Our house was built in 1972. When the original owners remodeled the kitchen in 1985 they moved the old cabinets and sink to the basement. The past couple of weeks that double-basin sink has come in very handy. I can do meal prep in the bathrooms (his or mine) but those basins are not convenient for washing dishes.
Below, right, shows the Instant Pot and crockpot on my 44-year-old card table. The microwave is set up in the garage.
The kitchen and dining room walls had been covered in acres and acres and acres of floral wallpaper since 1985. When it was stripped it revealed burnt orange. That color certainly goes with those dark 70's cabinets!
The contractor says that the new cabinets will be installed this week.
I was lead hostess for the Zion Woman's Club meeting on Tuesday. I mixed the cake in the bathroom and my next door neighbor let me use her oven to bake it.
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The 14th Corporate Community Spelling Bee was Thursday. I was on the library team. We came in 2nd (I misspelled "eremetic," a word I had never heard before). I donated
Scrappy Cedar Trees to the raffle. [It is gray and brown, not purple.] My friend and colleague Deb was the delighted winner.
In turn, I won a basket with Christmas decor (which I will donate to the AAUW holiday auction) and a basket with beauty supplies AND a gift certificate for a pedicure at my salon.
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On to quilting!
"Honey, Let's Go to Home Depot!" was Joan Cain's humorous presentation about hardware store items for the quilter -- from clips and clamps to magnetic parts bowls (great for pins). She encourages us to save money on the tools and spend money on good fabric at the local quilt shop.
The wonky house BOM was revealed. It was fun to see everyone's fabric choices and colorways. (There was a cat in every window in one quilt; another was embellished with embroidery.)
Each of us who had a BOM quilt or a flimsy was eligible to win prizes. My number was drawn second -- a $50 Home Depot gift certificate, a pattern, a book, and a fabric panel.
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In the studio: after I played around with arrangements of half-square triangles(see last week's update) I went back to my original idea. Here's the flimsy, 66 x 75. Doesn't it sparkle?
The Monday link ups:
Monday Making
Oh Scrap!
Design Wall Monday
P.S. We woke up to this this morning.
The cabinets are in. 
I made the rest of the black/white/bright slab blocks (see last week's post). I don't have a photo of those because the design wall has been taken over by the log cabins. I made 120 and assembled them in 4's with skinny sashing (strips cut 1" that finish at 1/2", the same as the logs). I What's stuck in my head is using a very busy print between the blocks and for the borders -- think Kaffe Fassett. The sample
The kitchen and dining room walls are now "Gleeful." (The contrast wall at the end of the entry hall is "Lime Rickey," a shade darker.) The base cabinets are in place and the upper cabinets are waiting in the garage for the carpenters this week.
My November OMG was to make a bookshelf quilt for a former coworker who is retiring this month. This is the 40th bookshelf quilt I've made since 2004, all using Christine Thresh's pattern (Winnowing.com) (I have gotten my money's worth!)
I was pleased to get a place in the star swap that Barb Vedder is hosting. They're not due until mid-January but I forged ahead and made all 31 (with a couple of extras).
And the SQUIRREL? It leaped across my quilting path, metaphorically speaking, when I leafed through a stack of patterns clipped from magazines. The pattern uses 100 paper-pieced 5-1/2" (unfin.) blocks. I didn't want to go to the effort of printing 100 paper foundations and I really didn't want to have to tear out all that paper. Instead I'm piecing the blocks conventionally. They have 2-1/2" centers (I have a shoebox of them) and 1" strips (cut from the 1-1/2", 2", and 2-1/2" strip bins, and some yardage). The skinny strips are not hard to work with. I make the blocks in batches and press and trim after each round. I've made 57 blocks so far. The random arrangement on the design wall puts me in mind of the lively designs by Kathy Doughty and Jen Kingwell . I'm not sure where I'll go with these blocks but after all, SQUIRRELS dash here and there.
Our house was built in 1972. When the original owners remodeled the kitchen in 1985 they moved the old cabinets and sink to the basement. The past couple of weeks that double-basin sink has come in very handy. I can do meal prep in the bathrooms (his or mine) but those basins are not convenient for washing dishes.
The kitchen and dining room walls had been covered in acres and acres and acres of floral wallpaper since 1985. When it was stripped it revealed burnt orange. That color certainly goes with those dark 70's cabinets!
In turn, I won a basket with Christmas decor (which I will donate to the AAUW holiday auction) and a basket with beauty supplies AND a gift certificate for a pedicure at my salon.
In the studio: after I played around with arrangements of half-square triangles(see last week's update) I went back to my original idea. Here's the flimsy, 66 x 75. Doesn't it sparkle?
I made 550 black-and-something HSTs (3-1/2" unfinished). The plan was to set them in 25 rows of 22.
I've come up with these so far. Right now I'm leaning toward the pinwheel (#3, top row) and the big round-upon-round (top right). Or the streak of lightning (bottom #3). Because the not-black triangles vary from very light to quite dark I think I need a design that emphasizes where the blacks come together.
I will probably consider the options until I am tired of my indecision or I have to put something else on the design wall.
I thought that the final ten tote bags for the Nepal school project would be my November OMG, but I made them all this week. (The photo shows the ten for October and the final ten.)
