Finally a Few Minutes to Show What I've Been Up To!

Since the quilt retreat, I've been really busy, busy!  Seems like there has been no time for a break at all, and I haven't really accomplished too much.  I have, however, made a little time for quilting.  Guess that should be time for sewing.  But....I've done a lot more than that which kept me from sewing.

Second day after arriving at home after the retreat, I was contacted by the funeral home and asked to play for a dear friend's funeral.   Then two days after that a classmate died, one that had all through our school days had lived just two doors from me, and we had played together all those years with our little neighborhood gang on the  vacant lot between our homes.  Though w never dated, I loved him dearly, almost like a brother, (and he was so darned good looking!).   Would you believe that the very night of his funeral visitation before his funeral, another dear classmate had to be taken to the emergency room, and was later dismissed to a nursing home where he will spend the rest of his life!  All of this was almost more than I could deal with.  Since then two more friends, not classmates, have died.  I'm about ready for a "happy" party rather than a funeral!  So much for that!

I had shown the little cowboy quilts in earlier posts.  Well, I finally got them mailed to my grandson today.  I think his little cowboy is due Sept. 9, so I didn't have much time to spare there.

Seems like all the rest of the time I've either been in a doctor's office, the ER, or having a Vertigo drop attack at home!  In the past ten days I've had one attack as I was leaving the doctor's office, plus four others since at home!  Haven't had one yet today, and hope I don't, but I can't guarantee it.    They come on so unexpected and so fast.  I'm told by three doctors that there is no cure for Meniere's Disease, but I wish something could be found to control it, and soon!  It sure cuts down on my gasoline bill though; I haven't even looked in the garage at my car in two weeks!  I'm about to wear my son and my friends out, just hauling me around!

It's really a good thing that I love my home, and love being here!  So------in the meantime, I've gotten my embroidery blocks together into a quilt top.  I hope to begin quilting it next week if all goes well between doctor's appointments.  It is not perfect, and not as pretty as the quilt that inspired me to try it,  but so far, I'm very proud and pleased with it.   It is now 107" x 97", larger than anything I've made in a long time!

So here's a few pictures of it.

I like the way the sashings fit around the bed edge.   Never before made one this close to floor!

Center Block; I just couldn't  cut into her pretty dress!

Hope everyone has a great week-end, with cooler weather, but no storms!

---"Love"