This is not what I hoped my design wall would look like today but, well, there it is.

See the fan? And the missing carpet? Thursday afternoon, Daughter #3 and I were to leave to visit my family and deliver the album quilt. But when she went to the basement for the cooler, this is what she found:

Not. Good.

We had to cancel the trip to deal with the flood. It was just too much to leave for Mr. Wonderful to deal with. BTW, the cause of the flood was a sump pump failure and a simultaneous failure of the backup pump.

My posts this weekend were written and posted in advance of the trip we did not take. Convenient, since I was busy all weekend!

Here is another view of my sewing room that was:

We sucked out all the water we could but in the end, we had to rip out all of the carpet, pad, and tack strips after moving everything upstairs. The industrial fans have been running 24/7 since.

Harry is enjoying a rest in the guest room.

Sigh….not sure when we will get to play together again.
My sewing room and the contents of the office area are filling the music room and dining room.

My house looks like an episode of Hoarders! Yikes!

We have gotten a lot done this weekend but we have a long road ahead to get the basement usable again.

But God is faithful, it could have been so much worse. We could have left town without noticing and had an even worse mess to deal with. We had some furniture damage and a lot of mess but my long arm is fine. I had some wet fabric that I had to wash but the vast majority was dry. All my batting is dry. My thread is fine. Hubby’s computers are fine. I have a couple sewing machines that had damp cases but the machines are okay. No one was hurt, things can be replaced. Our wonderful son in law and his buddy helped us move all the furniture. Daughter #3 worked right along side of us all weekend. We will get through this.

And every cloud has a silver lining. Mr. Wonderful asked if I would like to trade rooms. My sewing room was 13′ x 13′ and his room is 21′ x 25′. It had his office/computer stuff and my long arm. He will have a room that he doesn’t have to share and I get a big new sewing studio! We are both happy.

I will love having my long arm in the sewing room! I will also make one corner of my room into a play area for my grandsons. In my head, I have been rearranging furniture :).

It will be a while before I can arrange furniture for real. Today, I will be removing trim, filling holes, dealing with people inspecting our drain tile, and hopefully, painting hubby’s new office. Next weekend, we hope to put down new flooring in his room.

So in the short term, I will be blogging more about creating a new studio than quilting itself. I hope you all will hang with me.

I apologize for not responding to comments over the last several days. I’ve simply been too overwhelmed. I do appreciate each one of you that takes time to stop in and leave notes for me!

Have a great day!