Veterans quilts and the guest house

It was quite a busy weekend around here. It was also standard July hot so I stayed inside as much as possible. I got 4 veterans quilts quilted. Two are mine and I'll share those tomorrow. These two were made by other members. This on was made by Glenda (Mom) and I quilted it with one of my new pantographs.
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This one was made by betsy. She said it's a traditional Amish pattern. All of her quilts are really striking like this one. 

I decided on Woven Wind for this one because it gives kind of a fan effect that seemed a good fit for this quilt. 
On Sunday I spent the whole day with the Cricut making postcards. I can't share them yet until at least one of them arrives at its mail destination. For now I can say that it was a good learning day and it's a really fun machine with so many possibilities. I need to order the fabric blade.

The other big job for the weekend was getting the guest house ready for friends who are moving in while they are between homes. Its' also part of the whole house reorg that shutting the business set off.
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Job #1 was getting this sofa bed out of the office, downstairs and over to the guest house. It's really heavy so we waited until a friend was here to help out. We discovered a moving hack where we could back up the truck to the house porch to load the sofa and then drive it to the guest house porch (about 15 feet) to unload it directly on that porch. It saved them lots of carrying up and down steps. Maybe this sofa will actually be used now! It's got to be 15 years old and it's in pristine condition. In this photo, to the right of the door is a narrow stairway to the loft.

The story behind the guest house is that it was here when we moved here and it was a dump. It was filthy and disgusting. It didn't have AC or heat, aside from space heaters and it was not finished well. We invested a lot to finish it because we thought we would have a lot of visitors. My Mom stayed here for a few months and a couple of friends have stayed here between moves but otherwise, it hasn't been used all that much. That's one reason we did Airbnb for about 10 years. It was nice to have it used and we met some cool people. It was fun until Airbnb started treating hosts horribly. We shut it down after Airbnb initiated their Covid rules. All that to say that I'm really excited that it's about to be used again for a few month. My college roommate and her husband will be staying here off and on until they find their new forever home. They have a vacation home at "the river" and they have lots of traveling planned but hopefully they will be here a lot too.
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This is looking from the front door to the little kitchen. It's small but adequate. To the left by the kitchen is the bedroom.
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The bedroom is surprisingly spacious. This furniture is the first furniture that we bought when we got married. Nothing in the guest house is stylish but it's comfortable.
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The bathroom is off the bedroom and is just big enough.
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It has a pretty massive closet too. This is where I was storing the big rolls of batting for the veterans quilts. I've had to move those into the house and, at the moment, they are in the living room. I'm going to need to find a better solution for that! After Cheryl and Steve move, I'll be able to take this space over again.

When we moved here, this loft was just an attic that was accessed from the outside. There were steps attached to the side of the house and they were falling off.  When we decided to fix this place (instead of tearing it down), we added stairs inside and made it a usable loft. We recently had to have the drywall here repaired and Chris repainted. It's really cute in this space when the beds are made with all of the colorful quilts.
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The space is big enough for 4 twin beds. 
If we had built this house I would have never even considered a guest house. It's a luxury for sure but has plenty of extra expenses, like and additional HVAC system. But, at times like now, I'm glad we have it. Cheryl and Steve will move in Thursday and, after this weekend, we are ready for them!