Progress has been made.

Well it's been a while since I last made an entry. I've been busy and lazy, no access to my laptop and lazy. Our office is moving next month. Our lease runs out the end of June and we had to find a new place. Our new place is a 45000 sq ft warehouse with a small office. We have had to build several offices for the few of us who are moving in, not suppose to be done before the 10Th. Our HR, Clinical, Housing, Development and Volunteer Coordinator are all at other of our locations. there just wasn't enough offices for us all yet.

Anyway I've had my sisters quilt top finished for a while now but it's so big it would have taken me forever to pin it for quilting. We have two 6' tables at work that would be perfect so I figured I needed to get it pinned before they started moving the excess furniture. So I took the 20Th off to put the back together, pick up the batting and press it one more time...plus get all the pins & clamps ready. So last Saturday I was up, showered and in at work by a little before 9.

I managed to get the back down and clamped, stood back and said "holy s--t". There was no way I was going to get this pinned in one day by myself so I called home to see about Ben bringing Ethan down. He had said he'd help but thought I'd do it alone.. By the time he gets there I've got the top all clamped and have started to pin.

Here's an up close shot of one block with all it's pins. This was one of 30 blocks, 29 more to go plus the border. We worked on the top until about 1:30, we'd already turned it for the 3rd time and decided that the last 4 blocks could wait for home. So we finished pinning the last set and were on our way home by about 2:30/2:45. it was a long day.



I use the same big black clamps for my quilts as we use at work. they work pretty good. The other two boxes were full of safety pins when I started. as you can see one box empty and the other pretty darn close. I still need to set my table up and pin the last four blocks and I think I'll have to dig into my 3rd box to have enough.


the move date for the admin office is the 21st. They are going to move our office first so they can move the phones at the same time. Then Tony and I can answer the phones the rest of the day while they are moving everyone else. I'm taking the next week off, Wed and coming back to work the next Wed. Just in time to finish to do the end of month, end of quarter and end of year.. Our Audit starts the beginning of July.

Nothing planned for the mini vacation but I'm hoping to do a lot of machine quilting on my sisters quilt. I've also got my Moose pined and started the machine quilting on it too...so I should have plenty to do.

enjoy the Memorial day weekend..