A little remodel takes a long time!

We recently decided to tear a half wall down in our house, with the floor gone there, a nasty stain in my carpet I couldn't get rid of, and a leaky dishwasher... It was time to make the switch to hardwood flooring

Well of course with messy kids, we needed to paint as well.  Let's just say I completely underestimated how much time we would need to complete this project.  

It's been a month now, and I finally have my TV, and my washer and dryer hooked back up. (Yikes!) It took us ages just to tear out the tile.  Then painting, we ended up painting the ceilings, doors, and base boards as well as the walls.

My husband was so daring to even attempt to paint these walls at this crazy height, and we definitely broke some OSHA laws in the process!

The flooring took forever and we still need to finish painting upstairs, the baseboards need to be painted and installed, and during all of this my fridge went out and I lost all my food! Not to mention the added expense of a new fridge!  

I have been a full time laborer and have not had any time to quilt. (Sigh!) But...I am going to take a week long break and get some stuff ready for spring market. 

Here are some remodel pics... Before and kind of after because I give up for now!

And here is our fun Easter which we spent with family at the park, ate fried chicken, hunted eggs, and my boy pogo sticked for hours.

My sweet Malorie got to wear her NEW Mixi Heart Mini Skirt. This pattern is SO EASY and QUICK to sew... and ADOREABLE!  

I will have 2 new patterns posted by next week, as I give up on my remodel and get back to having fun...for now.  

Happy quilting!
-KT

Holy smokes I'm a quilting animal!

I experienced one of my favorite quilting memories two weeks ago. My first quilting retreat! 

There was twelve of us and we had the best time! Michelle from mixiheart.blogspot.com the cutie in the lime green on left got her in-laws cabin in Bear Lake, UT. The cabin was AMAZING! It had hot tubs/ theater room/ tons of tables and space for people to spread out. We couldn't have asked for a better location. We made groups of three and each group was in charge of a brunch meal, so for one whole week we only cooked once and went to dinner at night. 

Each group gave out a small gift, my group made these cute pin cushions

(This image is from Pinterest. I forgot to take pics!). One of the groups got us Sew Red glasses, which help with color value when laying out quilt tops. We got some great stuff! And yes I took a shameless selfie of me in my cute new glasses!

See the darling table setup in the back. Each day was such a treat!

So on to the hard core stuff...it is not often I get to sew non stop without having to run after kids or just run my household so I was setting some completion goals to try to stick to.  My goal was 1 quilt top a day. Now to prepare for this I went through all my quilt books picked my patterns. Opened half my beautiful fat quarter bundles and per cut everything so it was ready to sew sew sew! My first day mission accomplished!

I love it! 

Day 2:

How cute is this! I love fabric!

The very best part of this beauty is the blue polka dot scallop is leftover from Michelle's quilt and she let me have! Doesn't it look great! 

Day 3:

(This was my bummer day, I don't love this quilt but I did finish a quilt top!)

Day 4:

I made my best effort but only finished half. The quilt was a lap size but this fabric is my favorite and very special to me and I've been saving it for my bed. Michele bought me this bundle on her first trip to quilt market. We started quilting together three years ago and she actually took that to the next level and made her passion into a career. She does the most amazing things with fabric and  has great taste so her colors look so good together and she is creative enough to make patterns and is almost to publish her first book!...back to that cute bundle. I love it so much I haven't used it for two years. Until now...

I seriously love it! (Eventually) 

Day 5: 

I totally cheated on this one... I only did half because I was waiting on some fabric at home. So it is finished now but wasn't by the retreat.  All in all I feel great about I got done but I missed these guys after so long!

But some days I dream of my next break!...

Xo- Kt