TAQG Rally Day 2016

Had a great time volunteering at the Texas Association of Quilt Guilds Rally Day! Got to visit with friends, help hand out door prizes and listen to presentations by Kimberly Einmo.

Here I am with the mini-quilt (the fish) I made for the silent auction (I'm pleased to say it went for $57)...

The auction made over $2,500 and I had to keep my hands firmly in my apron pockets to keep from bidding on some of them (the goal is getting things out of the house, not into it)!

This pic is while they were setting up - you can see some of the great minis there were - bidding went right up to the last minute!

The attendance was over 500 -

Kimberly Einmo is a great speaker - her morning presentation was about using Jelly Rolls and Precuts with a lot of stories and slides.

and she had a trunk show of her quilts, again with really funny stories, in the afternoon...

She also has Craftsy classes and a website and if I were at all interested in doing more traditional quilts, I would buy all of her books.

All in all, a good day!

Happy 4th!

Art Swap and So-Long Luncheon

It was a good night at the DAFA art swap on Monday, at least for me...In exchange for the scarf I made (won by Diana):

I won one of Carolyn's "little houses" pieces!

Since it was potluck, the food was good, too. And it was nice seeing friends.

me with Lu Peters

And on Wednesday, we had a "good luck on your move to Colorado" luncheon for our friend Michelle - again, good food:

and good friends:

Michelle with the piece I made for her

the lighting is correct in the prior picture...

KIP and #26

Worldwide Knitting in Public Day was 6/18, so off I went to Barnes & Noble for a couple of hours - Cathy Sims joined me.

and since Valerie Kelley was there is spirit, I stopped by her rehab facility (she had both knees replaced) and got a picture of her Crocheting in Public -

The only other item of note is Heraldic Cross-stitch #26 got completed -

Still needs to be blocked so it will be square, but done is done.

Finally - Happy Birthday to me!

Because of the rain, Dave was delayed in installing my birthday present: a barn door for the bedroom/bathroom doorway! Everything has been here for a while, but the rain meant the paint wouldn't dry, so we just put it off until there was little worry about the weather.

When Norm redid the bathroom, he installed a pocket door in the doorway to the hall but the wall between the bathroom and the closet was not suitable for a pocket door, so we left the bedroom/bathroom entrance as it was until Dave retired. It was a pain, however, since when it was open (it was only closed when company was in the house), it blocked the pocket-door entryway and we were constantly bumping into it...

OLD Doorway:

Door from bathroom into bedroom
(pocket door is doorway to hall on left) 

Door on left is closet; door on right is into the
bathroom from the bedroom

View from hall - as you can see, the
door blocks part of the doorway...

So Dave painted up everything, took out part of the doorframe...

and hung the new door -

Open 

Closed for company

from the hall - no longer in the way...

nice open space when it's just us at home!

Nothing left but the touching up!