The World's Longest Ongoing Quilt Project

Okay, here's the deal.  I started this painstakingly intricate child sized quilt top seventeen years ago.  No kidding.  I can't believe I'm telling it but...there you have it. 

It's been in my shed.  I'm not kidding about that either.  I held my breath when I opened the box it was in, hoping it was still in one piece.  I designed the paper doll and all her clothes on notebook paper and had stored the sketches with the quilt top.  Even though it had been years everything was fine.  I know, I can hardly believe it myself.

 

  

I have to wonder why I stopped working on it.  I really don't remember.  I had put so much time into it -- planning every detail, hand dying some of the fabrics, making those tiny (microscopic) buttons.

 

I'd written a little poem I wanted to embroidery in that blank space I have left to fill.  I'm no writer (you know) but it was sort of cute...

Little girl with paper friends,

Quietly in a corner pretends.

Tales of childhood dreams are told,

Cutting out memories as they unfold.

So, here's the plan.  I'm posting about my half finished quilt and hopefully you'll leave sweet comments (because you guys always leave the best comments) and I'll feel encouraged to finish it.   

The world's longest ongoing quilt project.  I feel better already. 

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New Year's To-Do List

I have played around with Christmas stuff for weeks, finishing up just in time to take it all down again. It's time to move on.  Creating a list of things I want to get done before I die seems like a logical first step.  Not calling it a "resolution" seems like a good idea, too.  Putting it out there (I'm adding it to my side bar) for all to see?  Maybe not.  Just try not to judge my progress too harshly.  I won't. 

This post is not really about New Year's resolutions, which, for me anyway, are way too easy to break.  It's just a little (random) to-do list.  Because, I've seriously got things to do.

• Finish powder room addition
• Clear out my bathroom sink drain
• Finish my sewing armoire
• Find storage space for fabric
• Re-pillow the living room sofa
• Paint Betty's painting
• Make new dust ruffles for twin beds
• Slipcover nasty wingback chair in dining room
• Recover dining room chair bottoms
• Clean bathroom vent
• Reevaluate and tweak TV and hall walls
• Start couponing
• Clear off carport and KEEP it clear
• Build dog kennel stand
• Shed a few pounds
• Cull my furniture collection
• Stain back steps
• Install backdoor screen door
• Acid stain carport
• Plant spring garden
• Build gate to backyard to trap two bad Yorkies
• Build or purchase a coat rack (for living room or outside back door)
• Organize and prioritize my inspiration folder
  

Relax, don't un-follow me yet -- I promise I won't be taking pictures and posting about everything on the list.

The biggest project on the list?  We're carving a powder room out of a tiny 3'x8' space that was a stairway to the attic in the kitchen.  The stairs were never built back after a fire in 1968 and the awkward space (to put it kindly) was incorporated into the kitchen, which never really worked.

During the kitchen reno we just walled it up --  along with a new toilet, a couple of rolls of insulation, a box of tile and that dustpan I looked high and low for.  We recently opened it up from the hall side, adding double doors I found at my local Restore for $20.

There are issues with the doors (as you could see if I could find my camera cord) but I'm determined to make them work.  I'm thinking I'll remove the top panels and replace them with glass.   

Here are a few pictures from my bathroom idea folder....

House of Smith's

Addicted 2 Decorating

I hate I can't credit all of these pictures.  I collected most of them before I was blogging. 

Of course, my space is about the size of a bathtub but I hope to make it beautiful.  

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