Our conditions has gone from moisture in addition to black to dry, bright, in addition to cold. Today the air current is blowing too. These are the times when nosotros tin instruct snowfall every bit nosotros transition from mutual frigidity to moisture again. When I checked the forecast concluding week, I noticed at that topographic point was H2O ice inward the forecast for this weekend. For now, it looks every bit if it volition warm dorsum into the 40's without whatsoever of the slippery or white stuff. It's a lilliputian early on for us. Our coldest months are Jan in addition to February.
So I ran my errands yesterday, including a quick trip to the grocery store. No beau shoppers were harmed on this outing, in addition to forthwith I'm laid until side yesteryear side week. When I got home, I seat away the groceries, ate to a greater extent than or less lunch, did my housekeeping project for the day, in addition to then...I could accept headed into the sewing room. Instead, I sat inward the living room in addition to had a 2nd alongside my cat.
It was a practiced start to the afternoon. We were both thence cozy, nosotros tipped dorsum inward the reclining chair in addition to had curt naps together. It was nearly 3:00 when I made my way into the sewing room. And there, I had a lot of company. Sadie wanted to know what nosotros were going to sew together today.
We were working on blocks for the Shop Hop quilt. Smitty checked for whatsoever spelling errors inward my embroidery.
Finding none, nosotros got to work. Sadie made certain those swatches of cloth stayed firmly apartment on the table.
Smitty decided to proceed on alongside his nap. He's flora a soft perch at that topographic point on the quilts-to-be-quilted pile. There's solely 1 quilt left there. I'm going to accept to sandwich to a greater extent than or less to a greater extent than thence that his perch stays plump in addition to soft. And, um, speaking of plump...well, let's only not, okay?
So the kickoff block for the seventh row is this 1 from Sew Bernina inward Minot, North Dakota. We were inward Minot because it was a halt along the way. We'd flora a "free" spot on our RVOvernightParking app. If you're into RVing, I tin highly recommend this app for finding gratuitous places to halt for the night. Some are ameliorate than others. For this item night, nosotros were parked at the North Dakota State Fairgrounds. We genuinely paid $20 for our stay, but nosotros had H2O in addition to electricity hook-ups. It was a really practiced deal, in addition to a overnice spot.
We wanted to caput out in addition to run into Minot (pronounced MY-not) a lilliputian bit. All nosotros knew was what we'd heard inward the word well-nigh their urgent demand for laborers inward the fossil oil fields. There was such a huge influx of people during the concluding large economical downturn, in addition to North Dakota was sick prepared for thence many novel folks. There was a major housing shortage, in addition to inward fact, shortages of all kinds inward damage of schools, healthcare, in addition to basic infrastructure to back upward a large population.
In our wanderings, nosotros came across this quilt store on the downtown streets of Minot. Checking inward alongside my friend Google, I run into the store is yet open. You tin run into its spider web presence right here. Okay...well that's interesting. I took the cite for my embroidery off the sales receipt pinned to the cloth swatch. It appears the cite of the store is genuinely "Bernina Plus." Oh well. I'm non changing it. This was 1 of the kickoff fabrics I chose to laurels the changing of the leaves from greens to tumble golds, oranges, yellows, in addition to reds. It was a fun lilliputian shop, in addition to I picked upward quite a few lilliputian treasures here.
The side yesteryear side block is from a genuinely dandy store nosotros visited inward Petaluma, California. This was a dissimilar trip nosotros took correct later on Mike retired inward May of 2017. We were passing through Petaluma on our way home. I'll forever think Petaluma every bit the abode of Polly Klass. You tin read her tragic storey right here.
Finally, I was only getting started on this block for Temecula Quilt Co. when I needed to halt for the day. There are many reasons to see Temecula, but this quilt store is a destination unto itself. It carries to a greater extent than oftentimes than non traditional in addition to reproduction fabrics, in addition to the quilts on display are null curt of amazing. I chose this cloth because of the incredible hexie minis I saw there, made yesteryear the shop's owner. Some of them were made upward of hexies no bigger than a nickel.
You tin read the spider web log postal service I wrote well-nigh our see right here. Actually, nosotros visited the store twice. Y'all told me well-nigh those lilliputian ruler boxes, in addition to thence nosotros had to become back. You tin run into more pictures correct here. The spider web presence for Temecula Quilt Co. is right here, if, similar me, you lot demand 1 of those ruler boxes for your really own.
So today, I'll only proceed on alongside these. There are v to a greater extent than blocks to brand earlier I tin telephone phone this row finished. And 1 to a greater extent than row earlier the quilt top is done. I'd hoped to accept this finished earlier year's end, but I facial expression it volition move Jan instead.