Getting by with a little help from my friends

 Hello Everyone,

For the past three days the cabin has been humming with laughter and good times as my friends and neighbor arrived to help me with cutting up 550 yards of fabric into adorable little fat quarter and fat eighth bundles and stuffed 500 patterns into their plastic bags.

This is Karen peeking behind four towers of my Hearthstone fabric by Marcus Fabrics. The towers are just luscious! There are 6-1/4 yards of fabric in each tower.......amazing!

This is the crew of workers responsible for all of this and so much more which I will show in another post.  We had so much fun working, talking and laughing our way through the days.  The cabin seems very empty and quiet today.

We had quite a system of cutting, folding and assembling. It all begins with cutting then folding.

Then the assembly into towers.

This is a partially assembled Hearthstone tower.

Diane is pricing Cheddar and Coal towers.  I also have half-yard bundles to add to the mix.

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This is all Cheddar and Coal II by Pam Buda just in time for autumn.

I also have Lily's Locket towers by Pam Buda for Marcus Fabrics.

We had visitors yesterday morning during breakfast.  Mama Bear and her adorable little kids.

What a good mama she is to have three very healthy-looking babies who are growing by leaps and bounds.  The pink flag is the newly marked property line.  The lot in back of us is for sale which we really aren't happy about.  We've had perfect tranquility with an empty lot in back of us for the last 20 years, and we would love to preserve that tranquility.  We already bought the lot next to us, but buying another one is not in the retirement budget.

It's been the perfect storm of activity here at Sew'n Wild Oaks.  When I wasn't assisting the girls, I was fielding calls and filling orders for my Bridle Path Block of the Month patterns as fast as Bonnie and Mr. Joe were putting the patterns in their plastic bags.  The Hearthstone fabric is shipping to shops, and the shops are all ordering their patterns. Whew......it can be quite exhausting!  As quickly as the boxes filled, Mr. Joe was making several trips a day to the post office.  Mazie loves her trips to the post office with her head hanging out the window and her jowls flapping in the breeze.

I'm so grateful to my friends for getting me through the perfect storm of activity and preparations for the retreats.  I couldn't have done it without and all of the extra hands and laughter throughout the days.

Here's to a jowl-flapping good day!

Soon,

Lynn