tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84427400394723373712024-03-14T02:22:50.956-07:00Dee's DoodlesDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11367663127351652530noreply@blogger.comBlogger378125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442740039472337371.post-5367431878476617332015-07-06T06:33:00.004-07:002015-07-06T06:33:50.484-07:00"See you in a little while..."<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<em>...because it really isn't "goodbye".</em></div>
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My sweet mom went home on June 12th.</div>
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We were blessed with nine and a half years with her after her initial diagnosis of Stage IV Ovarian Cancer. Last November we were given some very bad news about treatment options after all this time. There really weren't a lot left. She fought on with chemo and radiation right up until the end.</div>
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Her spirit was stronger than her body though and this last round of double-dose chemo was too much and she started developing complications.</div>
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Memorial Day weekend she was admitted to the hospital and we really didn't think she would come home. My sister and I took turns staying nights at the hospital with her to help her get the immediate help she needed during the day or at night. Oncology floors are busy, busy places. Sadly. She asked to have her family from all over the country come and visit those four days. Thankfully, they did. Her hospital room was rarely empty. I'm so glad family from near and far were able to come and spend that time with her. Her spirits and her blood counts rose and we were told she was well enough to go home and there would be no more treatments.</div>
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She chose to pass her last few weeks at home on Hospice. My sister and I packed out bags and moved into our parents' home to care for her one last time. It was one of the hardest things I have ever done. We took shifts caring for her. Switched our sleep schedules around so we shared the night shift. Ate whatever people put in front of us, learned to give baths and change sheets with a person in a hospital bed. How to give her all the medicines she needed. We held her hand and talked to her when she was agitated or in pain until she quieted down and rested again.</div>
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There were times I was so tired, I just wanted to go home. See my children. Sleep in my bed. Take my walks. </div>
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But, I'm so thankful she asked us to do this for her. What a blessing to look back and have all the memories with her. Some nights I slept in her bed with her to make sure her oxygen tube stayed in, get her medicines, help her walk to the bathroom or just make sure she didn't try to get up at night by herself. Listening to her breathing and making sure she had what she needed to be comfortable. It was like all those times she watched over us as children were coming around full circle and we were watching over her. Loving her and wanting her to know we were there when she needed us. </div>
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Many of you have read about her treatment here on my blog. Many, many of you prayed for her.</div>
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Thank you.</div>
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What an awesome peace to know I will see her again. Whole. Healed. Joyful.</div>
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and another one that had to be de-constructed to so I could make it the right way.</div>
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Last week, I took a seam ripper to my mini Swoon blocks.</div>
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My original plan had been to use this as an element on the back for my full sized Scrappy Swoon quilt. Alas, it was too long for this and sat in a box until I found it again a couple of weeks ago. </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Love my Scrappy Swoon!</span></div>
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This is how the Scrappy Swoon finished out and it gets a lotta, lotta use!</div>
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My mini Swoons ended up as a mini-quilt. LOL This lil' sweetie finished out at 21" square.</div>
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Here is the scrumptious back! Found this fabric at Joann's a while ago and fell in love with how happy and cheerful it is. Plus, it reminds me of a vintage sheet from the 70's I crush on.</div>
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Simple, stripey binding again. I'm having a fling with stripes for bindings.</div>
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This time I tried a spiral pattern for quilting instead of just circles. </div>
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Ahhhhh! Just can't get over how much this way of quilting adds to this quilt.</div>
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I need to work on the beginnings for the next quilt I use this for, but this is one of my favorite ways to quilt right now.</div>
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Now I just need to find a place to hang it.</div>
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Another <a href="https://bloominworkshop.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/the-biggest-finish-of-the-year/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+BloominWorkshop+(Bloomin'+Workshop)&utm_content=Google+Reader">Pinspiration</a> from Anita at the Bloomin' Workshop. Can you see why it caught my eye? Sew many happy, cheerful scraps! Yummy!</div>
