The piano room is the only room in the house that has closed doors. And if you’re a musical person you know there’s always lots of paper music – everywhere.
Got a call this morning from the appliance store who wondered how I liked my new stove. I was embarrassed to say I hadn’t even used it yet which now was a really good thing because they brought me the wrong stove. I had told Rick the stove I bought had an air fryer option in the oven but for the life of me I couldn’t figure out where the control was and the book only told me how to install the stove, not how to operate it. I just figured I forgot which stove had what. Sigh. So here’s how the stove is going to look until next Monday.
Are you caught up with our birthday girls? I hope so because I have another lovely gal to introduce you to in my next post. Her birthday is September 28 as well so get ready.
Thanks for these photos – what a great quilt show!
Once again there are a lot of beautiful quilts. There have been many beautiful ones lately.
Thanks for posting your piano pictures. I noticed that you use a lot of sticky tabs to mark the music. I do also and you have dated the music. I can’t remember what I played last Sunday. Those dates are helpful. I also have a shelf with music but I found that I needed one beside the piano. Your stool serves that purpose.
Bad news or good news from here. I will consider it good news. I have shoulder replacement scheduled for November. No major problems until this summer but now I can’t do anything without my shoulder hurting. I have noticed that my body is compensating by holding my elbow to my body, even when I am playing the piano. Looking forward to a good shoulder but that will take time.
Thanks again for writing the blog.
Judy – 2 women from my church have had shoulder replacements and got along great – they’re both thankful the pain is gone.
Thank you and everyone who sent photos so we had the pleasure of admiring the beautiful quilts this morning. Can’t think of a better way to start the day!
Did the appliance company say how they figured out you had the wrong stove? I’m thinking whoever got yours was puzzled by the air fryer feature so that’s what clued them into the problem. I think it is terrible that you don’t get manuals with appliances anymore, you need to go on-line to download them. For the price you pay for anything these days it wouldn’t hurt if they sent you a small booklet with your purchase. I for one need a manual to hand my husband when we get a bug in something we purchased years ago!
Blessings everyone!
I love today’s quilt show. Hopefully, I will have one to photograph soon.
Hank asleep with his ball is just too cute!
Thanks, Mary/Take Care 🥰
this is a wonderful quilt show, all so beautiful
I love your home, it looks so comfortable and welcoming
The quilt show is wonderful! Thank you!
I haven’t read for several days stop much going on.
Glad that you’re following directions for healing Mary. It’s hard to be cautious when you’re normally so active.
And yes I also love your piano room. Welcoming and bright.
Mary, your piano room is fabulous! Love your “30 Stars”quilt displayed above the organ. Was that the original one you made for the magazine?
Thank you to all who shared pictures of your quilts and to Mary for posting them. They are lovely!
Vicki – yes, that 30 Stars is the original. I think that was the most exciting thing that ever happened in my life. 😊
Good morning to everyone . Thank you for sending pictures of your quilts. I’m amazed as usual. Funny about the stove mixup. Couldn’t find the air fryer! That probably would made me feel stupid or something. Glad you’ve got that figured out. When they install these new appliances they don’t slow down for our questions. My new refrigerator doors don’t automatically close like my old one did. Think they should have balanced it better? Maybe?
Carolyn – well, because I’m old and looked at two different stoves, I just figured I had forgotten which one I decided on. Sigh.
Love the quilt show. So many beautiful quilts. Thank you for sharing. I enjoy reading your blog every day. Enjoy your new stove too.
Wonderful quilt show today. Applause for the ladies who made them. You made my morning.
A built in air fryer?? That would be so convenient. I bet you will love it. Take photos of it, please. I didn’t even realize they made them that way.
Sue – I don’t have an air fryer so it will all be new to me. I’ll let you know!
Having an air fryer built into your stove will be nice. I wanted that feature when I replaced mine but it wasn’t an option with a downdraft. I bought a small countertop air fryer and use it a lot.
Enjoyed seeing your piano room and all of the quilts
Wonderful quilts today, makes me feel inspired. The red & white one is stunning, and all those small wall hangings are darling. Thanks for sharing, everyone. I have been busy putting together a discussion on Feed Sack quilts for our guild meeting this month. I needed to find all my materials and my collection of old feed sacks. I know they got moved but where they were in the chaos of my sewing space is another matter. Meanwhile I busy watering our daughters’ plants & flowers while she travels for work and then watering our son’s new lawn while he is gone for work. I do wish it would rain, lol. My card went in the mail and love the birthday club, such a simple kindness. Thanks, Mary, for keeping us all connected.
