Plugging Along...

Crazy Jelly Road Scramble number three.

 What is left...oh, yeah....I am going to try to get these all into one

so I can be done.

This is what happens with UFO or WIPs hidden in a basket forever.

I am forcing myself to keep on keeping on.

I think it will be a long time before I do  another  jelly roll.

My hip is getting worse than worse.

I struggle to even lift the leg to the gas peddle or more importantly,

the sewing machine peddle

Sewing now with the left leg.

I have moved my ortho appointment from next week to tomorrow.

Lovely lunch out with friends today...xoxo

Every Little Thing Gonna Be Alright

I just love Bob Marley.

Happy Birthday America

I love this vintage piece.
For years, I have been  putting it into a quilt, but I like it too much the way  it is.

Someone is growing up...

Shucking the corn for the dinner.

 
Daddy came with small fireworks for his children.
TBTG it was raining...so safe enough.
I was so sad to be spending a holiday alone when Eamon said he wanted to come.
Kids came home and we did it.
All that sadness for nothing...crazy Grandma.
Old Grandma was a bit anxious, but what else is new.
I gave ms Stephanie some money to take my son to Walmart for new shoes and socks.
Being homeless does a number on a persons feet.
Because I practiced my program, it was a lovely day.
Like they say:
Yesterday is history
Tomorrow  is a mystery
and today is a gift...

Crazy is done...

 This is the backing...crazy too...

My girl climbing Trinity Alps in Northern Calilfornia.
Three days backpacking and camping...They are in heaven.

Her man and the view.

 My girl, not eaten by a bear and not eaten by a tick.

Now they are farm camping in Ashland, Oregon...
On someone's farm with animals galore...that's my girl.
She is so good about calling Mommy.and sharing her life.
Tonight the dog is asleep, the cats are asleep
The children are asleep
Fireworks are loud and ongoing.
The sounds of a celebration
And, not sounds of a war zone.
Too bad one has to think of that now.
Counting the days till my ortho appt next Wednesday.
xxxooo
A lot to celebrate at casa O'Quilts.

Crazy Scrap Quilting

Today I know that this is my life.  If I want to sleep all day and quilt all night, I will.
So, there..'The inside tape that runs through my brain:
"Idle hands are the work of the devil"
No one said it....I just feel it.
I vow to be grateful...
Thank you Kara for your inspiration.
Now...on to the quilt with no hope..or..
Maybe, a little hope.
A jelly roll made of scrap 2.5 inch strips...
Last year when I took my machine to the nursing home
to help my new knee replacement.heal.
I made a jelly roll quilt.
I cut it all up and have finished one so far...
This is crazy, uneven challenge number two.

 Fabric is funny....the zig-zag green in the cross lattice, I hated.
The border fabric was crazily unloved...yet...
The miracle of fabric, is that there is a place for it all.
Just like people...a place for everyone.
.I have these left for another challenge.

Giving me hope in the morning light...
From my sewing room window...the dawn has come and
Morning has Broken..

Enjoy the two links below.
I love you Rachel..and how brilliant you are.
Thank  you for sharing the stunning quilts from the Sydney show.
Rachel at Blue Mountain Daisy

And, as for Marc and Angel...I was hoping for an easier route..
But, this is the truth...and a helpful reminder..
Two things to do for happiness, Marc and Angel Hack

A Question for Grandma O'Quilts

The children will be staying still another day and night at their cousins..

They love it so.

See the scissors...??  Do you know the temptation now?????

SIGH.. I think these precious ones cut thru duct tape!!

 Evan...Please  make Grandma some bobbins.

Grandma....look at the mess you have made of my sewing table..

Sorry Evan

 Amn't I a good Grandma!!

 From the bottom of the basket...cleaning...I found these.

 And, I found this...I think these are all from the jelly roll I made

at the nursing home last  year when I was recovering from my June knee surgery.

 Look at the sloppy job I did cutting the jelly roll apart..

I put in the green lattice tonight...looks like the wave..

That's what happens from living in the bottom of a basket for a year.

  

I think I will wait until tomorrow for any more work on this.

Things could go from bad to worse late at night.
Decision time...hmmm

Just Sayin' .... Grandma O'Quilts tries harder.

Just back from the grocery store where I bought Evan his new Oreos.

Now, he will never know..unless I eat all these too..Jeeze Louize

The store was hard for me...all families bustling about for holiday fixings.

My friends are mostly gone for fun times elsewhere...
My family...well, they are mostly just plain gone.

Fine...I will open the Oreos...the store is open again tomorrow..

It is 4 pm and I have made no progress at all.

I am setting the timer for 30 min and will report back to myself.

 Above,  duct tape over Evan's Oreos...or what is left...

Clear...almost...Stitch????

If you come to visit...at least you can sit down now..for now...Yeah!!
Thank you Wanda for the timer idea:)

Never being one to like suffering...I treated myself on Amazon Prime.
The Modern Triangle one is for Charlotte Modern Quilt Guild ideas.
The Patchwork City I read in the library while waiting for the children to finish tutoring.
I loved it...so I splurged.
After my meeting tonight, I will set another 30 min on the timer...wow.
So need ideas on my over flowing scrap baskets...
I adore my scraps...

Red wine in a jelly jar and a big awful mess.....

