Moving in starts and stops

Progress in the new quilt studio is happening, just not too smoothly.

The electrician (DSIL) has enough lights in the ceiling that I will be able to see everything. There are a total of 8 light where the longarm (Black Bart) will reside. 8 more in the fabric room. Right now there are just temp lights so workers can see.

This is the framed wall with the refrigerator alcove, the laundry room with the opening for a regular door and then the fabric repositiory set up for a sliding barn type door. The patches of blue are left over from the background of Don's railroad, the Stockton & Copperopolis. 

I bought myself a new toy with my Home Depot gift certificate - a multi-tool that I have set up as an oscillating saw. It made short work of cutting up all that Masonite to fit in the trash can / dumpster. Some people of the male persuasion wondered if I could actually use it. I just questioned if they knew how we cut bone in surgery. No other comments after that.

This picture is of the small closet that sits under a beam and encloses one of the columns. It will have a barn-type door as well. You can see the blocking for the hardware to the left of the opening, also seen in the above picture of the fabric repository. The door to the right is to the stairway. The barn door gives enough space to open the stairway door all the way open. 

The small closet goes back about 5 feet to the right of the door. This will be used as batting roll storage. This closet will also handle some of the stuff usually located in closets which this house does not have upstairs.

This doesn't look like much, but a lot of work went into this wall. To the right is the water and drain hookup for the laundry sink I've wanted since we built this house 20 years ago. 

To the far left is the water hookup for the washer, along with the vent pipe for the water. HVAC was here and installed the dryer vent as well as four different runs for heating/cooling vents.

This very dark picture (remember, temporary lighting) shows how J put power to the support columns and then the framers boxed them in for sheet rock. 

This is the last picture of metal framing you have to look at. At the top of the picture is the chase and supports for the sliding design walls I hope to have. That long silver thing on the floor is what the walls will slide on once it is attached to that upper chase. I will have 2 of them, each on its own supports so they can both be in any position. I think they will be 8' high and 12' wide. They will have flannel on both sides covering that purple insulation board so I can just stick blocks up or pin them as needed. They are located to "block" off some of the noise of Black Bart who will be down here at some point. 

My son came over and added insulation all around the room at the top of the outside walls. Don had not put any up further than his 8' suspended ceiling. We managed to get the floor cleaned up as the sheetrockers wanted to work while I was at quilt retreat.

I also ordered replacement windows for down here. They arrive the first part of March. I'm determined that this won't be a cold basement like my sewing room downstairs in my old house.

Just so you know that I still quilt, here's some pictures of the quiltlet I made to go with the Rainbow fish book and stuffy. I used a scrap of minkey on the back with the leftover grid, and of course my youngest granddaughter likes the back as the front. 

It had to swim all the way to Burbank, CA to reach her.

Happy Quilting,

Becky