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A couple of years ago, I dove into the scrap piles and tried my hand at recreating the beautiful quilt from Anita.</div>
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What is working in her quilt as a play on value, gets so screwed up in mine. One should never try a new quilt in the depths of chemo brain symptoms!</div>
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(my mom says cancer is a family disease and we all suffer from chemo brain at one time or another!)</div>
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...and since the seam ripper was already warmed up from the Mini Swoon...</div>
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I unpicked all the HST units, ironed them and started over. Let me tell you, that. was. not. fun.</div>
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But I'm so glad I didn't just pitch all that cutting and sewing into the trash.</div>
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Do you ever just File 13 projects that make you cry and vomit and wish you had never starter them and regret all the time and fabric on them?</div>
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Rebeginning (is that even a word?) with three vertical rows of four HST units.</div>
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Pretty happy with how it's going. More true to Anita's use of fabric to create value.</div>
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Do you think it's working? Looking better? Can you see the zigs? The zags?</div>
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Sorting, sewing.</div>
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Not sure where this is going. Maybe a lap quilt? Baby quilt? Wall hanging?</div>
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It's been another soothing project that engages my puttering, centering, peaceful need.</div>
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I also wanted a PMM (proud mom moment) to congratulate our youngest son, Ben, on winning 1st place in an essay contest. It's a county-wide one involving 26 elementary, jr. high and sr. high schools.</div>
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Ben took top essay for the sr. high category.</div>
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Ben, in part, wrote about his experiences in the Civil Air Patrol and how integrity is needed to advance in rank.</div>
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So proud of him!</div>
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Now returning to NMM (nagging mom mode) to make sure he gets his schoolwork and chores done!</div>
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Thanks for letting me go off character!</div>
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This was one of the first quilts I pieced in this house. Almost eleven years ago.</div>
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I wasn't new to making quilts, but wasn't much for reading and following patterns. This one looked pretty straight forward. No curves. Easy math. I had a lot of fun finding fabrics and learned a lot making this top! I loved how soft and cottagey it looked when I finished it.</div>
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It was a classic case of QADD.</div>
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Remember me mentioning spring cleaning my sewing stuff? I found this top and decided it needed to come away from the dark side and get finished. I had chosen soft, cottage style prints and colors. Some of my first purchases from "real" quilt stores are in here. A lot of my favorite cabbage rose prints. </div>
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Beautifully vibrant blues. Soft as rainfall blues. Sweet lilac colored purples and tickle your toes pinks. Warm, happy, sunshiney and buttery yellows. Spring greens.</div>
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The original pattern had the blocks made from complimentary fabrics scattered throughout the top, but I remember not liking that look and deciding to keep the them together. This created a "four square" pattern. I bought some cotton batting and backed the whimsy with an old, soft sheet I had in my vintage linens collection.</div>
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This quilt is heavy! I wanted to take another picture in the sunshine this morning, but someone was still snuggled up under it in their bed. Just didn't have the heart to wake him up.</div>
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Next WIP to work with is this strip of scrappy, mini-Swoon blocks I pieced in the fall of 2011. This was before the pattern for a smaller block had come out and I just improvised on the measurements.</div>
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Every day she has radiation, she is fitted with a mask almost exactly like this and bolted to the table under the radiation machine. The mask was made of moldable plastic and formed to her skull and shoulders.</div>
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I have to tell you how stunned I was when I saw them pull her mask out of the cupboard and then watched them put her on the table and tighten the bolts. </div>
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Last week for therapy, I gathered up some of my favorite blue scraps. I'm currently in the process of changing all of our 18 year old, seen two houses décor for the living room into coastal shades of blue, green and tan with splashes of beach finds here and there.</div>
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So many of our happiest memories as a family are at the beach. I wanted to capture some of those feelings and remembrances and bring them into our daily lives.</div>
