My husband answered his phone and the next thing I know he says our DIL is coming over with her parents and she is pregnant and she is leaving our son with us and having an abortion. She had him come to our house on the pretext of having supper here and blindsided him with all of this. My husband took him back to the hospital in case of a relapse and he stayed for a few days to get himself together. He is with us for now but wants his space and is looking for an apartment. She wants to keep the house and I am sure that she and her family will screw our son over royally. My heart is breaking over this but what can one do. I think my son is happy it is over. She was too demanding and controlling and he could not take it and drank to blot things out. I hope it works out all right for him and he does not go into an alcoholic tailspin. I can only pray we can all heal from this.
On the quilty side, I am almost finished the never ending quilting on the holly hock quilt and have done a little bit of stitching pieces for my Orca Bay. I have been to tired and sad to work for any length of time. I cannot give anything right now to anything.
I pray we heal and soon.
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Haven't posted for awhile
I haven't posted for awhile because there has been so much going on and I have not accomplished any quilting. A customer quilt is taking forever because I am so up in the air about things right now and can't keep it together for more than a few minutes.
DS was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in April because he had a major breakdown. I have been on pins and needles about him ever since. He is on medication now and he seems to be coping but it is rough on his marriage and that is troubling us as well. I hope he can manage to straighten things out and work things out with his wife. They have been together for 14 years so it will not be easy. Thank goodness they don't have children yet.
My health has been not the greatest. I had an ultra sound April 25th and they found a large mass in my uterus. I then had a D&C on May 16th and have not stopped spotting since. I even had a three day period, two days after. My own doctor's office then called to tell me that during that same ultra sound they found a cyst on one of my kidneys so I am waiting for a CT scan appointment to look into that. I am more than worried. I have wasted most of the week worrying about crap, having a major headache and taking my mother to the eye specialist so I am backed up again. I wasted today as well working on my own stuff and not getting very far with that.
I am anxious to getting back to just quilty things as well as trying to get some gardening done. The weather has been crappy these last couple of weeks so that has been on hold.
Off to walk the dog.
Happy stitiching.
DS was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in April because he had a major breakdown. I have been on pins and needles about him ever since. He is on medication now and he seems to be coping but it is rough on his marriage and that is troubling us as well. I hope he can manage to straighten things out and work things out with his wife. They have been together for 14 years so it will not be easy. Thank goodness they don't have children yet.
My health has been not the greatest. I had an ultra sound April 25th and they found a large mass in my uterus. I then had a D&C on May 16th and have not stopped spotting since. I even had a three day period, two days after. My own doctor's office then called to tell me that during that same ultra sound they found a cyst on one of my kidneys so I am waiting for a CT scan appointment to look into that. I am more than worried. I have wasted most of the week worrying about crap, having a major headache and taking my mother to the eye specialist so I am backed up again. I wasted today as well working on my own stuff and not getting very far with that.
I am anxious to getting back to just quilty things as well as trying to get some gardening done. The weather has been crappy these last couple of weeks so that has been on hold.
Off to walk the dog.
Happy stitiching.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
MPQ Quilt Show
I took a flying visit to the MPQ quilt show. I quickly had a look at the vendors and only bought four fat quarters of neutrals for my Orca Bay. I am not interested in starting any new projects so buying fabric for the sake of buying fabric does not interest me right now. I had a quick look at the quilts. There was nothing shown done by me so that goes to show that nobody likes my work and is embarrassed to show it. I apologize to everyone that I have quilted a quilt for. Some of the quilts done by some of the long time quilters are not that great and I think some of the stuff I have done is better but that just might be my jealousy speaking. One of my customers had two quilts done by Green Fairy Quilts in the states. The work is very nice. I wish I had a stitch regulated machine to be able to do some of that detail work. My machine is too jumpy to do that type of work. Anyway, I have come to the definite decision to stop taking quilts for hire and only do my own from now on. I can no longer take the pressure and the humiliation.
I forgot to take my camera with me but there was really nothing that I cared to take pictures of. I also felt and got the brush off from some of the quilters in my satellite group. I am going to quit. They don't like me so why carry on. I know this sounds like a pity party but I have no one to tell so the blog gets to listen. I am happy using up my scraps and making quilts for the family and for charity, I don't need anything else. I picked up a brochure from Quilts of Valour and I am going to start to make some quilts for that cause. I can sort through Kay's fabric to find stuff that is not feminine and they said a maple leaf theme works well. I have a lot of my own fabric that can go to the cause. I am sure that I can figure something out.
