And When There is Time to Sew!

Don’t you love beautiful quilt beginnings?

When you finally see units start falling into place?

And all you want to do is stay at the machine and put the pieces through and watch it grow?

I am sharing a bit of a non-zoomed-in view so you can feel the lovely ambiance of my gas log stove.  Mornings and evenings are still chilly here up on the mountain, but it is cozy and warm with that little fire going in my sewing space at the cabin.

This is the beginnings of the Winter Blues assembly – I’ve been working on the blocks off and on over the past few months.  Actually, it feels more OFF than On – but that will be remedied today!

And yes, the orange is there to remind me to eat healthy and keep my hand out of the bag of peanut M&Ms – so far that is a fail.

I am liking these little blocks so much that there may be a couple of table runners made for Quiltville Inn – heaven knows i have enough old blue fabric in the stash – and these are just super cute.

Growing on the hill below the back porch at the Inn.

What kind of Daffies are these?

There are bunches of them just growing wild on the hillside.

The creek is just below.

There is also a barb wire fence that you can barely see to keep the cows away from my daffodils!

Nature’s beauty.  Just lovely!

This is NOT so lovely!

We are unsure what this brick wall thing was, or was supposed to be.  The bricks are old, of undetermined age.  Was it an outdoor kitchen at one time?  Was it part of a smokehouse or well house?  At any rate, it was a pain to mow around, was never going to be built into something useful or beautiful -

The Hubster has been having a field day taking out his work frustrations with a sledge hammer against the wall.  The good bricks will be saved for lining walk ways, etc.  But after a year of living with this thing and not coming up with any good reason to keep it.  Down it comes.

2 extra tables at cutting table height thanks to bed risers!

There will be cutting mats on top – perhaps drawers for rulers and other retreat notions below.

Or I may in time come up with something else, and move these two tables to the Post Office for Mail Order Assembly Line work space.

I fell asleep with this in my lap -

Watching (sort of) Midsomer Murders on Netflix.

The most exciting thing is that I have turned another corner and am now on row 3 of fans and they almost ALMOST fill up the whole outside row of blocks as I work toward the center.  Rows are much shorter now as I am spiraling into the middle – and the texture is just SO great. 

Photo taken early morning with overhead light off.

You can see the texture with the light off!

I think one of the best things I ever did was telling myself to stop the machine work by 8pm, and RELAX and hand stitch.  I will continue to do it until these old eyes and hands can’t any more.  It is seriously the best time of the day – it makes even the toughest of days a GOOD DAY if I can end with needle, thread and thimble and some hand quilting stitches.

With all that has been going on behind the scenes with Google+ being discontinued – I’ve also heard some news from folks with Apple phones and Ipads having trouble with accessing the blog.  I think it is all related.  They will likely get it ironed out.

Things to watch out for – Make sure the address you are viewing starts with HTTPS://Quiltville.blogspot.com  not HTTP://  This seems to have something to do with it.

Also – get out of Safari and try a non-apple browser.  As Blogger is a Google App, try Google Chrome.  Folks who have made this switch tell me that things now work for them.

Again, I’m sorry if folks aren’t able to view the blog for whatever reason, but nothing has changed on my end – it’s behind the scenes with the whole interface so there is nothing I can do about it but hope they will fix it.  It’s a global thing.  Not just a Quiltville thing.

If you have a friend who is unable to read me - please tell them to try the above? Thank you!

A different view for you this morning!

Nothing like parking on the top of a mountain.

And Sadie says good morning to you too!

QUILT-CAM POSSIBILITY:

I am putting this out there – hoping it will work.  Remember last time that we were ready to go and all of Facebook globally closed down?  We were unable to do it because of that.

While I can’t do it from up here at the cabin, I am headed home tomorrow – picking up the remainder of Melinda’s porch furniture and heading home. I’d love to squeeze a Quilt-Cam in tomorrow evening via Facebook Live at 8pm Eastern.  That’s the plan.  Fingers crossed!

Quiltville Quote of the Day

Vintage grandmother's flower garden quilt found in Kentucky.

Our smiles can change everything!

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