My two days in Charm

I should have a t-shirt with "I survived Charm Days!" written on it. The weather was beautiful and the people were out to enjoy the leaves, food, and shopping. I worked at Miller's both Friday and Saturday. Here is the sunrise on Saturday morning.

The store before we turned on the lights and opened the doors at 8 am.

Here are my purchases from the quilt shop.

To be continued ....

Rolling right along on the Halloween quilt

Another block done last evening!

I woke up at 5:15 this morning so I decided to get up and work on another block. I got about 3/4 of this block done.

I found another dark block that I missed quilting the white stripes so I quilted those last night too. SO I am down to 7 1/4 blocks to go!

Tomorrow and Saturday I will be working at Miller's Dry Goods in Charm, Ohio for the Charm Days Celebration. I am looking forward to getting out of this office! I got the phase books put together, but I am still waiting on some info from the architect and a consultant before they are complete. Handling fabric all day for two days is just what I need after these last six weeks of madness. Here are my piles of books. I need to bind two of them for submission to the board and one for a representative and the rest will get distributed after the books are signed.

Next week is all about packing up the office as we are moving the 21st thru the 24th to a double wide trailer out at a job site.

Have a great weekend and if you come to Charm, look me up at the quilt shop! I have crazy curly hair so you will know it's me - Patty, the quilt lady!

Halloween quilt is coming along grand!

Last evening I decided to sew on the binding. I already had the strips cut so it was a matter of sewing the lengths together, pressing, sewing them on, and mitering the corners. I got the quilt trimmed, the binding pressed and now it is ready for the hand stitching.

This morning I had some extra time so I decided to quilt a block. I got the white areas of this block done so tonight I will do the black stripes and another block will be done! That would mean only 9 more to quilt! I want to get this done so I can at least enjoy it for a little while before it get handed over to my brother on the 26th. I really love the way this quilt is turning out.

Another block done

Here is the block I quilted last evening.

My deadline is now the 26th and with only 10 more blocks to quilt I will make that deadline.

I received my swag bag from the Quilt Alliance last evening. There was a nice mix of items including some fabric! There were some tickets - I don't know what those are for - and a thing called Story Patches - I haven't' figured out how it works yet. I also have to figure out how to go see the videos from the event.

Where have I been?

Well, last week was just crazy at work. I had a 3 hour meeting on Thursday and didn't get home to almost 6 p.m. The project I have been working on is still not done. There is a book we put together to present to the school board. I was told 6 weeks ago it had to be to the board by the 18th. Thursday the date was changed to the 11th. Poof!!! a whole week of review time gone. Let's say I am not happy. I am not into doing half-assed work, but that is all the time I have. I lose another day since I will be heading to Charm, Ohio on Friday the 11th to work at the quilt shop, so I have to have the book done and delivered on the 10th. Poof - another day gone!

I did work on the Halloween quilt this weekend. I got five blocks quilted and a lot of the zig zag border quilted.

Saturday I gave the Akron Art Museum 5 hours of my time to help out at an event. It was the Akron Art Prize announcement. Artists submitted their work and the public went to different galleries in town to see the work and vote on their favorite pieces. The winner got $5,000 and five runner ups got $1,000 each. There was food

And music

Sunday was the birthday party for the two little girls that I made the quilts for. They opened lots of presents. Here they are opening the quilts

But this is what they really loved - the mechanical cat and dog. When you rubbed their back, they walked.

So the girls were helping to carry last couple of bags of their loot out to the car and one of them turned to me and said "Where's my Yo Gabba Gabba quilt?" So I guess it did make an impression. They were quite overwhelmed with everything and what can you expect out of a three year old anyway?

Progress on the Halloween quilt

I finished the one partially done block and the striped border. I only had to quilt the two dark sections of the partially done block to finish it up.

3,500 square inches to go

I got out the Halloween quilt last evening and of the 30 14 1/2" x 14 1/2" blocks, there are 16 1/4 blocks to quilt yet. There is still some quilting left to do in the striped and zig zag borders too. My goal is to get this done by Oct. 26th.