The Midnight Hour

My scrap Heart quilt is hanging in the art room here.

It is very nice to see it appreciated once again.

Pix is awful, but...quilt is nice

Todays project making:  scrap hearts on my Accucutter.  The scraps were ironed onto fusible fleece.then quilted..more to be revealed

The calming influence of potholders...I only had one left for giving and loving

Japanes Boro box...a delightful gift from a friend...lucky me.

The midnight hour, full of Tylenol pm, I finished the binding for Evan's quilt...He is my dear eldest grandson.

Even though the late night rush delivered the most awful binding of 60 years of quilting...I am putting it in the quilt show anyway.

Very exciting news is that my apartment complex is providing a bus to the quilt show March 7, Friday.

Mostly good things to report tonight..

xo

Small Things with Great Love

My neighbor has a birthday  tomorrow.  Found this fabric piece that looks just like her dog.  With gold sparkly vinyl (from Cousin Ann in London)  I made her a small bag which I have filled with doggie treats...So much fun to make.

More key fobs.  This time I used my Kaffe scraps.

There is nothing like creating to calm the soul.

With my painful arthritis, I struggle to make larger projects.

There are lots of kind folks around here to give things to. I am amazed at how folks who do not sew admire homemade items.

People are actually asking me where I bought these key fobs....because they want one too.

Today my apartment complex drove me and my EOV to the doctor's office for a second opinion on my need for a hip replacement.

This doctor echoed the last doctor....More weight to lose for me..Jeeze Louize.

So, I have decided to keep giving myself weight loss shots and  use my EOV to drive around here and bloom where I am planted.

So missing my youth!!

So glad to be alive!

Look for the Light

 Look for the Light

Figured that this song was for me...maybe for you too...Life is hard sometimes!!

Below is stunning bag Sandee made...just lovely

Here we are on the visit...One Sandee and two Dianes..  I can see that my movie star days are over...OMG

Sent some Valentine sewing cards to my Aoife the other day...Such fun.

Lucy showed me a picture of her great-grandma's quilt...

Below, some seat cushion protectors I made from African fabric. They are water resistant and happy to look at

My neighbor, EJ showing off her stunning button necklace...I want one too...

And, my new potholder quirk:  Adding a piece of selvedge to add spice to the piece

And so it goes at the O'Quilts household which now, of course, only consists of me!!!

Trying not to be swept away by the crazy in my life and in our world.

"Just go sew" as my Dear man used to say.

`This Life of Mine

Thiought I would post to cheer the day.

Below Aoife and her cousin in Ireland at Christmas.

They are learning to get along.

Dublin airport at New Years...Aoife hugging Santa!!

Christine showing us her latest quilt.

I had such a lovely dinner last night with friends, that I was  motivated to finish a few of my things just sitting around.

I think the "love" applique is a good touch.  I found more online at Walmart.

Below, a potholder gift for a friend:

My sister is destashing....she is preparing her home for a hospital bed for her daughter

Hospice is involved.  We are all so sad.

I asked her for one cup of her Christmas china before she sells it..

Lovely  memories.

Sometimes a quilter just has to make a potholder...not done, but therapeutic

So here it is...my latest.:...My awful hip pain keeps me from going to dinner, to the art studio, from leaving the apartment.

No pain medication helps at all...And so a friend loaned me this...OMG

My poor ego.....I have to talk myself into being grateful it is available to me at no cost.  As I practice on it so I will not kill someone else, I should be able to be less confined and thus less depressed.

I think I will adjust to this better if it is bespeckled with quilting items!!!

Surgeon and doctor will not replace my hip if I do not lose 50 pounds, but I cannot walk..

Jeeze...I offered to sign a waiver, but no dice.  Me thinks the insurance companies now own the hospitals.

Instead I have to take these shots to help me lose weight.  I do not want to but the pain says , "just do it"

Now they are making me give myself the shots....OMG  OMG

Good things today include a visit from my friend Michael...Thank you Michael.for the friendship, the lunch and the visit..xoxo

Visitors came from my bldg....

And all was well until I tried to walk again after my nap and ended up in tears.

Guess what?????  Dinner fixed that....crazy me..

Now, as my dear man said....I will just go sew. xoxo