A little of everything

The weather here is just spectacular this week so I am making sure that I spend an hour or so outside every day. It won't be long before it's Hades hot and humid and I won't want to be outside more than 3 minutes. After a thunderstorm in the afternoon we opened the windows and enjoyed the fresh air inside. I think the open windows will last a couple of day. That's a good thing since we can't run the downstairs AC until the breaker is fixed next week.

Yesterday afternoon, while we had some rain, I decided to dye up some veterans quilt backs. We buy the wide backing by the bolt. I get some printed and some white. I mostly dye the white fabric in various shades of blue with some gold and an occasional custom color. I cut up a whole bolt and this is enough backing for 15 quilts.
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Just like the batting, they are all pre-cut and ready to use. Because we make our quilts the same size (48 x 60) I can pre-cut the backing and batting into 2 yard widths and that allows us to load and quilt 2 quilts at once. The whole process is quite efficient.
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I also got Becky's quilt loaded and the first pass quilted. I'm using a gold thread and the quilting isn't really going to show at all on the front.
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But it should show pretty nicely on the back. I should have this one done by the end of the weekend. Although I have to spend a good bit of time this weekend cleaning and restoring the guest house after we had some drywall repairs done. We have some guests coming next weekend. They were one of our first Airbnb guests and they came every year for a homeschool convention. We've gotten so close to them that I wanted them to keep coming to stay even after we stopped doing Airbnb. It's been fun to watch the kids grow up. Two are now graduated and one is married! The daughter who took her first steps at our house is now 11.

Last night, while Chris watched Fargo, I started cutting out the Elizabeth Hartman farm quilt. I'm glad I have 2 months to get it cut out. It's kind of daunting but it's the perfect project for a fastidious organizer. I have a big supply of plastic bags that will come in quite handy.