Edited: August 20 in the evening. I have been scheduling posts as I come to a place with service. It has been few and far between! I planned on catching up with my blog reading tonight but found I had over 300 blog posts in my feeder – hopeless to try to read them – I have glanced at many quickly and left no comments, just didn’t have time. I have been thinking of all of you though and thank you all for so many nice comments of our trip. If you have left a comment which needed an answer I have tried to do so but sure I missed some here and there – real time – we are now in Montana and have left Wyoming behind us although I have a weeks worth of posts scheduled – hope you enjoy them! I have been able to check my email and respond on my phone but have not had success blogging from my phone. I like to keep blogging almost every day and go through my photos at the same time. With the program I use for blogging “live writer” I can write the post save it, and then when I have service I go back in and schedule it. I have linked my tumblers to Angie’s A Quilters Readers Garden although they are not hexies she said that the tumblers were welcome 🙂 so you might want to go on over and see the hexies that others are working on.
“Tumbling into Insanity” has been moving right along. When I get done with the second set of 10×10 row rectangle I might put it away and reach for one of the other projects I brought along for a change so far though 11 days into the trip I have not gotten bored with it.
It has been growing! I timed myself out of curiosity and each row of 10 tumblers takes me about 15 to 20 minutes to sew because I am looking at scenery at the time – when I am sewing in the camper I’m sure it is a little faster – to sew a row to another row it takes about 10 minutes. So this little amount has taken somewhere between 6-7 hours to do – and all while sitting back and enjoying the scenery or relaxing in the camper.
Oops wasn’t watching what I was doing in the car good enough and messed up not once but twice – the one on the right is upside down – had to rip.
My sewing kit in the car – believe it or not I rarely have to use that clover needle threader, even in the car I can normally thread my needle with out it.
We had a minor problem with our hot water heater/pump and had to run down to Cody from the campground we were at – 1.5 hour drive! to get a small part for it (luckily Mike knows how to fix things like this) – it was a rainy start to the day so that was ok – I checked as soon as I had cell service and there was a quilt shop in the small town – Friends and Company quilt shop (Cody, WY)– the name is on the opposite side of the building as that is where the street is but you actually go around the building to the parking lot. this shop too mainly aimed at machine quilters and machine embroidery – the staff was very friendly! I wanted to see if they had some “thread heaven” to coat the thread I am using to make it easier to use – they did! I picked up that thread I am using at the last quilt shop I visited in South Dakota and I find it twist and frays a little on the end (the shop I bought it at looked like it was mainly aimed at machine quilters and even though I did ask the lady if she had any hand quilting thread – I don’t believe she really knew now if it worked good). How I wish I had tucked my white YLI spool in the basket – I had thought I would use a different color that was more of a blue/white color – but I do believe I am tossing that one – the Mettler cotton with silk finish is not what I like either even if it is a good thread – YLI as soon as I find it – if I find it before I get home. At least for the Lemoyne Star wall hanging I do have some gray YLI.
All of the places out here seem to have a lot of hanging baskets and they are so pretty and big!
(as of this post we have left Yellowstone and are now in Montana – where I’m not sure – we are winging it and will end up in Glacier National Park eventually but watching weather – well put it off until next week as cold weather is moving in there right now and I want it to be warmer than 45 and 30 for a low when I am there so I can enjoy myself!)
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I just checked the sales out while I was on line and saw that some of the quilt kits are priced really low and you get a lot of fabric in them – one thing I do is look to see how much fabric is in the kit – if I don’t like the pattern but I do like the fabric it is a great time to get it. Some of the 50 fat quarter piece boxes are way low also – Free Spirit has one that is marked down to $63.99 – I have ordered these in the past and they are a great collection of fabric pieces.
You’re coming right along with those tumblers, aren’t you? 😉 I have the same scissors for handwork … love them! They weren’t cheap, but they were worth the $. Glad your hubby was able to fix your hot water heater/pump.
Wow that would be quite cold to get used to ! better make those socks asap, lol
I got out the sock loom to take a look and can’t figure it out – if any of you knit why don’t you make me a pair LOL – I would love to do a trade of some kind — any knitters – fabric for a pair of wool knitted socks 🙂
Boy, you’re hiking right along with the tumblers. And you’re fast too — knowing how long it takes me to piece the trip around the world, there’s no way I could whip those rows together in 10 minutes with matching seams up and everything — well done!
When I lived in Wisconsin my baskets would get big like that. The cooler weather makes it a whole lot easier to grow baskets. Down here in Arkansas you would have to water every couple of hours. LOL Your making great progress on your tumblers! I knit socks, but have no idea how to use a loom like that, sorry your on your own.
Hope you find a taker to make those socks for ya! More beautiful baskets at this stop too I see… love your tumblers and how you time yourself and play with numbers like that >>> very cute 🙂 Thanks for sharing such a great trip with all of us and don’t worry if you miss an email or blog post here or there… you can catch up when you are home. Enjoy every minute.. glad you changed your Glacier trip to a warmer week! lol Kathi
You certainly are on an exploring adventure. I like your neat and tidy sewing tote. Definitely an Out West quilt shop in Cody.
Some people like a Superior Thread product called “The Bottom Line”. It is a 60 wt. and comes in a lot of colours. I have not used it but I think I might give it a try for hand piecing.
http://www.superiorthreads.com/product/brand/bottom-line/
I use the YLI myself and love it. Sure like your tumblers.