Power? We've Got Power!

I'm still poking along on these.

It's hard to make much progress at all when you are thinking in the realm of nearly 400 of something -

I'm feeling like the kid whose mom is threatening "Clean that room or there will be no supper!"

And the kid looks at the mess feeling that there is no way to tackle that mountain of monotony.

I am on corner number FOUR on these nearly100 sashings - it has been a trim, sew, press, trim, sew, press, trim sew, press activity.  But I'm getting there!

The power went off precisely at 10am.

And we were PREPARED!

Thanks to The Hubster's foresight and son Jason's help - Jason arrived at 10:05am to feed the power cords through the windows, and turn on the two generators placed behind the garage/shop.

We quickly set about to plug the power towers from each table into the cords -

And though we had to watch where we stepped (for only 2 hours) we had enough power for machines and task lights without skipping a quilty beat.

And if you are wondering where folks are - why these photos show no PEOPLE - Some were gathered around the gas stove in the Hen Den sipping coffee and chatting.

Some discovered they still had cell signal if they held their phone just right out the side window! 

 Some were gathering coats and bags to drive around and "see what they could see."

After the power was hooked up by generator to the sewing stations - some of us happily sewed away, barely even noticing the faint hum that came from the back of the garage/shop.

The power turned back on precisely at noon to cheers of hooray.

Cords were fed back through windows, the generators were turned off and all was back to normal.

And that beautiful sunlight coming from the windows made quite a difference in how light the room was even without the overhead lights.

Sherri finished her Talkin' Turkey quilt from my book String Fling!

That last binding stitch went in to choruses of TADA! And TA-DONE!!  Beautiful finish, Sherri!

Ramona  finished piecing her patriotic Bricks & Stepping Stones (from the Free Patterns tab) which will go to Quilts of Valor.

The variety in her fabrics is so fun to see up close!

Another thing I don't remember if I shared while in use -

I moved these two Billy bookcases (from IKEA) into the front hall with the intent of putting more books here.

And then I thought better of it.

Quilters bring SO MUCH STUFF (You know you do! Admit it!)  and need a place for overflow.

I'm leaving these shelves empty - there are 12 shelves.  Everyone can pick a cubby to store the stuff they are not immediately needing at their sewing stations.

It's been a great enhancement over the past few retreats.  

Four of us freezing our tushes on the back porch, trying to do selfies with cows - LOL!

It's cold.  So so so stupidly cold.  this morning I awoke to 29 degrees.  Can we be heading out of this cold snap yet?

There are things we have on our agenda!

We want to hike to see the ponies of course - but the end all beat all of this trip is hopefully the first bike ride of the season down the Virginia Creeper Trail.  I think that will happen Monday as our temp should reach 70.

In the mean time we'll take the cold and chilly - with sunshine outside the windows and sew up a storm while the gas fireplaces keep us toasty in the Quilting Quarters and Hen Den.

Hello, Friday - weekend mode ahead!  What do you have coming down the line for your day?

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Our drawing happens on MONDAY so there are just a few days left to enter.

And my thanks to everyone for their support in purchasing my Catching Rainbows PDF pattern.  I couldn't keep doing this without you.

The printable PDF pattern for Catching Rainbows is now available at the introductory price of $9.00 in the digital patterns section of the Quiltville Store.  That's a 25% savings over the regular price of $12.00.

This price drop is good until May 1, 2021 when the price reverts back to full.

Quiltville Quote of the Day -

There must be at least 8 of them around here! Where are they hiding when you need one??

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Vintage quilt found Wednesday on our antique mall visit with the Texas retreat girls. Waiting out the power outage that didn't happen. In sleet and freezing rain.

Good times all around!