New Beginnings

 New beginnings for this blog come the new year. It has been a while since I have blogged on here. Most days I've been posting to instagram, and my blog has suffered for it. Starting in January, I will be posting here again as well. Although I've not posted here, I have been busy and have had many life moments to happen.

We are now empty nesters, with both of my younger children going to college and graduating. They have both chosen to stay in TX, where they have jobs and apartments. My son is engaged and will be getting married this coming June, so a lot to look forward to. This January will mark the four year anniversary that my lovely dad left this earth to be with the Lord. My mom is hanging in there and we celebrated her 86th birthday this past August. My oldest daughter and her family are doing well. The boys, Riddick and Whizzer are doing good as well.

As for quilting and stitching, I have been continuing both. With covid and the lockdowns, I have made quilts, fabric books, stitcheries and worked on the seemingly endless ufo pile. Which has been nice to see dwindling down over this past year. Yay for a smaller ufo basket to work from!

My sweetheart and I just celebrated 32 years of marriage! It's been a wonderful ride so far and we are looking forward to the next 32 years!

That's pretty much an update on what has been happening in my world since my last post. I'll be back on January first to start the new year off with a post. So, if your still interested in my blog, I will see you then. Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

New Project

I've started a new project with some previous pieces. These were originally going to be separate pieces. As they sat waiting for inspiration on how to stitch these to canvas, they decided that they would become one. The theme is hearts and circles. There will be organic free form stitching and added cloth patches to this. There is a private story told in this work and I'm ok with that.  I've decided not to explain the reasons behind this what if project, just to let it evolve from the heart. I have no set design in mind or time to finish. As the cloth evolves and speaks to me I will listen to the gentleness of the cloths voice and wrap it up when complete.

The Boys

Both my sweetboys are being super lazy today.

Fall Tree

I have finally put up my fall tree. I'm also trying another post from my phone after getting some help.

No Pics....

I was posting my posts from my phone for several years now. This past summer I got a new phone and now I cannot post from my phone. No matter what I do it will not post. I am working on figuring this out, but for now I need to find a camera so I can make pics and post from my laptop again. Hopefully I still have followers who will see this and know that I have not abandoned my blog, I am just having issues with posting at the moment. I be back soon, I promise.
wendy

UFO Block Now A Wall Hanging

My sweet husband bought me a new Juki TL 2010Q at Christmas because my Bernina stopped working right before the holidays. I had this quilt block laying around in my ufo pile for a lonnnnnng time and decided to go ahead and break the new machine in by quilting it. I love how it turned out. And my new machine, wow, wow, wow! This machine will fly and is a workhorse. I absolutely love it. I have been wanting this machine forever and a day, so this is what I chose. It only does a straight stitch and that is fine with me. The Bernina will be going into the hospital to be fixed soon, now that I am able to drive and move around a bit. I am hoping it can be fixed as it will be great if I need to zig zag or want to use those fancy stitches on it. If not, I can always use the Pfaff that the hubster picked up at a yard sale a few years ago. Hope you are having a great day.

Santa Sack Part 2

I noticed that I had not posted what I had made and sent out to my partner in the Secret Santa Sack swap this past year. My partner has a year round tree and she wanted some fall ornaments, so I made her these to go along with the bowl cozies, which are reversible and coasters that I made for her. I really enjoyed making all of these for her and she was happy to receive them.

Finally A Post!

I hope all my readers are still here. I have been sick with two types of flu since December 27th of 2017 and am also dealing with four herniated discs in my back. The last flu has taken me five weeks to get over and I am still very tired. I had a block on my L4 and L5 the middle of January. Which has helped tremendously with my lower back. However, the upper back at T11 and T12 where there is involvement with my spinal cord, those two herniated discs along with the bone degeneration is knarly at times. I was prescribed a tense unit and have had massive amounts of physical therapy, which is helping, but it is slow go. The surgeon and I are trying to keep me from having to have surgery. I'm getting better, just wanted to finally post on the blog. Most of my posting since Christmas has been on insta gram as it is so easy with the phone. I am on the mend now and will try to post regularly again. My yard is in full spring bloom mode at the moment, even though it is still dropping into the 30's at night here. March has come in like a lion with high winds and cold breezes. I'm happy to be feeling much better. I do have a quilty post for tomorrow so hope to see you here. Have a blessed and wonderful day!

Secret Santa Swap 2017

I joined in on the Santa Sack Swap again this year which was hosted by @madaboutbags on instagram. Below is what I received from my partner Rachael. This was such a lovely swap and I love everything that I received from my partner.

I will show what I sent to my partner in part two of this post. Hope you had a wonderful Christmas!

SSCS 2017 part 1

Hi everyone, I do hope your Christmas was a wonderful time with family and friends. We had a wonderful Christmas dinner with our family, which for us was missing one important member this year my dad. This was our first Christmas without him and it was really hard on all of us, but we made it through sharing memories and stories of past Christmases. Then on Monday night I was hit by a nasty virus that has kept me in bed until today and my son came home from work on Wednesday night with the same thing. Not fun at all. Today I have been able to keep down a bit of yogurt and pedia lite for kids. That's it. Better days ahead. Now on to the good part of this post. This is my swap parcel from my partner for the SSCS 2017. We make one ornament and a gift for our partner then send it out and wait patiently for Christmas to arrive....

I love both sides of my ornament!

The pics of this table runner do not do it justice. It is so gorgeous!

Hi everyone, I do hope your Christmas was a wonderful time with family and friends. We had a wonderful Christmas dinner with our family, which for us was missing one important member this year my dad. This was our first Christmas without him and it was really hard on all of us, but we made it through sharing memories and stories of past Christmases. Then on Monday night I was hit by a nasty virus that has kept me in bed until today and my son came home from work on Wednesday night with the same thing. Not fun at all. Today I have been able to keep down a bit of yogurt and pedia lite for kids. That's it. Better days ahead. I should have posted sooner, but just opened this on today. Look at my beautiful ornament and table runner that Maria made for me! Absolutely stunning is all I can say about both. I joined SSCS 2017 this year. I have participated in all but one of these and I always enjoy swapping and making a new friend. One of my favorite swaps. I will post tomorrow what I sent out to my partner. Thank you Chooky for another great swap.