Charity workday

Southern star and Tee Hee bees met together at my house today. We had ten ladies working and laughing from 10 till~ 3:30. We made 61 pillowcases for various charities in the Austin area. Gail provided lunch which was fantastic. Sara brought her homemade bread. Several others brought extras too.  It was a great positive effort on everyone’s part.

Saturday I delivered five new tops to the church.  I kept three to put the borders on.  At the retreat last week,  I finished two more embroideries of animal portraits. I made one block for the “tree farm”. I made Godric’s quilt top and back. Now I am quilting his quilt which is a friendship star 🌟 quilt.
I have many projects to work on, but have to take them slowly. Energy is lacking.  Each day is a new chance to create something beautiful.

March stitching

I spent last week doing a meditation stitching with my sewing machine. The results were three quilt tops made from scraps. It worked as a meditation because I kept the fabric pieces simple. Not a way to be productive. Slow but good.

Quit tops and blocks

Yesterday I finished my sixth quilt top for the year. I am thankful to my bee for the scraps they gave me and thankful I could sew them into a top.
I am attempting to cut down on the stuff that fills my house and clutters my mind. Ideas come fast and furious, but I have to keep clearing space so that I can persue some of the ideas I am so happy to be getting again.  Being a seventy year old grandmother is such a blessing.  I want to be a good example for the little ones. That  means clearing out space so we can play, too.

A cold day is a good time to organize and get rid of some stuff.  So off I go...

I have finished three quilt tops for LWR. This is starting out the new year a bit slow, but I have been under the weather for almost a whole month. Finally on antibiotics, hope they guessed right.
My cough is vert wet sounding. No fun here!

Harvey relief

I am working on quilts for a challenge to make 500 quilts for the relief effort. Three so far. Taking a class in thread painting tomorrow. Looking forward to learning a new technique.
 I am overwhelmed by all the fabric and batting I have acquired. It is taking several days to piece and quilt and bind these quilts. A very slow way to get rid of fabric and batting.
Just finished sandwiching another quilt. Hope to quilt later this afternoons.
Beautiful weather here. Cool temperatures make me want to take a nap.

Grateful for nature

I am especially grateful for nature today. Yesterday was filled with bee meeting, inspiration and shopping. Today I got to sit back and look at the garden. I planted a few of the plants I purchased during the granddaughter's stay for spring break. I am envious of wild flowers blooming all around my yard but not many in my yard.  I filled and placed two hummingbird feeders, but I didn't see any in the yard.
The big spectacular thing was a pair of red shouldered hawks playing and flirting in the yard. Of course that made all the little birds hide, but it was beautiful and sounded loud.
I had our small group meeting tonight. I feel the group running on low energy. The food is great, but
some people are not very prepared. The fellowship is great. I am truly loving all of this group.
Not sure what to think of the end coming.
I worked on the gypsy wife's quilt. It is very complicated and busy. Not sure what will become of it.
Only three more weeks of the class. It is sapping a lot of my time.