The Hymn wall hangings were of my own design. Some of the material for the borders I used were in my stash, some I matched myself from the quilt store and the rest from “Songbook”, the name of the collection. I started them at a quilt retreat with a friend two years ago. Languishing since, due to projects more pressing, I determined now was time to push them to #!1 and get them done.
All the other quilts designs and colors today are beautiful and inspiring. Thank you for helping with my mojo creative push.
Jan, they are simply gorgeous and so meaningful as well! I recently saw that someone had made a quilt using tea towels with hymn titles, but when I looked at the towels, they were sort of scratchy and thin. Yours are so much nicer!
Wow, Mary, those quilts are gorgeous. Not 100% sure, but I believe that red & white one is Burgoyne Surrounded. Your piano room is so inviting and your collections and displays are wonderful. I started to comment on yesterday’s blog post…Hazel is just the cutest little stinker! Thank goodness it was a (friendly) garter snake and not a venomous one! Your home is perfect with the porch for quilting and those amazing plants look so lovely in that garden room. It’s a lot of work but we do what makes us happy and it keeps us moving. I’m behind on sending cards but intend to get them in the mail. I need to make a list somewhere that I can check of as I put them in the mail. It’s crazy busy here with doctor appointments, contractors, kids & grandkids visiting, on the phone with tech support. (UGH! I’m so happy to hear that you are mending well and taking care of yourself. xxoo
Beautiful quilt show! I didn’t notice yesterday’s email didn’t have quilts because it had many other things we love…plants, dogs (not snakes…EEEKKKK!) the cute tea towel on the stove.
When we were growing up, we had elderly neighbors who didn’t have children and they loved us like their grandchildren. My sister and I were taking piano lessons and loved to visit the neighbors to play her pump organ…a sweet memory I had forgotten.
I have a box in my garage with old piano music that belonged to my mother and grandmother. It might have some of the popular music my sister and I liked when we were taking piano lessons.
I have a card ready to mail for our last birthday girl. Our card ministry is dear to my heart and a way to pass this blessing on.
You will enjoy the new stove. I too use an airfryer separate from my stove a great deal especially for reheating. Love the towel there on the oven handle.
Off to another retreat tomorrow. 4 days. Hope I can do it. Two days ago it was doubtful as i thought I had done something to my knee. The pain was not fun and I went to emergency clinic. So much inflammation and we think just due to my varicose veins. So I am on a strong med to rid the inflammation. The pain is under control and the swelling is down, but I have to rest my leg in between things. Today I finish up prep for the retreat and worry about getting stuff into the center.
So no sewing for the past few days.
Fran – so what’s your project for this retreat? Yes, you definitely need to put your leg up when you can to bring down that inflammation. The towel was a gift – a great one!
Love your cozy piano room, lots of interesting things.
I recently got a new washer and dryer without instructions on how to use it. I think you have to go online for that.
Lori – and that upsets me – when I’m at the stove do I have time to go online? No. I’m too old for this world.
Mary, Mary, Mary! I think that the world takes advantage of us and tells us that we are too old for this and too old for that — but it’s not our age at all. They are trying to do things as cheaply as possible and including a booklet { usually in a dozen different languages — ACK! ] does not fit their plans.
I would not want my refrigerator texting me At Any Age! My stove has no business contacting me by phone, and the day that I have to text my dryer is the day that the clothesline comes back, HOA rules or not!
Computers were supposed to make our lives easier, but that’s not how it worked out. I saw a cartoon recently that was more sad than funny. One lady was talking to another lady, saying that she wanted AI and robots to clean her bathroom and do the laundry, so she could read and write and make art. Instead, she is still cleaning the bathroom and doing the laundry, and the AI and robots were doing the reading and writing and making art. Sigh.
Susan in AL – I love your wise words! They are so spot on. It’s sad AI is now in our lives whether we wanted or know how it is happening. Our neighbor has a refrigerator with a TV in it – why ??? And they say they never will be able to afford to retire. I didn’t dare say it’s staring at you every day with your careless spending.
Wow! You asked for quilt pictures, and you got them! I loved all the pictures today! Seeing the pump organ nearly made me cry. I gave away my gorgeous pump organ when I got diagnosed, and I so regret that.
I’m so glad you have and play so much of your music. Those hymns are such treasures!
If I ever get my current project done, I’ll send along a picture.
Erin – yes! Wasn’t this a great quilt show? I, too, just loved it – I always want to make so many that I post but it’s simply not possible. I don’t play the pump organ as much as I should – but I ALWAYS play Christmas carols. This is funny – right now I know I can’t with a tender midsection – playing the pump organ is a physical workout!!! Ha!
Do you know the pattern of the red and white quilt?
Let us know how the new stove works when you get the correct one.
I too am curious about the red and white quilt. It’s so different from most quilts.
