Heading for the Border

The quilt top is DONE...nearly... all the blocks and sashing are sewn together and now I just need to add the narrow border to it. The border is black and is only about 2-3 inches wide so that should go fairly quickly. However, the quilt is very large so moving it around is not easy....but we hung the top from the deck and I took pictures of it by standing on the garage roof..color is not perfect..the borders are coral and black and turquoise but it's close as the sun was over on the other side of the house.. .. and we got the totem pole in some of them too. Fun. Cannot believe this thing is nearly ready for quilting and I'm really glad I'm not the one who is going to be quilting it.

Yahooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I bought the pattern in a shop in Albuquerque and the woman who designed it does their quilting so we are going to have her quilt it. I plan to take it there on June 18 for their 3rd Thursday "Show and Tell" day and therefore get 15% off the cost of the batting and backing for it. Since we plan to arrive in NM before that, I will just take a road trip from Las Vegas to ABQ with my quilt - maybe I'll find someone in Las Vegas that wants to go with me...

Tomorrow I put the borders on and then can start packing up the sewing room and get it ready to paint. Can't wait to start organizing my new sewing room in LV. There is carpet in there now and I really want to pull that up and put wood down to match the living/dining room wood. We'll see.

It's Done and It's Nearly Done

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The bathroom and house remodeling project is done except for some staining we need to do on the new closet doors. If it EVER stops raining here that will get done... I love the new toilet paper holder...it just sits on the floor and you can move it around if you get bored "doing your business" in there.. can you tell I'm losing more parts of my mind during this whole process...doesn't take much to entertain me these days. We love the higher vanity.. but we aren't going to even use the tub/shower - keeping it clean and new for our renters.




The pot quilt is nearly done... The top two rows are sewn together and the third row is ready to sew to the top two and the parts are ready for the fourth row. It is spectacular and I can't wait for it to be done so I can put my sewing stuff in boxes and get that room cleaned and painted.

Yahooooo - we are making progress.