Anyway, that is my two cents worth of nonsense for the day.
Happy stitching.
I forgot to take my camera with me but there was really nothing that I cared to take pictures of. I also felt and got the brush off from some of the quilters in my satellite group. I am going to quit. They don't like me so why carry on. I know this sounds like a pity party but I have no one to tell so the blog gets to listen. I am happy using up my scraps and making quilts for the family and for charity, I don't need anything else. I picked up a brochure from Quilts of Valour and I am going to start to make some quilts for that cause. I can sort through Kay's fabric to find stuff that is not feminine and they said a maple leaf theme works well. I have a lot of my own fabric that can go to the cause. I am sure that I can figure something out.
Anyway, that is my two cents worth of nonsense for the day.
Happy stitching.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Very warm day today and spent it in the basement.
The temperature got up to 24 degrees today and it is March 19th. We normally have tons of snow left, slowly melting at this time of year and it is much much cooler. Not complaining. I can take it. It has been overcast for most of the day and we were to have a thunderstorm but it hasn't happened yet. The dog will be thrilled if it does.
I have been downstairs working on Shirley's quilts and have tamed my fears of doing the feather meander type of quilting I have been doing. It has gone better than expected but I am beat right now. I hope to be able to finish it all tomorrow. I can then bury the threads and give them back. Yeah!!! I can then quickly quilt the quilt for the silent auction. I bought the fabric for the border and binding last week and finished sewing it on and making the binding on Saturday. I also did the final border on my Crabapple wallhanging so that is ready to quilt when I have time.
I will finish the last batik quilt for the customer that lives out of town and her daughter will pick it up in April.
I can then dedicate time to quilting Sandra's lovely hollyhock applique quilt. I pretty much know what I will quilt on it. I am going to love doing that quilt.
I finally went to a MPQ meeting on Saturday and re-joined. There were three women who had met Bonnie Hunter in Sarasota this winter and they told their stories and showed off some of the Quiltville quilts they have made. It was great to see a completed RRCB and Orca Bay. That inspired me to start working on my Orca Bay again. I finished cutting the black triangles that I needed and I have started to sew some more of the red strip pieced squares. I still have a lot of work to do on them and I am hoping to just use up all of the red fabric that I have instead of buying more. I am sure I can squeeze them out. What a blessing to have received those "scraps" from Rita. I have used a lot of the blacks that she passed on to me and scrounged some red strips from the 1 1/2" pile that she gave me. I am close to being able to start piecing the blocks. Yeah. Still a lot of construction left.
Time to finish making supper.
Happy stitiching.
I have been downstairs working on Shirley's quilts and have tamed my fears of doing the feather meander type of quilting I have been doing. It has gone better than expected but I am beat right now. I hope to be able to finish it all tomorrow. I can then bury the threads and give them back. Yeah!!! I can then quickly quilt the quilt for the silent auction. I bought the fabric for the border and binding last week and finished sewing it on and making the binding on Saturday. I also did the final border on my Crabapple wallhanging so that is ready to quilt when I have time.
I will finish the last batik quilt for the customer that lives out of town and her daughter will pick it up in April.
I can then dedicate time to quilting Sandra's lovely hollyhock applique quilt. I pretty much know what I will quilt on it. I am going to love doing that quilt.
I finally went to a MPQ meeting on Saturday and re-joined. There were three women who had met Bonnie Hunter in Sarasota this winter and they told their stories and showed off some of the Quiltville quilts they have made. It was great to see a completed RRCB and Orca Bay. That inspired me to start working on my Orca Bay again. I finished cutting the black triangles that I needed and I have started to sew some more of the red strip pieced squares. I still have a lot of work to do on them and I am hoping to just use up all of the red fabric that I have instead of buying more. I am sure I can squeeze them out. What a blessing to have received those "scraps" from Rita. I have used a lot of the blacks that she passed on to me and scrounged some red strips from the 1 1/2" pile that she gave me. I am close to being able to start piecing the blocks. Yeah. Still a lot of construction left.
Time to finish making supper.
Happy stitiching.
Friday, March 2, 2012
Holy Snow Day Batman.
It has been snowing non-stop since last night and boy has the snow accumulated. It starting to really blow with 50 - 60 km winds this afternoon. My DH snow blew the walks and driveway but will have to do them again because it has drifted in again. The dog and I just got back from a walk around the park and the path has really drifted in. Good exercise any. I am in my pajamas at 4:30 already because my pants are soaked and I didn't want to put on my jeans. I am not going anywhere tonight anyway.