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I have always liked the look of this Stacked Blocked pattern and decided to make a new coffee table topper to help make the room feel more "beachey".</div>
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Pretty straight forward stitching. Using some white scraps, I just started cutting the blues into different lengths, none larger than about 7" and attached white strips to each side.</div>
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here it is! Finished and already brightening the room! Love! Love! Love!</div>
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I used an oceany blue fabric from Joann's for backing and some of Kaffe Fassett's stripes in luscious blues for the binding.</div>
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This time two years ago, Jon had proposed to Rebecca. They will be celebrating their one year anniversary in June. They are both in grad school with exciting jobs this summer. Chris is finishing up his freshman year. It's been a good year for him. Lots of growth. Ben has experienced a lot of new adventures this year, including flying an airplane, and we are so thankful for our kids!</div>
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My spring table topper has me smiling every time I see it. It finished out at 24" x 20". I used one of my favorite stripey fabrics in rainbow colors for the binding.</div>
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I want to build a sandcastle, on the beach, in the sun, where there is no snow!</div>
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Instead of temps in the 80's and the beach, we woke up yesterday morning to about 7 or 8 more inches of snow.</div>
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On a sunnier, happier note, I was able to spend some time working with the salvaged corners of the embroidered feedsack.</div>
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<a href="http://ktquilts4fun.blogspot.com/">KT</a> gifted me some Erin McMorris<a href="http://www.erinmc.com/Products/Fabric/index.php?c=Wildwood"> Wildwood</a> scraps several years ago. They make appearances here and there, but are mostly hoarded for special projects. Don't they look fabulous next to the embroidered corners? The gifted scraps measured 2 1/2" square, so I just went with easy math to build my table runner. We have an oblong table and I wanted a spring themed one that was longer on one side than the other. It measures out at 24" x 20". My family doesn't like to have big table runners that have to be pushed out of the way, so this is a great size!</div>
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There are some blue scraps from a Moda line and Kaffe Fassett thrown in there to make the blue pop.</div>
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Once I sewed the scraps, middle and corners together, I used a thin cotton batting and some large hand stitching to outline the embroidered corners. Took a page from <a href="http://dollyshome.blogspot.com/">Dolly's</a> book and quilted circles...but not on the embroidery.</div>
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Found a rare treasure last weekend out having "me" time. Not a lot of that happens here since we homeschool. Spent a few stolen minutes at a local antique mall perusing, peeping, searching, pawing through baskets and boxes of fabric and came upon this feedsack repurposed as a square tablecloth fringed with pink crochet. Again, a "cutter" piece with stains and holes.</div>
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In the 1800's, cotton sacks were used as containers for farm and food products. These sacks had labels or logos printed on them. Frugal American women would take these sacks and remove the labels and logos using soaks in kerosene, Fels-Naptha soap and bleach or by rubbing them with unsalted lard and giving them a wash with lye soap. Voila! Cotton fabric now ready to be used for a variety of purposes from underwear to quilts and embroidery!</div>
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On the "front" of my find, you can still see the print of when it was being used for its original purpose. At the bottom of the picture, you can see where the print has faded or someone had tried to remove the label. At the top, you can plainly see the word "One" and other letters. </div>
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On the "back" side, in each corner, were these bright, happy, vibrant baskets of posies!</div>
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Someone took some time to prepare the feedsack, trace the pattern and then choose colors and thread to make a beautiful tablecloth for their family to enjoy. I picture a mother of many, hands already busy through the each ordered day...</div>
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One of my favorite things to do is go antiquing with the hubs. Finding soft, beautiful, vintage linens in need of saving is another. This Grandmother's Flower Garden block came from a "cutter" basket at a small shop last summer. According to <a href="http://www.ebay.com/gds/A-Linen-Collectors-Dictionary-Part-I-Terms-A-N-/10000000001619485/g.html">A Linen Collector's Dictionary (Part I)</a>, a "cutter" is a "textile which has sufficient damage as to render it unsuitable for its original purpose. Cutters, usually available at a much lower price, are often used as fabric for sewing and craft projects."</div>
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This is the back side. Tiny, tiny hand stitches! The edges were fraying and I was afraid the integrity of the block size would be lost if I didn't somehow stabilize them.</div>
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So, using my Hexagon Ruler, I measured the original hexagons at 2 1/2" unfinished and cut out enough to "frame" the block.</div>
