Textured Tiles

This winter I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to travel to Florida for teaching and quilting fun. I’ve also been on two great retreats. One at Tall Pines with my Fabric-ator friends, and the other at Cattail with the Sisters of the Cloth. While on the Cattail retreat I talked the ladies into taking a road trip to Baraboo to visit Ardyth’s Sew and Vac (so I could pick up my new sewing machine tote 😊)

and then have lunch at Jen’s Alpine Cafe across the street. It was lovely!

Both stops were great ~ and there were some other fun shops in Baraboo as well. I’m so grateful for all these winter adventures with friends.

During this time I left Mike with a house that was anything but normal. As I mentioned in January, we had our kitchen torn out,

and almost all the hardwood floors on the main level refinished (meaning all the furniture was moved out 🤪).

The floors were finished in January, and then the cabinets were delayed. They finally were delivered the Tuesday after my last retreat ~ and John got to work.

He had them in by Friday, and we’re very pleased!

That same day we had the measuring done for the countertops, and that will only take 2 to 3 weeks (UGH!). In the meantime we’re looking at tile and light fixtures. So many decisions.

And what does this have to do with quilting??? Well, after trips to three different tile stores there was nothing I liked enough to use for the backsplash. The image at the top of this post is the old subway tile that was torn out (and very poorly done). Maybe we’d have to go simple like that again. We tried one more store and ~ I FOUND THE ONE!!! Wait until you see it! With the yellow walls and sage cabinets I didn’t want to add any more color (I know neutral is in, but I love color so much that I had to have sage cabinets ~ even if they’re not trendy 😊). The countertops will be white with a slight marbling in shades of gray and beige.

Drum roll please…

Do you see tone-on-tone texture? I’m leaning towards the rectangles. The entire backsplash will be a mix of all the different textures ~ sort of like a patchwork quilt!!! Here’s a close up:

I think it will quietly say “a quilter lives here”. And what about a grout with a light sage green tint to it? I’m so excited. Decision made ~ and Mike likes it too. So now we wait.