Design Wall Monday

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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.