Little Time for Sewing!

These have sat untouched since Christmas.

But I’ll get to them eventually!

I am surrounding the recycled shirt nine-patches with purple bonus triangles to go in along with the red ones.  This is going to be fun – when I can get time to get back to it!

For now, sewing is on the back burner as we work on doing some of the much needed fixes at Quiltville Inn.

Coat 3 has been brushed on to the kitchen cabinets – FINALLY looking the way they should.

There has to be a life lesson in that – take it slow, there is no rushing.  It can’t be done all at once, but in smaller bites.  Bit by bit things will even out.

The bathroom cabinets have received coat 2 – and I ran out of paint, so another trip to Lowes was made last evening.  I think we are getting to be on a first name basis with these folks – all roads lead to Lowes!

Wood stove hearth going down!

Here we are measuring for the best way to lay the planks.

Do we start with a plank row down the center?  Or two planks with a grout row centered?  Whichever way makes the best sense and the least about of trimming – no skinny pieces needed at the edges. 

We’ve gotten this far!

The yellow things you see are grout spacers.

We also chose some molding to go around the outside edge once the tile is done.  I see more sanding and staining and sealing in my near future.  Be one with the brush!

I really like how this looks – it’s a HUGE hearth and needs to be.  Insurance demands that the wood stove be at least 12’’ from the chimney, and there has to be 18’’ of clearance on the two sides and the front.  What the previous owners had was just so insufficient and dangerous.

Son Jeff and his mad dry wall skills!

Accessing joists for more support for the ceiling fan.

While the hearth is going down beneath, some ceiling activity is going on above – all best done when the stove is out of the way.

There was a light fixture here, but not enough support for the weight of a ceiling fan so he had to cut a hole, add some two-by-fours and really secure where that fan is going to go, and then dry wall it all up again.

Waiting for things to dry -

Then more sanding, and another layer of mud.

Then another sanding -

and a ceiling re-paint job.

I am so happy that my family is so on-board with me on this project.  It seems like every time we turn around there is another – “Oh, No!”  or “Now we need to…” and “Better add this to the list….”

I mentioned in yesterday’s post about the winterizing of the windows.  And how in time MOST of the windows in the house will have to be replaced.  While getting more cabinet paint last evening, we also picked up a few more window kits to keep the worst of the cold and condensation out.

We will eat this elephant one bite at a time – and I am loving the fixing and re-doing and making this beautiful old dame of a house OURS, and in turn - YOURS.

I greeted the morning with this beautiful sight.

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We will head back over this morning and finish up the hearth job – I’ll start in on coat 3 of paint for the bathroom cabinets, and then on to the big inset cabinet in the back entrance.  We’ll finish up the tiling on the hearth and start with the grout.

And this afternoon I’ll be back here working on Part 6 of Good Fortune so it is ready to go live tomorrow morning – are you excited?  Eventually all of these parts need to come together into a WHOLE – but who knows when it will be?  (Only Me!!)

And maybe Sadie!

Quiltville Quote of the Day!

There is magic in the feeling of the fabric. In the pressing, cutting, sewing, creating!

Get in there and discover the possibilities!

As for me – maybe it should say “With PAINTBRUSH in hand, anything is possible!”

Have a terrific Thursday, everyone.  

The very last Thursday of 2018!