Sewing Room and New Office

Whew!  Vacation time went fast.  It ended with my niece in law Jessica coming over and we spent 6 hours going through the sewing room.  It's not totally done yet but at least I can find the sewing machines as well as the floor.  Progress!

The yellow bars are the Flynn Quilting System

The crates are full of fabric and that's only one part of the room

I also managed to make it to a free motion quilting class (3 hours for one Saturday) which was interesting.  The day before I went I had problems with my sewing machine so I bought a new one.  I can only afford to pay $200 for it so i found a brother for that price.  So here I was going to class with a sewing machine still with all it's advertising stickers on it.  Good thing i had the manual with me!

The class wasn't too bad.  I need lots of practice but did learn a couple of things and the machine does quite a few stitches and a block alphabet.

The white square with all the squiggles was my practice piece from class.  It's hard to see.

White squiggles on white board is hard to see but was my free motion practice piece

Then yesterday I was told I could get the office space across the hall from my current location.  That gave me an office that's about 2 times as large as the one I had been in for over 10 years.  Here is what it looks like...sort of.  Still working on it but I thought I'd better take a picture before it gets cluttered again.  You can't see the boxes that still need to be unpacked because I hid them under the desks.  :)  Oh...did I mention that I swapped out the desk chair for another one that we already have?  Now my chair has the massage feature so after moving in all day I sat in it and turned it on.  A gal might come to work with that waiting for her.  :)

I decided that the space by my diploma needed something so am making this little mini.  The fabric came from a basket of scraps that my friend Harmony gave me when I went down to see her on vacation.

Here is Harmony in her quilting space in her new home.

And then we are in June.  June means I can finally show you one of the test blocks I did.  This is for Wenche's Christmas Baltimore BOM.

Well that is it for now.  I'll write more later and/or post some more pictures.  Have a great weekend!

pictures

Ok.  Have the pix now.  First up is pictures of mom taken this Mother's Day.

She was happy that I remembered to bring bobby pins for her stuffed dog.  :)  Little things make her happy.

Then on Monday I went to visit my friend Harmony in Mendota, IL.  She has recently moved to a different house and it is out in the country.  Actually all of Mendota is out in the country!  :)  She has a room upstairs which is her sewing room.  She had the most comfortable chair in there which I was sitting in.  Then with the two windows open and the slight breeze coming through...I almost fell asleep.  LOL.

I was going to go to the cemeteries on Wednesday (Today) but then my niece in law (Jessica) called up and we went to the cemeteries Tuesday.  That means today is my stay at home and relax day.

Jessica getting ready to take pictures.

Uncle Russ

One side of Tony (which would be over grandma, grandpa)

Tony, over dad

Sherri (on other side of Tony)

I'm on vacation!!!!!

Now the trick is....to get something accomplished while on vacation.  So far I have worked on a test pattern for the magazine which should be completed this week in plenty of time, had a delightful day trip to visit a quilting friend, and gone to the grave sites.  Overall a busy but productive week.  Tomorrow I have to visit some other people and hopefully get back to some craft things and Thursday my niece in law Jessica is coming over to help me rearrange the sewing room.

Hopefully soon you'll be able to see some pictures of what I did.  I'm having internet problems so won't try to load up pictures here tonight. I might run into the office before my 9:30 a.m. meeting and try to do some there. 

Everybody have a great night and better day.  Catch ya on my next pause in the vacation.

Stonehenge fabric

I don't have much time since I'm in the office but wanted to post up a pix of some Stonehenge fabric that I bought from Thousands of Bolts.  :)  I love this fabric line.

Monday - Where did the weekend go.

This was one of my busy weekends and little got done for crafting.  I still managed to finish up the mini wall hanging for the bucket list on cyber quilters 4-c.  It was the cathedral windows drawing.  This is a bad picture and if I remember to bring it into work I might replace it.  I really love the red border on it.  It looks and reminds me of the farm buildings I grew up around.  Seemed to work well with the blue denim fabric.  Next Monday I should have more to show since it is my quilting weekend (every other weekend).

That's it for now.  Have to get back to work before bossman comes back tomorrow and I also need to write my progress on losing weight on my other blog page.

It's Friday!

Can't believe another week has gone by and I still am far behind.  Which, when you translate that sentence, means this will be a short post.

Wednesday was Professional Administrative Day (the old Secretary's Day) and I got flowers from Lyndon (Bossman).  Much to my surprise I also received flowers from another friend on the same day.  I'm not arguing.

I will be taking some from each and putting them in a smaller vase to take to mom on Sunday.  At least that is my plan.  Let's hope that I remember.

Off to a meeting.  Will post more when I can.

design wall monday? Already?

I actually have something on my design wall at work.  Wow...Perhaps I should have warned you before I posted that.  That's ok.  I'll wait for you to recover from the shock of that announcement.

It's not much but since it's at work it doesn't have to be much.  It's all about getting things started again and back into a grove.

That being said here is the finished mug rug that I did.  You know I don't like it and just wanted to finish it because I sewed the binding on the machine.  LOL.

As some of you may know, the yahoo group that I belong to has what we call a bucket list.  I don't do big projects for this since limited space etc.  This months bucket list drawing was to learn to do Cathedral Windows.  I did one block for it (that's enough thank you very much) and here it is.  I will be turning it into a mini wall hanging but not sure how I will finish it yet.

It is pretty plain right now.  I have a little under 200 of these denim squares (approx 8") so thought to use five of them here.  The middle is the reverse side of the denim.  I was going to embroidery in the larger blocks but can't think of what I want to do or what to applique there.  I might just end up doing red border and back on it and leave it.  I might also use red thread and to hash marks for the quilting.  This will probably be a wall hanging.  The blue is actually a prettier shade then it shows up in the picture.

Any suggestions?