Disappointment-------But!

 Riverton, Utah           High 89 Low 68

It is still a little warm for the time of year, except it does cool off at night.

Thursday we went to an estate sale that listed fabric and it was nice fabric. Cindy started to load up until I noticed the price, $9.00 per yard. It all went back on the shelf. We did notice when people were checking out, the lady measured the fabric to the inch. We both thought the price was too high for an estate sale, when you could go to the fabric store for close to the same price if you got it on sale. Cindy was looking forward to the sale, but was very disappointed. 

After we got home, she looked at Facebook, and what do you know? Someone was getting rid of a bunch of fabric on Saturday. We got there about a half hour before the scheduled time And the prices were more than reasonable. Some kits from 15 to 25 dollars and fabric for about $1.50 per yard. Way more like it. Needless to say we bought a lot of what she was selling and had it loaded and paid for at about the time she was going to start.

All that and free project boxes. Cindy was really happy.

I finished the quilt I talked about, with the bad directions. 

 Some examples of bad directions, there are 20 blocks, but the directions said make 2 side borders and two boarders for top and bottom for the blocks, not the 40 required. And as we went on, the directions started to use one color of half square triangles, but had not had us make the 160 required and we didn't have any of the background fabric to make them and had to find matching fabric. But we got it made and quilted, so all is well.

Cindy got another quilt finished and I got it quilted.

Thanks for visiting.

Not Much Going On

 Riverton, Utah        High 83 Low 66

It was a little warm this last week but the weather guessers are predicting a lot cooler tomorrow.

I only finished two quilts this last week, I was busy trying to finish one of Cindy's UFOs. It is a quilt kit we bought, maybe 10  years ago, and started but never finished. We didn't know why we didn't finish it, but it might be because the directions were awful. We finally got the main part finished and all that is left are two borders. I hope to get it quilted this coming week. 

Here are the pictures of the ones I finished.

We went to two estate sale and I took pictures of all the people in line to go to the sale.

There were at least twice as many people behind us. We thought they we over priced and didn't buy much.

Thanks for visiting. 

Rain And What A Yard Sale

 Riverton, Utah       High 78 Low 60

The temperatures finally got down to what we expect for this time of Year. We had rain yesterday and into the night, the first that gave us any amount of rain. 

Yesterday morning we went to an estate sale that advertised everything free. We didn't know if any of it would be any good, but there was a lot of good stuff, just for the taking,  Cindy found a lot of crystal bowls and plates and glasses. There were lots of dvd's. We got some metal rocking chairs and a small table for a patio. We had the car so full, that I could only get two of four chairs. We decided to go home and unload and then go back. The other two chairs were gone, but we were able to get three adjustable shelving units. I checked and they sold on Amazon for $45.00 each, so three for free was a great deal. 

We tried some other estate sale, but didn't find much (or maybe the free one spoiled us). We got rained on hard both times we were at the free sale, so we were both pretty wet by the time we were finished.

We have both been working on quilts most of the week and here are pictures of two that I quilted.

Thanks for visiting.

It Finally Cooled Off

 Riverton, Utah    High 93 Low 67

The weather finally got down to more normal temperatures for this time of year, instead of the 10 degrees over normal we had earlier in the week. I can only hope it lasts.

I quilted more quilts, but I had 3 in a row with Minky backs. Now I know for sure why machine quilters hate Minky. I was quilting along and all of a sudden my machine started to make a racket, broke the needle, and stopped. Upon inspection, the bobbin case, which has two moving parts, was now frozen up. I had to take the case out and take it apart, which I had been advised by the dealer, not to do unless absolutely necessary because of a timing problem. I found large pieces of the minky blocking the movement of the two parts. 

After watching a video about timing the bobbin head to the needle, I had to find a tool I didn't know I had, to time the mechanism. After I got everything back together, the machine would not stitch. I called the dealer here, and tried everything they suggested, but it still would not run. So I had to call Gammill Tech support and make an appointment to have someone call me back. It was only a two hour wait, and the lady called exactly on time. After listening to what had happened, she asked if I had reset any of the tiny breakers on the controller. I didn't even know they existed, but one was sticking out. After pushing it in, everything worked. It only took the tech about two minutes to fix my machine. I had been quoted from four to six weeks for the company to send out someone to do the repairs, and I was able to do the repairs myself and it only took me a day. It was a lot of frustration, but I got it working. 

Here are pictures of the quilts that caused the problem.

And finally, here is the picnic quilt, I quilted after getting my machine working.

Thanks for visiting.

We Had The Great Grandkids Over

 Riverton, Utah             High 90 Low 64

The weather finally got cooler. It has been a welcome change. We even got a little rain, while everyone around us got flooded. There was even a tornado warning west of us.

Cindy wanted to help out our grand-daughter, so she invited the two great grand sons over night. Of course they wanted to go swimming. They played in the water for quite awhile.

Then we watched movies until it was time for them to go to bed. after we were in bed the younger one came to us and asked if they could go home. We told him in the morning. I guess he is not used to being away from his mother. 

We have been busy quilting and I even got one finished.

Cindy has also been very busy bottling tomatoes. She never stops!

Thanks for visiting.

It Turned Out To Be A Bad Air Week

 Riverton, Utah       High 94 Low 77

The weather finally had cooled off a little from a high yesterday of 103 to 94 today. It is still hot, but mid- nineties is a little relief.

We did get a little bit of rain today and poor little Penny heard the thunder and got scared.

We have had smoke in the air for the last week. Some days we couldn't see any of the mountains surrounding Salt Lake Valley. There were heath advisories every day. The weather guessers say all the smoke is coming in from Spokane and Northern Idaho, even though a lot of Utah is still on fire. One of the fires had grown to over 100,000 acres with very little containment, and there have been several new fires this past week.

We were planning on having the great grand kids come over, but our grand-daughter called and said she was having complications in her pregnancy, so wouldn't be able to make it. I was planning on getting pictures this time, so sorry, there won't be any pictures.

Cindy has had  a good crop of tomatoes and has been bottling a lot of them. 

For the first time since we've had the quilt machine, I am all caught up with Cindy's quilts. She does have a lot in process though, so the rest will be short. I did have one of my customers bring over two quilts, so I will have something to do. 

Sorry for the short post.

Thanks for visiting.

Bad Air Day

 Riverton, Utah      High 101 Low 75

It is still very hot and the weather guessers are predicting more of the same. What happened to August cooling down?

Today it is so smoky from all the fires that we can only barely see the mountains to the east. The news showed a couple of new fires caused by lightning. They still don't have all the older fires in the state put completely out. At least we don't have any fires in our area.

Cindy's garden is going crazy and the plants are loving the heat. I got the netting on our grapes, and hopefully we won't have birds feasting on the grapes. 

We are getting Tomatoes and some squash, with lots more growing. Cindy says there are two melons growing, but I didn't get pictures of them.

The Zucchini blossom is huge. The plants are going everywhere and you have to watch where you walk because they are all over the sidewalks. 

 

I had made a cage out of fencing for the beans to grow on, and it got so heavy, that the wind knocked it over. I had to add some pipes to help hold it up to hold all the plants.

And I finished another Christmas quilt. It is the same log cabin quilt Cindy has made before, but this time we quilted it in a Christmas bell pattern.

Thanks for visiting.