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This is where a being able to manage a good "Y" seam came in handy. In a "Y" seam, three pieces of fabric need to be sewn together in the shape of a "Y". This usually involves sewing to within 1/4" of an edge to allow another piece of fabric to be added.</div>
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And this is where I am now. New, white fabric sewn on to stabilize the fraying edges of this beautiful block. Not sure what I'm going to do with it, but I won't be afraid to put it in the vintage tote again to store away for a future project.</div>
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See the quilt behind? That's my Scrappy Trip Around the World I've been working on. I managed to piece three new blocks for it last week after cutting out and piecing the scraps for my Shoreline Pillow Project.</div>
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Valentine's Days are special because of my husband and my family. We celebrated our oldest's birthday Saturday. He turned 23 last week. I keep looking at pictures of the boys I have out around the house. Pictures of them as babies, toddlers and teenaged boys. Such sweetie pies! </div>
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This week I finished up a project I started last year during Soccer Season. I try to crochet one blanket a year through practices and games. Just a simple single chain (so I don't have to worry about losing count, missing stitches or messing up a pattern) of some gorgeous ocean blues. It's a respectable lap size throw and the tightness of the stitch makes it very warm!</div>
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Also got to whip this pillow together on the quick. Our living room will be seeing some changes as soon as warmer winds blow our way and I'm slowly adding new things in to help inspire and encourage me to get my painting groove on quick!</div>
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Another "M". This time just appliqued and zig-zag stitched down on some happy, beachy blue.</div>
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I was crushing on this pillow too. After our Christmas trip to Gulf Shores, I really want to bring the beach feeling of peace, relaxation and fun back to our house.</div>
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short and fat.<br />
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Here in Indiana, the snowmen are having a ball! Snow, freezing rain, wind...pretty much sums up half of the country right now doesn't it!<br />
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Happy scraps and a couple of snippets of leftover lovelies repurposed into bookmarks for some of the special women in my life.</div>
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On the left, this was a flower my great-grandma stitched. It seemed only appropriate this bookmark go to my mom. My MIL loves blue and what better than a blue bird of happiness for her. The red (love) was gifted to my new daughter by marriage and the purple bookmark was given to our middle son's sweet girlfriend. Different women with different and unique strengths...but all share the common joy of reading!</div>
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And for me? I love reading too! Back to the vintage linens tote where I spied this little cutie. In spite of frayed edges and stains,</div>
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This week I managed to do some cleaning in the stash area and found a stitching piece from about twenty years and three houses ago. I wanted to make something handmade (lots of love, but not a lot of money) for the hubs for Valentine's Day way back when. That year I ended up giving him a different gift and this scrap of stitching was packed away at the bottom of a half-finished projects box.</div>
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Played around Saturday and added some scrappy sashing made in part from an attempt at doing a French Braid block several years ago. This ended up on the top and bottom with some sweet posey fabric on the side. While looking through the pinks/reds stash I found this luscious red polka dot!</div>
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The vintage linens tote (which was already out from working on another project, thank you) yielded this gorgeous table runner. How perfect a match is this! I cut and sewed the fabric from the table runner so the red border would be on the outside of what was quickly turning into a pillow.</div>
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This one will be for the hubster. He's been asking me to make one for him to use when he's in bed surfing the net. How fun that a piece meant for him so long ago, will still be given to him soon!</div>
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I finished the vintage linens repurposed table topper. All the quiltey love I got in the comments made me smile! Thank you! Oh, so over the moon in love with this. I added some large stitch quilting around the inner edge of the embroidered piece, meandered my way around the rest of it and used one of my favorite, stripey fabrics for binding.</div>
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Sew, Gizmo decided to help me quilt another UFO whimsy this week. LOL Here she's inspecting my stitch length.</div>
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This is one of the first quilts I started here at this house (over ten years ago!). It's such an old WIP that I can't even find the pattern for it anymore! But it has some of my (then) favorite fabrics and it seemed like a good time to pull it out and make a start.</div>
