Concrete Being Poured For Studio Addition

Today they are pouring the concrete for the studio addition, new parking pad and the new walkway.  I am so excited. 

It is amazing that once you set your mind to something......it gets done! 

Happy Quilting,
Shelia

Bee Night At My House

Meeting with my Bee girls tonight.  Love having this time together.  Mom is feeling better and is here also.  Susan's mom Christine is also coming tonight.

Suzanne came early to put her beautiful star quilt in the longarm and quilt.  She used beautiful batik fabrics to make these stars.

 Sweet Pea (my longarm) was being a very good girl today and quilting beautifully for Suzanne.

 These are jaw dropping beautiful.  Suzanne finished quilting the quilt during bee.

Another wonderful night with my girls.  Love spending time with these ladies, all so talented.  And the laughter is soooooooo good for the soul!

Happy Quilting,
Shelia

A Take 5 Die Project Completed

A few weeks ago mom and I went through our stash and pulled out every green fabric we had and cut them with the Take 5 die from my Accuquilt cutter.  It is a wonderful die.  It only takes a 14-inch wide piece of fabric to make the entire die cut.  Which makes it a wonderful fat quarter friendly die.  With each cut of the die, (if using fat quarters you get 3 extra  4 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch squares since you can fan fold back) you get 1-8 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch square, 1- 4 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch rectangle and 3- 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch squares. x 10 layers.  So you can cut out a quilt very fast.

Needless to say mom and I had a lot of pieces cut in no time.  She pieced 2 complete tops in a matter of hours.

This is the Take 5 Die from Accuquilt.

 Below is one of mom's quilts being loaded into the longarm.

 Green #1 bound and ready for mom.

 Amazing how many green fabrics we had in our stash.  This is only one of the two quilts.  And we had pieces left over!  We sewed 6 blocks x 7 blocks for these quilts.  Each block finishes at 12-inches.  So these are 72 inches x 84 inches. 

Good job mom....aka Energizer Bunny Quilter!

Happy Quilting,
Shelia

Recent Quilting And Other Stuff

Roger is doing great, that 8 hour period of time he says is just a story that he can't remember.  So we are moving on.  No need to dwell on something that may never happen again, per the doctor's.

While the kids were in town I was able to get some great family pictures.  Below is little Anthony with his grand father, Roger Jr, and his great-grand father Roger Sr.

Isn't that a precious picture.  He threw that little hand up and touched his grandfather's face and I just had to snap.  SWEET!

Below are some of the recent projects of mine and mom's that I have gotten quilted.

The first here is a table runner that mom made from some 9-patch blocks she had made up.  Amazing what you can do with some stray blocks.

 I quilted it using an allover free hand feather.  I think it turned out pretty.

 Next is a piece that I had left over from making my yellow and brown texas braid quilt.  I decided to make it into a table runner.

 I decided to quilt it using the same free hand "wheat" looking pattern that I did on the quilt.  Love those colors.  I'm going to put this on the coffee table that is in the sunroom.

 Below is another one of mom's projects.  It is a blue and yellow quilt.  It's been in the "needing to be quilted" pile for a while.  I think she finished piecing this 2 years ago.  And of course her quilter, ME, just got around to quilting it for her.   I just love blue and yellow quilts.

 Beautiful floral fabrics in this quilt.

 The next one is also one of mom's projects which had also been in the "needing to be quilted" pile.  It has alot of christmas fabric 9-patch blocks.  Some of the fabrics were even Elvis Christmas fabric.  What a hoot!!

 After it is all said and done scrap quilts have a life of their own.  It's like Uncle Si from Duck Dynasty.  You never know what you are going to get until you get it done.  I think it is great!

 

On the bottom left is another project I got quilted for mom.  It was a secret sister table runner she received in 2010.  So I had a productive couple of days getting things quilted.  Four of mom's projects out of my "need to be quilted" pile and one accidental (left over) project I turned into a table runner for me.

 

Next I'll post some pictures of the progress of the studio addition.  I am so excited at the progress.  Hopefully by the end of summer we will be all settled into our new quilting space.

Happy Quilting,
Shelia

Guess Who's Building A Store In Greenville?????

Jo-Ann Fabrics!!!!

This store will be 2 miles from my house!! YIPPIE!!  It is scheduled to open this summer.  It is being built where the old Circuit City was across from Haywood Mall.  In the same strip with Toys R Us.  

 My husband has been very busy this past week getting some of his "To Do" list completed.  Below he has reroofed our swing.  Love that swing and the tranquility it gives.  Thanks Roger for bringing her back to life!

He also has been hard at work on my studio addition.  Here he is laying out the forms for the new walkway.  I'm starting to get excited.  Now if the weather will stay pretty so he can work outside.

Update on mom (AKA Energizer Bunny Quilter):  Mom fell last Friday (off a step ladder which at 77 years old she should not have been up on!) and has a couple of compression fractures in her back.  L4 and T12.  She is in a TLSO brace which goes from the hips up to her sternum.  Still a good deal of pain.  We did a MRI yesterday and will see the neurosurgeon on Monday to get the results.  Susan is now calling her "tumbleweed"  hehe.  I'm sure it won't take the bunny long to get back up and going again. 

So as usual there is never a dull moment here!!.  Hopefully she will be much better soon.

Happy Quilting,
Shelia

Catching Up.....Again.

I can't believe that it is March 6th today.  Time has truly flown this past month and alot has happened, good and bad.  But today I realize that God has the masterplan and is in control of everything and we are moving on.

I will try to catch up on some of the things that have happened in the past few weeks.  Sorry for the vacant blog but life just was too crazy to write about anything.

One of the crazy happenings in the past month was my husband had an episode where we thought he was having a stroke.  Scarry for all of us.  The final diagnosis was Global Transient Amnesia.  A rare condition where someone forget everything that happened in a certain concrete period of time.  He lost an 8-9 hour period of time on February 15th.  He doesn't remember anything that happened from 2:30 pm until about midnight that night.  I had left for work at 2:30 and he kissed me goodbye as usual.  When I arrived at work at 2:45 pm I had 7 calls on my phone from him, looking for me.  When I returned the call he didn't know where I was and said he was a little confused.  My boss drove me back to my home where I enroute dispatched EMS.  When I arrived he couldn't remember even talking to me, although he did know who I was.  When EMS arrived he knew who he was, but it was 1985 and he said Jimmy Carter was the President. 

After many tests, CT, MRI, MRA, EEG, Cardiac Echocardiogram, etc. the neurologist said no stroke, but Global Transient Amnesia.  He told us that it was rare and that nothing specifically he did caused it and it may never happen again.  He may get back pieces of that day or never get any of it back.  As of today he hasn't gotten any of that time period back.  But other than that he is his normal self.  But a scary time for me and him.  We did find during this ER stay that he was hypertensive and is now on medications.  We felt lucky that at 62 he was not on any meds until now.  But much better than a stroke.  Many prayers were answered.

So as you can see my stress level has been out the roof lately.  Both of our sons came in for the incident and were able to spend some time with their dad.  A very good thing.  God reminds us at times how precious the time we have is and not to take any day for granted.

Over the next few days I will fill in some of the other things that have happened.

Happy Quilting,
Shelia