Welcome to Bolts in the Bathtub’s New Location

We’ve been very busy the last two weeks at the new store location. When we reopened on the 8th of June racks were in place with fabric, but there had been very little fluffing.
But,with the Southern California Quilter’s Run starting on Thursday the 20th we rose to the challenge. So I present to you our new store:

Peggy based the letters for our sidewalk board on letters from a embroidery design card.



As our new signs won’t be up until July 1st, I went to the FedEx printing center and had our logo printed out on plotter paper. Two smaller ones were laminated for the front and back doors,



and a larger one to put in the front window. For under $34 dollars, it was money well spent.



Come on in.



There is a great tiled entry way with windows looking into the store. The Belgian baby bathtub holds geraniums for the summer. It will be a lot of fun changing out what is in the tub for the different seasons.



The quilt on the daybed made by Anna is Multi-Faceted by Cozy Quilt from our last Strip Club. You can visit Anna’s blog The Artist Within here. We are extremely lucky to have her as a teacher/employee. The chevron fabric on the corner just came in.



I’m thinking a summer Dresden plate quilt with the brights as beach umbrellas.



Sorry, I squirreled. You know quilters do that when they look at fabric right?

Displayed behind the bed is The Bopple Ball. It’s a fun play item for kids.



The front counter area. The quilt is “Transformer Dude” -  one of our variations for the Quilt Run. 



Aprons are really popular. We loved this panel and the coordinates are gorgeous. There is yardage, plus dishes are available. It would be a lovely for a romantic kitchen.



Another apron from Kwik Sew has sizes for adult, child and 18” dolls in one pattern.



Choices, choices, choices.



Christmas fabric has started to arrive at the store. It is in front of on of the two offices we kept from when the location was a law office. You can see the planning and demo here. If you missed our moving and store set up , they are - Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3.



My sister Fay has the office behind the verticals. The beige was fine in the law office, but they look kind of dirty now with our white paint. We might need to change those.

The Christmas tree quilt hanging over the wall was designed by Tiffany at Needle in a Hayes Stack. She is also one of our teacher/employees. She also is our web girl.



Red with grey and white are huge this year for Christmas fabric.



We don’t have a lot of unused wall space so there are plenty of quilts  (what we call dead quilt hanging) gathered and cascading (that is so much nicer sounding) from ceiling height.



Across the store is the BERNINA area, which is still a work in progress.



And a wall of thread.



And of course, not to be forgotten is the tub! Currently it’s filled with red, white, blue and patriotic.



Better get to the store. Runners will be arriving in an hour.

Stitch at you Soon,
Dawna

Linking with:
The Tablescaper - Seasonal Sunday
A Stroll Thru Life - Inspire Me Tuesday

Day Three of the Move

Yesterday was another big day of moving. The register area arrived.



The phone /DSL was set up. Computers and wireless will be activated late this afternoon.

Briana filled the notions wall.



Michelle’s husband John was the hero of the day being the all around handyman. Here, he is covering the tub stand with carpet.



After much discussion and rack movement fabric began to find  a home.

 


There is a small dent in the fabric stacked in the classroom.



We open tomorrow ready or not. So today is sure to be another long day.

Stitch at you Soon,
Dawna

Day 2 of the Move

Just a quick update from yesterday’s move. The first truckload was at the back door at 7 am. It was all of the stacking fabric racks.



Jorge worked on the classroom doors.



What do you call a gathering of racks? A gaggle? A roundup?



The first fabric delivery into the classroom. Remember this corner when you get to the bottom of the post.



Minkee & other plush on the opposite side.



Sewing furniture coming down the dark hallway. Somehow a major fuse was blown and there were no lights on the west side of the building.



The doors are up!



The guys from Bushu Electric arrive to put up the fans, move Leith’s light switches and get the layout for the wiring of the front counter on Friday morning. The also figure out the fuse problem and we have lights again on the west side.

If you need any electrical done Bushu is the best. They wired our last two stores and pretty much rewired a previous home of mine.



It’s starting to get crowded.



Some of the register area.



At the end of the day this is what the classroom looked like.









 


This was the first corner of fabric.



Some more fabric out on the shelves.



Stitch at you Soon,
Dawna

Ready (mostly) for Moving Day

It has finally arrived the big moving Day. Well actually, the first of a couple.

When I left the store last night at 7:30 the guys from Metro Floors had put the carpet in Fay’s office



and were placing all the vinyl baseboard.



See our shiny floor, my niece Briana and I worked on floors, painting baseboards and other paint touch ups on Monday.



Peggy painted the power/storage room.




Poor Bri held the handle of the roller so long she had trouble strightening her hands on Tuesday morning. There are a total of 5 coats on the floor. I’ll add the products in tonight as I can’t seem to find the product pictures.



Hopefully, the contractor will show up this morning to finish all his last minute jobs. We need plates on all the plugs & switches, the doors need to be put into the classroom along with assorted other items. The doors were found. A new frame is being built because they made the door opening the wrong size. I also need to find out when the glass is being replaced.

Oh, and when they were working on the frontage yesterday they somehow killed the lights down the east side of the store and Leith’s machine tech room.  It’s really hard to service a machine with no power.

At noon were get out ceiling fans installed (very important in the desert) and around the same time the new locks will be installed.

More tonight,
Stitch at you Soon,
Dawna

A Really Long Day - Part 2 - Working on the New Location

So as I said in A Really Long Day - Part 1, the completion date for the new store was Friday the 31st. This was the store Friday morning at 7:15.



Not that the job is actually completed. There are still wires hanging, switch plates with no cover, no thermostat on one side of the building, ceiling tiles that need to be replace and ceiling grid to be fixed/touched up. And the classroom doors aren’t installed. 

Oh wait, our doors are missing. They were in the store on Friday morning but now, no longer in the building. Hmmm. Sorry for the blurry shot.



So Friday during the day fabric  and racks were moved at the old (current?) store so we could remove slatwall panels. Then Sheryl & my nephew John unscrewed six panels for us to take to the new store. Isn’t it pretty?



Saturday we met at the store at 7:30. More panels were removed. A big thank you goes out to Shaun, the son of our customer Robin.

 

Our family friend Cy came over from Ventura to be in charge of the install at the new store. He has done this for us now at all three locations. That’s him smiling in the background as the truck is loaded.



Then on to the new store. where Cy & Shaun got started.



The main wall completed.



Meanwhile I returned to the store and with power tool in hand removed more pieces of slatwall to take to the new store. I welded the power tool, but Susan, Sheryl and Fay held the pieces steady.

I’m sure I have never mentioned this, but I love power tools. One year for Christmas, my favorite gift was a my very own Makitta drill.

Lunch was ordered from The Lemon Leaf down the sreet. One of the great things about moving to Lancaster Blvd. We definitely need some chairs.

Meanwhile, Tiffany from Needle in a Hayes Stack and her husband Scott had come by the new store. Scott went home to get his carpet cleaner for the back hallway. there were demo pieces, wood dust, spackle and a trail from the previous tenants.  

I can’t seem to find my before shot, but I’m sure Tiffany has it to share. Scott is amazing. When he was done it almost looked new.



Some of the front windows are slated for new glass due to graffiti etching. There was a sound and one of the windows started to crack.



Thank goodness there was a vinyl tinting still on the window. Although it was scary listening to it crack. So now until the new panes arrive we have a lovely sheet of wood.



We finally finished up at the store around 6:45. Driving home was the awful view of the fire in Green Valley. My heart goes out to all residents and all they have lost. I pray they were able to get their horses and other animals out safely.



Stitch at you Soon,

Dawna