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Two weeks ago, I was fiendishly quilting the Prairie Cottage Lone Star Quilt. Thank you for all the sweet comments and good wishes for my mom and dad. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers. Last week had been a little harder than others for her, but she did manage to get a full round of chemo Tuesday.</div>
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This is a monster quilt to wrestle on my machine and dining room table! The only table big enough to support this sucker! It is cumbersome!</div>
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Lots of Alleve being consumed, so I decided to take a break and let my arm and elbow have a rest from the "stress" of quilting such a heavy quilt. S-Crap! I really wanted to finish this one too. Oh well, cleaning up my sewing space seemed like the thing to do instead (not to mention it's always needed).</div>
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Life handed me scraps (bum arm/elbow) so I decided to make some quiltey-goodness!</div>
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Pretty little posies starring in the center of some sort of wonky Log Cabin blocks. They were rescued from a vintage tablecloth I found last year in a small, dark thrift store. This tablecloth had a huge, orange stain in the center, but some very pretty handwork around the edges. Aren't they sweet! I love the tiny little, gray French Knot at the center of the flowers!</div>
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Several years ago, my dad spent about three weeks in the hospital. My mom was undergoing treatment and I was blessed to be able to take her to visit him every day, drive her to treatments and doctors' visits and then spend time at home with her in between trips back and forth. She was so faithful in going. Even when she was tired and didn't feel well. Twice a day. Once in the morning and then at night. </div>
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The binding is a very pretty blue floral print to compliment the star's fabrics. I didn't have enough of the scraps left to make a binding and again, didn't want to have to sew a scrappy one.</div>
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It finished out as a healthy sized lap quilt that will be added to the stack to choose from on a cold, snowy, Indiana night. Love watching a movie with my guys and looking around the family room and seeing them snuggled up in quilts I have made!</div>
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I have always loved monograms! We have a lot of "M"s around the house.</div>
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Adding to the collection just made sense on a gray, wintry day. Out came some happy, smart polka dot in gray traced off of a wooden "M" on a shelf. I need to go buy templates somewhere...hmmm.</div>
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There was some thick, double-sided, fusible stabilizer in the "support stash" that helped give this M a nice, stand-out profile on white fabric. I dug into my neutrals and used scraps gifted to my by <a href="http://ktquilts4fun.blogspot.com/">KT</a> to give the border a scrappy look and finished it off with a Blanket Stitch outlining the letter. It's been such a long time since I've this stitch.. Thankfully, there are lots of places to go for a good refresher tutorial.</div>
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One of my goals for this year is to sew more smaller projects for around the house. My stack of WIP's and UFO's is piling up. Ugh! No self discipline on finishing one project before starting three more! Starting the New Year with a new door quilt to welcome us home seemed like the right place to start. This mini is themed for the colors we see a lot around Indiana in January. Double Ugh! </div>
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February's door quilt is inspired by this <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/162622236520826041/">sweet heart</a> found on Pinterest. </div>
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This is what the sewing table looked like this morning. I love hunting through my scraps and choosing my favorites for a project like this!</div>
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So thankful we got to have two weeks together in December away from it all. Chris finished classes and Ben was given time off from homeschooling to travel to Gulf Shores, Alabama. The weather was beautiful! Temps not as warm, but we love, love, love being by the Gulf! We had a sweet condo on the beach and spent time between Ft. Morgan, AL and Pensacola, FL. </div>
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No Christmas decorations to mess with, sunny skies and shells, eating out a lot at great places along the way, Naval Aviation Museum, Ft. Morgan, seagulls, and just spending time as a family of four. After our oldest son's wedding, our lives had to be figured out as a smaller family unit. We missed Jon, but are so happy he's happy! And with Chris in college, summer jobs/internships, who knows if this might not be our last family vacation with him?</div>
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Here is the finished <a href="http://thequiltingdee.blogspot.com/2014/11/thankful.html">basket</a> for Ben's host family. Quick, easy and fun to make and gift. Isn't Christmas coming up? Do you need a gift for your child's teacher, a friend, Secret Santa? Make one of Ayumi's basket, stuff it with goodies and send it on its way!</div>
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I found this quilt in the McCall's Quilting from May/June 2010. Thinking about using the sashing shown here in between the blocks to break up the "whiteness" of it all.</div>
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Joann's had a faded, denim gray polka dot that was spotted when fabrics were being picked out for Ben's Churn Dash Quilt. I love the "faded-much used-boy" look and polka dots are great for binding!</div>
