printed this off and I'm going to stick them into plastic sleeves so I can dry-erase the ones I'm getting low on for reordering. Very convenient! 

Merry New Year!

Welcome 2022. Wow, when I graduated 40 years ago, this seemed like a sci-fi situation when we'd be living in this century. 

I have been completely and utterly absent from the studio other than to let the dog out and to move stuff in and out of it during the infiltration of family and friends. What a fun weeks it's been, but now it's time to get back on track I think. 

Here is the only sewing/quilting related pic I have to share. This was made for my youngest grandson from a panel I picked up at Pieces...

Buddy the Frog

I had to prop him up because he became a little top heavy after he was stuffed.

While we were chilling out together one evening, I was fiddling around on my phone and made this QR code for Quilting at the Lake. Your phones camera will "look" at it and you can then get to my web site. 

Quilting things I received for Christmas are actually for my customers. My brother and Jim both got me gift cards for Quilted Joy. Ben and Caleb purchased 16 spools of thread from there so I have a total of 67 new colors coming soon into the studio. I also received some fabric paint, some Inktense blocks, and some grid templates for marking customer quilts. Quilting at the lake bought Colette a new Panasonic cordless iron because well, it's Christmas and she's always wanted one. 

I hope you recover from the holidays fairly quickly and things get back to normal soon. I know I'm excited to see a new year come in because 2021 (in the world) wasn't so great. For me here in the studio...it was one of the best years ever. 

Where is this Week Going?

It's already Thursday? Here's what's on the frame this morning...

Lois' Top

I started working this yesterday afternoon when it was particularly dreary and see this morning I have to do some ripping. Not very pleased on one of the angular lines I made.

While getting Terri's top finished I was literally playing thread chicken. This is what I had left over after getting hers off the frame...

Not much more left there

Thankfully, the Quilted Joy order came in so I wouldn't have been without for too long had I actually run out. 

While Jim was working on the Beller deck last night I put two more pineapple blocks together. These finish at 10" and to make a decent size quilt I'll need at least 64 blocks. This should keep me busy for a few weeks since two blocks take about 2 1/2 hours to complete. 

I have a few customers coming today (one anytime now) and will be working on Lois wall hanging...after I rip out the booboo section.