not quilt related, but what's going on this weekend IN AUGUST

I needed a new floor in the bathroom, so here is the progress so far:    this room was carpeted, so first he took up the carpet, the pad, tack strips down to the original floor.

Next removing those pesky staples in the pad! Getting ready to lay the plywood underlay.

Sanding smooth the floor patch... 

 laying the plywood



placing that first tile

No turning back now...

 making progress slowly but surely...

2 months later and painting the room.....

corrected pineapple

Here's the way it should be

But I think the light strips vs dark strips should be reversed because for some reason the light strips appear to be larger in size.  Must be the way I trim...more experimenting is in order....

Saturday Pineapple

Got excited to join Crazy Mom and do pineapples http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/2014/10/how-to-make-pineapple-block-without.html

But I did something wrong, my darks are going wrong.....

here's my sister's pineapple

Where did I go so wrong???  I'll have to try again! Duh, stupid me, I sewed the corner units to the dark strips and I should have sewn them to the light strips!!  Now I can sleep tonite .....I'll post the picture tomorrow



and I've started the borders for my Big Star quilt,

and doing quilting on  my Houndstooth Check quilt! too much sunlight.

and the Little Letters!

Big Stars progress, etc

Big Star ready for some border treatment!

and the little letters progress...

 

12 Big Stars !

Ready to put this together, I think I started it about 2 years ago, nothing planned, it just evolved.  Some sashing and cornerstones come next.

Big Star blocks

I don't know the name of these blocks, I just call them Big Star since they are big, 12.5" square.  Need to look at different layouts for blocks, perhaps make 2-3 more.  I don't know why they have languished so long, it takes about 10 minutes to make one!

Wednesday's work

I'm busy busy working along, a little bit on each project.  Today I made one more Big Star square, plus the "F" in the Little Letters quilt.  Fun!