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Ben spent a week in Tennessee with a friend and his family. I took the opportunity to clean his room...lol...and snap some shops of the finished quilt. Here it is all washed, dried and smelling "oh, so good!". The quilt was finished and ready for him when he got home from his adventure.</div>
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This was a quick and fun quilt to make! There are so many variations on this block! It's hard to remember there are a lot of WIP's in the pile that need worked on before I start something new. But these lovelies are tempting!</div>
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To thank the mom of the family Ben vacationed with, I'm making a little <a href="http://ayumills.blogspot.com/2008/05/tutorial-fabric-basket.html">basket</a> to stuff with goodies.</div>
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I started marking out lines for some large stitching by hand. I take a ruler and mark 1/4" lines in the white and then hand quilt with floss in the same color as the block's fabric.</div>
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A couple of weeks ago, I pulled these fabrics for a very special birthday gift for our niece.</div>
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I used <a href="http://www.merrimentdesign.com/kid-sized-messenger-bag-free-pattern-and-sewing-tutorial.php">this tutorial</a> for the Messenger Bag. Easy to follow and I modified it to put a parachute buckle on it. When you're ten, it helps!</div>
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The finished bag! She loved it! It goes together quickly and I'm not a pattern person...really appreciate the ease following her tutorial.</div>
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Over the last several weeks, Ben has joined the Civil Air Patrol. If you have never heard of it...Google it and see if you have one in your area. This is an amazing program with so many opportunities and ways to give back to your community. He will be learning all about and taking part in Emergency Services such as Search and Rescue, Disaster Relief, Humanitarian Services, Air Force Support, Counterdrug, Aerospace Education, Leadership Training, Physical Fitness, and Moral Leadership Training.</div>
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This sweet fabric was bought several years ago. No selvage. No idea where it came from or who made it. Sigh. But I sure do love the happiness of it all and have snippets in my Blues scrap drawer.</div>
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So after finishing the first Churn Dash top, I sorted through my orphan blocks pile and pulled this out to finally do something with it.</div>
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We have Nationals this weekend. Homeschool teams from all over the Midwest will be competing. Hundreds of boys and girls with their teams and families coming together for a very exciting weekend!</div>
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I started this quilt in March. Wanting to incorporate some colors and prints that would help Jon and Rebecca remember the tidal treasures and moonlit memories of their honeymoon in the midst of our nasty winter season.</div>
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Choosing an only two colors for the blocks kept my "color mistakes" to a minimum. You know how you can go down a rabbit trail when talking to someone about something...and end up totally off topic? Well, I tend to do that with fabric. I start out with a very specific idea for what I want and then end up shaking my head because I'm waaaay off base on some of the colors and prints I've chosen.</div>
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This is one of my all time favorite vintage sheets. I've kept it squirreled away for a special project and this quilt sure is that. It is super soft and the colors are perfect.</div>
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And I especially love, love, love the way it quilted up! I chose to echo quilt where the inner and outer areas arcs meet. I think it sort of looks like palm tree leaves. I did take a break from quilting due to shoulder soreness. Wrestling this large of a quilt under my Janome was challenging at times.</div>
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And here it is all finished. Washed and crinkley-i-fied. A very simple, celery colored batik was chosen for the binding. Something that wouldn't clash with the rest of the quilt and give your eye someplace to rest.</div>
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I definitely learned a lot on this quilt and got a chance to grow some skills. LOL I'm looking forward to making this pattern again! </div>
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This weekend, time permitting, they'll be cuddling under it.</div>
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There are a lot of projects I would like to finish up:</div>
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the Metro Rings Wedding Quilt for Jon and Rebecca has top priority for quilting though.</div>
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(newly weds are so much fun to watch begin their lives!)</div>
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I worked faithfully on this and it's almost done...a couple of weeks off to heal a shoulder that didn't quite feel right after a L.O.T. of quilting on this bad boy.</div>
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While taking a break, I did manage to choose some fabric for a quilt for our youngest, Ben.</div>
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Not my usual colors, but then again, I'm not a teenaged boy.</div>
