Jam and applique

It is time to celebrate!!!  I have completed the center of my applique quilt!  Cathy, at Big Lake Quilter, also is making this quilt.  I just  need to add a border, and the top will be completed.  It is great fun to quilt with friends!!

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Do you know what this means?  An empty project cookie sheet!!!  Whoop!!  So that mean I can start something new...don't you know I already have!! I organized my projects on cookie sheets, sometimes.  

 I made some jam this morning.  I used Splenda for cooking, instead of sugar, so maybe it will be good...not sure if it will set or not.    It was lots of fun, and I have not made any for a long time.

Hope your day is really a great one!!

Julie

Work beckoned...and messed up my quilting time!!

Hello to everyone!!!  I have made some progress on my quilting...above are my blocks for a quilt of valor.   This is my Friday project!!

I pulled this quilt out to gift to a lady patient.  I like this one!!!

I made a lot of progress hand quilting this heart mini quilt.  

And last...and maybe least...this little mini!  No points ever met on this one...but that is OK...it was still fun to make!!

Hope you are having fun too.

Julie

 

Working the plan is working!

Good evening, everyone!!!  Day by day, I have been working my plan, of working on one or two projects a day, intensely, then the next day, another project.  It is working, as I am making project on all fronts.  Above it my String quilt.  It is turning into a heart/string conglomeration, but that is the best of all worlds to me!!!

This one is my 100 blocks quilt...I completed four blocks this week, and sewed two rows together.

I sewed together two more blocks for the 1930's  quilt.  

I completed eight blocks for Lyn's quilt.  

So on I go!  I made progress on my other projects too...just nothing blog worthy, LOL!!!

BUT!!!!!!!!!!!  There are squirrels in our midst...those lovely flitting creatures that draw our attention and love!  

AUTUMN quilts are beckoning to us!!!  Stay tuned!!!!!!!!!!

Julie

 

An update!

Hello to everyone!!!  Above...I at last chose a fabric to put my primitive/prim blocks together with.  Although, it is a modern polka dot, and I have used lots of pink in the blocks.  So I am not sure what you call this quilt...modern or prim!!!  Anyway, I am scouting around my stash for an appropriate border.  On I go!

I am making a quilt of valor, and made these blocks, above, for it.  Great fun!

For Rainbow quilts, the color of September is orange...so I made these blocks.  Yummy!

For Lyn's quilt, I made these blocks.  I love them!

My plan of working on a different project each day is working!  Two weeks down...I am delighted with my progress!!!

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We had another patient, on our very floor, that has been declining from covid for three weeks. Yesterday, we had to put her on the ventilator.  Before this, she screamed and cried "Please save me, don't let me die!"  Cried and cried...  Unvaccinated, obese, and diabetic.  Huge trend here with these fatally ill young people.  The patient is 29, engaged to be married.  It was awful, and the whole event and day almost broke our little nurse taking care of her.   Amy, the nurse, is 25 years old, and she just cried and cried and cried too...and was in the covid room all day, she was exposed to so much, I just pray she does not get sick too.  The patient has a 170 heart rate all day...saturation down to 70 percent on all the support we could give her...and now developed a lung air leak with widened mediastinum.  No way will she survive.  Her lung x-ray is totally whited out...should be black where air is.  

   

I just had nightmares all night about being intubated on the vent, and I could not speak, and no one was in the room to hear me!  Arggh!

Please please, do all you can to protect yourself and your loved ones from this fate.  It is horrific. 

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Julie

 

An inspiring quilt!!

 This quilt is goat approved, as you can see...I just love this one!!  I thought I would share it for all to admire.  It was made by my friend Annie!  Annie quilts...and rescues goats, among all her other volunteer efforts.  This pattern is available,  

HERE:

Hot Crossed From Pieceful Gathering Quilt Shop in Illinois

Have a lovely day, each of you!!

Julie

A week's worth of effort

I worked my plan, of working on a different project every week...lots of effort into each one!  Above is my Sunday project.  Applique day!!!  These are the final four blocks for my Mrs.  Lincoln's quilt, that I am making with Cathy.  Hurrah!!  

Monday, I worked on strings.  Plaid strings and hearts...and now I have a plan.  I laid everything out, and made these 5 string blocks.  PROGRESS!!!

I could not resist making this little heart quilt, from some of the heart/string blocks.  A plain, drab border seemed best, so the hearts could shine.

These are actually 1930's blocks!!  The flag looks perfect in the finished quilt. A quilt along from 2019, this one had stalled.  No longer stalled, though...I have these blocks completed, and three more cut out.  This is my Tuesday project.

This quilt is so special, near and dear to my heart.  My friend Lyn cut this whole quilt out for me, in the designer's original fabrics, and I am just so in love with it.  I made the above eight 6 inch blocks, that go in the quilt.  It is from Editar Sitar; Laundry Basket Quilts.  This is my Wednesday project.

I purchased a special project box to keep this all together...it is so special to me that I savor it, and save it.  No more saving it for good....must get it done and start enjoying the finished project!  Thank you, Lyn!!

By the way, that is a 1930's influence...saving things that you especially treasure for "good."  We should not do that! Burn the pretty candles, use the good dishes...use it now, for life is short!!!  Make the quilts that are most special to you!

Here is my 100 blocks in 100 days quilt.  I finished five blocks this week...see above.  This is my Thursday project, along with the baby quilt below.

Doggy blocks!!!  A sew along from Sew Fresh Quilts!

Friday is a Quilt of Valor day.  Red, White, and blue squares were cut, and a plan developed.  I feel very called to make a quilt of valor, and make it soon.

The plan is the hardest part for me!!

Friday is also solids day...this quilt is all cut out, just need to continue sewing the blocks. 

Saturday is Rainbow quilt...our friend Angela is our hostess, encouraging us to use our rainbow scraps!  So I made another one of these blocks..  Hurrah!

And now it is back to Sunday, so I will work on applique again!

I am going to get sidetracked, I know that...but it sure has been fun challenging myself to move some projects forward!

Have a lovely day, each of you...

Julie
 

The Grid Girls Mystery Quilt!!!!

Good morning!  Lookee, lookee!!!!  My friend Annie and I finished our mystery quilt!!!  Above is Annie's quilt.  The quilt itself is so warm and lovely...the fabrics were to be chosen from the border fabric.  Perfect work!!!  and great fun to sew on this one together!!

 Here is my quilt...a cool looking quilt.  Both will go to a charity of our choosing.  

I have to say, this was a very well run mystery quilt, on Facebook...next time, I will give fair warning that the clues are up, now that I know about it!!!

My new system is working splendidly, of working intensely on a chosen project each day.  Great fun!!!

More pictures to come, 

Julie