Grandma O'Quilts gets to sew

The pillowcase story.

A friend of mine...hmm...is sad...so sad..
.Her husband was deported a year ago.
He came to this country when he was 17.  He married and has four children...He was here 20 years, built a wonderful business, has a five bedroom house, paid taxes...One day, as he was leaving for work, coffee in hand..ICE came to his door.  He spent 5 months in an Atlanta detention center and then off he went to a country he had not seen in forever to relatives that are now dead.  His children are all young American citizens, now with anxiety.  What to do??  I can do nothing....just made four pillowcases..cozy flannel to spread the love.

I bordered this baby top tonight...

 
 I think it will be ok, with an orange binding...I am going to back it in this cute green print.
Girl???  Boy???
I am out of sugar...so I ate Lynsey's cookies...guess I am off to the grocery store tomorrow.

The O'Quilt family has two kids down with aches and pains, stomach, head and body.
No fever.and no head cold.  TBTG they all got their flu shots.

Tonight I was planning on a self-absorbed evening when our....
 Stephanie encouraged me to go to the Charlotte Modern Quilt Guild meeting.
I was sooo glad I went.
 I came home inspired by the quilts and the friends and the quilting.

Tomorrow's plans:  To cut strips to choose a border for this fun one patch of mine.

My girl and her man have bought a 1910 house in Portland, Oregon.
They will be so busy now bringing it up to their expectations.
Good news is so very wonderful.

Worry free...my goal for the year..
Role model....Stitch.

The totally good day Friday, Whew!!!

The supervisor!!!
The driver!!
The man!!




And off goes my sister to a new apartment in a cozy residential neighborhood.
And the angels sing..and her sister (moi) sighs with great relief!!!!

We are thanking angels of all sorts

Those above in the stars.

Those right down here on earth!!

My pit bulls and I are cozy here by the fire on a chilly autumn eve.
Zoe is thrilled with the canine company...
We are, once again...looking at yellows:)

I am moving the yellows to the other room..so they will not have to be double stacked.
And just because I can!! And, just because I want to!!

 Really, look at the pix next to the bookshelf...My mother and grandmother are gossiping.
In that picture, my mother is 71 and my grandmother is 95.!!!!
They are probably too busy to comment on my new use of the old office space...lol
Below are my 10 finished pillowcases:)

I am putting presents into a closed closet now...cuz I can never trust someone....
not to sleep on precious stuff.  Then I have to wash it again!!!

A friend had a seizure a few weeks ago.  She fractured a few lower disks in her back.
Now,  it seems that the MRI showed a mass on one side of her brain..
A big call out for hugs and prayers for our great quilting friend!!!

We love you Rhonda!!

The Wednesday adventures of Grandma O'Quilts

Hello, my name is Grandma O'Quilts...Today there was no school. 

 I took three children for dental check ups this morning. 

 Then had to bring one back for an extraction...all the way to Mint Hill....

Hello there...my name is Dylan and I am five.  I had a tooth pulled today and cannot wait until my very first tooth fairy experience...I am thrilled beyond belief!!

 Hello there...I am Lynsey and I am 6...I am having a scrap sorting experience...

I am learning cool colors, warm colors and neutrals.

So proud I am!!!

This afternoon Dylan and Grandma and Zoe were chillin in the yard welcoming fall...

We were thinking of our dentist,who worked all day in her crowded office on children's teeth.

She is 9 months pregnant and being induced tonight...

Like WOW!!

 Grandma treated herself by finishing 6 pillowcases..

I keep telling myself that it is only September and look what is ready for Christmas.

Last night ordered fabric I did not need from Hancock's of Paducah.

It was because I did not want to go to bed without my man.

From the outside looking in, I know it all... 

But, I am on the inside looking out.
I know nothing.

Obsessive behavior.. may look crazy to others, heck, it looks crazy to me.

Overeating chocolate, over collecting fabric, over worrying about my son,

It somehow keeps the grief at bay,. keeps the focus off the real deal.
It is my Morphine for my pain.
I miss Himself soooo!
I figure that it is my life and whatever works for me now..I will just do!!
And this is the season for atonement..Thinking about it.


RECHARGE
 begin over
start anew
do the things
you want to do

erase trivia
overlook crass
pick yourself up
or you'll fall
on your
EXCUSES

Alice Franzen Clemons Burt

Good Day Sunday

Look what I am doing tonight. I am in the pillowcase spirit somehow....You know that Black Friday at JoAnn's Fabrics usually brings a huge flannel sale...from $1.46 to $1.67 a yard in most recent years..sale plus coupons...We wait until early evening when most shoppers have gone home.  Usually the store is pretty empty of shoppers by then...and we go nuts over flannel  Since tomorrow is the first day of fall,

 I am starting with the flannel pillowcases.using last year's flannel!!!

 I have six ready to sew...then I will have the kids pull them through tomorrow after school.

Such a plan.

With school in full swing, I am amazed at the difference in 100 years since I went...ha ha

Lynsey is in first grade.  She is 6 years old and all her homework is now done on the computer...OMG

My daughter's man came by tonight to set up an icon on the Ipad and computer,

 so she could do the homework.

All the homework assignments come in an email..

.Old Grandma realized that just in time tonight!!

Thank you Drenna for last years sight words laminated...yeah!! 

I am using them now for both Lynsey and Dylan:)

That God in Heaven for Katie G...without whom we would all be in homework despair.

Katie is a great friend, great tutor and now total fabric freak...yeah...(so not my fault)

Tonight I am ending my good day with a 10 pm diet dinner:

Diet popcorn with diet butter and diet red wine...

I so know how to work it!!!
PS.
I would suggest that u do not try this combination at night.
It leads to Hancock of Paducah sale page
With mucho admiring of Kaffe and Batiks
A person, in my opinion, should just go to bed...