There’s so much going on it’s hard to know where to start. Q comes before R so we’ll start with Quilting. One of my quilt guilds is doing a Pizza Box Quilt/Challenge/Round Robin. Whatever it’s called, I’ve put 2 yards of the multi-colored print as my focus fabric, 2 yards of the black as my background fabric and a fat half-yard of each of the other fabrics into a Pizza Box, along with this block. I brought home someone else’s box and will make a block with their fabric and take it back next month. We’ll keep swapping until there are 12 blocks in the box when we will get to see what everyone made. This will be a quilt on next year’s UFO list.
Speaking of UFOs, I pulled out this whitework square that I started in 2005. I’ve been working on it all week. The spots are either tea or Diet Dr Pepper. I didn’t wash them out because it would have washed the quilting design out. My goal is for this to be my first finish of the year and the first UFO I cross off the list. We’ll see.
The last bit of quilting is this new to me Accuquilt Go!Big. I’ve had a bit of tennis/golf elbow and thought this will save some wear and tear on my joints. It came with 9 dies and an 8″ Mix and Match Qube. At the moment it is sitting on my folding cutting table which is open in the doorway between the Den and Quilting Studio. I’ll need to figure out a more permanent solution. Which I suppose is a good segue into the Remodeling portion of this post – if you are still reading.
The painters have been here all week. They’ll be here again on Thursday to put up the final coat of wall paint. This is the corner room. I had the shelves pulled out and between the light paint and the removal of the shelves this room feels so much bigger.
I pulled down the shelf on the far wall of this room as well. It just seemed to be too high on the wall. Another coat of paint is needed here as well. The paint in the two bedrooms is Crisp Linen.
This is the office which will be painted White Lilac – the same color as the Living Room and Dining Room.
With the paint done, the floor will get put down in these 3 rooms and the bedroom hallway next week. Which means it’s time to get serious about the master bedroom and bath.
The paint is Crisp Linen, except for the window wall. It will be Sherwin-Williams Danube.
I’ve picked this Akua mosaic tile for the accent, the white tile is the shower surround and the vanity counter and shower seat will be Snowflake granite. That’s the sum total of my planning, but need to get on the ball as by this rate I’ll be ready to start by the first of the month – not that any of the rooms will be finished – well maybe the front bedroom.