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The week before the wedding, Jon moved from our house into he and Rebecca's new apartment.</div>
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Which meant painting the ceilings. And the walls. Choosing a new head board, dresser, desk, rugs and things to hang on their walls. Plus replacing blinds so old, they exploded into individual blades when I attempted to clean them.</div>
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Scared the crap out of me to have about a gazillion long, sharp aluminum things flying through the air!</div>
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Huge thanks to the Hubs for installing new ones this weekend!</div>
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It was in a huge inspiration for my color choices. I added some darker colors to match a new desk and a more "manly" man son who is now in high school.</div>
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May and June just flew by at our house!</div>
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The Metro Rings whimsy was finished, and judging by the look on the Bride-To-Be's face, approved!</div>
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This quilt finishes out at 57" x 76". Just the right cuddle size for them. I'm currently quilting this on my Janome at home and will share pictures when it's finished.</div>
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Which wasn't by the wedding and probably won't be by the time the newly weds return from the honeymoon!</div>
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I opened the bag and found orphaned blocks and a pattern.</div>
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I chose a Criss Cross block using oranges and aquas. I asked each member to make two blocks and the ones in the bag were the ones that came back wonky, over-or-undersized or just not quite right.</div>
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Here are some shots of the first quilt finished using the "good" blocks I was sent back. When you join a bee, you always hope all the blocks come back perfect...but the reality is that every quilter has different skill levels...and that's okay! Some of my blocks were sent back because that member didn't want to mess us the points or didn't have time to do both...or even one...block.</div>
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This one ended up as a Quilts for Comfort quilt for a chemo patient at the cancer center where my mom has her treatments. Out of the dozen or so that came back "good", I paired the pattern down to just nine blocks for a respectably sized lap quilt.</div>
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I sashed the blocks using scrappy blues and a vintage sheet for the binding.</div>
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During one of my "breaks" from the Metro Rings quilt (lest I end up hating it!), I carefully unpicked seams, trimmed, resized and sewed the blocks in the bag back together and made a few more myself to complete another whimsy for me to keep and use here at home.</div>
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My two handsome assistants helped me take a picture in the backyard. I might try to add another, wider sashing to this to beef up the size. I ended up making four blocks out of some of the returned fabric and supplementing with new scraps to get these nine blocks. </div>
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March: choosing pattern and fabrics, ordering pattern and ruler </div>
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April: cutting fabrics according to pattern, piecing arcs</div>
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Here is the chosen backing fabric. One of my all time favorite, soft, silky smooth vintage sheets. Hoarded for a long time now and just waiting for the perfect purpose.</div>
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The bride-to-be has seen it, petted it and approved!</div>
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I finished up the top on Friday and we had a chance to take pictures before Rebecca drove home to stay before the wedding. She made a short trip up here for Chris's graduation (more about that later), but we won't see her again until she and Jon get their first apartment keys and start moving things in.</div>
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This has been such a fun top to put together! </div>
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Patterns usually scare me to death! I'm so afraid I will make a mistake and ruin all the lovely</div>
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Using the ruler, this one was a breeze!</div>
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The first weekend in May, we were proud to attend Jon and Rebecca's university graduation.</div>
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This weekend, we were honored to personally hand Chris, as his father and mother, his high school diploma!</div>
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We made the carefully considered decision to bring him home to educate at the end of his sixth grade year from a small, private, Christian school.</div>
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It was one of the best things we've ever done!</div>
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We loved it so much, we brought youngest brother, Ben, home to educate 7-12th grade also.</div>
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Educating our children in the home has given us some incredible opportunities and unique experiences (our co-op helped put a science experiment into space on the last shuttle mission!) we wouldn't have had at our old school. Friends who have become family. </div>
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