Bee in my Bonnet update

Just a few blocks for this  quilt along...great fun to make, and pretty accurate, due to great instructions!!!  It makes quilting lots  of fun!!

Have a great day,

Julie

Dearest Boy update!

HI everyone!  These are not the original trees for this quilt...I tried and tried to make those trees, and finally decided that I would make these instead!  LOL!!!  So here you are...the end is getting closer!!!

Have a super day!

Please see these quilters below to see their blocks.

Karen:  Log Cabin Quilter

Cathy:  Big Lake Quilter
Julie:  Juliekquilts (me)
Carole: Wheels on the Warrandyte bus
Doreen:  Aunt Reen's Place

Julie

Blessed day!!

 I have been working. working....working!  But today, I am off.  I finished the above blocks, for a quilt along at Bee in my bonnet.  These patterns are free....check her blog out here, and scroll backward to see the blocks.  She has a couple different quilt alongs going on, but this one is fun, because it gives the patterns right along...and they are GREAT patterns.


HERE!!

Here is the latest block from Pat Sloan website...it is a Space themed quilt, named "Out of this World"    I have no spacey fabrics, so I am using my scraps as usual.  All the blocks are still up...free!!  By the way, her website has dozens of free patterns...so much fun!


HERE!!

  This is just some cut off points, sew together.

FREE!!   Hahaha!!!!



*************************Nurse's Notes***************************

I have had the most lovely and precious patients!!!

One family feeds me every day...brought me a shirt, and a jacket when I mentioned I was cool...just are the sweetest and nicest people.  They are from an ultra religious family, and cannot cut their hair or wear pants or pierce their ears. Oh the glorious heads of hair on those girls!  Down to their knees!   It is so interesting to see their expressions of faith and family togetherness....just so kind and nice, under very stressful circumstances.

One patient had short term memory loss...it was fun to introduce myself a few times a day!  She was so sweet...her long term memory was totally intact, and she told me that she was a tatter in her day.  Super fun...and a knitter, too.

It was very gratifying to take a "nervous Nelly"  sort of man in his 50's through heart surgery, encouraging him when he thought he could not get up to the chair the day after surgery (which the doctors encourage), to walking right out the front door!  HURRAH!  for him!!!


Loved my week...hope you had a lovely one too, with whatever you do!



Julie







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Tiny Tuesday

 Today, I added the tiny blocks above, to the owl...little bitty blocks but big fun!

I am finishing this quilt top...needs a border and then quilting.  All plaids...all flying geese...all flying north!  I still have not decided what to put in the streak of "plain" blocks I added as a lark...some ideas, perhaps, friends?


Have a super day!

Julie

A wee little owl!

 Angela, at So Scrappy, does rainbow quilts, as many of you know.  This little owl pattern was presented as one of the patterns.  Isn't it just the absolutely cutest thing ever?  I could not make the beak just perfectly match...but I love that part too.

Please see her blog here..lots of green and aqua blocks showing on her blog!  I am linking to her.

 These are my Meeting House quilt along blocks, so far...I think I may have missed one along the way, but I am calling it caught up!  LOL!  On Facebook, just look up Meeting house quilts, if you are interested.

Hey, guess what?  I thought to myself, why DON'T you have any cheddar fabric?  So, I went to the fat quarter shop on line and they had this fabric on sale.  The rest is history!!!




Have a great day, everyone!


Julie

String quilts!!

 I have shown this quilt top before, but I was just thinking...oh watch out!  Thinking again!!!  I truly love strings, and this is a string quilt....

 I wish I had made it bigger, bigger!!!!

If you would like to make some string basket blocks...here you go!  I made these last night.

https://gone2thebeach.blogspot.com/2019/01/blue-baskets-string-quilt-january-update.html

Please see this link, to Lizzie's blog!!!  I love her blocks, and they reminded me that I made the quilt top above, some years ago.  Lizzie is using Cheddar for her handles, and I am using Yellow...because that is what I have...so in it goes!!!


Lori at Humble quilts is having a string quilt along this year, so go over here to see what everyone is up to.


https://humblequilts.blogspot.com/2019/03/stringalong-linky-month-3.html

Scraps rule...and strings...

and by the way?  Lovely new yardage does too!!  Any fabric is wonderful in my book!!!!!!




Hugs from Julie!!

Days off are just the ticket!!!

 Hi everyone!  I finished all the stars, and so now I am working on the outer border of this quilt, Monterrey Medallion, by Atkinson Designs.  My local quilting group members are making this quilt...five of us, in total.

 It is pretty big!!  and it is fun to see the progress, making one block a day.

 Just blocks are just some mindless sewing...green was the Rainbow color of March, so there you go!!  That red one snuck in there...cheeky little quilt block!

These look a bit like a Christmas cactus to me...but they were on sale at Home Depot, named "Spring cactus.".  I missed a picture when all the blooms were open, but I love the color, don't you??



************************Nurse's notes**********************

Thank you for all your sweet notes and support of my WHINING of last post!  LOL!  I was just super tired...but it got me to thinking and set me to action!

Short term strategies for this type of patient:

1.  Male nurses assigned to the patient, if possible.
2.  Don't go in alone to room, to perform care...take a friend.
3. De-brief ASAP, when coming out of room and when shift is over

Long term strategies to take up with management and unit council:

1.  Did we assess alcohol abuse before consenting for cardiac surgery (in this case, we did...charted it)
2.  Have a plan in place for limit setting for his behavior.
3.  Enlist family, if possible, if safe for them
4.  Have a no tolerance policy for abuse.
5.  Partner with the docs for meds, as needed and appropriate.




THERE!  That feels much better!!  A plan is good...


AND DAYS OFF ARE BETTER!

Quilting is healing and therapeutic for me...so on I go, no pressure, just the sheer joy of it!!!  Thank you dear friends, for your support!!


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Julie