Happiness is a Missing Wall Between the Sewing Room and the Long Arm Quilting Studio

You guys, I am SO EXCITED by this dreary photo that my son snapped for me at 2 AM:

The Wall is Gone!  This Is My New Studio in North Carolina!!

That is where there used to be a wall dividing a basement "guest bedroom" from a small "exercise room."  My builders started the renovation this week and they have ripped out the flooring and removed the offending wall.  I know it doesn't look like much at this point, but the photo was taken from the former exercise room where my sewing machine and serger cabinets will be set up, looking through the new opening to the former bedroom where my long arm machine will be set up with my thread racks and ruler racks on the walls, and that black door leads to a nice, big closet that will store all of my batting.  

If that doesn't motivate me to get cracking and get packing, nothing will!  That's all you get from me today because I'm headed out to get more boxes and packing supplies!

I'm linking up with nothing and nobody because this the shortest blog post ever.  

Sarah's Scrappy Double 4-Patch Quilt + Plotting and Scheming My Next Stonefields Blocks

Happy Monday Tuesday morning, Friends!  Well, I’m delighted to report that I’ve finished all the stitch-in-the-ditch quilting on my Deco quilt, but alas — it doesn’t look any different than the last time I showed it to you.  Because, you know, invisible thread…

So I thought I’d show you this lovely double 4-patch quilt that I quilted for Sarah over a year ago, with a Baptist Fan quilting design that you CAN see.

Sarah's Double 4-Patch Quilt with Baptist Fan E2E 

I love Sarah’s carefully planned scrappy palette of fabrics, with such wonderful value contrast that makes the red and blue chain seem to shimmer.  And she had the sweetest fussy cut vintage fabrics like this little one with the children waving flags:

Baptist Fab Quilting Detail

Meanwhile, as we say in the South, I’ve been “FIXING” to start my next Stonefields Quilt blocks.