one additional thing

 Late yesterday evening, putting away a couple books I had in the living room, I looked around the sewing room and thought "gee, there's a LOT of open floor space now that I've cleaned it up and moved the bookcases, I could get another cutting table or something

And then I thought: no, my PVC quilting frame!

I inherited a PVC quilting frame (the brand name used to be q-snap, I don't know if they still make them) some years back. A friend of my mother's who had quilted passed away, and asked that her supplies be divided up among the people who knew her who quilted. Well, most everyone else already had one of these, and I just have a little wooden hoop frame, so I took it. (I had to have the UPS store in Bloomington wrap it up and send it to me - no way to carry it, even broken down, on the train). 

I had taken it down (it was up in my bedroom) when I was having the work done on the house - that was back when I thought they'd actually have to remove the windows and maybe replace some wallboard (MAN am I glad the damage wasn't bad enough that had to be done) and I had stored it in the closet. 

I had it set up in my bedroom for years but rarely worked on the quilt in it, but now, I'm thinking - now that I like to listen to BBC Radio 4 using the app on my phone, I could just set it up in there and listen some times and hand quilt

It's a pretty simple design - two squares to make the ends, with 2-way elbows at the bottom and 3-way elbows to hold the long crosspieces at the top, and then a t-join on the bottom to hold the stabilizing bar. 

Except for the "clamp" parts (grooved half-diameter pieces that snap over the top rectangle), which might be proprietary, a handy person could probably make one themselves. I think except for the clamps everything's standard PVC pipes and joins. 

I put the quilt back in it. I've had this one for YEARS - bought it as a top for $35 in McKinney a long time ago, and decided to hand quilt it. Most of the "feature" fabrics seem to be feedsacks; they have that slightly coarser weave typical of those, and the colors seem like "feedsack" designs:

I don't know that I'd ever actually use it on a bed - it might be too delicate - but it will be nice to have when it's done.

I will need to invest in more of the 1/4" masking tape, which was what I was using to mark off the quilting; the roll I had was old and the adhesive on those things perishes after a while, but that might be an excuse to go to the quilt shop this week.

Also, I heard back from Goodwill - they will take the yarn so I just have to bag it up somehow (I have some very large clear "recycling" bags) and get it down there, maybe Thursday.