I have come to the understanding....I need to make order of things more quickly. I just have a hard time letting go of those little notes the kids have written or things that had to do with their school life. So I have 5 lidded boxes now and one for each kid.

I will keep sorting stuff..and fill a box for each of them and they can go through what is important to them when they get the box. I hate working in the attic. You can't even stand up when you are up there. BUT I will just have to keep cleaning, sorting and make my way through it.

I want to make order of our living space and then the sorting of the bits and pieces will have to come as I have time. Soon Chloe will be moving on with her life and out of the house. At this point I don't see a job in my future, at least not one out of the house. I can try to do Esty and some of that..and take a day a week to keep sorting and storing.

It is the only plan I can come up with!

I am going to take the next few hours and see how much I can get done digging out the house!

I hear we have a crowd coming to the house one week from today!

The race is on! Which usually works every time!

Update for tonight....I figured out what I was doing wrong on the patches so the corners would be straight! GEESH.....was kind of easy when I really "LOOKED" and could see the points needed to point right to the corner. :)

I did get one row of patches done, which is seven patches. It is going to be a crazy quilt for sure! I really like it...sure hope Corey and Kat will like it too.

It is made with love that is for sure! For our little one!

It is funny...how we can be humbled when we least expect it. I bought fabric to make Channa's seat cushions for the chairs in her apartment. They went together so quickly and looked just GREAT. So I was all about keeping my Featherweight running and getting the baby quilt made.

I had watched Shirley do lots of patches when we were at Amish country in March...she had most of them done when we left, or at least I thought she did. And I thought the pattern seemed easy and looked really nice. So I started buying fabric!

Of course, I just shoved the fabrics I had found in a bag and put them in my big fabric basket.

So after the seat cushions were done, I thought the quilt would be a snap! ON MAN...was I wrong.

To begin with, the pattern called for 17 fat quarters for the pattern. I was not close to that so when I did get the fabrics out and started cutting I 'knew' I was not going to have enough. So thought I would just try a sample patch or two. Again, seemed not a easy task ...not at all!!

I don't know what is wrong with how I am trying to do the pattern, but adding the corners to each square and I found out that I was also sewing the seam too close to the middle square and the fabric pulled a part when I barely tugged at it. At that rate one wash and the it would have raveled pieces every where!!!

I still like the pattern and thought I would go ahead and keep going. So tore out some of my goofs and heading for Findlay to get more fabrics to go with what I had.

Channa met me there so I could hand off the 3 cushions I had finished. She and I started checking fabrics and seemed neither of the two Findlay stores had much that would match my 'non-traditional' baby colors! I wanted and there were only a few colors that matched and wanted a dark orange and dark yellow. So I got a bright yellow and orange and tea dyed those two pieces. There are drying as I type and I do think they turned out great if I do say so myself!

I finished the altering of the yellow and orange fabrics I found and laid out the new colors and they are ready to cut. SO tomorrow I will cut and sew away...see how much progress I can make. As you can see, Alice, is always there...ready to 'help'! She loves to lay in the ironing board and sleep!

It just goes to show, I need to get my butte in gear, get my studio cleaned up so I have a place to sew. I need to have a place that I can leave things out and not have to put things away all the time. Ruth Anne told me this years ago. If you don't have a place that you can just go and sew you will NOT do it!


Shirley really made it all look so easy as I watched her start her quilt last March. I know there is always a learning curve and I am committed to learn!

I hope to just keep messing with this pattern, and let things flow. Just so it holds together and looks OK is all I care about at this point.

I am really feeling like...I want o finish this baby quilt now matter what! I have always been told that is a something I got from my grandma Fairy.

So I will keep at it and not give up!