Mountain Brook Craft Co-Op Sale

Okay, Kalispell peeps—here is the information about the craft co-op sale. Stop in and find me and say hello!

The Mountain Brook Craft Cooperative will hold their 11th Quilt & Craft Market in the Mountain View Mennonite Church on Friday and Saturday, September 24 and 25.  The market will be open from 10 am to 6 pm on Friday and 10 am to 4 pm on Saturday.  

 There was no market in 2020 because of the pandemic, but that does not mean the Mountain Brook crafters took a year off. Instead, members have created a larger-than-usual inventory for the 2021 market that will include hand-and machine-quilted quilts and wall hangings, fine art, book fold art, jewelry, crafts for the kitchen, knitted and quilted accessories, bags and totes, holiday and home décor, classic needlework, children’s quilts and accessories, and gifts. The Pantry area will feature crafts for the kitchen as well as baked goods and sweet treats.

Mountain View Mennonite Church is located at 795 Mennonite Church Road, off Highway 35 in Creston. 

Signs are up at the intersection of Lake Blaine Road and Creston Hatchery Road, at the intersection of Hwy 35 and Creston Hatchery Road, at the intersection of Hwy 35 and Mennonite Church Road, and at the church itself. We are easy to find!

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I sometimes think that too many ideas are worse than too few. Too many ideas requires sifting and sorting and focus, or at least an excellent organizational system to keep track of what’s going on. Right now, I am making lists of ideas in a notebook. I may put a whiteboard up in one of my sewing rooms for tracking bigger quilt projects. The rule at the moment is that I have to finish the quilts I started last spring before cutting any new quilt projects. The one exception to that rule is an itch I want to scratch today that might give me a few more items for the co-op sale. We’ll see how that goes. I might have to start paying my friend Robin to be my publicist, as she’s all over Facebook telling people I’ll have aprons at the sale. LOL. I had an inquiry for a custom apron in my e-mail inbox this morning.

EQ8 and BlockBase+ are both open on my computer desktop again. I bought some block modules to add to the EQ8 block library and have been noodling around here and there as I have a few minutes.

The owner of the quilt store called yesterday. We had a good chat about serger classes. We’re going to wait until January for the next one, simply because the store’s class schedule is full through the end of the year. She’s willing to have patterns and some knit fabric in stock for the students to buy at the store, which I appreciate. I would rather tell people to get their materials from her and have everyone have what they need. I think we’re going to start with a class on making a kid’s T-shirt before moving on to a pattern drafting and T-shirt class for adults. And I am going to insist that students know how to thread and use their sergers before showing up for class, so I don’t get students who have never taken the machine out of the box.

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The house seemed chilly to me yesterday; I chalked it up to the crummy weather and possibly the fact that I am not acclimated to cold weather yet, but then I happened to glance at the thermostat. It shows the temperature in the house, which was at 66 degrees. When the furnace is running—as it was—the temperature in the house should be 68 degrees. (We do tend to keep it cool in here, although when it’s damp outside, I’ll sometimes bump it up to 70 degrees so my fingers and toes don’t get numb—a longstanding leftover side effect from chemo.) Even that two-degree difference was noticeable. And indicative of a problem.

I alerted the husband when he came home. He checked the furnace and discovered the igniter was bad. He ordered a replacement, but it won’t be here until Friday. I can light the furnace manually if I have to. The weather is supposed to be better today, though.

We have a few fall tasks that need to be done soon, like cleaning the chimney. That’s a two-person job, because I have to hoist him up on the platform on the forklift. We’ll have a window from October 1 to November 30 for open burning and can finish getting the woods cleaned up. The pigs go to the processor on October 11. (We still have a few left for sale if anyone wants a whole or half.) I’ve still got some garden cleanup to do. The insulated shades need to come out of storage and get hung up.