We finished quilting the Quilt! yahoo! Now all that Mom needs to do is finish the edges. You can't see it here, but the prairie points are already on - just need to tuck in the edge of the material on all four sides and stitch. this is all hand sewing. No the blocks and strips were not done by hand, though the embroidery and quilting was.

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Hi there. it's been awhile since i've been on this...not sure why, except the last few days it seems like my mind has literally been whirling, and there is NO reason for it. Couldn't slow it down to latch onto anything worthwhile. Maybe it was only because i hadn't done any real physical labor! Nothing mentally strenuous either.
The weekend was busy socially, as well as with such mundane stuff as yes - shopping! well, that's out of the way for a few days, so we can go on to other things. Mom has the quilt up. i'll try to get some pictures shortly. Luckily the embroidered blocks (all 36 of them) are so awesome, the quilting will hardly get a second look, cause i am by no stretch of the imagination even a mediocre quilter.  Yesterday we had 5 ladies (including Mom and myself) around the quilt frame. Imagine if you can, a frame 72 inches by 24 inches set up in the room. After you put chairs on each side and end, once they are occupied, there is no room to walk behind them! But it was fun, and we got quite a bit done in the 2 hours they were here. Today cousin Ruth came to help. But then, i skipped out for most of the morning because i was down at the laundromat doing the laundry. I actually enjoy the latter more than the former, as long as i am not thinking guilty thoughts about leaving Mom to do the quilting by herself. We were able to move the quilt on the frame as we have now quilted 10/36 of the blanket. Yay. We are having a quiet evening today. We went to Cracker Barrel for (dinner) lunch and i had a meatloaf dinner, so will not have much for supper tonight. Both Mom and i are not hungry. So have yourselves a great evening too. The weather was gorgeous - dried my laundry outside on the line. Sadly, between laundry and quilting i didn't take time to enjoy the sun as such. But we'll have more days like that, down here in the valley of the sun. Take care.

Jan. 4

iwoke up this morning (glad i did) feeling like i could tackle cleaning. i started off with the golfcart shed, but didn't get far as today was the first Tuesday of the month and mom and i were expected at Paradise Bakery for breakfast/coffee. Mom was ready to come home after that, but had barely come home and she wanted to head off to Joanne's to get the last bits of stuff to put her quilt together. It is so far to go (10 miles) so i had to do some shopping in that area too. Well, when we were done, we were too hungry to go home and make something for lunch, so we did the next best thing and stopped at Cracker Barrel for a bite. After a stop at Rosa Mae Schmidt for her quilt rack and keys to get into the social hall, i think we're all set to put up the quilt tomorrow. We had just got home when neighbor Del knocked on the door - he needed my help for about 3 seconds, measuring a curtain rod, and had been trying to catch me at home for who knows how many days - atleast yesterday and today, and he'd see me come home, and then by the time he got here i was gone again. Yep...that was me. Yesterday we spent the afternoon at Phyllis' (she has a big table) marking out the quilt, came home for a nap, then headed out to Cracker Barrel to meet them for supper! Seems like our life revolves around food down here! Social life, anyways. Now i need to get at that shed.