Last stash report of the year! Used in last three weeks: 4.5 yards. Bought in last three weeks: Nada.
2010 will be a different kind of quilting year for me. I’m not going to take customer quilts any more, and I’m going to focus on finishing my many, many UFOs. I also want to spend some time sewing quilts from my designs I’ve made using Electric Quilt. It will be a fun and challenging year for me, and I think I’m ready!
Design Wall Monday Report: Quilting is definitely on the back burner this week. Waaay back burner. DS#3′s recently purchased duplex is in the midst of renovation, and DH and I are the paint “crew”. Saturday was spent scraping off wall paper and washing one bedroom; Sunday was spent painting Kilz primer in the same bedroom. So out of 14 rooms, we have one room half done!!! Yikes!!!!!!!!! Things will start to go a little faster, hopefully. We can only work when the regular subcontractors aren’t there, so that limits our time during the week. That’s good, because our bodies couldn’t survive doing this all day, every day!
This is what happens when small children have access to magic markers (and picture this on most of the walls in one of the units):
Kitchen of one side with new cabinets, new flooring, old icky paint (imagine nice neutral walls, a light neutral countertop, and a real light fixture) — and here is where my old dishwasher came to live:
When I do get back to quilting, I have some projects waiting for me:
- Quilt my 9-patch new antique quilt for DS#3 (Rob) for his new place (amandajean’s design)
- Finish my purple placemats
- Finish my Shine On Bayou Cane UFO (Judy L’s design)
- Finish my Freeze Frame UFO (JudyL’s design)
- And many more projects than I care to think about right now!!!
Christmas was wonderful, although we did miss DS#1 Dave who was home in Virginia. A picture of DS#3 & DS#2 (Rob & Tony), in their matchy-matchy sweaters from (of course) their matchy-matchy mommy (they are so very tolerant):
And a photo of lovely DIL Lynn with her sampler quilt (ALMOST done — need to finish the binding Wednesday at DayStitchers — you didn’t think I would let painting get in the way of ALL my fun, did you???):
We are taking tonight off from painting so I can rest my sore muscles and so DH can cheer on the Vikings. This afternoon we are off to do a little shopping and an early dinner out. Sounds fabulous to me! Tuesday night through next weekend will be pretty much painting filled, so if my blog is a little sparce in the next few days, you will know why! Think of me with my bottle of Motrin and BioFreeze for those sore muscles! It’s really amazing what a person can do when you know it’s short term, and when it’s for one of your offspring!
–Sue
