{Post 1,324} Painting

I helped my niece paint my sister's living room today.  What a transformation!  Same wall!

{Post 1,323} Then Again, Maybe I Won't

Picture out the side window this AM at seven.  I was going to take all the girls shopping this AM, but maybe we will all just stay in, bake cookies, and drink hot chocolate!

Out the front window.  This stuff wasn't there when we went to sleep last night!  I forgot how quietly it comes down.

{Post 1,322} Surprise

Don't see these in my town.

Buffalo and their babies.

{Post 1,321} New Setting for HST Quilt

 

This setting is perfect for my HST quilt.  I have enough triangle units for 8 more blocks.  A row of 3, a row of 2, then another row of 3.

The above piece measures about 60" wide by 53" long.  There are very few seams, so it won't shrink by much when the units are sewn together.

I am not working on this any more tonight because MY NEWPHEW WAS BORN A LITTLE AFTER NOON AND I'M LEAVING TO SEE HIM IN THE MORNING!!  Just a teensy bit excited.

{Post 1,320} HST Star Still Needs a Real Name

Earlier I was cleaning out a drawer or two from under my cutting table.  I have some drawers of "what was I thinking when I cut these extra units?"  I harvested enough HSTs or triangles to piece these...

Yes--the lighting in this room is not for sewing!  The oil-rubbed bronze semi-circle in the top right of the picture is a SMALL table lamp.  See how its light only goes so far?

I will add the above star blocks to THIS:

How is it possible that every new project is my new favorite?  I think I'm going to call this one "Scrap and Save" because of using up all the scrap HSTs.  Doesn't that sound like a discount grocery store?  I see a boo boo in one of the blocks above.  Do you see it?  Will fix in the AM.  Too tired tonight.  

Good night all!

{Post 1,319} New Set-Up for Sewing Room/Bedroom

I sort of had a brainstorm tonight concerning my new sewing digs.  I really am trying to make the most of this new space.  

When I moved everything to the garage to start the bedroom renovations downstairs, I was realizing that there was a lot that could "go" that I was moving.  These drawers hold a multitude of things.  I will purge them later.  

I had a little ironing board to my right on my L-shaped sewing table.  Usually the serger goes there.  I hardly ever use the serger.  The ironing board was awkward to use.

When I passed through the laundry room earlier today, I saw my big board ironing board that I made back here.  I was wishing I could use that for ironing.  Then my inspiration struck.  I could move up these four 3-drawer cabinets to use for storage and put the ironing board on them.  But, alas, they were too short.  I remember now that when I used it before, the drawers were on our hearth downstairs, bringing it to the perfect height.  

I had two of the metal mesh crates for hanging files that I was this close (picture my thumb and index fingers a centimeter apart) to giving away.  Voila!  They raise the board to the perfect height as well as serving as a "bookshelf" on top of the drawers.  The boxes in between them need to be purged as well.  All in time, grasshopper. 

Soon I will make a curtain to hide the drawers.  It's too much to look at for me...it looks messy.

My computer was moved over to the right of my sewing machine.  I didn't like the desk it was on anyway.  There was so little storage that it wasn't worth the space it took up.

Some good lighting, and soup is on, baby!!

{Post 1,318} I'm Beggin' Ya

I would LOVE, and I mean l-o-v-e to see your sewing areas, large or small.  I am trying to make my now little space worth every square inch.  It will be in my bedroom.  Please email me a picture of yours to whistlersmother10@carolina.rr.com.  Thanks so much!