This is what I did this morning: 

It didn't take long. It is a little organizer for the thread and such for the hexagon quilt I am working on when I do hand work, while I am watching tv mostly. I've got an awful clutter where I keep my computer, and hopefully this will help that. I've been working on some other small stuff upstairs to get caught up between quilts and every little bit helps. I have a couple of summer dresses cut out that I want to finish so that I can wear them when the weather warms up. They won't take too long once I get some of the other stuff out of the way.
The kids had the day off from school, but they all went over to Grandma's so it has been very quiet.
We got the word today that Rosa, Timothy's wife has to have a pacemaker put in her brain because she is having a lot of seizures. I think it is her brain. Anyway next Wednesday we will be spending at the hospital with she and Timothy. It is always easier in situations like that if the family is there. Mostly we sit and do hand sewing, but we are there if needed. David doesn't do hand sewing, he mostly naps.
Speaking of naps I could certainly use one right now, but I want to get a little hand sewing done this afternoon so I will get that started now, as well as move into my new organizer and straighten up some of this clutter!

I'm kind of late getting online today. I thoroughly cleaned my sewing corner upstairs, the only thing that remained out are the current projects. I took a picture because it will probably be months before it looks like that again especially when I get Juki home.

TA DA!!! And yes I sometimes do use the sewing machines simultaneously. Or at least nearly so. And I do miss the versatility of having more than one machine available with Juki in the shop. I guess I am spoiled, but a girl can't have too many sewing machines. Sammy is very happy with his quilt, he was cuddled under it on the couch this morning when I went upstairs. He says it has his two favorite colors in it, blue and gold. I am happy that he is happy.

He's there; he is just using it for what it's for, whatever it is at any given moment, but this one you can see his smile.

It will be very quiet when he goes off to school next fall. Sigh.

I finished Sammy's quilt today. I am so glad to have it done. I have a half a dozen projects lined up to work on right now, so I am relieved that I don't have the money to get any more batting until payday so I don't have to start quilting another top until then. I have to go up to the attic to find Arty's quilt top, but there is no hurry on that. I do need to check and see if I have to piece a back but I think i did that already. Anyway here are the pictures. The day has been rainy and cold and windy, but David put his coat on and took the pictures before he went down to get Malachi.

I think David changed the settings on the camera because the colors are a little washed out. I think the quilting turned out quite well. Some people call them pebbles, but I call them bubbles because the boys love them so. I used some leftover bias to bind it, it is a scrap quilt after all. It was from binding 3 other quilts, so long ago that I can only remember doing one of them, but still good and I didn't have to cut into my slim stash to make it.
I don't know why, but getting a large long term project done makes me feel virtuous.
For the rest of the afternoon I am going through my stash and sorting out what I want to use for piecing backs, and seeing just what fabrics I do have left to work with. Tomorrow I will clean out my sewing corner upstairs and organize it so I can get the projects I have outlined done before I start quilting another top. I have well over 30 tops that need quilting and I want to get some of them done, they aren't doing anyone any good stored in tubs up in the attic.

Poor Juki, she is back at the shop today, they didn't fix whatever the problem was. Like I could afford to take her in again, like I could afford not to take her in. So, I am down to one sewing machine upstairs, I was planning to embroider some blocks that I designed on Brunehilda, but they will have to wait until I get Juki back because I don't want my only sewing machine up there to be tied up with embroidery until Sam's quilt is done. It is about halfway there. That's about 3 long mornings quilting, so it will definitely be done this week. Then I will have a grand cleanup of my sewing corner, if I can wait that long. My sewer's helper happy dumped my pin bowl on the floor, so I have buttons, marbles, small screwdrivers and heaven only knows what else underfoot. And, of course, about fifty thousand pins. I keep picking them up, but everything seems to multiply down under the furniture, so more keeps rolling out. Anyway this is Sam's pizza quilt on Brunehilda.

You may know it by it's other name: Spider Web, but to Sammy it will always be a pizza.
We had lovely T-storms last night. We do enjoy them although others might not. We can't stop them from coming, so we might as well enjoy them while they are here.
I am going through fabrics again and finding shelf space for them so I can sort them into colors, I don't have a lot by most standards, and I keep them pretty well used up, but I want them where I can see them, then I don't have to got through tubs to find what I need. It will save time in the long run, and be more convenient for use. So I had better get busy!

No matter which machine I sit at I still get way too much help.

That is the Asian wall hanging that I am trying to work on. It was resting while I was deciding what to do next, but I am working on it again. I am almost through with the embroidery and ready to start quilting, although I may have to wait until payday to do that since I need thread. There are plenty more things waiting on me to do. I also did the hem in a pair of dress pants for David, something I can almost do with my eyes closed so many times I have done it.
I did get Sammy's quilt basted and brought in from the back porch and I will start quilting it tomorrow. I will also break down the quilting frame and put it away since I won't be using it, and we want to start using the back porch.
I am going to start going through my ceramic molds today since I have decided to sell them and the big kiln. It's with some reluctance, since I enjoy it so much, but I think I am beyond handling the heavy molds now anyway. So I think I had better go and get busy before the day gets any later.

I finished the 2nd and last trapunto quilt today, it was a lovely warm sunny day and I hung it out on the porch rail for pictures and left it there to air it out. Parts of it are over 18 years old after all. Now I just looked out the window and it is absolutely pouring down rain. Lovely spring!

 Front and

back. It is a hodge podge utility quilt for my bed, and I used it to get some needed practice in on free motion quilting. After it has been washed a half a dozen times, and used for a few months it will have mellowed out, I am content with it, it is perfect, that is the right size for my bed to keep me warm while I sleep, and so I'm not too concerned with it's failings.
Tomorrow I will pin baste Sammy's quilt that is out on the frame, and if it wet from the rain I will throw it in the dryer. I have some other sewing that needs to be done while I wait for it to be ready. A huge tub of sewing as a matter of fact, so I don't need to be impatient.

I got a good start on the 4th and final border of More Of The Same. It has been raining every day ever since I put the Spider Web quilt on the frame so I couldn't have worked on it anyway. If it stops raining tomorrow I will pin baste it and bring it in since I am almost done with the one I am quilting right now. This is the kind of help I was getting this morning.

Not getting a lot done, she will slap if I try to move her. My manners are better than hers, I will wait until she leaves. Sammy usually comes running over, and he's pretty rough so she will leave and head for high ground, for instance: the top of the door. I really think that I will get the quilting done, and maybe even the binding tomorrow if I don't get too much help!