Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I hope those of you celebrating had a wonderful weekend. I had a lovely dinner of pizza with friends on Thanksgiving Day. Not very traditional but it was a lot less work and clean up involved tossing a few boxes, which left me loads of time to work in my studio.
And to tackle a project that was long over due.
When I originally set up my studio 12 years ago I placed my sewing table here:

because I wanted to be able to look out the window and see this:

but the kids are older and I don’t have to worry if they might fall and hurt themselves. Now I know for sure they will do something crazy and I don’t want to see it.
So I moved my sewing table here:

and now when I look out the window, which is now directly in front of me, I see this:

A tree! A big tree! On the high plains in Colorado! Actually this is the same big tree that became a much smaller tree last year in an early snowstorm, which, of course, I blogged about.
I originally thought this little studio rearrangement would take me 1 hour tops. Of course it turned out to be way more work than I had anticipated. My sewing table is a large 4′x8′ sheet of melamine covered particle board with a custom cutout for my sewing machine so the bed of the sewing machine sits flush with the table top. This sheet of particle board weighs somewhere around a bazillion pounds. It’s laid across small drawer units, so moving this thing is not an easy task for 1 person. Just imagine a lot of things falling over and some unhappy words and you get the idea.
Although when moving my thread racks over I only dumped a handful of spools on the floor so I was pretty proud of myself. But it took forever to get them hung straight. There are now a zillion holes in the wall to achieve this. I probably should have gone upstairs and gotten my level but that seemed like a bit of overkill for a thread rack.
And of course the procrastination opportunities for type of project are immense. Sorting through drawers (I lost the use of one of the dressers with the table now in the corner), cleaning off the design wall that was infront of the sewing table. The ribbons from the traditional quilt shows dated 10 years back had to go.
So I pulled out my stack of about 500 pictures I took while backpacking in the Grand Canyon in 2002 and created this collage with some of my favorites:

But even with these distractions I still managed to put in about 40 hours in the studio this week. So pretty good. I designed a new quilt this weekend (Structures #65), finished quilting Structures #54 and started quilting Structures #37 - a quilt top from 2004 (it is laying on the sewing table in a mound in the photo above).
So over all I’d say I had a great holiday - I hope yours was wonderful also.
I’ll post the last dye post soon.