Happy Wednesday

Aoife home sick from school hugging Bok Bok,her favorite chicken...

Bok Bok and Rosie enjoying the second floor landing in their home.  Bok Bok joined Rosie...Rosie does not know quite what to do and Bok Bok is chatting incessantly...Poor dog!!

Today was the best day in a long time.  Quilting friends from forever ago came to our Wednesday quilting here at my place...Lunch, laughing and fabric and quilt talk.  Dinner with other friends and still another late night chat.  Happiness is connection with friends..!!  Amen!!

My sewing machine is ready to be picked up from the shop!!!  TBTG...My sister is coming to help me pick it up...Grateful to the owners of Quilt Patch Fabrics in Matthews, NC for expediting the repair...So sad and lonely is a quilter without her bestie machine.

Nothing much to show you sewing-wise as most is in process and not finished...Just blogging so I do  not lose the touch!!!!  xo

Good Stuff/ Sad Stuff

 Yesterday my quilt was hung in our art room..Purple Mountain Majesty..I made it a number of years ago...just was lucky to show it off now.

A few leaves from last year...soon to meet this year's leaves.

And, below, the sunflower card I recieved today from my granddaughter, Aoife...my kindergarten girl.

Thank you mucho, Aoife!!  Grandma loves you.

Tonight I finished my goal of the past two days:  I made 10 potholder tops...A greatly enjoyable time.

Tomorrow, I will pick the backings...another fun project!!!

As I was perusing fabric scraps for the potholders, I came about this scrap from the first day of kindergarten shirt I made for my son 35 years ago.  He looked so adorable going off to school.  When he came home, his shirt was so dirty that I could barely make out the dinosaurs....He thus continued all his life...enjoying muddy things...My wonderful son is still really struggling...This piece of memory sent a few tears rolling tonight.

It is always late at night when sad things hit me.

This morning I went to the pool.  I always feel so much better after that exercise...Why do I not do it every day??  Guess that weakness called laziness hits me. My apartment complex group plays Hand and Foot card game several times a week.  I have met many nice folks..and watched sadly as those start to lose their focus and can no longer play.  Today that happened...A friend in her 90's got so confused that she was taken back to her apartment by her caregiver ......

Nothing like fabric to cheer a day.  No one who is not a sewist can imagine how delightful it is to sort 

through scraps for the perfect fit, color, design and memories..

Fabric and Chickens...again...

Well now, quilting  yesterday with Charmaine and Linda brought fun, support and the gift of their organizational skills...  Things finished: 

Janet's 6x9" potholders to fit right into her drawer,

From Portland comes a picture of hens sneaking up to Aoife's bedroom onto clean holiday sheets!

The last of the prepared children's washcloths...Thank you , Linda!

Voila   The first  egg...five months later, from Clover...in Portland....My first grand-egg!!

Good job Clover...you are so grown up now!!

A tiring good day today....pool exercise in the morning and PT in the afternoon....Dear me...PT as we know, stands for  physical terrorist.  I am exhausted.  It is cooling down in Charlotte as the year whips by.

Aoife, above did not want to go to Kindergarten two days in a row...All made better by the school librarian who raises chickens...TBTG  For that librarian, Aoife wore her 

chicken T-shirt.

My Oregon relatives are chicken crazy.

Here in the family room we find three chickens resting on my antique quilt from c.1910!!!

Who raised that girl of mine??

I have lost almost all of my favorite bloggers...When bloglovin went wrong...even now I cannot find them...sad, but true..

Artsy Craftsy Show

 

First up...darling 5  year old Aoife...home sick for the first two days of kindergarten...So sad that she had to have two of her pet chickens cuddle with her on the sofa.....

When my friend Margaret had identical twin granddaughters, I had  to make quilts...The twins were at risk and it all turned out great!! They are now 3 months old, same age as my girl when we adopted her...

These quilts are for the stroller and/or car seat...as the children age, these can be used for doll quilts.  Sherry  kindly embroidered each girl's name on the quilts...Eloise and Adelaide!!!

My friend here at the complex picked out some fabric for patching the hole in her pants...Voila my patch for her...Another friend is using the second patch that matches for a pocket patch on the back of the black pants...

I whipped out these two rope bowls last night to put in the Art room open house this afternoon...So thrilled I found colored rope online....Orange for the fall.

Baby face cloths covered with children's fabric.  My occupational therapist just had a baby girl.  She also has a two year old son...I made two for the new daughter's bathtime and two for her son...

There was such a lovely craft/art/hobby show in our theater area a few days back.. I showed my wares and appreciated those of others...Here is a buddy who does wood carving...I just loved his wooden bowtie!!  My attendees loved first my African fabric; second the rope bowls.  I was  grateful that it was just a show and not a sale...so relaxing and fun.

Today was a lovely day. I am expecting tomorrow to be the same...Nice to be a retired old lady with an apartment full of stunning fabric...Sigh....xoxo

Quilting at my place today brought Linda and Sherry and my sister...So much laughter and of course they helped me do things around that I am afraid to do without falling....I am so very grateful