Hello my Friends

 Life is progressing with my hip repair.  I have been spending time on the exercise bike, in the swimming  pool and walking.  I am still quite fragile and wobbly, but pain free..TBTG!!! I guess that 7 months of pain and inactivity mean a long recovery...Grateful...no pain!!

Making small things to give away:  bowl cozies, pot holders, key fobs and small tissue holders.  Nothing to share but pix from my girl in Portland.

Last week the whole family, Rosie the dog, Aoife the 5 year old and Mommy and Daddy drove 6 hours to the mountains to hike and camp out...Llamas carried their gear...

They had a great time!!

Just found this in my email...maybe posted it, maybe not...I do love scraps.

I have not posted in so long...Aoife making cream...must have been at holidays.  Aoife turns 5 tomorrow and starts kindergarten in September!

Below, Carol invited me in to visit...Look what I found on her table...Her  husband's ties...A great job!!

Happy Birthday Aoife with your chicken balloons....

Both Aoife and her mother...kiss their chickens...Dear me!!!!

Lucky Mango!!

Happy Happy fifth birthday dear Aoife!! xxoo

Grandma O'Quilts practices patience with her long recovery!!!!  

Unrealistic expectations...No Diane....at 77 there will be no hopscotch, no jump rope, no running a marathon....sigh.....but pain free!!! Grateful.....

Sunflowers from Trader Joe's make my day so happy!!

Small Things with Great Love

Celebrating life by making for others.  The other night, watching news on Instagram, I  just knew I had to sew for joy....I made 35 key fobs to give to others...So much fun and so easy. Key fob tutorial  

There are many tutes for this.  I cut my fabric 3.5 x 10 inches and my fusible fleece, 2" by 10".  There are great selections for key fob hardware online. Here I have used 1 inch clasps, but just ordered 1.25 inch ones and I like them better..

Continuing on with the fun is Mrs. O'Quilt's nonstop potholder making...I am so out of them now...A few here to give to the rehab nurses who put up with this difficult patient in rehab!! and for the potholder basket I keep by my front door.

Kathy has cancer.  Kathy loves sunflowers....and so.....

Having left the 6 chickens with a sitter, my girl and her man and her 5 year old and the dog, all spent time climbing Oregon mountains with llamas to carry their burdens... So glad I traveled while I was young...OMG

Loving life today.  More good smart friends here, keeping great friends of yesteryear, fond memories of others...Still walking with a wobble...no pain..TBTG, taking walks, exercising in the pool...making small things with great love in order to survive this crazy world.

I have no earthly idea  how folks survive without sewing and having a good stash!! 

I am so grateful!!

Fusible fleece is my new friend.  Quilted holiday items on my door..sewn on Fusible fleece!  Now I find it comes in 3 different weights...

I found a charm pack by my door...from a non-quilter who had randomly found it at a store, thinking of me!! How very thoughtful.  Tonight I finished a potholder for her from that fabric.

Look at the adorable labels I ordered from Cozy Club Handmade  The best labels come from this site. It is out of Malta.

Every day is a slow day to recovery....still going in the right direction!!

I seem to be quickly gaining back some of those 40 pounds I had lost for my surgery.

Without the Semaglutide shots, I have an awful sugar craving...

Grateful to my friends and my sister for helping me out. 

I need some help soon with my  new computer.  I did not realize that I would have to put on all the shortcuts and passwords again.  Still life is good.  Making little gifts for workers here who are so helpful.

 

New Computer, Special Family, a Few Quilty Finishes

Happy July holidays:  Hanging in our art room, my flag piece and a hopeful pot holder:

Finish:  a laminate bag forever prepped...a year later, finished in 15 minutes!!

A homemade sponge from net bags that held oranges and pretty fabric:  finished 5  years ago...has been sitting around forever to be repaired....done and on my sink in 5 minutes...5 years?? 5 minutes??  What I do to myself!!

Family love..daddy's girl!!!

Chicken Mama!!

Chickens eating a homemade ice cake..

Happy Birthday my dear grandson, Evan.  Twenty years old...unbelievable that your parents had you when they were twenty!!!!

I have a new computer., a mini PC that hides behind the monitor

 in secret...Found online and ordered by  my dear SIL.

.Then,.Janet's husband, Bruce spent hours and hours setting it up for me.  Finally I can blog again.  Grandma O'Quilts is approaching the modern age...not so fast, I still am learning details..I still do not know how to put short cuts on the screen.

So hoping August will be the time my daughter comes to visit before her girl starts kindergarten...Yup...five already next week or so.

I have been without a computer for 10 days...

Talk about gratitude to have it up and running.

Friends and family and fabric  

Happiness!!!