Part of yesterday was my monthly lunch with Mom and my cousin. It's always fun to catch up with her and we planned a trip to Asheville in September to visit her grandson and go to the Chihuly exhibit at Biltmore. We'll also see the other girl cousin so it will be a fun trip. In the afternoon I did some prep work for things I want to work on this week and weekend. Chris is going away for the weekend and I'm looking forward to having my own vacation recovery time. I want to work on some more veterans quilts so I needed to get out the next roll of batting. Our quilt club buys the backing and batting and I store it. I cut a whole roll at a time so that Brenda and I have easy access to batting whenever we need it. I do the same with bolts of batting. I have 4 more veterans quilts to be quilted at the moment. One pair of them needs a dyed backing so I plan to dye some backings too. But the first project is to quilt this quilt that Becky made. It's not a veterans quilt but it is a charity quilt. We are moving to our new meeting place in June and part of our "rent" is to donate one quilt a year for them to use as a fundraiser. I think that was a great idea and Becky is donating the first quilt. The nice thing about this quilt is that the quilting will not show at all so I can do a pretty pantograph. My other project for the week is to start cutting out the pieces for this quilt. It's going to be my project for Maine but I want to have as much cut out as possible. This is going to be such a fun project. I think I mentioned Monday that our downstairs AC stopped working. We were prepared for the usual bad news of "you need a new compressor". We were lucky that the problems is a bad breaker! We just have to get the electrician out for that small repair and we should be all set. Finally, some good news!
Chris
5/29/2024 01:06:20 pm
We saw Chihuliy at Biltmore several years ago. Be sure and do a night visit. MAGICAL! good news on the A/C. What size do you normally cut your batting off the big roll I guess you have a set size that it doesn't go over that you can do that! good idea The trip to Biltmore sounds fantastic I have never been there and would love to one day. The Chrystal Bridges museum in NW Arkansas has a lot of Chihuly pieces - some outside. I wonder if any of those were damaged? I heard you can go inside but the grounds are closed right now due to damage from the bad storms that went through Sunday morning.
Lindah
5/30/2024 12:25:45 am
Catching up on my blog reading.... So sorry to hear about Chris' injuries. So good you took him back to the ER and got further studies done. Hope he heals quickly. I don't know... give a man his wheels and he thinks he is already well. Next year will be better. 5/30/2024 08:26:44 am
So glad Chris is feeling better, enough to make a trip. Do let me know your September travel dates!! Would love to meet you. If you are here between the 6th and the 15th, the Mountain State Fair will be going and you could visit to see the quilt competition. 5/30/2024 01:59:35 pm
A long time ago, we had a Chihuly exhibit in Buffalo at the big art gallery. He was even there and I witnessed one of the best artist stories I ever experienced where he put a whiney art critic in his place, crushed him actually. We saw an exhibit in London at the V&A in 2001. When visiting my sister in March in Greenville, I was so looking forward to seeing the exhibit at the Biltmore. However, the admission price was prohibitive for us to see it. It would have been hundreds of dollars for an afternoon for 4. I was very sad.
Mary Anne
6/2/2024 06:01:01 pm
oooh - I'm looking forward to seeing that sweet animal quilt evolve. It's almost (note the 'almost') enough to make me want to make a sane quilt. Comments are closed.
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I'm Vicki Welsh and I've been making things as long as I can remember. I used to be a garment maker but transitioned to quilts about 20 years ago. Currently I'm into fabric dyeing, quilting, Zentangle, fabric postcards, fused glass and mosaic. I document my adventures here. Categories
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