Decisions, decisions.
After a week and a half of no bath (no shower- but we didn't have one anyway) we have tiles, and a bath- with no taps- no shower, and not even a hole in the bath for taps, yet.
So, you could say I'm a little "ripe" now, but fortunately I have a lovely friend who has given me a key to her house with the express instruction to go and de-stinkify whenever I want, yay! The bathroom will be finished tomorrow, well, the bath SHOULD have taps and the shower should be fitted, and I can't wait to go and get clean whenever I so desire. You don't miss it until you don't have it, and oh how I miss it!
So, inbetween bossing around workmen, making decisions about stuff I never knew I needed to care about (the colour of grout!), sealing tiles- let me give you a little warning about Travertine or any real stone tile, they're high maintenance, sealing before fitting, special cleaning and then regular re-sealing, snore- I have finally managed to get in a little more sewing.
The quilt top of my Craftsy BOM 2012 is now all sashed and ready to be basted. After months of never quite getting round to making the final 4 blocks, I read this post by the fab Lucy and had an epiphany. Who is to say I need to finish those last 4 blocks, so what, I have 16 blocks which is more than big enough for me to make a sofa quilt, for MYSELF, so I sewed it together, and so far, the quilt police haven't come to arrest me. I'm thinking, sometimes, you've just got to give yourself a break. :o)
It's not perfect, some of the points are lost, it's not 100%, but I learned a lot making it last year, and soon (hopefully) I will have a quilt of my very own, for all of the sofa surfing I do.
Alongside this, I have been working on the binding for my Hexy quilt, busy busy, and I'm about a quarter of the way round joining it. The it needs to be sewn down and quilted to hold the edge layers together, this is progress, real progress. :o)
Right, back to my sewing, can't stay here chatting
Ange :o)
Great quilt! Looks perfect to me...
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ReplyDeleteYeah for you making your own quilt with the blocks you've done!! Awesome!
The tiles look beautiful so that's a good start!!
glad I can't smell you ;)
Grout comes in 'colours'?! WTF?!
ReplyDeleteRoll on the weekend, I can whiff you from here xxx
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad I was born into a place and time with abundant showers! Your quilt looks great -- love the high contrast.
ReplyDeleteA very striking quilt top in the black and white! And a lovely bathroom in progress, you won't be out of that bath for a long time once it's finished, I can tell ;-)!
ReplyDeleteIsn't it nice to release yourself to finish the quilt with 16 blocks! Wallow in that bath as soon as you can. Di x
ReplyDeleteLove your quilt. I want to take a few B&W of mine now :) I'm with Katy - colors of grout uhhhh really!
ReplyDeleteugh! home remodels are such a pain- at least the results are usually worth it! love your quilt! Looks like the perfect sofa size to me!
ReplyDelete:) Kelly @ My Quilt Infatuation
Ha ha! Having done the bathroom thing 6 months ago I know all about grout colours and silicone! Never mind the inconvenience of not being able to hop in the shower every morning. Not long now though and you'll both (bathroom and you) be daisy fresh!
ReplyDeleteSomething for yourself1 Great. ANd I love the monochrome look
ReplyDeleteI had no idea grout came in different colours until we had our bathroom redone a couple of years ago. Go figure!
ReplyDeleteHe he, poor you, I am feeling your pain! We're just about to have our shower ripped out and started again after i came home a couple of weeks ago to find a puddle on my leather chair in the lounge. After variously berating my toddler, my cat then the dog to no avail i realised that the ceiling above had also gone brown, agghhhh leaky shower disaster! It turns out it had been leaking for years but had been patched up before we bought the house. boo hoo. Your new bathroom looks like it will be spa-tastic though! enjoy!
ReplyDeleteI think it's great that you've nearly finished it, rules are for breaking. I'm hoping you at least have a toilet....
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised you've got anything done - I don't really wake up unless I've had a shower!!! Love your quilt - I wonder if I'll be making a similar decision about my Skill Builder BOM in a little while!!!! x
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain - back in 2007 our whole city had no water for 10 days after a flood. No baths, showers, washing machine, dishwasher, flushing toilet! Yeuk! I know most of the world don't have these things all the time, but telling yourself that doesn't help.
ReplyDeleteOn another note the quilt is lovely and I suspect the quilt police would be fine with it!
I can smell you from here. Love that quilt top
ReplyDeleteI like the polka dot that you used for the sashing and border on the b&w quilt. I'm making a b&w quilt and I just think I am going to borrow your idea! lol!
ReplyDelete"Eeee theres nowt like the right colour of grout!!!" it has to be right or it'd drive you bonkers!! Love the quilt, tell the quilt police to take a hike if they dare come knocking! :-)) x
ReplyDeleteYour bathroom seems to be shaping up nicely. Great decision to just go for it with your lovely monochrome quilt. Can't wait to see it on your sofa!
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain, we had our bathroom completely ripped out and re-done at the beginning of the year. New floor, walls, ceiling and then all the fixtures and fittings descisions - we have gone for black floor and shower enclosure tiles, white walls, grey grout! SOOO worth it in the end! Looking forward to seeing some pics when it's done :o)
ReplyDeleteI loved the 2012 Craftsy QAL! My first year of quilting and I learned so much! I was at the computer the first of each month waiting for the next block to be released! I know, pathetic! Congrats for your finish!
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