Woven red by Temecula Quilt co. Available as a download Thanks for you kind words. It was fun to make
Suzanne – I’ll go back and find the readers name so I can ask.
The red and white quilt is Woven Red. It was designed by Sheryl Johnson of Temecula Quilt Company. If anyone is interested, the pattern is still available at Sheryl’s on-line store.
It’s called Woven red by Temecula quilt co
Woven red by Temecula quilt co. Available as a download.
Your piano room! Appears to be a very relaxing space. Your pump organ looks so at home there. I grew up with a pump organ, a player piano and a new upright piano my sister and I used for our lessons.
The pump organ and player piano my dad got for tinkering with. He invested time and effort into replacing bellows in the pump organ so we could play it. We didn’t know what the knobs were for but at 6 years old we thought we were smart to pump it enough to get sound out of it.
The player piano spent a winter in pieces on our garage floor as dad replaced hammers, strings, bellows, and probably killed a few mice by the sound board. It came from an old home that hadn’t been lived in for years. With the help of the man who tuned our upright he got the parts and had it working very well. He eventually put an electric motor on it so he wouldn’t have to pump with he arthritic knees. New player rolls were bought and there were many family and neighborhood sing alongs around her.
Thanks for the memories.
Carla – oh, what fun!! I went to an old country church and the year it turned a big number and there was a real celebration, the men hauled in Martha’s pump organ for the occasion. I was fascinated so when I had the chance to get this one I jumped on it. I’ll never forget the girls hauling it in the house for me!!!!!! It was beyond their job description for sure.
I’m not sure how my dad moved ours around.
I know my bachelor uncle would get roped in to helping sometimes. Old furniture is so heavy.
You’ve got a nice comfy seat in front of yours. Ours had a 4 legged glass footed stool that spun. I wonder what stories they could tell.
Carla – because it takes so much force to pump, that stool keeps moving further away from the organ. I have to put a piece of furniture behind it! Hahaha!!! My legs just aren’t long enough eventually!
What a beautiful quilt show today! All are so inspiring. Thank you all! That’s really something about your stove. That explains why you couldn’t find the air fryer instructions…Mary, your piano room looks so warm & welcoming. Love all the white ware. That’s quite a collection! Have a great day everyone!
Teresa – I don’t collect any longer but when I did it was such fun – and I only bought white.
Lovely quilt show today. Thank you for sharing.
All the quilts are great! Such variety in patterns and colors. I really enjoyed seeing them. The drought continues in central Illinois so will be watering today as always. Chance of “scattered” thunderstorms Sunday and Monday – will believe it when I see it. I’m sorry about the stove mixup – what an inconvenience. I think they should give you a discount for their error!
Love the quilts. I have made a few of those patterns. The picture w/ the hymn prints reminded me that I have that kit🤦🏼♀️.
I just returned from a retreat so lots of unpacking to do. I was very productive and several projects have progressed. I have no finished tops but I have blocks not pieces🤣
I have a friend who had her house broken into. She filed a claim w/ her insurance. A couple months later she discovered her sweeper had been stolen & she hadn’t missed it. She was so embarrassed to file another claim🤦🏼♀️. In her defense her house is always in order just like you had been eating just not stove cooking.
Sorry about the lady w/ the YMCA is closing. I too enjoy my YMCA. My favorite water aerobics instructor took another job. I miss her teaching style. I met my very good friend in class there. She is not a quilter but cheerleads my quilting passion.
WOW!!!! 😍😍 Beautiful quilts! Thanks to everyone for sharing and Mary for posting.
I have an air fryer, separate from my stove. That’s predominantly what I use to cook. For just me it is perfect. BTW – does the BEST baked potatoes/sweet potatoes.
I hope everyone has a great hump day…..
Beautiful quilts today. Thank you all for sharing.
Hi Mary, great quilts again! Love the quarter circle blocks! I have just a small oven on the bench,thought l might get an air fryer also , but my daughter in law told me it is an air fryer too,still just use the oven , not great on mod cons.Very windy, gale force, my antique watering can was blown down the driveway. Take care everyone, best wishes from Sandy
Love these photos, although sometimes I think I shouldn’t look because my list just keeps growing! So much inspiration in these beautiful quilts. Thanks to all of the makers for sharing them, and to you, Mary, for bringing them to us.
You’re going uptown with a stove with an air fryer built in!
I heard on NPR today, Mary Roach has a new book coming out. She is one of my favorite authors.
The quilts today are fabulous. Thanks to all who sent pics.
Our YMCA is closing. No more line dancing. I have met some wonderful people there. It’s very sad.
Lots of good stuff to look at! Really like your collection of white dinnerware.