Food and Fiber Floozie: purple hot mess quilt, SNS Martini Night

Michael was up at 6 AM (yikes!!) on Monday (3/25) for golf, while I finally staggered out at 7 AM. I made my morning tea, got my blog out and then started contemplating my latest list.

I have been a list maker for a long time (and by long time I’m talking childhood here)….and whenever I feel stressed (as I am a bit about making room for the new long arm and the current messiness of my studio), making a list helps me to calm down. That way, I have it in black and white what I need to be working on. So here’s the latest, in no particular order:

-borders on QoV – done!

-borders on QoV

I came home from the QUAP retreat with 5 QoV quilt tops, but 3

of them still needed borders…I’ve only finished 1 of those.

-binding on retreat purple/teal

The purple/teal quilt top was made at the Fiber Floozie retreat,

and I did manage to get it quilted awhile ago, but it still needs

binding. And with the death of my PFAFF (my workhorse

machine where I also did ALL of my binding), binding is a tricky

subject these days.

-finish zig zag top – done!

I finished the zig zag top last week at quilting.

-list elliptical for sale

Part of making room in the studio for the new long arm involves

selling our elliptical machine and I have done nothing with that

yet.

-clean off pool table

Michael has no hope of playing pool right now until I do something

about this:

-eliminate sofa table with safe

Part of the re-arranging involves cleaning off and then getting rid

of this table:

-move book case

and moving this bookcase:

-auction quilt 2

-auction quilt 3

And finally the second and third quilts, promised at the FMCP

Auction at the end of January that will both be finished by

Thursday. So, this is what I’ll be working on over the coming

weeks.

I had a lot of paperwork to get through, so I decided to tackle that first while I was fresh. I cancelled my health care spending account near the end of last year because I was very upset that they started charging $3.25 per month just to maintain it! Just a week ago I received a letter from my health insurance company that I received $100 bonus from BC/BS, but it MUST by law be deposited in a health care spending account! So, I’ve gotta hit the bank, get one set up, get the money deposited, move it over to our checking account, and then close down the new health care spending…..SHEESH! Plus, I’m trying to go through all of the information on supplemental health plans that go with joining MEDICARE. By the time I was done with various phone calls, and paying bills on-line, it was time to head to the Lake House for a meeting on the craft fairs that take place here at SCCL 3 – 4 times per year. We had a good meeting and after a stop at the bank (to cancel the credit card associated with Quilt Devo, LLC and to open a new health care spending account and to cash a check) I was finally home after NOON. By then I was ravenous and made a grilled cheese sandwich for brunch.

I spent the afternoon still cleaning the studio, and I re-found a bunch of blocks. These blocks are probably 20 years old…from when I was president of our guild in Connecticut. People were supposed to make 9 patches, but as usual many people did not adhere to that suggestion. Michael tried laying them out and I think they just look like a hot mess: