Sewing room is officially closed...

I am finishing up some last gifts and have to close up the sewing room as it will be used for storage while we are away for 18 months.  A daughter and her friend will be renting two bedrooms during our absence. This requires moving lots of stuff into the sewing room.  

One of our friends is selling a house that his family friend lived in.  She passed away and he brought her quilt frame to me complete with a partially completed quilt, hand quilted.  It is beautiful, but I cannot work on it till we return.

What a gift!!

I started this wall hanging a while ago and wanted to complete it before we left to donate for the Festival of Trees which is held in Boerne to support Hill Country Family Services.  I debated about adding more quilting on it, but my dear sister in law said it was great just the way it was. Yeah! I will donate this week.

Last is a gift that will soon be given, but took h-o-u-r-s to quilt, so I will share it.

The sewing room is officially closed!!!  Now back to packing!!

It is August already???

Getting ready for the mission mostly, but I have done some embroidery in between. Trying to figure out what I need for 18 months is not easy, but in a way it is good because it forces me to sort thru everything.
I have to empty the MBR because the youngest daughter will move in while we are away.
How did I get so much stuff :-)
23 days till departure!!!

This was a job that a friend asked me to do after seeing Suzy's:

I have two wedding receptions and this is one set of towels I monogrammed for a gift:

The next set needs to be done by next week.