March 20, 2017

This month is well underway! The weather here in St. George has been wonderful lately! Today I actually got hot, while shopping for plants and garden stuff. I am not complaining on bit. I got my tomato plants planted in huge pots. I am hoping for enough to eat this year. Last year I only got a couple of tomatoes total. I am not planting squash or anything like that. I have not had any luck at all with them.  I have been very busy digging out the flower bed under my studio window... I have dug it well down below where the stucco on the house ends.  I have filled it with gravel I raked up from the front yard. It does not look like any water got in there. That made me feel better. It appears that  the pool water came in under the wall in one area. I think i will be able to fix it so it will not ever happen again! The guest room there in the basement still does not smell great.  I have used the carpet cleaner with the heavy duty duty stuff again. I will do it one more time and then.... if the smell does not go away, I will just tear the carpet out and  paint or stain the  cement floor and live with it like that for a while.

Meanwhile....... I am keeping up with my client work. I don't have quilts waiting for me, but I am keeping busy. I have had time to work on the yard and do my own work a bit.  I have to finish binding a art piece that will be included in a show at the St. George Art Museum in April. I have a client bringing a quilt tomorrow and have a small edge to edge to get done as well. I have gotten my owl quilt blocks put together and now need to decide how to finish it. I am going to put to borders around the center and then decide how much more I need to add to make it work for a bedspread.  I love it. I also need to get another quilt going to have ready for a gift quilt. BUT....... It is just so hard to stay inside when the weather is so nice outside!

Barb picked up her two quilts and was very happy with them.  I already posted photos of the other one on the previous blog. This really turned out nice.  She was very happy with it and that makes me really happy!

I have another busy day so I guess it is time to call it a day!

Until next time..... Happy Quilting!

Saturday March 4

February was a busy month. March will be a little slower I think. I got three quilts for clients finished this past week.

Sometimes life can be so frustrating. My mind works so differently. I get things mixed up, get dates and names all mixed up. Then I find myself checking and then re-checking everything I do. I can read something that is totally different from what is actually there. I put a card in the mail for my youngest daughter and I am setting here thinking.... did I get the year of her birth correct. It is very frustrating always second guessing yourself. Everyone that knows me very well knows I have this issue though.... so I guess that is good. I just wish my mind worked differently.  I guess my odd mind helps me create the art I do, so I should be happy. We learn to work with what we have if we wish to create!

I am working on some of my own stuff this weekend. I will put the next client quilt on the frame on Monday. There must be a lot of people on line. I was going to try to add some photos of the little pieces I am working on, but they won't load. So............later.