I have discovered i LIKE pulling nails from old barn wood. ..... HA!! .... who'da thunk it?
I now have 30 boards in the back of my truck....ready to make a trip to the duck on Sunday. this old wood is really thick and heavy so that is all i can carry at once. i put a stick under my mud flap and watched it so i could judge just how far down the truck had sunk. 30 is my limit. i still have to get up the looooong hill going into st. louis and my truck does NOT like hills. i seem to have no power going up hills......i might be in 3rd gear....struggling to retain 45 mph.....but once we reach the top.....woohoo....we do downhill really well. LOL
And i have pulled nails from about 25 more boards that are ready for the next trip. i am reorganizing the trailer that the boards are sitting on. stacking the boards with no nails all nice and pretty on one end. it's the only way to insure i get all the nails from all the boards. i have become an expert nail puller and figured out the tricks of getting out the bent nails and the broken nails.
And i've been making myself work on my #8 UFO challenge for this month. it's a 4 patch posie top that is about 42 blocks and they were not all assembled yet. i think i might have the square in a square part finished up tonight....then have to put 2 borders around each block before assembling them all into a top. it's a lot of black fabric with pink, white and red flowers and ferns and butterflies and birds. and i threw a bit of beige in there, too. it will get done....i'll just be bitching about it all the way. i don't know how to stop myself from making UFO's.....how do you do that? i like the excitement of the start but if another idea pops into my head.....boom.....i'm off on another tangent. i need control. i need a keeper. i need......something.
OK...i'm off to the studio to work on a fun little girl quilt. hope to finish it up tomorrow before i leave town. and still have to mow the grass at the studio, too.
Stay cool
I now have 30 boards in the back of my truck....ready to make a trip to the duck on Sunday. this old wood is really thick and heavy so that is all i can carry at once. i put a stick under my mud flap and watched it so i could judge just how far down the truck had sunk. 30 is my limit. i still have to get up the looooong hill going into st. louis and my truck does NOT like hills. i seem to have no power going up hills......i might be in 3rd gear....struggling to retain 45 mph.....but once we reach the top.....woohoo....we do downhill really well. LOL
And i have pulled nails from about 25 more boards that are ready for the next trip. i am reorganizing the trailer that the boards are sitting on. stacking the boards with no nails all nice and pretty on one end. it's the only way to insure i get all the nails from all the boards. i have become an expert nail puller and figured out the tricks of getting out the bent nails and the broken nails.
And i've been making myself work on my #8 UFO challenge for this month. it's a 4 patch posie top that is about 42 blocks and they were not all assembled yet. i think i might have the square in a square part finished up tonight....then have to put 2 borders around each block before assembling them all into a top. it's a lot of black fabric with pink, white and red flowers and ferns and butterflies and birds. and i threw a bit of beige in there, too. it will get done....i'll just be bitching about it all the way. i don't know how to stop myself from making UFO's.....how do you do that? i like the excitement of the start but if another idea pops into my head.....boom.....i'm off on another tangent. i need control. i need a keeper. i need......something.
OK...i'm off to the studio to work on a fun little girl quilt. hope to finish it up tomorrow before i leave town. and still have to mow the grass at the studio, too.
Stay cool
