O'Quilts

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Monday, August 14, 2023

A Scrappy Week Ahead

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Friends and family all busy with their lives this weekend.  The only travel I could do was in books.   It is marvelous to have a library on ...
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Thursday, August 10, 2023

Still on the Upward Path

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Mary in Maryland....I cannot find your email....all I can find is Green Wizard...Help !!!  I know I had it...but age is upon me..xoxo Quilte...
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Tuesday, August 8, 2023

As Body Heals, Mind Heals too....so Grateful

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Above is my rendition of "Meadowland", a pattern by Megan Buchanan. I started it 5 years ago and finished it tonight.  I am ashame...
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Sunday, August 6, 2023

Hot and Rainy Sunday

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Posting a bit tonight to carry on....Made this rope bowl.  Too lazy to change the thread so the pink thread makes the bowl look pink .  I am...
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Saturday, August 5, 2023

A Day Out to Save my Soul

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 Big thank you to my sister who picked me up today and joined me at a Mexican food restaurant.  Getting out after my recovery made a new per...
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Thursday, August 3, 2023

A Glorious Day

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I am better!! Whew...looks like I will live after all...Day two of no dizziness as the BP meds have finally started to work...Grateful! I ha...
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Monday, July 31, 2023

As the Day Goes.......

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Amanda Gorman, our poet laureate, depicted on fabric: Just finished Sally's birthday present.  Fun fabric from Spoonflower.  A bag she w...
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Thursday, July 27, 2023

Mrs. O'Scraps and Her Horrible, No Good Great Day

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My new cousin, Mary Lou sent me this picture of a butterfly on a butterfly bush from  her garden. Amazing how it brightened my day.  xoxox M...
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Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Holding on by a String, or Two

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Our Aoife turned 3 on July 22nd...Here she is in  her bed with her new birthday friends.  Big teddy from Ireland and foxes, made by her ma!!...
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Saturday, July 22, 2023

How Can This Be???

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 Lucky me had a visitor on Thursday.  Thirteen year old Dylan came to help his grandmother.  He made bobbins, watered the garden, lifted thi...
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Wednesday, July 19, 2023

The Light at the End of the Tunnel

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 With great relief, I am reporting that I am better.  Today marks the end of week two post surgery. I woke up with joy!!!  Today I had no pa...
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Tuesday, July 11, 2023

And, the Other Shoe Drops.....a Journal Entry

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Sunday night at 4 am, I called an ambulance to our main trauma center where  I had had my two operations 6 days ago.  I was so dizzy. My dau...
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Sunday, July 9, 2023

Delighting in the Good Stuff

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Thank God!! and Thanks to my village......Alive and well here in the Carolinas...trauma behind me. Thank  you my friends for all your kindne...
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I have been quilting since 1973. Thank you grandma for teaching me how to sew...you have saved my life so many times:) I was born in Boston, raised in Arizona, lived 1 year in France, 2 years in England, 2 years in NYC, 2 years in LA, 20 years in Miami, Florida and now living for in Charlotte, North Carolina since 1994. Diane
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