WIPs With Friends

OMGosh with all the camper stuff going on in my world right now 

I almost forgot to post WIP's With Friends!!  

We picked up our new fifth wheel camper last week on Thursday.  

We drove it to a nearby campground on Friday and it has been parked there all week 

(our daughter has our truck for the week).  

As you can imagine there has not been a lot of sewing going on over here. 

 I did bring some binding to work on and managed to bind an entire quilt though!  

First up are camper pictures!!  This is us picking it up

Kitchen island on the right.  Fridge on the left looking into our living room.

Bathroom

Bedroom still needs a quilt!

Us in the back of the camper parked outside our house to prep it.

Kitchen with stove and microwave

TV and fireplace, directly across from 2 theater recliners that heat and massage!!

 First family get together.  Dinner with our whole family (this is our son and his dog)

Even got 2 new Spartan tables to use outside.

You can take a video tour here too if you want to see the inside more clearly.

So more to follow as we have more adventures.  

I have a quilt in mind for our bed. 

 The one you see in the video was the one I made for my dad a few months before he passed away. 

 It has snowmobiles and golf balls all over it, LOL.  

 I have a camper quilt on board to make and I can see that I need to make a Spartan quilt for the weekends we are at the football games too!

I did manage to finish binding our picnic quilt. 

 I will try to take a pic of the finished quilt in the near future too.

I am still working my way through the stars and squares I need to make for another quilt.  

I hope to have those finished soon so I can assemble and get that off to the quilter.  

It is a gift for a friend.
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Cha Cha Cha Cha CHANGES

It seems like last week was an amazingly crazy one!  

We put a down payment on a fifth wheel, found a truck to buy to pull it,

 and adopted 2 kittens into our life.  CrAzY!!

So apparently I have only shown the fifth wheel on my instagram account.  

We purchased a Flagstaff.  

We went to the dealer in Lansing and they did not have the model we wanted but 

were able to place an order for it.  

Apparently they make them in batches and luckily we got the last spot for this model

and it will be being made in the near future.  

They anticipate that we will have delivery the first week of August.

These photos are the stock photos from the Flagstaff website but ours will be close to this in colors.

You can see that there is a dinette rather than table and chairs. 

 We chose this for 2 reasons.  

First so there is an additional bed and second, see the drawers under the seats?  

FABRIC STORAGE!!!

When you look this direction you can see the steps on the left. 

 Those lead to the bathroom and bedroom.  It has three slide outs and is ~32 feet long.

We love that the TV and fireplace are across from the theater seating. 

 It also has an outdoor tv and grill and the awning covers most of the outside of the camper.

We love that!

So if that was not enough, hubby decided that he needed a new truck to haul said fifth wheel.  

Which of course he did!  

No, really, he actually does need a new truck as ours would pull it on level ground but never through any mountains, and it is super old.  

So what did he choose I hear you asking?

It is a Chevy (and this part is straight from hubby's mouth):  

It is a 250 HD High Country Silverado with a Duramax Diesel engine. 

 HA, I knew it was a 250 and that's about it.  It is pretty but who knew trucks cost so much!!!  YIKES!  

I think we are going to pick it up tonight.

So now we are all set to travel as soon as I retire (hopefully in 2 more years).  

Someone told me to stop spamming my FB account with kitten pictures but 

I just can not help myself, because 

KITTENS!!!

We are finding out their personalities.  

Finn is our fearless little adventurer. 

 He just can. not. stop. moving!  

Until he passes out. 

 He wants to lay on the cat bed perhaps with his brother, but not on us.  

He is very food oriented and thinks whenever you have food you MUST share.  

If you are not careful he will just walk right on to your plate and help himself!

In this photo, Cole had just climbed onto the quilt I was binding and Finn jumped on top of him!

Cole on the other hand, is amazingly cuddly.  

Whenever you pick him up he bursts into a very loud purring.  

He will seek us out and meow until we pick him up.  

That means he wants to take a nap and you need to go sit down and provide the napping location 

on your body for him. 

 He has very long legs and I think will be a very big cat.  

Someone told me he looks like a bat so Chris has started calling him Batman.  

Already "helping" me bind a quilt.

It's really difficult to photograph a black cat, especially when he closes his eyes!

I have lots more to share but need to stop for now.  Very exciting times at my house right now!

~XOP~