“THE MOVE” is behind us! Although we had 2 inches of fresh snow on the road yesterday morning, I counted twenty six people ready to help! By 2 o’clock we were putting the finishing touches on the machine quilters’ room and the hand quilters had their quilt frames re-assembled and all the boxes in their new room. All this was made possible by many non-quilters helping out!
Do you call the husbands of quilters volunteers? Did they have a choice? Not sure, but Tom, Dave, Larry, Dan, and John were great! My husband took these photos–so of course I don’t have him or several of the others.
Several Church friends joined us out of the goodness of their friendship hearts. And again, I do not have photos of all those wonderful non-quilters who helped.
And of course, hot coffee, cookies and zucchini bread was available for breaks. Heavy lifting and walking up and down stairs with shelving, long tables, metal cabinets, quilt frames, tubs of fabric and sewing machines required pizza at noon to renew our strength. Remember these photos from the last post? This is just a portion of the fabric, notions, books and equipment we had to move.
One huge task we were dreading was moving the 78″ x 78″ design wall that had been fastened to sheetrock, to fastening it securely on plaster. But thanks to QHs (that’s quilter husband) and Church maintenance staff, it is up ready to be used. The plaster walls were also a bit challenging for the white board (necessary for planning parties), quilt hangers, etc.
At first it seemed a bit over-whelming!
But slowly, machines were placed in their assigned tables. Our personal chairs were placed by our machines.
Another QH, a retired engineer, solved the puzzle of four double outlets for a dozen machines, three irons, seven lamps and a coffee pot.
Our fabric stash was returned to the shelves–we have more on book cases, in tubs under the cutting table and elsewhere. This photo helps to explain our “make a quilt for the sale from our stash” challenge!
The cabinets were filled with items already completed for the Quilts Etc Sale in October. See all the micro-wave bowls on the top shelf?
We hung two bright quilts on our walls as an antidote to the dreary February weather Kansas is experiencing. The coffee cups are up next to the “treat” cabinet and coffee pot. A few command hooks for our wall hangings and it will be home!
This was my third quilt room move at Church! But because I am lucky enough to be a part of this community of women that quilt together on Wednesday, I would do it again just to a part of the Quilters at First.
So ready or not, FUMC, we will be quilting and sewing as well as laughing, comforting, planning, sharing treats, admiring finished projects, giving advice and “visiting” on the third floor of B Building every Wednesday.
Quilts, Etc. 