Christmas in April

March and April blocks for do.Good Stitches are all about Christmas.  March was 3 trees in Christmas colors, and April was 2 houses using Christmas fabrics.  This pattern uses a paper template for the trees, so they took me a little longer than expected to make them, but they're a fun block.  She requested we not add the extra background piece, so that she can choose the pattern of all the trees and houses. 

Stella seems to always know the perfect time to interrupt.  She always seems to show up when I'm sewing.  She plopped herself in front of my sewing machine mid-Christmas houses and refused to budge.  She is quite the attention seeker.  

1 of 2

I got the smaller of the two do.Good Stitches quilts done while watching General Conference.  I like to watch while I hand stitch the binding.  This is the blue/green and gray quilt.  The warm colored plus quilt top still needs to be layered.  I used my walking foot for the quilting, so it was quick to put this together right before conference started. 

Baby Steps Progress

Today the painter and plumber were supposed to come finish up the bathroom.  The painters came in the morning and then put the mirror back up.  The plumber got in a fender bender on the way to lunch right before he was supposed to come to our house, so that meant no toilet and sink again.  I wasn't really that surprised.  At this point it's almost laughable that they've never come the first time they schedule something.  It is painted though, so it's still not usable, but it looking better.

Walking Along

It's been 4 months since our upstairs bathroom flooded.  It's has been a very painful process to get things done.  The communication from the restoration company has been sorely lacking.  One step will get done and then they just disappear.  We have to call and call just to find out when they're coming back.  I don't care if it's not right away, but I need to know they actually have it scheduled, because more than once they were just waiting for some random reason that wouldn't have resolved if we hadn't called.  Every single step of the renovation has gone like this.  After another 2 weeks of radio silence Joel finally just called the CEO of the company, because at this point it's almost comical.  The manager of our project called the next day and said he thought they had left flooring samples for us to choose.  He was waiting for our choice, but the samples were still in his car.  Then it turns out the original tile we had wanted was suddenly back in stock.  Either way they finally came yesterday and today to do the flooring.  Hallelujah!  We have a floor!!