Trying to Catch Up

This has been another busy week.   When we moved here, I thought I would have more time to work on my fiber arts projects but instead I seem to have less time.  We did accomplish a fair bit last week:  we had some landscaping done although it doesn't look like much right now,  we ordered a wood stove and arranged for a chimney to be installed and we ordered a greenhouse.  Its pretty much impossible to have a garden here without one.  The summers are so short and cool that you really need to extend the season with a greenhouse.

Last week we were at the beach walking the dogs.  At the far end of the beach there is a grassy bluff and a cliff of about 10 feet down to the shoreline.  All of a sudden, we realized we were missing Pearl.  We looked down over the edge of the cliff, and there she was down at the shoreline, rolling in something disgusting.  We were wondering how we were going to get her back up and exploring how we could get down to the shoreline, when up she came over the edge.  I don't know how she got down there or how she got back up but we will be keeping a much closer eye on her in that area.

Before

After

Last week, I also recovered our dining room chairs.  We bought this set on Kijiji and I have wanted to recover them since we bought the set.  The existing fabric was very traditional and I didn't really like the colors.  The move to the new house inspired me to finally get it done. The new fabric looks like waves and I just love it.  Here are the before and after results.

Jinny Beyer MoonGlow

Some time ago I purchased a Jinny Beyer quilt kit called Moonglow.  I really liked the pattern and the colors and I didn't pay attention to the fact that it was designated an advanced kit.  After watching several videos on paper piecing and y-seams and consulting with Judy E., this week I finally got started on it.  My goal is to make one block per week.  One down, 25 more to go.  I am really not happy with the borders on this first block so will likely redo them at the end.  The kit seems to be fairly generous with the fabric amounts provided so I will probably have enough fabric to redo them but won't do that till I am sure.   This first block took me hours to put together but I feel confident that I will get better and faster with the rest of the blocks.
                                               
I have also been working on a whimsical cushion for our new home.  This starfish is appliqued, embellished with decorative stitches and the center part is a piece of an old earring.  I went out of my comfort zone and made piping for the outer edge (thanks Judy E. for showing me how to do this).  I am quite happy with this cushion and am planning some other ones.






We almost got taken in by a scam today.  We put our RV up for sale and advertised it on Kijiji.  This morning I received a text from a man in Yukon saying he wanted to purchase it and he would have it shipped out to him, but he would transfer the money to us via PayPal prior to having the RV picked up.  Well immediately bells started going off in our heads as our experience has been that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.  After several emails back and forth, we suggested that he send the money to our lawyer in trust.  Our lawyer would keep the money in trust until he took possession of the unit.  We received one more email after that in which he stated that he preferred to deal with people directly and that was then end of that.  It would have been so easy to be taken in by this individual.