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The 2nd Almost Annual Quilter's Garage Sale is next weekend! When it comes to quilting, it is certainly true that one person's "no longer interested" is another person's "new favorite thing!" Come and see what Ola, Mary and I are no longer interested in! My garage is starting to bulge as the three of us quilting squirrels are beginning to stash our discarded nuts in there, getting ready for the sale.  ITEMS PRICED TO MOVE! WHEN:  Friday & Saturday, June 5 & 6 TIME:  9:00 AM to 4:00 PM each day PLACE:  7122 Lochmoor Dr, Ypsilanti, MI, 48197 As I will be moving, it will also be the beginning of a moving sale which will continue to the NEXT Friday and Saturday when our whole subdivision will be having a sale. There most likely be no quilty stuff left the second weekend, if it all goes like it did the last time we did this! We will have: quilting fabric quilting scraps quilting books and patterns quilt kits quilt tops (just add quilting!) quilt han...

As we prepare for our move and new home, Weasley needs to do the same thing...but, sadly, not with us. We will be caretakers of our new home and family will be there often...some of my family have very bad cat allergies, so we will not be able to have an indoor pet.  He has no front claws, so becoming an outdoor kitty is out of the question. (Here he is, hogging the heat vent under the kitchen sink...).  We are very sad about this, but there is nothing we can do about it. Losing him will be one of the hardest things about our move. (He is a big supporter of napping...anywhere or on anyone...)  He does not like car rides, so the 12-hour trip south would be more than he can take. So, if anyone out there within an hour or so of Ypsilanti, Michigan would like a constant quilting companion, do I have the cat for you! He will be nine years old on July 4th (he is a Yankee-Doodle-Dandy!). He's only ever been around one other cat...only briefly.  We invited a kitty in (who us...

It's funny...when the POD was delivered to me empty, I looked at it and thought that it wasn't very big and I would have it filled in no time. Ha!  More than a week later, off it went this morning. The last two days have been a real scramble!  I didn't have enough stuff boxed and ready to fill the POD and I definitely wanted to get my money's worth.   So I was doing the 'Curly Shuffle' the last 48 hours, sorting out garage sale stuff into piles and filling boxes as fast as I could. Wow!  I finished at 2:45 AM last night!  The house and quilt cave are a complete shambles, but it is done! I decided to take the first 5 heavy duty, plastic shelving units I ever bought.  I know I will need shelving in the new cave.  It's too expensive to move more of the shelves. I turned them on their sides and tied them together so they wouldn't shift (one stack is 3 high, one is two high).  The shelves act as support for little protected pockets filled with the fami...

The "pre-move" has started in the Quilt Cave.  The basement formerly full of fun and fabric has turned into the pit of Hell...all that careful sorting and storage has to come apart, come up stairs (ugh), and get carefully packed in this 8'x16'x8' POD. Yes, it all has to come up the 'stairs of death,' (or 'death valley" as I have named the stairwell).  I am definitely getting my heart rate up to the target zone this week...I wish that I had counted all the trips thus far.   Steve has been in Philadelphia following his Mom's passing, so it has been a lonely experience.  Thank goodness for friends with strong, good-looking young sons to help with the really heavy stuff (thanks, Mitch!!). We have an unfinished basement, and after slowly lining the walls with Home Depot plastic shelving over the past 20 years and placing inexpensive rug remnants on the floor, the Quilt Cave has evolved into my favorite, cozy place to be, despite the lack of posh am...