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I am still re-working the flower petals for the quilt for the new great-niece. I have taken out the one that was too light and the one with too many other colors. I have added some new pinks from my stash and then realized that I still needed some more.
I do think the flowers look better, except for the one on the top right. There are 2 petals in there that will need to come out. I think I need to stick with tone-on-tone fabrics.
It remains a work in progress.

Ignore the brown pinned up there beside the flower block. It is a piece I bought on-line that ended up not being the color I was expecting. I am sure it will get used in another project.

A while back to my stash I had added a 10" square pack - Tonga Treats - Sugar. LOVE the batiks in this one. I am thinking of using the Disappearing Hourglass from Missouri Star Quilt Co. using black as the background.

I also added a charm pack a - Moda Honeysweet. Then I realized I really don't know what to do with it. Having never used a charm pack before I soon realized that I didn't have a plan and that 1 pack was probably not enough.

 

So today I added 2 new books to my library - 3 Times the Charm Book Two by Me and My Sister Designs and another Bite of SCHNiBBLES by Carrie Nelson.
There are some cute designs in both that I will probably use with some of my stash after I decide which one to use the Honeysweet charm pack with.

One of the things I really like about another Bite of ScCHNiBBLES is that for each design she gives instructions for a larger quilt using 10" layer cakes AND a smaller quilt using 5" charm packs.

Thursday I go back to work starting with 2 days of staff meetings before students return to school on Monday. I cannot believe how fast this summer has gone. It didn't help that my son had a health issue that had us questioning if he would be able to return to school on time and if I would be able to work full days or at all for a few more weeks. For the last month he was receiving daily antibiotic infusions at the local hospital. This took up a good part of the morning...every morning. Also weekly doctor appointments and twice weekly visits from the local home health care nurses. Lots of hurry up and wait for me and having to be around since we weren't always sure when the nurses would come. But, it all worked out, the infusions ended on Friday and he moved into  his studio apartment at school yesterday. He attends a school for visually impaired students. This is his second year. Besides classroom learning, he will be learning life skills that will help him transition into the workplace and community. He wasn't quite ready to head back into the classroom, but I know that he will soon be happy to be spending time with the friends he has made there. I am not quite ready to be back to work/school either.

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I have started a new project.

Did I finish the ones I posted about last time? NO... my frame still has other stuff on it.

Anyway, we will be getting a new great-niece in November so I thought I better get started on her quilt.

The pattern is Sunflower Patch from
The Quilter Magazine November 2008.
I marked this pattern as one I wanted to make back then. I really like sunflowers and the colors in this runner. I have never gotten around to making it for myself, but I thought it would be easy to adjust the size into a baby quilt and change to colors to be more feminine. I am using mostly batiks in shades of pink, the dark green for the leaves, the medium and light greens are for the 4-patches and a turquoise to replace the red. I haven't decided what I am using for the flower centers yet.

 

Here are the first 2 blocks. I am undecided about 2 of the fabrics. One seems too light and the other has some yellows and greens in it. It just doesn't seem to fit well with the other fabrics.

I chose the turquoise because I really like that color and it goes nicely with the pinks. Also it is one of the colors in the backing. This is a lovely, soft minky type fabric. I like to use this type of fabric on the back of baby/kids quilts. I think it just makes them so cuddly.

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I have been working on

This baby quilt.
The border is on,
the backing is pieced
and it is ready to quilt.
Unfortunately, my frame is covered with fabric,
photos and other miscellaneous stuff right now.



I pieced the backing using leftover pieces from the front.

My husband and son are not crazy aboutthis quilt, but they both agreed they like it a little bit better now that they have seen it all put together.

I have been following along with
soscrappy's Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2014.

By following along, I mean that I check her
blog every few days keeping track of the color
being used each month and seeing what every
one else is doing.
I finally decided on a block to use. It is a

Bonnie Hunter pattern - Jack in the Box - that was in QuiltMaker magazine. I plan on make 8 blocks in each color. I have all the blue cut for January -yeah, I know, January was a loooonnnggg time ago. I have also cut all the color for the February and some of the colors for some of the other months.





I have been really trying to go through my stuff and reorganize and declutter.
It is hard!

I found this project. It is from QuiltMaker #83 - 2002.

It was a mystery published in 3 issues. I had never done a mystery before and thought it might be fun. So I picked out fabric and did the first clue. Then I got busy and didn't get the next clue done. When the 3rd and final clue came out I wasn't sure I liked the finished quilt.
It got put away and forgotten about until I unearthed it in my recent decluttering attempts. I still am not sure I like it, but I decided to put it together and use it for a gift or donation.
In putting it together I somehow turned some of the half square triangle blocks. At that point I almost threw the whole thing away, but my husband thought he kind of liked it. I fixed the pieces turned the wrong way. So now it just needs the inner and outer border. I have all the parts including the backing and binding.
I guess this will be next on the frame - if I ever get the frame uncovered.

I am not very motivated- the last few weeks have been a bit stressful for me.
My son has been battling a minor health issue since October. It turned a little more serious at the end of May and became much more serious about 2 weeks ago.
He was being treated by a doctor in the town where he attends school. That clinic referred us to a clinic locally. That doctor had been seeing him weekly since the end of May. She went on vacation and another doctor filled in for her, changing the treatment and ordering a test. Then my son had an emergency situation that was mostly unrelated to the issue he was being treated for. The ER department referred us to yet a different doctor for the original issue. He is now receiving daily antibiotics through a PICC line and having weekly doctor appointments with the new doctor.

In the midst of all this my mother-in-law who is in a nursing home had an emergency situation. I had only been home from the hospital after my son's treatment when the nursing home called saying MIL needed to go to the ER. She is fine, but that turned into a long night of testing and waiting on results. They finally admitted her and she went back to the nursing home late the next day.

My son's issue is going to impact him going back to school and my job since he will need daily infusions for the few weeks. The whole process takes most of the morning. I am waiting until after tomorrow's appointment with the doctor to discuss this with his school and my employer which is the local elementary school.

I started out last school year spending two weeks with my mother-in-law at the hospital following her fall/broken hip/head trauma/stroke. This year I will be dealing with my son's health issues.

I am not sure how much more of this I can handle. Thank goodness the nursing staff doesn't mind me bringing my knitting and other handwork along while the infusion is being done.