Procrastination Leads to 100 ways to hide your stash

I found this video and I thought that I would share it with all of you...

I couldn't stop laughing while watching it....I kept thinking to myself, I haven't tried that hiding spot yet, LOL! And yes I have thought about buying the house next door....now if I can just win the lottery so I can carry out my plan! :0)    

Ahead of Schedule Part 1

Since I finished my Feb. UFO early in the month I decided to squeeze in another project, one that I have wanted to do for a while but never could decided what fabrics to use for it, so it kept getting put off...

 until now that is. 

This is the quilt, it's called Bali Sea Star. I decided to do this quilt in various shades of pink for Breast Cancer Awareness. I know several women who have survived this horrible disease and I have always wanted to do a quilt that honors them. So when I found myself with some extra time on my hands I decided that now was the time to do this quilt.

Here are the fabrics.

These are the rectangles that will make up the pieced piano key border.

And this is a pic of my $5.00 design wall from Walmart, with my blocks on it.

And here is the flimsy with the borders, all there's left to do is to quilt & bind it.

Tesselated Stars

I know that we only just started the month of February but I have finished my February UFO project! Well at least to the done/flimsy stage which is my goal for 2011. Here is the pics of the progress....

The name of the pattern is  called Tesselated Stars fron the Strip Therapy 4 book. 

I used the Cotton Candy Bali Pop and added a few more like color strips so I could make the quilt 82" sq but other than that I used the exact same fabrics as was used in the book. 

I needed to cut my accent fabric into 2 1/2" strips...so I used my Accuquilt Go, I just love this tool. Best investment I made for cutting fabric. 

This is all of the bali pop cut into the size/shapes needed for the quilt.

And here is the accent fabric after it was cut. 

Sewing.... 

The block, it's 6 1/2" unfinished. 

4 blocks placed together creats a star pattern.

More sewing... 

I had to make 121 blocks. For a setting of 11 X 11.

And after 2 borders the quilt is now a flimsy!! This will be hanging in my quilt studio once I get around to quilting and binding it. 

Stay tuned to see what else I make in February, since I still have 

3 more weeks left of the month and no other UFO projects scheduled for it.  

 

What Can You Do in Just 1 Day?

Well you could build a wall!

That's right on Saturday I woke up and told my DH, Chris that I wanted him to build me a wall and he did :0) He's the best!

As you know my quilt studio is in my converted 1 car garage. When we moved in DH and friends put in a sub floor to raise the floor to house level and to level the floor itself. Then a few weeks ago our friend Ralph put duct work in my studio so I could have some heat/air conditioning in my studio. But my studio was still about 10 degrees colder than the rest of the house because of the draft comming from the metal portions of the garage door. So.....  

DH & my 16 yr old son went to Home Depot and picked up some 2x4's, insulation, and some drywall.They removed the track for the gargare door and stored it in the wall (clever huh, just in case we ever or who ever in the future ever wanted to restore the room back to a garage). BTW from the front of the house it still looks like a garage, the door is still there, LOL! 

But the inside looks like this. Not bad for a days work. Now we just have to get some estamates to tape the seams and texture the drywall to match the rest of the house. A coat if primer, and 2 coats of paint to match my room and it will be done. And the best part is now my studio is only 2 degrees colder than the rest of the house. DH wants to have insulation blown into the other 2 walls and into the attic area of my studio to bring the temp even with the rest of the house. But I might talk him into waiting until next year since that estamate was about $500.   

AAGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have you ever had a day (or week) that you feel like you are being pulled in multiple different directions at one time and you are finding it hard to stay focus on the task that is right in front of you because there is so much going on that requires your full attention?  

Well that has been my week. Luckily I was able to get the customer quilts done that I had scheduled for this week so I could have Thurs, Friday, Sat & Sun to work on my UFOs. All was going fine until the BITTER COLD hit Arizona mid week and then yesterday (Thursday) Pulte (our builder) scheduled the different trades to come by to "FIX" stuff that falls under the warrenty for our new house. What was suppose to be 1 day of get it done, then get out of my house. For one, I hate waiting for the repair men/trades to come, they always give you this window of 2-4 hours that they are suppose to show up to your house and then who knows how long it will take for them to actually do the job that they were told to do. Anyways I had to make sure I had no customer appointments scheduled because it would be rude of me to have to excuse myself to answer the door, show the workmen where and what to do etc... But what gets me mad is when the granite guy was told exactly what was needed to be done at the time of the appointment being made by Pulte and for him to show up stay only long enough to look at what needed to be done (which was listed on his order/contact sheet and inform me that this would require 3-4 hours to repair and that we would have to reschedule for him to come back another day! What? Before he stepped foot in my door he knew what the problem was and how long it was going to take...why waste my time if you were planing on doing the job at that time. Then the electrician shows up, late but was only able to do 2 of the 4 things on his list in the time that I had available do to having to pick up my kids and run them around after school. So he had to schedule a second day to finish what he was suppose to do, then the drywall/painter guys showed up 20 minutes past their schedule window which conflicted with my after school/kids running so had to reschedule that. Makes me mad because we told our Pulte site manager who was suppose to cordinate all of these times and trades that they had all morning and early afternoon to get it all done and that all of them had to be finished and out of my house by 2 PM do to my prior conmitments that could not be changed. So now I have to waste another day (Monday on the electrician, and the drywall/painters) and still another day after that which has not be established for the granite guy!

Don't these people realise that I own and run my own business, have kids, a husband and most important of all have a life that doesn't include sitting around waiting for them to honor their warrenty on this house? All of the things that was suppose to be taken care of prior to us getting the keys by the way which our site manager FAILED to get done in time.

Ok so then yesterday as if stressed out from the above chaos wasn't enough, I have been waiting for several things to be delivered that I have ordered for quilt related projects and something was delivered yesterday by my mailman and was left in the larger locker compartment (here in AZ most of the mail boxes are located in central locations throughout the subdivisions to make it easier for the mailmen to deliver in the hot temperatures instead of making them walk door to door)anyways for larger pkgs they have larger compartments/lockers for the packages, and they leave the key for them in your mail box if you have something in one...well the key that they left wouldn't work so I had to call my local post office and inform them that it didn't work and they had to "schedule" my post man to hand deliver the package to my door! So more waiting :0( And I really could have used a package yesterday to put a smile on my face. 

As for sewing...not much got done, I did however square up 121 blocks for my Feb. UFO project. Today I have alot of customer pick ups scheduled and 2 drop offs that are set to start in about 8 minutes so I better get off of the computer.