PAISLEY CITY SAMPLER SOLD

 My Paisley City Sampler, a quilt made from the blocks in Tula Pink's City Sampler book, sold on Etsy today.  It will be living in Florida soon.

Good-bye and good luck, I hope you are well loved.

BIG CiTY QUILT DONE

The big Paisley City Sampler quilt is completely done!

I really don't like working on quilts this big and it's only 90" by 90".

Because of this, I put it off for a few days, but today I finally got to it.

I cut the excess off, made the binding, sewed it down, top-stitched it over and called it done.

And put it away.

WAVY PANTO

I started a Modern Wave panto on my City Sampler quilt.

ON THE WALL

I put my City Sampler blocks, from #100days100blocks2018 on Instagram, up on my design wall.

Since they are in order, I guess I'll have to sew them together.

CITY SAMPLER BLOCKS DONE

Hallelujuah, hallelujuah!!  I finished with making the City Sampler Blocks today!  And I did it while listening to a podcast, "Just Wanna Quilt" hosted by Dr. Elizabeth Townsend Gard, who was interviewing Tula Pink and Mary Fons.  It was very interesting.  I finished up about the same time the podcast did.

Check that one off the To-Do List.

I'm still posting them to Instagram [@terrypeart] everyday.  We are on number 54 today.  So, I can't do anything with them until the contest is over, but...

I can't wait to get them all up on the wall and decide on the background fabric.  White or grey?

GETTING CLOSE TO END

I worked on machine quilting Pub Path, getting the top border on and rolling on.  My lower back was aching so I spent the afternoon working on my few remaining City Sampler blocks.

SMOKEY DAY

It is so smokey because of wind blowing into Seattle coming  from all the wildfires around the region that there's an 'unhealthy air quality' warning and we are all advised to stay inside.  So I did.

I didn't go for my morning walk and went up to the studio to work on the City Sampler blocks.

I was quite productive.  Hailey worked on drawing horses again.

SPACE NEEDLE

Darrell's 10 year old granddaughter Hailey is spending a few days with us.  

We went to breakfast at Lowell's in the Pike Place Market and then on to the Space Needle.  They have just remodeled it putting new glass floors on the floor that revolves, where the restaurant once resided.  They have also removed the solid railings from the Observation Deck and put in floor to ceiling glass walls that tilt out at the top.  I knew I wouldn't walk out onto the glass floors, but I was surprised at how disconcerting it all was to me.  My legs ached the whole time we were up there.  I clung to the inner walls and didn't look straight down.  

The sun was bright red this morning because of all the wildfire smoke.

We found a great place to park on the street.

These glass benches lean so you can lean back on the glass if you're brave enough.

I hung my camera over the stair railing that winds around the glass 'Occulus' which looks straight down to the ground.

Darrell was brave enough to venture out onto the glass floor.

The views would have been excellent, but for the smokey haze.

Hailey was brave too.

The glass at the bottom of the 'Occulus' stairs.

Goodbye Space Needle, I probably won't be visiting you again, sadly.

After that adventure, we headed to the waterfront, where we found another great parking spot on the street.  We walked down to Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, of course.  Then it was on to the new ride, "Wings Over Washington".  That was fun!  They won't let you take pictures, but here are some of the 'characters' that great you on the way in.

After lunch at Uncle Eddie's in South Park, we came home and I went up to the studio to work on my City Sampler blocks.

 Hailey was busy drawing horses - she loves horses.

Jax was busy napping.

And I sewed on...