Making Plans

It looks like we have the wheels just starting to creep a little forward on a possible studio addition. There's still a lot of t's to cross and i's to dot, but Jim is at the research phase of a project this big. Meanwhile, back in the current studio, I am at the half-way point on Tina's quilt. Here's a little of what's going into it...

Jim asked if these were pineapples.

I'll continue on with this today. At some point, I have two customers coming either today or other parts of this week. One to pick up and one to drop off. Actually, I have two customers who need to pick up but I haven't heard back from one of them since I called last week. 

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

 Now this looks familiar...

Dream Bigger

This is for a guy who is giving this to his suedo step-daughter for her upcoming wedding in June. I'm double batting this one with cotton on the bottom and wool on the top. I've already basted in and have started the background. One or two petals on the top portion are already done too. Here's one of them...

Ahhh...who can resist a clamshell?

I really, really want to backfill and add interior designs on some of these, but this is a bed quilt...not a wall hanging and I think for the purpose it's going to be used, doing so would just result in a very time consuming situation all for people who don't get the time consuming aspect of it. That's not coming out right. What I mean is this is going to a customer who is not a quilter, a young couple just beginning their lives who are also not quilters, and anything I put in here will be equally received. 

I worked one more row in my "play" quilt yesterday while I was frame ironing the backing for the Dream Bigger quilt. I couldn't work on Bernie while DW was stitching yesterday because I was picking threads from the threads Jim pulled from it last week. He didn't get them all, and I am frankly surprised he got as many as he did since he worked on it at night when the lighting was the worst. 

I have two customers (or maybe three) coming over today. I know two of them are picking up, but I think I have somebody coming to drop off as well. I have the wrong phone to check my calendar. 

And good luck to those Spartans today at Madison Square Garden!!! Go Green! Go White!