3 Month Mark

It is difficult to believe that we have only been here for 3 months!!! It feels like much longer and much less all at once. We have done so much… mostly just small things, but they have made a huge impact.

We still have some things that need to be done. We were hoping to remodel the master bathroom, but that may wait because we have detected a little heating and cooling issue, which in turn has found a small electrical issue.

The heating and cooling problem is in my Creative Space. My space is a 2 room area and part is an addition over the garage addition, and appears it may not have been insulated well enough, but we want to see what happens in the winter, so we deal with the whole problem… The electrical came about, when we moved the portable a/c to the Creative Space, and operated it while the DH was working in his shop below. Either there are not enough circuits or they are under size.

So what does my new space look like? From the entry… you can see the first room and the entry to the second room. The space is blue, actually 2 colors of blue and the lighting is 2 ceiling fans, (but those new LED Cool White lights are so much better…than florescent!!!

from here on the right, is a closet on the same wall as the door, and on the left a wall full of shelves, a cutting table, and some bookshelves and you can see the door way to the other half of the space that is mine.

Looking at the wall of shelves. I decided, after putting all of the fabric on the shelves in Virginia, that I like all of my fabric on view and most my crap hidden. On the top are bits of art work and gifts from quilty friends and family and my postcards!

Last is looking back toward the entry…

From the entry to the second room

again on the right is a closet and there window is directly across from the door, (you can see the a/c unit). I have a sewing station set up in this room…. with a cutting table too. This cutting table and the dresser (under the TV), we have had for 20 years and were a dark stained pine. So I decided that I wanted them white. So I spent about 10 days priming and painting both.

The design wall, TV and desk are all on the wall opposite the sewing station. I also moved a small section of our office furniture in, to house a computer and a printer. None of the walls are full height except the end ones…. so I am a little limited on wall space.

and lastly looking all the way back to the entry.

So far I like my space!!! I have finished a Challenge and have the other Challenge ready to quilt and as of today, a good start on 2 gifts and a piece for the Creative Space!!!

Have an questions about what you see in any of the pictures?

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What's New?

Looks like I skipped right over July!  Can you believe we are nearly 2 weeks into August? Where is the time going.

Since I last posted… I have joined 2 quilt guilds. This little town supports 2 guilds!!! Not sure if I will stay in both… one meets at night and the other during the day. So far the daytime group has been way more fun!!!

Still working on the setting up the Creative Space. Slow going but things are looking good. I still have to build the table. I got the legs at Ikea, but I need to fabricate the top and paint it.

I am creating even though the space is not done… I am working on 2 challenges. One for the guild in Virginia, which I started before moving and a challenge that was issued by the daytime guild here. I also have a gift or two to make… one is a very late birthday gift and the other is a thank you gift, both will be inspired by my ‘Letter Series’.

Yesterday, I played at a Dyeing Workshop by the Daytime Guild. We had so much fun. The instructor, brought lots of dye and mixed up 8 very strong colors. She also brought along several tools to use for the Shibori resist type dyeing techniques. She supplied the fabric as well, which was great. She also allowed us to bring up to 2 yards of additional fabric. I had some PDF left over from a previous dyeing project so I took that. I had originally planned to do some stitching, but the fabric was a very tight weave… so I just folded and ironed it for some some folded resist techniques. We were also given a piece of a very soft bamboo fabric. While it is soft and nice on the hand, I don’t think it dyes up as well as cotton. In looking a bit deeper into bamboo, (Wikipedia or Google it)I don’t think we have been educated well about the process it takes to make it into a fabric. Very toxic.

I have a question, if making Bamboo into fabric caused serious pollution or poisonous working conditions, would you buy or use it?

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