Supervision is always needed...Stitch by any other name is still Stitch.

 This is the UFO....found buried at the bottom of the basket with Stitch.

It certainly takes a bit of vino tinto to be real about the help I need!!!

I really really really love Stephanie...but...

It is only when I have a weekend to myself that I can roll around

with no guilt in my mess....Well....maybe a little guilt.

She is absolutely dying to bring the garbage bags in here.

She practically stomped out the door when she saw that the 7 and 8 year old

were starting stashes too..
If you are totally loyal...in a few years I will show you the clean- up..
Oh....I am not being truthful...there will be no clean- up..
Why ruin my good fabric life....

ha ha ha ha.

So much fun.

See how happy my fabrics make me.

Soooo happy!!

The Full Quilting Life.

Bye Bye June....
Tonight I have good news....
I found Evan's birthday mint Oreos...
He has gone off to his cousins for the weekend..
I do not know when exactly I turned into my mother...
but, deed is done...tomorrow..off to buy him more..

 Dylan is 7 and sweet as sweet can be.  I was to mend Teddy here..tonight.
As for the bow...well I just had to know that it is a boy teddy...hmmm.
Hope this is OK...

 Put the binding on this gift quilt...It was too much for my shoulder.
Four months out of six to heal...I thought I could do at least the binding..
Jeeze...so now I certainly cannot quilt for two more months.  What to do???
For my soon to be replaced right hip..I am on, altogether... ...
 Naproxen twice a day,
 Tylenol Arthritis twice a day
 and Tramadol twice a day
,two glasses of red wine, once a day.
Hip still hurts.
I think that is why I did not feel the pull on my shoulder.
Oh, well....I can still piece..!!  TBTG

 .

Wednesday the two littles were thrilled beyond belief to have thought of 12 candles
on the breakfast muffins..TBTG they waited for the matches..

This 12 year old has had so many birthday parties...
It does not show...but secretly he was pleased that his siblings thought of him.

CMQG this week showed t-shirt rope...interesting..

This top is done...full of big mistakes...but...I decided that no one would complain if I gave it anyway as a present...

Just love this perfect backing

More estate fabric Wednesday night...guess who was still up.???
Guess who got into the grab.??..
Guess who has decided on a stash of their own??

A holiday weekend alone...
This is no way to get my brave on....
Why do I do this to myself???
Give Me Your Hand
Time to Say Goodbye

Old Flames

A Picture is worth a word or two???

A coffee shop in Krakow...LOVE

So needing this one ....


My favorite sayings:
1.  If a door doesn't open, it is not your door..
2.  Humility, like the darkness, reveals the  heavenly lights...Thoreau
3.  It is good to remember, with one trifling example, that the whole world is made up of others.

Mrs. O'Quilts Celebrates

Color is the answer to most things...OK, Chocolate too..
Latest process on the design wall.

 Evan decided that he needed a lap quilt in order to better
enjoy his computer games...so...he cut a piece of my batting...OMG
Today, I found the extra blocks from Granddaddy's shirts.
Perfect to make a cuddle quilt for his oldest grandson.
I will batt it with wool for super cozy.

My girl camping in Washington state near Oregon.

June 24 was my grandmother's birthday.

She would have been 121 this year.....born 1897 died 1997 sigh..

Family folk lore tells it that she was really born the next day...but that was  Mid-Summer's Day..and she did not want to compete.

She wanted a day to herself.

Since there were no records to speak of then.....Who knows??
I certainly wish she was here to gossip and laugh with.
She made a much better matriarch than I do.

Heroin, the leading cause of deaths in Americans under 50
Son, I love you so.
  You were in great shape at Evan's 12th birthday party.
My heart....

Do not worry about Grandma O'Quilts and family
The Karate Black Belts in my family are ready for sparring at any time.
So proud.!!

Grandma O'Quilts is getting better every day
How could I not with so much to be grateful for.
xo

Just because
Leaving on a Jet Plane

Stitch ....In Hindsight

Wordless....Stitch..just wordless...

Top done and in my advanced age...one of my favorite

Katie Jump Rope fabrics used for the backing, instead of hoarded!!! 

The visit with my girl was totally awesome.

Such a lift for me..

She put all the quilts left..on the spare bed..

I can see that I just had better be gifting..soon.

 We ate out all the time.

Here the bread at our favorite restaurant..Lebanese...Kabab-je

The bread was so awesome, that we both took phone photos of it.

 I really hate making these divided four patch blocks.

I decided to mix them with easier blocks to see how it goes.

The fake oriental writing came from Hancock's fabrics in Phoenix.

My father died on May 20, 1997

My mother gave each of her daughters $200 to go to the fabric stores for 

psychic relief as we broke from the hospital routine

I bought that grey fabric then...wow..

Going to just see how this goes..

 I sent Lynsey and her great cousin Alexis upstairs to pin a doll

clothes pattern onto fabric.

Ha ha...They stabbed the pins into the fabric.

Lynsey was furious that all her 8 year old work was in vain.

She accused her darling grandmother of not giving proper instructions.

 In case you think that all I do is rant....I made binding tonight.

Had a nice rainy lunch with Sherry today.  She taught me how to talk out loud to myself.

I am to say...."Diane!!!  You can do this!!! " And other random positive things.

I have tried it already..

Thank you Sherry.