Clean up continues

Current US COVID related deaths: 913,960

US COVID deaths as ofyesterday: 910,104

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Michael had errands to run on Tuesday (2/1) (to the chiro, liquor store, CVS, Publix and ALDI’s), so he decided to grab breakfast ‘’on the road’’ at the McDonald’s that just opened a mile from us. I headed to the studio to get my blog out, and to get a customer quilt loaded up. My longarm is all set up and squared and I need to make sure everything still works…plus I know my customer is anxious for this quilt. She is away right now…but coming home on Thursday and I would love to have it all done by then….trimming will be a problem because my cutting tables are still full:

But if I get it done in time….I could take it to quilting on Thursday and trim it there.

Anyway, I started to pin on the backing and got 3/4 of the way through it before I remembered that I want to pin a different way. I’ve recently ripped 2 t-shirts on the pins on my leaders…and have figured out that if I pin on the other side, that won’t happen…now I just need to do a bunch of quilts to get it in my head!! Anyway, I got the backing loaded, but had to stop as she is buying batting from me and right now I have to way to roll it out and cut it….so, I dropped back to putting other things away.

I unloaded moved and re-loaded my drawers of fabric…moving them from here:

to their permanent home here (inside the fabric closet):

and when Michael came home, he helped me to move the larger structure which holds my scraps (with my basket of stabelisers on top):

So, although the room still looks a mess…there’s a big space where once there were drawers of fabric:

As you can see by the pictures, that also enabled me to move my long arm thread to the top of my fabric drawers.

I took a short break in the afternoon to drive to a friend’s house…I have a friend who’s been diagnosed with shingles and is in severe pain….my friend Anne made up an essential oil concoction that really helped Michael with the pain….so I ran that over to her.

I continued to move bits and pieces to their permanent home or to the living room to be given away or thrown away....all of this stuff will be leaving the house one way or another:

I quit at 6 PM when Michael left for the movies, and I felt I had worked enough and headed upstairs. I spent the evening knitting and watching TV.

Janice has been working on a boy’s scrap quilt and I think it looks incredible...after she made the blocks, she needed a border, but didn't want to make more stars because they were using up too much of her background fabric....so she came up with the 16 patch brown border...and I think it really MAKES the quilt:

*** If I was told to pick one word that describes myself, I think I'd go with ''doesn't follow instructions! ***

*** Whoever said ''out of sight, out of mind'', never had a spider disappear in the bedroom. ***