Oliver and Clover quilts are complete are complete.

This is organic quilting, there isn't  a straight line on it.

Clover's has feathers.

I also completed 2 batches of strawberry jam this week.  I really wanted to make more but I can't handle being on my feet as long as I used to

And finally,

Lump had spring break this week so I took Thursday off and we went to the Zoo.

Wishing you more quilting time than I will have.

Rose

It's amazing how time consuming smoking is.  Today is day 13 without.  My son commented that I don't come down from the sewing room to go out to smoke.  I managed to get, not one but, two quilt tops done today.

A friend of mine became a grandmother to twins last week.  A boy and a girl.  I asked if they were using blue and pink in the nursery.  She said no, they were using earth tones and woodland animals.  I thought that is great for a boy.  I had a really hard time making a baby girl quilt with earth tones.

This one is Oliver's.  I saw it on pinterest yesterday, thought it over last evening and made it happen this morning.   I have never done this without a pattern before.  I did add a border on top and bottom.  I wanted them to both be about the same size and not square.

Then, because of the trouble with an earth tone girls quilt, I went with this for Clover.

The sun was coming in the window when I took this picture.  It was already 6:00.  I should get a glass of wine and start quilting them.

I haven't had a whole lot of quilting time on the Sweet 16.  SOOOOO looking forward to that.  I plan to do some ruler work on Oliver's and some swirls on Clover's.  Unless I can get some blue Pounce before I get to hers.

I've been wanting to go to a new "to me" quilt shop (it's an hour and a half away) but, Saturday is my only sewing day so I hate to spend it on the road.  I'm thinking maybe next Saturday DH and I can take a road trip and I will take a day off the next week.  Lump is on spring break and March is one of the two months in the year that we don't have a holiday.  Any ole excuse for a day off will do.

Wishing you more quilting time than I will have.

Rose

Clementine Block 2

This is block number two of Clementine, last years BOM with The Jolly Jabber.  It took me all weekend to complete and pieces were already cut!  The seams are all pressed open.    I didn't realize how time consuming that would be.

The green and I didn't get along.  The small block has two corners with the wrong side up and the big block, well, it's kind of obvious.  Oh Well.  My ripper and I don't get along either.

Occasionally we get together with two other couples have "Bowling League" on Fridays at the Cox Cabana (friends back porch).  We Wii bowl on their back porch and then have dinner.  It's so much fun.  She has drapes around the porch and table top heaters on the tables so we can pay even if it's cold.  Friday while bowling DH had a health episode and had to be taken by ambulance to the hospital.  He has had this kind of episode before.  As a matter of fact the Dr at the hospital said the EKG was exactly the same as it was in 2017.  They gave a us a big medical name for what is happening.  I google it and according to the Mayo Clinic site, he's having fainting spells.  So when he goes to his Dr about this, I'm going to have him ask if we really need an ambulance ride for this.  It is quite scary at the time, but now that I know what it is maybe it won't be so bad.

You know, after the fact, you can kinda joke about it.  Our son said he needs to quit acting like a teenager.  And I told him I'm glad he didn't mess up my sewing day.  This getting old is hell.

I wish I could get some quilts finished that I could send/take to Beauregard.

And lastly, today is day 7 of no smoking.

Have a smoke free, issue free, sewing week.

Rose

I made the quilt in the header picture for my mom years ago.  She loved scotty dogs.  It is the only paper piecing I have ever done (not my thing).  I have enough of the paper with patterns printed on them to make another quilt. 

The quilt came back to me when my mom passed away in 2013.  I lost it.  Searched the house multiple times.  The last time I remembered seeing it was at my grandson's high school football game in 2016.  I have asked family members if they had it or had seen it.  Nobody had.  My son (Lump's dad) often uses the golf cart to go across the neighborhood to visit friends and I asked if he had left it at the friends house.  The answer was no.  I planned on having dear SIL post it on FB to see if any football parents had seen it. 

I haven't really been dwelling on the fact that I lost the quilt, but it does cross my mind often and it bothers me.

I was sitting here today blog hopping when something hit me in the head.  My son was cleaning his room and found the quilt in his closet and dropped it from upstairs.  All I could say was THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.  My moms quilt is back home.

Wishing you more quilting time than I will have.

Rose