Fort Building ~ Sew & Tell - 4/27/26

Welcome back for another episode of Sew & Tell.  The place where everyone is encouraged to share their projects and get inspired by what others share. 

Many thanks to everyone who happily joined the parties while I was away on vacation.  Especially to Patricia at Faith, Trust & Breast Cancer for acting as hostess for one of the parties!  The fact that we were camping in an area around Moab, UT that had no service made it easy knowing that all was managed by her and thanks to the ability to schedule posts, I was not concerned in missing anything important.  If interested, you can find the story of our trip here.

This week's randomly selected featured post is from Terry at On Going Projects.  She showed off her 2021-2022 temperature quilt with the quilting finished!  

She has detail photos of the quilting, which is wonderful!  She also shares what helped her push through when her energy was waning and her body aching.  

Be sure to give her a visit to learn about what helped her.

The week was a short "work" week for me since we arrived home on Monday afternoon.  Tuesday was overtaken with laundry, and I eventually needed to do some grocery shopping and get a visit in with my Mom to catch up.

When I finally got into the studio I was making a special birthday gift for our youngest granddaughter.  Her birthday is this week and her Mom thought she would like a bed fort... a tent like piece that fits over her toddler bed.  She said she loves blanket forts and would likely enjoy one built over her bed... she has her fingers crossed that she will even sleep in her bed instead of on the floor in Mom & Dad's room.  Hahaha!

I have it ready for velcro closures to be attached for the windows and I need a couple ribbons attached to tie back the doors.  The tent is temporarily propped up with my ironing board and a couple chairs.  We get to deliver it to Hanna on Monday when we attend another softball game for Emma.  Prayers for our get-together are appreciated!  Little, tiny baby steps toward an improved relationship have been seen, may they continue.

While on vacation we listened to 4 books... While waiting on laundry to finish cycles, I pulled fabric to make the 9-patch quilt blocks. (Upper left was one I finished before we left on our trip.)

I had planned to make up the blocks Saturday morning... however!  The day was hijacked when we started a small project in the guest room.  

We removed the window that opened into the garage.  Why the previous owners didn't remove it when they added the garage is a mystery to us.  It has always been low on the priority list for house projects, but I mentioned a few months ago that I wanted it gone.  Boom!  Done!

Ready to be taped/mudded

The project continued after lunch into the garage...

The old opening is now sealed up and ready to have stucco applied.  We'll paint the wall and get rid of the last of the hideous turquoise color that we despised from the beginning.  It has only been 31 years.  LOL.

By the time we had everything cleaned up and put away it was 4 pm and we were tuckered out.  We recovered with a happy hour in the hot tub.  We are so grateful that we made the investment in it.

I know the work on the guestroom will continue for a week or so in the evenings until it is done.  We plan to paint just that wall, ending at the corners.

This week I look forward to getting my bookish blocks made.  Our freezer is looking a little bare so I will gather together some of my No Guilt::Go Quilt crockpot freezer meal recipes and get a restock started.

That's all I have for now...

Thinking back to Terry's quilt and what she did to push through and pass the time as she quilted (4 hours for each row of the quilt)... 

How or where do you find the "stick-to-it -ivness" to complete a quilt?

Leave a comment... I'd love to hear from you!

Keep Piecing,

Melva

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