Whole Cloth quilting - our first!

Today was a first.  Whole cloth quilting or quilting sections at a time???  That is the way this happened.  Dee and Al brought over white fabric for the back, black for the front and variegated thread to quilt with.  She had planned the quilt and brought it on a USB stick.  Unfortunately, it was too big for the fabric.  So, we started from scratch.  Hence this design was the beginning, smack in the middle of the fabric.

Then the rest were added...

Up close - lining up the designs using pounce pads and special templates.

Black side 

Great smiles after successfully completing the whole thing in one day!

One more thing we learned!  What a great day!

Summer Solstice 2010 and all is rolling along!

First day of summer and we are really moving along.  New sign in the window makes it really feel like we are in business already!

Don't mind the strange lady in the window reflection - she is just my photographer!

You would think they wouldn't let us take so many pictures of an empty building!

Check out the wall being installed!  We really will have a store and not be part of the storage for the Front Range Village christmas decorations.

Front Range Village moved the false pillar between the windows to line up with where the wall will be on the inside of the building.  See that guy?  That was the short ladder they use.....The guy putting the wall had even a taller ladder!

Pat, Al and I met with the builder and the Architects today.  That was fun.  I am still bummed we have to install a water faucet even though we have a kitchen.....

Look carefully across the road and you can see HP/Avago (Avago is where Pat works.)  Hi Honey!


We are getting product delivered to the house already.  Hope they hurry up and get the construction done!  We need a store front!

Just a few of the Animal collection

Dee and I have been working on some wonderful lap-quilts and wall-hangings for the store using animal fabrics.  Believe it or not, I had purchased a number of these in California about a year ago and she just found some online - the same ones!  I will be ordering them for the store and thought you might enjoy them!


This is Dee's Panda quilt - her very own design.  It is even more stunning in person!

This is my version of kitty love!  Okay - they are Jaguars, but I still love them!

Home, Home on the Range!

We have a home finally! Pat and I signed the lease today and The Sewing Circle finally has a storefront! The process was far more lengthy than either of us would have thought! Now is the time to start working on the construction contract.....Hoping that the person we are working with will be the right one for us, we have a walk-through on Monday and hopefully we can get started on construction soon. We are still scheduled for opening to the public around Aug 16th.

This is the front of "The Sewing Circle". It has two doors and will have awnings over the doorways. The sign will go above the awnings

We have been working hard at developing the Logo signage for the front of the building and choosing the color of our awning (like the cleaners have above their door.) We should have that all worked out by next week.


From the road facing the side of SuperTarget (Ziegler), this is the view of the store. It will look very different with a sign and awnings above the doors..

Family Comes to Celebrate Nick's Graduation!

Last week, my parents Carol & Duane were here from Oregon, as well as my sister-in-law Sheila, my brother Michael and his daughter Kayla.  All were here to celebrate Nicks graduation.  The graduation was a success (Nick was very tickled with all his guests from out of town and within.)

Dad was a real trooper.  Driving all the way from Oregon to Colorado just to see the Grandson graduate and then drive back.  More than a week away from home and most of it on the road - yet, he is still smiling! Way to go Dad!  He even stopped in Wyoming to meet and shake the hand of the Wyoming Governor, another Freudenthal!

Mom, on the other hand, stitched her way here, stitched while she was here, and stitched her way back to Oregon.  I don't think I saw her often without something in her hand to work on.  

We quilted (or tried to at least) two quilts on Bella.  Mom even ran some of the basting stitches.  

This was a special quilt mom made at a retreat.  However, mom wasn't satisfied, so she made a second one, different colors, which she left for me to quilt.  In addition, she had the brown bear quilt for us to quilt.  That was a challenge, as I had not yet learned how to stitch in the ditch yet.  So, on the fly, we learned......She was a good sport letting me learn.....

Mom shopping the "almost" store.....I can't remember what the count was, but 1 yard cuts of wonderful fabrics to play with!  She is already making cool things we might get to show off in the store! Wait till you all see her potholders!!

Don't let her fool you, she was not the first to get her fabric cuts.....we leave that to Linda Lilly, who has been madly making fun samples for the store.  Here she is shopping, and then cutting.....

Go Linda!!!!!