Look What Day 22 Brought!

The vanity is happening. More to come!

Day 21 - We Have A Floor

We have a tile floor.

Warm Up Piecing Top

You may remember I was doing some warm up sewing of strips together.
This is the top I pieced with one set of strips.
Poor photo and not pressed yet.

Day 19 Progess Being Made

The niche is ready for tile and trim. Walls are ready for more tile.

Day 18 - Niche And Walls

Building the shower niche

Progress on the walls

Day 17. New wallboard

The new walls were started today.

Another new wall

More tile finished today

Day 16 - Time For Tile

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It is starting to look like a shower now that the tile is being applied to the walls.

Day 15 - Another Day, Another Coat Or Two

It takes time to do things right so the shower will be waterproof. 

We Are Two Week Into Our Remodel

As of today we are 2 week into the remodel. This coat is a cheery cherry color!

Day 12 The Walls Are Being Readied For The Tile

I am getting excited as it won't be too long before we start to see the tile on the walls.
The contractor is doing a great job getting the various experts here to do the work.

What Happened On Day11?

The shower is happening, although it is a complex time consuming process.

10 days Into Our Remodel

It was necessary to patch a small area. Fortunately we had some tiles left from the original build and the tile installer was able to salvage a few more.

More Progress In Remodel

More supplies are ready to be used for the project.

This area will be a new larger shower.

Day 6 - More Accomplished

More accomplished on day 6. Not as obvious as previous days.

What are you seeing here?

I am impressed how everything is cleaned up for the weekend.

On To Day 5!

This is where the new vanity will go.

This is where the new shower will go.

They are doing a great job and making progress.

And I quote "We have the hard part done"!

A lot happened today with the  remodel. The layout is becoming clearer.
This is day 4.

Demo Day 3

This is what it looks like after contractors worked for the third day. It was a challenge for them to remove the tile floor on the right and it is not done yet.

The shower pan was removed also.

And So The Demo Begins........

The contractor made great progress on the remodel on the first day.

This is the other view of the demolition, I am impressed with the progress they made.

It Is Happening

I am excited that our remodeling project started today.

This is the first of the before photos.

This is the second before photo...lights make colors look different. Stay tuned as the project progresses.

Warm Up Quilt Piecing

When I haven't sewn/quilted for a while and want to get going again I do some warm up piecing.

I have a lot of strips left over from other projects.

I started by just sewing a handful together and continued trying to make a more cohesive combination.

I had NO idea what I'd do with them, but that is the way I often work.

You can see the unit is slightly curved  I do believe I can press and eliminate most of that.

I am now piecing a second unit and I figured out why this happened and this second unit is quite straight.

Stay tuned as I intend to share this as it develops.

A View From My Studio In The Treetops

Looking out the window...an interesting view of the deck and yard.

Family Visit

It was great to have a visit with Stephanie, Blake, Julie, Greg and Oliver this weekend. I knew Greg and Julie were coming but Stephanie and Blake surprised me.

I Just Connected With This Beautiful Model

This beautiful model enjoyed posing in my airport coat.
The rest of the story: I used to wear this coat when I travelled.
I was on the people mover at the Atlanta airport and a man started talking to me. I was beyond the age where men started conversations with me to get to know me. He was intrigued by my coat.
This happened repeatedly when I travelled and often they would tell me their wives would love it.
It is a version of my slashed jacket pattern.
The subtitle is: My If I Wanted To Meet A Man In An Airport Coat!
No I don't want to meet one!

Why Is She So Excited To Get This Bin Full Of ????

Maybe some of my former students will recognize what is in this bin???

This was something that was hard to find when my students needed it years ago. I still had quite a bit left. It is impossible to find in stores today.

A mutual friend mentioned her friend up north was looking for some in orange. I had just about every color it was ever made in and was happy to pass all of it along for her many projects she uses it for.

Yes, she was thrilled to have just about every color to use on her projects. 

Who knows what this is?

Some Of My Organizing After Purging

This is one wall of storage in our lower level. It is the area where I purged all those bins and boxes that a posted a few days ago from. It also was a chance to organize and put like things together. This is one of two shelf units in this room. The other shelf unit has also been finished. We also emptied two huge storage areas that will be knocked down and removed.

It's a good feeling to have lightened the load once more.

The Art Doesn't Have To Match The Sofa.........

but sometimes it is more effective with certain enhancements.
Glory Aura is one of my favorite pieces I have created.
It sits over a cabinet and is part of a vignette with  "other peoples art".
I feel the other art makes it even more effective.
I have to add that I did not purchase these other things to go with this work of mine.
I did what I always do... shopped my house and found things that work together. 

Colors Of My Life Continued

The Colors of My Life 7 was the first quilt I designed on the design wall when my studio was completed. It is a variation of an intersecting field of color quilt. I moved the colors across the quilt in various ways. The one obvious movement is the green which goes from dark at the outside to light at the center. This created luminescence. When you do a quilt with this many variations of a color you can't have too much fabric. You may only use a few squares of each fabric but you need certain values, shades and colors.

This is a close up so you can see the quilting. You can click it to enlarge it as you can all my photos on this blog. I used a curved line to emphasize the movement in this composition. The quilting was done without marking.


You have seen The Colors Of My Life 8 and 9 before. When I designed these quilts I was playing with the color theory that warm colors advance and cool colors recede.
I made the cool colors advance in the second quilt by putting them in front of the warm colors.

The Colors Of My Life - Rerun

Since it has been a while since I have been posting I think it is time to share some of my best quilts. Enjoy!

Yes, another tessellation. And each cross is a different fabric.

This is a true charm quilt. Each square is a different fabric.

Lot of things happening with color and design on this one.

This also uses the intersecting fields of color design technique.

This quilt has 3 views and as you walk around it this is what you will see from the left.

This is what you see when you stand directly in front of it.


This is what you see as you look from the right side.
This is the Grand Finale quilt in the series. It took me a L O N G time to figure out how to put this together so that it was rigid and showed each view. I succeeded with a little help from my favorite art gallery which helped with the structure.

I loved these so much I had a mug made from them.
I hope you have enjoyed all of the quilts in The Colors Of My Life Series.

Bins, Bags, Boxes and TREASURES

I have been actively purging again. So much stuff and some real treasures. It will all go to a friends garage sale to help with medical expenses.

This is just a small portion of what is included.
There are antiques, furniture, craft supplies, Christmas and holiday items including antique ornaments, household items, and many many new unused items.

I Shall Return

There are several reasons I am not currently blogging but I will be back when the time is right.