I tried to work on my customer quilt but I could not stand at the machine for long today. Hopefully my gift will have settled down a lot by tomorrow. I hope my doctor can do something for me. This is getting old fast at 55.
Anyway, I did sit at my work desk and started to sort some of the fabric that Rita gave me. What a lovely selection. I am sure there is enough there for me to finish my Orca Bay quilt and enough blue and beige squares to get a start on a Blue Ridge Mountain quilt. The squares are 2 1/2 inches and the pattern calls for 2 inch squares so I will have some trimming to do but I don't care. I may change up the pattern and use 2 1/2 inch squares and see how that works. There are larger HST's in it that would have to then finish at 4 inches and that might look large. I will have to do a mock up or see if there is a sample using those sizes to see if it looks too big and unwieldy. I think it should be ok. Maybe I will. Why not.
Well I should go feed his Lordship and start our supper.
Happy stitching
I tried to work on my customer quilt but I could not stand at the machine for long today. Hopefully my gift will have settled down a lot by tomorrow. I hope my doctor can do something for me. This is getting old fast at 55.
Anyway, I did sit at my work desk and started to sort some of the fabric that Rita gave me. What a lovely selection. I am sure there is enough there for me to finish my Orca Bay quilt and enough blue and beige squares to get a start on a Blue Ridge Mountain quilt. The squares are 2 1/2 inches and the pattern calls for 2 inch squares so I will have some trimming to do but I don't care. I may change up the pattern and use 2 1/2 inch squares and see how that works. There are larger HST's in it that would have to then finish at 4 inches and that might look large. I will have to do a mock up or see if there is a sample using those sizes to see if it looks too big and unwieldy. I think it should be ok. Maybe I will. Why not.
Well I should go feed his Lordship and start our supper.
Happy stitching
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Gifted scrap fabric
A lovely long-time customer of mine brought over a pile of scraps for me today. See photo. She has been cleaning out her fabrics and donating the larger pieces to MCC and she gave me these because she knows I love to work on scrap quilts. What a treasure of fabric. I am going to have fun sorting through them. My mind is overflowing with ideas right now.
There are fabrics from every colour of the rainbow. Lots of narrow strips for strip blocks and tons of charm and 2.5" squares. I am going to have fun fun fun.
Here is a good picture of our big boy. Finally one where he is looking at me and not hiding or glaring. It is hard to believe that he will be eight this summer.
Here is a picture of the 1600 quilt top that I am making for Jeff and Jackie's silent auction. I still have to buy the border fabric and quilt it. I am just quilting something simple and allover.
I have used the blue batik as the inner border and am going for something green for the outer border. I better get to the fabric store soon. The social is in April and March is tomorrow.
Back to work for me. I just wanted to post the photo of the fabric before I sort it and put it in their bins.
Happy stitching.
There are fabrics from every colour of the rainbow. Lots of narrow strips for strip blocks and tons of charm and 2.5" squares. I am going to have fun fun fun.
Here is a picture of the 1600 quilt top that I am making for Jeff and Jackie's silent auction. I still have to buy the border fabric and quilt it. I am just quilting something simple and allover.
I have used the blue batik as the inner border and am going for something green for the outer border. I better get to the fabric store soon. The social is in April and March is tomorrow.
Back to work for me. I just wanted to post the photo of the fabric before I sort it and put it in their bins.
Happy stitching.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Sit and Stitch with the ladies
Two of my quilting friends came over this afternoon for our monthly sit and stitch. We had a nice visit and the coffee cake I made turned out good for a change. I think that between the three of us only three or four stitches were made. We spent most of the time catching up with chit chat about everything and anything.
The girls had a tour of my workshop and we had a show and tell of all of my quilt tops waiting to be quilted and most of my UFOs as well. Darlene is inspired to start using up her scraps now.
After panicking to have my bathroom painted and put back together, no one even went in there. Oh well, it needed to be done anyway.
Back to work tomorrow. I have a quilt on the machine that needs to be finished and another one started. I have a customer dropping off a couple of quilts this week as well so I need to catch up.
Happy stitching.
The girls had a tour of my workshop and we had a show and tell of all of my quilt tops waiting to be quilted and most of my UFOs as well. Darlene is inspired to start using up her scraps now.
After panicking to have my bathroom painted and put back together, no one even went in there. Oh well, it needed to be done anyway.
Back to work tomorrow. I have a quilt on the machine that needs to be finished and another one started. I have a customer dropping off a couple of quilts this week as well so I need to catch up.
Happy stitching.
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