Back to flannel-palooza

I am making some nice progress on cutting the flannel strips into block sections. I can see the dent I am making in that pile of strips. Here is what I cut last night.

World's biggest four patch block

The box of 8 king sized sheets was sitting at my front door when I got home from work. I opened the box, took two sheets at a time out of their packages and started sewing them together. I sewed them in pairs then the pairs together like a four batch block. It was a huge pile of microfiber fabric that had to be folded. I took the pile upstairs and tossed it on my bed

It was a lot of work trying to get the sheets straightened up. The texture of the fabric kept the fabric from sliding so it was hard to move the fabric around to straighten them out. I kind of had to lift the layers apart to move the fabric. This has to be the world's biggest four patch block!

After a lot of fussing, I finally got the first four sheets folded. Then I had to do it all over again.

I shoved the sheet sets each into a box along with the pedal board cover and the bag, got them labeled, and headed to the grocery store at 7:30 p.m. to get the boxes mailed. They need to be in Texas by Friday.

After all that I was tired. I put ointment on my 18 mosquito bites and went to bed.

Fabric, flowers, and flannel

My friend arrived late Saturday afternoon. After we ate the pizza I had made from scratch, she handed me the bag fabric she had bought for me. She had texted me when she had run into the motherload of Australian fabric at Zink's in Berlin, Ohio. Many texts later and a couple hours of going thru the stacks of flat folds, this is what I bought with her help. I hadn't figured out how many yards or what I am going to make, but at $5.00 a yard for first quality M+S fabrics, what a score!

Friday night after work I stopped and picked up a box spring for the one twin bed in the guest room. The beds were made with freshly laundered sheets and quilts were added. I was happy that the odds and ends quilt fit the bed so well.  My friend had a cozy place to sleep.  I did get a lot of the stuff that was piled up at the other end of the room moved out.  Some I relocated and some will be removed from the premise by either donation or trashed. 

I spent the rest of Friday night and most of Saturday cleaning and making a quick trip to the grocery store for things I needed to make meals for us. I was happy to get so much done especially tasks that I had been meaning to do and just didn't make time. I had 10,000 steps in by 3 in the afternoon!  Nothing like having company to get a person cleaning their house! LOL!!! My friend brought me flowers! So that is the second time in two weeks someone has brought me flowers! I took the bouquet and added them to the previous ones after cleaning out the dying flowers. So pretty!

I didn't get much sewing done Saturday night; I was pretty tired after all the cleaning. We stayed up until 11 then called it a day. Sunday after breakfast we made a quick trip to a local produce market and greenhouse. I wanted to get some peaches. I cut up two for lunch today and they were so juicy I had a hard time holding on to them.  The peaches are as big as baseballs!

We walked around the greenhouses and my friend found a prayer plant. We also brought home this jade plant. Here it is replanted. I don't know how it was even alive. It was in a teensy tiny pot and the dirt was like concrete! I hope it is much happier in my north facing bathroom window.

My brother called me Sunday and he needed my help with two more sewing projects for the band he is touring with. First, he needed a pedal board cover. A pedal board is that device that sits on the floor in front of a guitar player and they can push on different pedals to make different sounds on the guitar. Then he needs a cover for the drums and the keyboards when the equipment is set up on stage before a concert to keep the dust off the equipment. Eight California king sheets are showing up at my door today. I need to sew them together in two sets of four. He also wanted a bag to keep them in when they are not in use. I already had a big bag I made years ago to haul quilts in so I will just give him that one. So tonight I will be sewing those sheets together and get them in the mail. They need to be in Texas by Friday. Here is the pedal board cover and the bag.

I did get a few flannel strips press and subcut into pieces for blocks. Pressing all those strip sets and cutting them is going to take a while!

Finally, here is my progress on the deer cushion cover - first where I was last Monday and where I am now

TGIF

What a week it has been at work and I am so glad it is Friday. I ended up mowing and trimming last night. The front yard was wild and I needed to tame it. It was 79 degrees and 55% humidity so I was sweating like crazy. No sewing got done, so here is a picture of my four marigold plants grown from last year's seed. The zinnias are in the far back.

My quilting friend confirmed she is coming up on Saturday and staying overnight. I will be busy tonight getting the house ready. I need to do some grocery shopping and pick up the twin box spring for that bed. The box spring is coming in today so I threw some bungee cords in the car so I can tie the hatch door down and haul the thing home. Have a great weekend!

Still sewing strips and fawn

Yes, I am still sewing flannel strips together, but I am so close to having all the darker flannel ones done. Here are the ones I got done

and here are the ones left to sew together

When I got home from work I decided since it wasn't raining (finally!) that I would take a quick walk around the yard. Much to my suprise a fawn jumped out of my big center flower bed! That is the flower bed in the foreground in this picture. It must have been resting or napping and I didn't see it until I startled it. It didn't go too far so I was able to get it's picture. I was amazed that I felt and heard it's hooves as it hopped out of the flower bed.

Still making progress on the flannel strips

I got a few more strips sew into sets last evening

I have these dark flannel strips to sew into sets yet

and these that are staged at the sewing machine. Maybe by this weekend I can start cutting the strip sets for the 9 patch blocks

A little bit done

I only had time to sew a few flannel strips together

As soon as I got home from work I got to work on putting that twin bed together. I found the hardware

hauled in the side rails from the garage and found the pieces that go from side to side to hold up the mattress. One hour and 20 minutes later I finally had the frame together. Geeze! It was not easy doing this by myself. Then the slot where I had to put the washer and hex nut in to screw the bolt into was so small I couldn't get a wrench to fit in it.  That was a challenge!

My Dad had made this bed for my Mom to display a quilt on, but Dad did you have to make the slot so small? LOL!! Anyways, it is put together and now I have to get a box spring for it. I stuck the mattress on it to get the mattress off the floor.

Just so you don't think I have this room all fixed up, here is the rest of the stuff I need to deal with all stuffed at the other end of the room. I can see a trip to the donation center coming for some of it.