Whatcha Working on Wednesday

I am very late posting for

Whatcha Working on Wednesday.

But I was in a hurry to get to work this morning.

Better late than never!!

Leslie at My Country Home is our lovely host.

This is my progress picture for the

Stitch Along Blog.

Won't be long now and I will have the whole

pink area done.

It will be cool to move on to other colors.

I am also getting back to painting the closet in

the sewing room.

I had started this project during the

Procrastinator's Challenge

in October.

But our trip and the fumes from the paint

slowed me down.

This is the shade of yellow that I have used

in the sewing room.

But I have not painted the entire room yet.

To many things in the way.

Getting the closet done will help.

This is part of the master bedroom closet.

That is where I store a lot of craft items.

I want most of my craft things to

be in the sewing room.

Not in our bedroom.

This highboy dresser that is sitting in the living room

will go in the closet.

Then I get to decide what I am going to store in there.

This mess is in the living room still.

Stuff I took out of the closet in order to paint it!

I have a major organizing job ahead of me.

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So, what are you working on?

And have a great day!

~Linnea~

The Procrastinator's Party-Did I Finish?

Melissa at The Inspired Room

is our host for the Procrastinator's Party.

I am going to have a reputation for starting

but not finishing my projects for this party.

But I have a very good reason for not finishing this time

and I will share that with you at the end of

this post.

My project was to finish clearing out and cleaning

this closet and get it painted.

This picture shows were I was

at the time I signed up for this party.

I had already done the big job of getting

this closet almost empty

to get ready to paint.

At the time of this picture above,

I had taken down the rod and shelf on the right,

spackled the holes left from the brackets,

and cleaned the walls.

Here is the first coat of primer not quite

finished.

Still needed to do more around the base

and on the left side there.

Another session of painting

had me finished with the first coat

and starting the second coat of

primer.

Ok, this is when I started having problems

The paint fumes started making me

sick to my stomach.

Even though I had a fan going

for circulation and took breaks from being

near the paint I still kept feeling sick.

Then it got to the point even walking

into my sewing room was making me sick.

I managed to complete the second coat of primer.

But I had to keep taking rest breaks again

and stand in the path of the fan

and have the fan blowing on me while I was working.

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So my friends this is where I am at now.

I still need to paint the yellow color.

But churning stomach was

telling me to wait awhile on that.

Besides we are trying to get ready for our trip

and I don't want to be feeling sick for that.

Perhaps the paint smell will be

gone by the time we get back

and I can try painting the yellow on at that time.

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Once the yellow paint is on,

then I can move on and start creating my

storage for my sewing and crafts

in the closet.

I will be posting pictures of that

as I move along.

With the plans I have,

it will be awesome!

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Thanks for visiting me!!

~Linnea~

Get R Done Friday! Ants and Other Stuff

Yay! It is Friday.

Friday's make me happy, especially if

I don't have to work on Saturday.

It is time for Get R Done Friday

hosted by our lovely ClassyChassy

at Expressly Corgi.

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So what have I gotten done this week?

First I got rid of ants.

We were greeted by ants on Monday morning!

The changing weather sent them in the house.

We had our first rainstorm for the season on Tuesday.

And it was a major one too.

We don't get rain during the summer here.

So B-Daddy put out ant bait here.

And here.

See it is already working!!

But the ants were all over my cereal box.

And inside my cereal too!

Argh!!

Not a good start to a Monday morning.

So I heated up some instant oatmeal in the microwave.

It blew up in there.

Well, not that bad, but it made a mess.

There was still enough in the bowl to eat.

I like to add a touch of sugar to it.

Found ants in my sugar bowl too.

Another argh!!!!

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I am happy to say patience pays off.

The ants have quit coming in.

I think they all went into the ant bait trap.

And they also crawled out of my cereal box too.

Yay! No more ants.

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For now anyway....

I have also been working on my

Procrastinator's Party

Challenge.

The sewing room closet.

Here it is cleaned and ready to paint.

This is how far I got painting the first coat of primer.

See the bottom is not done yet.

Then last night I sat on the floor and finished the

first coat around the bottom edge.

I tell you,

I had a hard time getting up off the floor

after doing that.

Plus I climbed on my stool

and did more around the top and

kind of started on the second coat.

