Getting ready is the worst part!

 Hi everyone!  I have made a little more progress on the latest String quilt.  The prep work is quite time consuming, but otherwise it is all fun.  I think I am going to put some little something in the black diamonds too.

 Another view...

And I finished hand quilting and binding this one...so it is all good!!



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I did something the other day...something I felt pretty dang good about!  I had a patient, 89 years old, who was just lingering in the hospital.  Her kidneys really were not working well, she had congestive heart failure, and so on and so forth.  So the doctors were just keeping her there!  When I went in to do my AM assessment, she told me, "Darlin...I am leaving and going home today!"  She told me that she was 89 years old, that we were not going to fix just every little thing wrong with her, and that she wanted to go home to her own food and her own water in her own fridge, where she could get strong again! And, she works a full time job and wanted to get back at it!! Her family came in a few minutes later and told me, "WE are taking her home."  Now usually, you need a doctor's order to discharge a patient, but she signed out on her own against medical advice and away she went!  When that sunshine hit her face, she gave me the biggest hug and most beautiful smile...why I felt as if I had helped her break out of jail!!  Yippee for escapes!!!  (in this case...)  I called later and checked up on her...she said she already felt better!!

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Julie

Fancy Strings!

Hi everyone!  I am just loving playing with strings...Using a few here!  I decided to make this setting a little more fancy...this takes a lot more time!  It is great fun, however...I really like going my own way, designing my own little quilts. Not that applique sashing has not been done before...but hey, I like it!

Close up of the applique...also made of tiny bits of strings.  I am having fun so far, but do not want to create another UFO, so will have to plan time to work on this one...



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Hey!  I took care of a 93 year old lady patient the other day. She was Hungarian!  And wow, she was drop dead gorgeous!   Lives by herself, etc... I asked her her secret...She said wash your face with soap and water each day.  Who knew that was all it took, LOL!!

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Have a great day, all!!

Julie

Brimming over with happy!! It all began with a little sneak thievin'...

 OH everyone!  this is a big, big day for me!  At last, my Be Attitudes quilt is actually a quilt.  I just am brimming over with happy...hee!!  My friend Darcie quilted it for me...and it is a wonderful quilting delight!!  Now, I just want to BE all these things.  These fabrics are all old, all from my stash.  No new fabric...some of you may recall that I swiped my husband's old jammie bottoms to make the plaid letters.  This quilt means so much to me...that pajama fabric especially!

 And this quilt will be just right to gift to my sister.  She is a head turner...drop dead gorgeous, and almost 70 years old.  This quilt seems right to give to her...she does not read my blog, so it is all OK!!

 More happy!!  My friend Leeanne from New Zealand sent me just the right size of cutting mat for by the sewing machine.  And more...

 Strings!!!  They are just so very pretty...yum, yum!!  Thank you so very much, Leeanne!!

So, I had to make some string blocks!  Had to, you see...heee!!  Actually, they are just pure fun to make!!  Funny how one color decides to show off...look at that turquoise!



Lots of exclamation points here...hope you have an exclamation point day too!!!


Now stop right here if happy is all you want to hear about today!



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The patient was 88 years old...gravely ill.  Not going to make it, in a final coma.  Poor darling husband came in to see her...he was 92 years old.  Tears dripping down his face, I put my arm around his shoulders...and he talked.  He said, "We had a bad, bad fight about 5 years ago.  I just kept on waiting for her to come and talk to me about it...and she never did.  Now it is too late...too late for me to say I am so sorry.".  Well, the tears were running down my face too, by then...


So our lesson is clear, isn't it friends....



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Julie

A quilt along!

Hi to everyone!  Friends Joyce, Lois and Diane were all in Arizona at a retreat at Joyce's cabin in the hills.  So I decided to join the fun virtually!  Lois sent pictures of what they were up to, and I sent this picture back...barrister's blocks!!  One more to go...

Have a great day, all!!

Julie

Strings!!

HI Y'all...a little string quilt!  The nine patches are 1.5 inches finished.  The string blocks are 3 inches finished.  And the border?  An old pocket square...don't know where that came from, probably the thrift!!  The result?  fun, fun, fun!!!  for me....


Have a great day...



Julie

Under the weather...

 Well, last night?  I got all caught up on my Barrister's blocks!  These are the very first that Randy posted.  So, I am waiting for new ones to be published on her blog.  Nice to be caught up on something, LOL!!

 Strings!!  I am using them...and having great fun doing it!  I want to make another log cabin quilt, and this is the first block.  Loving these strings!!  1.5 inch wide logs...

And tada!  The empty box that the Barrister's blocks were in, all cut out and ready to go...loved being able to just go and pick up one and sew!



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Something I ate yesterday has made me really, really sick.  Yuck!  Hope I feel better tomorrow...


Have a great day, all!!

Julie

Made some more blocks today...Barrister's blocks!!

HI Y'all!

Here are the blocks I have made so far, for Randy's Sew Along.  It was very peaceful (pieceful) today...all these blocks were previously cut out and I all I had to do was tap my feet to the music and sew.  Relaxing, and that is good!  I find that my quilts are infused with whatever emotions I am experiencing at the time I am working on them.  Can you imagine what my "Braveheart" quilt must be like?  Or my "Twilight" quilt?  This one is full of fun and just plain relaxation....loving it!  thanks, Randy!  (who doesn't know me...probably doesn't know I am doing her blocks, but hey...it is a small world!)


Have a great day all!!

Hey, Janet O., of Rogue quilter fame...you are my winner of the pattern from last week...the raggedy quilt!  Hey Angie, of The Thread catcher fame!  You won the raggedy candle mat, and a candle to go with it for fall!  Let me know your addresses ladies...thank you for entering my little drawing.  Go and see these ladies blogs...they are phenomenal!


And more thanks are due...I want to thank each of you who so graciously lend me your wisdom and support and friendship whenever I ask your opinion, with helpful advice and critique!!  You mean the world to me...sincerely!


Julie