This is the latest quilt I did. It is a fall quilt for the lodge's futon. It was fun and kept me busy for several days.
Today is Friday, September 17, 2010. I finished cleaning Alder today. The people who will be staying in the cabin will be here for a month so I wanted everything to look great.
We moved our bedroom television in there and I finally found the remote, with John's help. Now they will be able to play their DVD's and not have to keep getting up to adjust the TV, etc.
I cleaned the cabin all by myself, which I enjoy, as I have said before. This time I found a bag of candy bars behind a dresser and a bunch of popcorn under the kitchen stove. Like I said, its a good thing I am so thorough. The mice aren't too happy with me though, I'm sure.
In preparation of the quilt retreat that is going to happen at the resort on 9/25, 9/26, I did a lot of work in the basement. We have a lot of miscellaneous stuff stored down there. I took some apple wood slabs to a shed, started a pile of resale shop stuff and cleaned off a large table. Then I started taking things down to the basement from the lodge. In no time the table in the basement was full. I had been working on the basement for many weeks in preparation for this retreat.
Initially I thought that we would be receiving a huge shipment of sewing tables. That never worked out because the manufacturer is "getting out of the business". So the quilt shop that is co-sponsoring the event had to scramble to get tables. She bought some folding ones made just for sewing. She will be bringing them next Thursday when she arrives.
I made a bunch of telephone calls to confirm movers were coming tomorrow. We needed some sofa sleepers moved around and stuff taken out of the lodge. So far it looks like we will have 2 guys to help. Whoo Hooo!
Earlier in the day some customers came into the lodge and said that they were probably going to leave because of the rain. John talked them into going on a waterfall exploration instead. One of their group didn't like the idea and wanted to go home but the majority ruled and off they went. John had spent about a half hour explaining all the waterfall options within an hour's drive. There are 3 waterfalls within 25 miles, and much, much more a few more miles than that. They came back later in the evening and said that they had a great time. We saved them from having another miserable rainy day, they had fun, and we got another night's income, which is always good. They said the waterfalls were beautiful.
Later in the afternoon, after I had finished cleaning Alder, I put on a DVD of a movie I rented from the library. John and I sat and relaxed for a little while and enjoyed it. Then we went back to work.
John worked on a lot of stuff during the day. He had to fix some electrical problem and he worked on the boats.
I did some paperwork, made more telephone calls and prepared the lodge for tomorrow's movers.
Later in the evening I started feeling very, very disappointed about the lack of participants in the quilt retreat. We had been hoping for much more and I was sort of angry. I had done so much work on this: mailed out fliers to all the fabric shops in Milwaukee-Chicago-Madison areas; e-mailed all the quilt guilds in those areas; met with the local fabric shop owners in person to promote our event; posted the retreat on all the free web sites that I could; dropped off fliers at our quilt guild meetings twice and posted a bunch of times on our Facebook page, etc. We have 7 people signed up. So to make myself feel better, I sat down at my sewing machine. There I was surrounded by fabric, my sewing machine, my beautiful oak sewing desk and I suddenly felt better. I then remembered why I had thought about doing a retreat to begin with - my love of sewing quilts. So I started looking through my fabric and the next thing I knew it was 11:45 p.m. No wonder my eyes were so tired.
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