new floor

Here's the new floor. What was supposed to be a 1 day job turned into 2. The floorer was as picky as I am about prep work so I couldn't fault him for that. I think the bits of jewel tone threads and scraps will look good on it.

new sewing room

taken from in front of window

looking toward window

I thought I would take some photos of the empty room. It will never look like this again. Tomorrow the new flooring will be put in and I will be able to finally get it set up. It's been over a month that I haven't done any quilting and being unsettled. It's getting on my nerves. There was a nice surprise though, I thought this room was 12x18 and it's 12x30 Good thing a professional measured it

Closed due to moving

Packed and ready to go

My sewing room looks so sad and empty. Everything is all packed up and ready to go to my new home tomorrow. It has a large loft 12x18 (I think) which will be my new sewing room. In fact it's big enough that I can call it a studio! Don't want to sound pretentious though. A lot of quilts of all sizes were made in my little room, a lot of starts and stops and a lot of ripping out..A few treasures were unearthed in the  packing up and a few of "what was I thinking?" Hopefully I will be better organized in my new place and will be able to see my things without having to sort through piles and getting distracted along the way. But as someone said "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

My Mom's Log Cabin Quilt

In the summer of 2009 I received a package from my sister in law Shirley Andrews who lives in North Bay Ontario.When I opened it, my first thought was "This looks like my mother's writing." And sure enough it was a graphed out log cabin quilt with all the fabric except the yellow and a picture  of a blue log cabin quilt from a Woman's Day magazine. Some of the fabric had lines drawn on it. It must have been from the late 70's or early 80's cause in the late 80's I gave her a rotary cutter and mat. I eventually finished it last year and just had it long arm quilted by Mary Gunson of Tara.   I'll be giving it to my niece Sharon Andrews of Woodbridge Ontario.It was started by my mom Ella Andrews of Leamington Ont who passed away in 1989.

Claire's Quilt

This quilt is made of my sister-in-law Claire's clothing. She passed away last summer 2 weeks after a fall. I have known her all my life as her family lived almost next door. My brother was reluctant to part with her things and I almost wish that I gave in to him. It was all polys, brocade, nylon, fleece etc. so I put fusible interfacing on it all. I also goofed up by not cutting the black strips the same size. But there are  no quilt police at my brother's house. I had it long arm quilted by Mary Gunson with a purple varigated King Tut. She did a beautiful job as usual and the quilting makes it. It's in a posy and heart pattern to get away from the stippiness. I just finished the binding last night.

moving on up

just part of it

Yesterday Elizabeth helped me pack up my sewing room. She sure knows how to back books. It's pretty much all in the living room now. Just a few more books on the shelves to go and there's one room done. I got 3 garbage bags full of odds and ends and old paper clippings that I've been moving about since 1966.  I felt like a hoarder when I caught myself saying "...but that's from so and so" and ...I got that at ..." I do have 2 quilts to bind and some redwork so that I don't go into total withdrawal.. I need my boys to take down all the shelves next weekend.

A star of sorts

Months ago my friend Elizabeth donated some flannels to the Scrapbaggers. I found a finished top in the pile so I finished it up, machine quilting it and just got the binding done last night. I finally finished the Teddy Bears for the Friends of the Library but it might be too late for a summer raffle.