Wow the quiet book for Kael and Wyatt is done a week ahead of time. Well almost done. Ambrosina is going to write the captions and I have a ton of buttons to sew on it before I bind the last 4 pages and put the eyelets in for the binder rings. It turned out pretty well considering I haven't used some of the skills I needed for a while and I was a bit rusty. But I made it bright and colorful and busy and I doubt anybody but me and maybe Ambrosina will see the imperfections. What a mess the sewing corner is! I will clean it all out and put everything away tomorrow morning before I start on the next project: a pair of winter pjs for myself, I also have 5 full sized sharks to stuff that I want to get done. I will have so much more room for more unfinished projects when I am done with them.
I'm getting some progress on our little sitting room and the closet organizers in our bedroom too. For someone who hates mess as much as I do, it's amazing how much mess is in my living areas. Tomorrow after finishing the odds and ends on the quiet book i will clean my sewing corner and start thru the last few tubs of fabric before I start sewing on something else but it will be worth it in the end.

We have all the new closet shelving that i bought at a rummage sale hung on the wall of our bedroom and i cannot believe how much extra room it has given us i have several quilts cut out that i can make accessible now that i have room to store it. There is also room to store the other knitting and crochet projects started and not finished so when i want to do something like that i don't just start something new to do but can go back to what i have already started.
It's just putting everything back that is the problem. Our little sitting room is jam packed with STUFF and Ambrosina told me to get rid of everything i didn't want to move again. A new house is in the future for the family.
She and i have been going thru the 50+ tubs of  fabric and have cut and planned our winter's sewing. Several tubs are now empty and we have some of fabrics that we will donate so someone else can use them. We even have projects planned that we, gasp, will have to buy fabrics for. Not something we have had to do much in the past, since we are both such fabric hoarders, and shop rummage sale and thrift shops for most of our fabrics and sewing notions. I think it will be fun, fabric stores being our main source of recreation. I still have several tubs to get through and I will do that this week while i work on finishing the quiet book for our little boys in Washington, i want to get it wrapped up and ready to mail payday.
This month I am going to get a smart phone because i lost my phone in Washington when we were out there in July. I will be able to use it to take pictures, because i still can't find my camera. Maybe then i will be able to post pictures more regularly, but for now this will just have to do.

Mid September already, the boys are in their 2nd week of school, and the house is very quiet. I decided not to put another quilt on the frame and a good thing too it has been unseasonably cold and wet. Leon decided to repair the back porch so I can't even walk out there for now. Soon Ambrosina will start putting plastic on the windows ready for winter. Malachi's quilt is finished, but as usual I can't find the camera to post pictures.
A couple of weeks ago I found a wonderful buy at a rummage sale: tons of closet organizing shelves for 35 bucks. So the bedroom is torn up while David was hanging them and now I have to put it all back, but wow! can I ever get more into the closet wall. Ambrosina told me not to keep anything I don't want to move again so a new house is on the books somewhere down the road. It has also made me look at all my junk with fresh eyes, so, yes I am unloading a ton of stuff. When we moved David's wardrobe we found the bed frame wouldn't allow him to open the doors of it so we took all the stuff from underneath and took the frame out. I will miss my beautiful bed, but we really needed the space more. David took it to a consignment store and I hope it will sell soon because we need to make a frame to set the mattress on, it's a little hard to stand up as low as it is.
I am not working on a quilt right now. Etina wanted me to make a quiet book for the boys so I hauled the pattern out of the tub it was in and hunted out my felt. I am about halfway done and I want to get it done so we can mail it in October. It's kind of a fun thing to do and I am about halfway done. I will take some pictures when I get it done, hopefully I will be able to find my camera to take pictures so I can post. I will try to post more regularly after this!!

Off to Union Grove campground today. Have to pack my hexagons into my bag and I will be ready to go, that is, after I drink my coffee. We had wonderful t-storms last night and it rained in buckets. We used to call it cloud bursts but I don't hear that very much anymore. It lasted for a long time and the streets and sidewalks were like rivers. Glad we don't get water in the basement!
I was having trouble getting my quilt adjusted on the frame and then I realized one of the rods had come untaped and I had unroll the whole thing and retape the rods. Fixed that yesterday, but I won't quilt today because it will be too damp out there after that rain last night, so as soon as I am dressed and the coffee drank we will go!

I really need to learn to do this every day. Yesterday I had a difficult dentist appointment, and I am feeling kind of punky. I have run into a snag on my quilting frame too, but I think I know how to fix that now, just needed it to perk for a while. The quilt is slipping on the rods so I think that if I unwind it and retape the leaders onto the rod I will be ok. I was going to post some pictures of our trip, but again I left the camera upstairs. Tomorrow I promise myself  I will blog again and have some pictures. The kids are going camping and we will be going out during the days and come home at night. I can't remember right now where we are going but it is a short distance from Sioux Falls and  not a long drive. Until tomorrow then.

So far I don't seem to be able to keep regular with this. Yesterday I got Malachi's quilt almost ready to quilt on the frame, but my back has been killing me. This evening we will be home a week and I don't have a lot to show for it, just some fabric cut into strips and not much else. Keep forgetting my camera upstairs so I can't show any pictures yet.
It is really a joy to be home and be with our little boys. Sammy wouldn't let anybody do anything for him except Gramps, the problem with that is that Gramps isn't really doing very well. He goes in for heart rehab starting next week. Mostly he says that he is just tired.
I am going to go upstairs now and start quilting on Malachi's quilt in just a few minutes, catch you later.

I didn't have a chance to post last month while we were gone. What a good time we had though. Ending it by David having a heart attack was not the way I would have chosen to end it, although he seems to be doing ok. When I get the camera here with the computer I will post some pictures of our trip, most of it was a lot of fun.