Yeah, it's Friday!

A big thank you for all your hugs and empathy with this filing project I am in the middle of. Last night I was whipped and went to be at 8:15. To say the least I was not in a good mood yesterday between my arms and shoulders hurting and not getting any help. One of the guys did help me pull some of the drawing off the racks and on to the island so I could take off the holder, roll, etc. Some of those drawings are so heavy I just can't pull them up so I loosen the bolts on the holder and just let the drawing fall on the floor.

The island doesn't look much better than yesterday. I was digging around and found a bunch more drawing just stuffed on a shelf willy nilly. So yesterday afternoon I sorted them into piles according to project and today I will bag them up.



The racks before I rolled, bagged, labeled, and shelved 37 rolls of drawings.


he racks after. I still have a few more drawings to roll and bag, but the majority are put away.


I am not going to think about work and just have a good time this weekend. Saturday I am headed to Tuscarawas County - where I lived before I moved to Akron - I am going to go see the couple that had the twin girls. The girls are 4 1/2 months old now and weight about 10 pounds. I kid the father that they are finally the size of real babies! I going to head to my favorite bulk food store and stock up on spices that I need, and visit the quilt shop that moved to check out the new store. I am meeting up with a friend for breakfast before we head over to the quilt shop. I have heard that the new shop is really nice. Sunday my friend K is coming over to help pin baste the quilt we are making for her daughter.

Take care and have a wonderful weekend.

Where's my help?

I managed to put a label on a quilt and that was it. I was so tired when I got home last night. Read on and you will know why. I was suppose to get help moving all this stuff, but as ususal I got stuck doing it by myself.

Before - those brown bags contain the construction drawings for all the projects/schools we have been the construction managers for the school district.


After I moved 22 boxes and 108 rolls of drawings to the basement storage room.



Before

After - I moved the loose drawings to the center island for sorting - see the next picture.



So as I was moving the loose drawings on to the center island one of the project engineers (PE) said he had some stuff in his office left from the last PE that used that office. He added a couple of boxes plus a bunch of drawings - more to sort. After sorting I have to move all of this downstairs.


Then this afternoon after I get the table cleared off I need to take the drawings we don't need anymore off the wall racks, roll them up, put them in a brown bag, label them, and move them downstairs.


Another fun filled day at work. Can you believe I am a estimator/Contract administrator with an f**king MBA and I am doing this? Yes, I am grateful that I have a job, but all I wanted was some help. Some of the boxes weight 50 - 60 pounds and I am feeling it today. Maybe that is why I am crabby.

It's Wednesday already

I was really tired when I got home from work yesterday so I did not accomplish much. I did fix my bicycle seat and I finished these three blocks this morning. This week is flying by! I still have not gotten started on those alterations yet. Maybe I will force myself to at least start on them tonight, but I have a feeling I am going to be pretty tired tonight ... why? read on ...


My mission today at work is to move as many of these boxes to the school district's storage room in the ajoining building as I can. I will have to group the boxes by school, label them, and file any loose paperwork before they go downstairs. These are all constuction documents that need to be kept.

Additions to the stash

Lately I have been enamored with Jane Sassaman fabrics. I found a great deal on these Hothouse Garden Prints.


This piece was more gold than it looked on the computer screen, but I still like it and it will work well with other fabric I have.


I thought this piece would make fun binding.

A busy weekend

The opening for the M.C. Escher exhibit was a hit! I worked the bar with two other people and for more than an hour we were slammed with customers. The event started at 7 and by 9 things really died down. I did not get to see the exhibit because we were so busy. I will have to go another time, but I heard from different people that they thought it was great.

While I was at the museum, a woman in charge of the Paula Nadelstern exhibit for June asked me again if I would help with the show. Of course I said yes. They want to pick my brain for marketing and possibly some demonstrations. I think its a wonderful opportunity and I am looking forward to being involved.

My friend, K, and I spent 8 hours working on the quilt for her daughter on Saturday. We had most of the center blocks done, but then we decided to add a couple more of pieces green to the upper left block.
Here is the before picture


And here is the current look of the piece.

On Sunday I had tear apart some seams to insert two of the pieces, but one of the pieces I had to slice the fabric, stay stitch, press the 1/4" under around the 3 sided opening, put glue on the 1/4" and place on top of the green fabric. Once the glue dried, I flipped back the quilt top around the inserted piece and stitched it. I was happy with the way it turned out. It is hard to stitch 90 degree corners without getting a pucker, but they didn't pucker at all. I will make sure I quilt this area close to the edge of the blue fabric and the corners, because this would be the weakest area of the entire quilt. Yestday I also sewed together the lower two blocks together and then joined the top section and bottom section together. I plan on getting the borders on this week (the borders in the picture are just pinned up) and Sunday K is coming to help pin baste it so I can get started quilting. I need to have the quilting done by March 13.

I did not get to work on my dutch wax blocks this weekend at all since I spent so much time on K's quilt.

Yeah it is Friday!

Here is the sunrise this morning -just beautiful. It is actually more pink to the eye than yellow.


I was so tired after work yesterday that I did not accomplish much. I did manage to get three more blocks completed. I was concerned that the tie dye fabric would be to white (the third block down on the right) to blend in with the rest of the fabrics, but I think it looks pretty good. This is not the final arrangement - I just wanted to get them up on the design wall.


I may just make the entire top with just blocks like this baby quilt only make it queen size.


Or I may add some elements that I had in this quilt.


This is going to be a busy weekend. Tonight I am working at the art museum for an opening of an exhibit. I will be working at the bar serving wine. Saturday I have to get my hair cut then my friend is coming over and we will be working some more on this quilt for her daughter.

Sunday morning I have to go to the grocery store. Have not been there in three weeks. The rest of Sunday will be making dutch wax blocks.

Have a great and safe weekend!

Cold, cold, cold!

It is 2 degrees. What else can I say about that?

I finished cutting my strips and squares of Dutch wax fabric. I also had one piece of tie-dyed fabric that was made in Ghana that I cut. It has a white background with orange and green dyed stripes. I think it will add a little highlight throughout the quilt. I have some other tie-dyes, but they all are on the darker side. I ended up cutting almost 18 yards of fabric.

I can't believe I was able to borrow this book from the library. I was suprised that they even had it. The local library has a system now that you can search other libraries in Ohio and borrow from them. I don't think the local library had a strong quilt book buying interest, but some other libraries do so it has been great to find some of the newest books out there. I will spend some time this weekend getting into this book.