Flannel strips, a show, and cleaning

What a weekend. First, the flannel strips. I sewed a lot on Saturday and Sunday until about 2 p.m. sewing the strips together. Here are the piles of strips that I did get sewn into sets.

Here are the strips left to sew into sets

Friday at 1:15 p.m. we left for Lorain, Ohio for a show. It was hot. We got the booth all set up

Then by 5:45 I starting putting some things away. The rain rolled in. It was just a sprinkle at first, but it kept getting harder. Eventually I had put everything away and with help, we tried to keep stuff dry. I had to get the rain off the the tent and ended up getting a shower when the rain poured off the tent top and hit me in the head. I spent the rest of the night wet from head to toe. The rain finally eased up about 7 so I set the booth back up and the band got to play 45 minutes of their 2 hour show. The one fellow that helps out with the band brought my SIL and I flowers! That was the bright spot for the evening. I didn't get home until midnight and I didn't feel like looking for a vase so I just rinsed out an empty protein powder container and put them in that. I didn't get to bed until 1 since I had to first clean up the water on the studio floor. With all the rain we have been having the water is seeping up thru the slab. This is the second time in a week I have had water on the floor. Rain is forecasted for everyday this week so the rug and padding will not be going back down on the floor for at least a week. I had to hang the rug up on the metal railing upstairs so it could dry out. I have lived here 18 years and this is the first time this has happened.

Sunday afternoon I got to cleaning. I had already cleaned up the studio quite a bit because of the water issue, but I needed to get the guest room straightened up since a quilting friend may be up this weekend. I got a second twin mattress so I needed to make room for the second twin bed in the guest room. That meant I needed to move this bookcase out of the guest room and into the fabric storage room. I emptied out the bookcase and it was just short enough to slide thru the doorways!

The fabric storage room looked like this (yes, what a mess!)

And now it looks like this - better in this area, but there is more that needs done.

The bed ran the opposite direction under that window, but since the bookcase is gone I can put it here and place the other twin bed in the room. I brought in the head and footboard late last night. It has been stored in the garage for about 5 years. My dad made this bed. I will have to dig out the side rails and find the bolts that hold it together. As you can see I already have the mattress.

I have made some good progress on the deer pillow cover. I wanted to get the motifs laid out so they are only partially stitched. I figured out I had made a mistake with placement so I am off one row of being centered side to side. Looking at it you can't tell and I am not about to abandoned the project for that. It will be fine. Now looking at these pictures I see another mistake.  Geeze!  So here is where I was a week ago and where I am now.

Let the sewing begin!

I got started last evening on sewing the strip sets together to make 9 patch blocks. This is going to take a while! LOL!!

I am taking a vacation day tomorrow; my nephew's band has a show. Have a great weekend and we will catch up on Monday.

All cut!

Now I am ready to sew! I even got the cut off pieces from the gray flannel backing for that last flannel quilt cut and added to these strips.

When I got home from work I took a walk around the yard and this beautiful butterfly posed for a picture while a hummingbird buzzed by me like a fighter jet. I love the touch of blue on it's wings.

Flannel-palooza continues!

I got the three pieces of solids cut then laid out all my darker plaids to match them up with the solids.

These solids were in the fabric storage room waiting to find a matching plaid. I will be cutting these tonight and then I can start sewing the sets of strips into 9 patch blocks. Looking at all this, I now have something to work with!

I need 143 blocks for a queen sized quilt. The left over blocks will go into a pile for any future flannel quilt I need to make. Having the blocks made will make it easy to whip up a quilt in a hurry.

Flannel-palooza!

I washed flannel this weekend. I can't remember if I did two or three loads, but here it is piled on my big table ready to press and cut into strips.

I started on the pastel plaids and solids. I noticed I didn't have any coral or yellow solid fabric. I am going to dye some of the white flannel I have to fill out this color pallet.

Next I cut the reds and the other darker more masculine plaids.

I still have three solid pieces to cut. It took me 5 - 6 hours to get this nearly done.

Thursday the band had a show in Kent, Ohio. Here is the merch booth all set up

I remembered to take a picture of the cloth I made to display the drum heads and the drum head holder in action that I made a few weekends ago.

We had a good crowd. I took this before the band had started and the area was filled by the time the band started playing.

The flowers were so pretty that ran along one side of the plaza.

I had company Friday and Saturday. For dinner Friday I made a pizza from scratch.

I got the other amp cover my brother needed made.

The covers and drum mask got shipped on Saturday. I got a bit more stitched on the deer cover. Here is where I was last time I posted and where I am now.

15th finish for 2021

With stitching at lunchtime yesterday, I managed to get the odds and ends quilt done. Last night I sewed on the patches. I am skipping the ribbons right now. The quilt turned out 70" x 94" and I quilted it with off white thread. I used some African fabric my brother had bought for me in NYC years ago. I liked the selvages so I centered them on the back.

I also worked on that to do list. I got the bag made for the used autographed drum heads that we sell at the merch booth. This bag is bigger than the ones I make to give away. Thanks Cherie for the fabric! This bag will replace the tall kitchen trash bag my SIL has been using.

Then I got the tent cover fixed. Here is a picture of the problem and the fix. This was actually an easy job and while I was at it I reinforced the other three corners.

I found some fabric for the drum head display mat.

So here is what my to do list looks like now - making progress!

I am taking vacation Thursday and Friday. The band has a show and I won't get to bed until late Thursday night. We will catch up Monday!

Hand stitching binding progress

I am making good progress on hand stitching the binding on the odds and ends quilt. I have a short and long side done and 3/4 of the other short side done. I brought it to work today to stitch on it at lunchtime. It is hard to tell in the picture, but the binding fabric is a dark blue.

A co-worker gave me a little dry erase board to use at the merch booth. When the music is so loud I can communicate with customers by writing information or use it to write down the prices when someone buys a lot of stuff so I can add up what they owe. I thought that when I am not using it at the booth I could write my short term to do list on it. Gosh, I have some stuff to do in the next couple of days!