Rhapsody in Blues -

A morning blood draw appointment. A day in the office. A day getting the inn ready for today’s arrivals.

And time to finish the quilting on my Waterford quilt.

Questions came up yesterday asking about the pantograph name. I thought it was Random Fans – but it turns out it is Random Clams by Jessica Schick.

I love the texture of this one and scaled it so the arcs were about 3/4” apart. I didn’t want the quilting too dense, but I didn’t want it too sparse either. This did the trick.

I used a gold colored thread which blended through both light and dark areas without shouting too light on the navy blues, or too dark against the whites/creams. I use this color a lot.

More texture in the making.

There is just something about two-color quilts. I love them. And the more variety in the fabrics the better.

Stitching lengths of binding on the diagonal with my Sew Q Laser. It makes cross-seaming from corner to corner super simple.

My fabrics range from 1980s all the way to “modern” fabrics. And the more you throw in, the better they play together.

The binding is an older Cranston VIP and I had just enough to get this binding job done.

Quilt wrangling at the 201!

Loads of binding flipping time ahead!

And guess who found the sunny spot?

And now for some local “Funny! That’s Not Funny!

We got an alert at 5:45 am that our road was closed just up from our drive due to a semi truck being stuck.

This road was not meant for semis. It’s narrow. It’s steep. And there are repeated S curves all the way down from the top.

It’s scary for ME to be driving it in the dark – I’m always afraid some deer is going to jump out into the road. Or another car is going to come the other way hogging the road – and where do I go then?

How he managed to do this is beyond me!

All I can think is that since Hwy 58 is closed (The section where Hubster Dave got hit by the tree) they thought they could get up-and-over this way. It’s fine for cars and some trucks.

Not for semis!