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So that is where I am on that right now.

And....

ta-da!

I have finished the second quilt top.

Notice I said TOP.

The batting, backing and binding are not on those yet.

The 3 B's.

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That is my Get R Done for this week!

What is yours??

~Linnea~

Whatcha Working on Wednesday-Lots going on!

Sometimes the week just goes by too fast for me.

Here we are at Wednesday again.

That means it is time for

Whatcha Working on Wednesday!

Thank you Leslie for hosting every week.

You can visit her at My Country Home

to see who else is working on stuff.

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I am participating in the

Procastinator's Party.

I have done the first couple of steps

I had listed for me to do.

I took out the rest of the stuff that was still sitting on the shelf.

I took out the long shelf that was along the wall on the right.

I had to ask B-Daddy to help me get the brackets down.

Then I spackled the holes from the brackets

and I cleaned the walls.

The old sheets are on the floor ready for me to paint

the primer on the walls.

I hope to start on that tonight after work.

Oh, and that stool, that is not a reproduction stool.

That is an old one. Used to be my godmother's.

We use it a lot.

Hooray!! I have finished my apple bowl cross stitch!!

Some of you may have seen it on my main blog.

I posted it there too.

It took me from January to October to finish it.

And I used a total of 34 colors in it.

Whew!

You can barely see it,

but this is the start to my new cross-stitch project

for the Stitch Along Blog.

I had bought myself new jeans.

I always get the kind with elastic waist.

I can't stand to wear the other kind.

But after wearing them 3 times with one washing,

I discovered the elastic was giving up already.

I thought, oh, just rip out some of the two bottom

rows and pull out the elastic and insert the new.

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Ha!

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Turns out the elastic is sewn down as well.

Argh!!

This is turning into a bigger fix it job than I thought!

I am tackling it in bits and pieces hoping

to have it done before our trip.

I want to wear them on our travel days.

As of today,

only 9 days until we go.

I have mentioned fabric shopping with my niece

to get fabric so that I can teach her to sew.

Well, we have been tackling that project too.

First I showed her the ins and outs of reading the pattern

pieces and cutting out the fabric.

Oh, and understanding the layout too!

Here she is pinning the piece for the apron.

After cutting that out, then it was pinning on pieces for

the contrast fabric.
Then it was the brown fabric.
The ties and the bands are made from this fabric.
She did all the cutting.
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Then last night we started the sewing process.

First I had to show her how to wind a bobbin and thread
the machine.
We are using my mother's machine here.
This is the machine I learned to sew on, and
I made my wedding dress using this machine.
My old bedroom is now the sewing room.
Here she is doing some pinning.
But first I had her practice sewing on scrap fabric first.

Sewing her first seam on the apron!
I put tape there to help maintain the same seam allowance.

She also learns how to iron her seams.

This is one of the pockets.

She practiced sewing around a curve, but was having a hard

time with that.

So I do the curves for her.

Here I am sewing the curves for her and

she leans in to watch.

I used to do that with my daughter.

She did the straight seams

and I did the curvy seams until she learned how to do that.

We are not finished with this project yet,

but my niece is already looking forward to the

next project we make together.

She is 13 and very eager to sew like me.

makes me proud.

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That bandage I have on my right hand?

I burned myself on the light bulb of

the sewing machine.

Not that one, but the one that was my godmother's.

I was trying to see if I could get it to work and in the

process bumped my hand up against the hot light bulb.

It blistered up and at work, the gloves I have to use

pulled away the blister exposing the wound

and it stun too.

So I have to keep it covered now until it heals.

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We had lots of rain yesterday.

The first for the season.

Then it is supposed to warm up again.

Into the 80's.

Crazy weather!!

Happy Wednesday!!

~Linnea~

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So, what are you working on??

Procrastinator's Party and Three or More Tuesday

Well, the main thing this week is that I am joining in with

the Procrastinator's Party with The Inspired Room.

It lasts over 3 Tuesdays, starting with today (Oct 6).

And it is going to take me 3 or more steps to complete this task.

I had joined in last May with the Procrastinator's Party.

I attempted to recover a wingback chair.

I got it started and it still sits unfinished in the living room.

I am not going to go back to that project just yet,

because the living room is in chaos as it has

become a holding area while I try to complete

this next project.

