Kitchen Complete!

Thanks to everyone for their encouraging comments about our kitchen-in-progress post a few weeks ago. I’m happy to say ~ the remodel is done!

Before we moved everything back in I staged a few photos to make it look like they do in magazines.

The under cabinet lighting is wonderful, and I absolutely love the backsplash tile. Mike says he does too! It really sparkles when the sun shines in (and we have 1 1/2 boxes leftover – let me know if you’d like some for yourself 😊).

 Once the photos were taken I put all the things necessary to make it a convenient working kitchen back in place ~ and my chicken collection came back to roost above the cabinets.

I baked cookies in the new oven the first day it was moved in, and now we can get back to normal… except the guys came the next day to break out the old tile in the front and back halls.

As you can tell from the dining room ~ we’re not quite back to normal yet 🤣.

But I’m not complaining. We’re so blessed to be able to get this done!

Originally that was going to be the end of this week’s post, but I usually like to include something quilty each week. Trey was the inspiration for this quilty addition. He came over to hang out with us on Wednesday. When he arrived I asked him what he wanted to do and he asked if he could sew something. WooHoo! While heading down to the studio he asked me how I stitched the cherries on Sommer’s jeans.

I showed him the card with all the stitches on my Janome, and he was enthralled. He asked if he could stitch on a piece of black fabric so he could put it on a sweatshirt. Of course I said yes. He was a natural at threading the machine.

As he practiced that it hit me… rather than stitching lines of decorative stitches, perhaps I should show him how to stitch circles like the students did in my Specialty Stitch Spectacular class in Madison last September.

He loved the idea and quickly chose a blue variegated thread for his first circle. We taped a thumbtack in place, and he was off (for a short tutorial on this technique click here). It’s such a great technique because the machine does all the work.

After the first circle was done we moved the tack, he chose a new design and thread, and circles 2, 3 and 4 were added. Once completed I showed him how to use the monogram feature to add his name. He was very happy with the results!

What joy! Now to find a sweatshirt!

PS he told me his favorite circle was the spools of thread. That’s my boy!