No garage, makes it hard to hide messes!

I have been wanting to redo this closet in the sewing room.

I want it to be much more efficient for storing

sewing and craft related items

in a way so that I can find what I need

when I need it.

First are some before pictures,

before I started cleaning it out.

Lots of mess in there.

Couldn't even walk in there.

I was getting very tired of that.

Some of the mess has been cleared out by the time

I took this picture above.
And this is where I am at right now.
Step one: I need to take down that shelf on the right.
Step two: I need to clean in there and prep the walls.
Step three: I need to paint with primer.
Step four: I need to paint with my color of choice,
a Sunset yellow.
The color we are already using in the rest of the room.
So.......
On to the Procratinator's Party!
I am not working the next two Saturday's.
I should be able to get at least as far as getting all the painting done.
I hope I can get farther!
Wish me luck!!
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Thank you to Tam at
The Gypsy's Corner for hosting
Three or More Tuesday.
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Melissa at The Inspired Room
is our host for the
Procrastinator's Party.
Thank you Melissa for doing this.
Ta ta for now!
~Linnea~

The Blogger Procratinator Party/Challenge After Photos!

Two weeks ago I joined Melissa at The Inspired Room for her Blog Procrasinators Party.

I posted that I was going to try and get this chair recovered.

Did I succeed?

Let's see how far I got.

Here is the before UGLY chair.

It was probably nice in it's prime.

But now just plain UGLY.

I was keep it covered in the pink blanket.

Not the best idea, but I least I didn't have to look at that UGLY print.

This is the pattern I found to make the cover for this chair.

I was following the instructions for the chair in the lower right corner.

Here is the fabric spread on the table.
It was very scary to make that first cut in the fabric.
See the tape measure there.
I was double and triple checking my measurements.
I have had this fabric for nearly 5 years.
Long time procratinating on this one for sure.
After cutting out the fabric, it dawned on me I should have put the leaves in the table.
Duh...that would have given me more space to layout the fabric.
Oh well.....
So now I have to admit I did not quite finish this project.
BUT...thanks to this challenge I have STARTED this project.
That is definitely a lot farther than I was,
which was the roll of fabric sitting in the closet for nearly 5 years.

I have discovered it is quite a challenge to smooth this fabric over the shape of the chair.
Not easy at all.
Here I have it shaped over one wingback.
I could not find upholstery pins, but I did find these yellow head
long pins.
I am hoping they will stay in.
One good thing, the yellow heads on the pins blends in with the fabric.
It will take me awhile to do all the shaping.
I will have to do it piecemeal as I have the energy for it.
The seat cushion will have it's own cover.
That part will be a challenge to make.
I do have the new zipper for the opening.
And muslin to draw and cut out the pattern for the cushion before actually cutting the new fabric.

Here is my mess!
I still have enough fabric for the skirt around the bottom and to cover the cushion.
I may even have enough to make a couple of pillows to throw on the couch.
Thanks for visiting!
And thank you Melissa for hosting this challenge.
It helped me to get going and get started on the project.
Now I definitely have to finish.
I can't quit now.
~Linnea~

Whatcha Working on Wednesday-More Odds and Ends

It is time for Whatcha Working on Wednesday!

Thank you to Leslie at My Country Home for hosting this for us

each week.

Every week I post my progress on the Stitch Along Blog.

This is what I had done as of Sunday.

My apples are definitely getting there.

I finished stitching the first block of the Christmas Wish BOM.

I love how it turned out.

Since I am planning on making 8 quilts with this pattern.

I still have to stitch 7 more.

But I am going to stitch all the blocks I have on the first quilt first

then move on to the second quilt and so on.

Here is what I have done on the second block so far.

And the third block is traced and ready to go.
I have the patterns for the fourth and fifth blocks.
So I am challenging myself some to see how far I can get before
sixth block comes out.
So many things, so little time.
Sometimes I so wish I was a stay at home wife.

Here is the Procratinators Blog Party project.
See how nice that fabric is going to look on my chair?

I have made those cuts that I was so afraid to make.

I moved the sewing maching to the dining room table.

This project is too big to handle on my sewing table in the sewing room.

Should be easier to sew the fabric when I can spread out on the table.

And that is where I leave you for right now.

Happy Wednesday!

~Linnea~