Life Moves On

Last day of March my granddaughter had her baby, a beautiful 7#8oz 19" baby girl and she named her Symphony Marie. She is the best baby, very seldom cries, except to tell you she is hungry or needs a diaper change. Her two brothers adore her and are exceptionally good to not bother her. They will ask if you have her, if they can hold her. When we put her in their arms they hold her a few minutes, give her a kiss on the forehead and are then ready for you to take her so they can skittle off to play. The older brother doesn't like to hear her cry and if you aren't up at her first noise he will tell you you need to take care of her NOW.

I'm still without my apartment, owners seem to be dragging their feet finishing the work. I was told to call Fri and they would give me a firm availability date, after 4-5 dates that have come and gone. Well I did, no answer, left a message and after 2 or 3 calls, didn't get an answer or a return call. Maybe my views of being a landlord are different but I'd think if you owned property and had tenants you'd return calls, especially if you couldn't answer them when you were called.

I'm looking at another place on Tuesday, total size wise it is about the same, but rooms probably are larger because it has 2 bedrooms instead of 4, but has a den/family room. It was remodeled for a mother and she passed before it was finished. I'm told it has high vaulted ceilings, wide doors, hardwood floors, a detached garage, and a yard. The other place had a covered parking, no yard. Will see, if it is meant to be to find another place it will happen.

I am so anxious to get all my projects unpacked and get back to work on them. In my time with not much else to do, I surf and that is dangerous. I find new fabric, new projects that keep calling and tugging at me. After I made the quilt top for my Ex I have found so many new and interesting wild life prints, and my mind runs wild with possibilities with the fabrics. I have a sea scape quilt I'm designing, because I couldn't find something in that line already available. I want to get it finished and try to market the pattern. When I started there weren't many fabrics available to work with, and each surfing search finds more and more.

Last couple of years or so I've been able to surf EBay and find some great buys and great fabric groups of fat quarters. That has diminished greatly. There are still a few good fabric combinations on there, but not the amount of selections you had just a year ago. Guess the economy has effected those vendors as well. I have only a couple of stores to buy fabric from locally and there selections are limited, so EBay was a great alternative. I'm about 150 miles from San Antonio so the cost of gas, etc and time to go there and shop the several stores with much larger selections of fabric was not ecomonically feasible.

I need to get Ex's quilt finished. Need to add borders and quilt it. I will probably hand quilt this one as I don't think it would lend itself to machine quilting. This will be something I can do in the evening while watching TV. The top is a collection of fabric squares/rectangles with printed photos of fish/birds/animals. He used to love to hunt then moved to hunting with a camera. I have an overall printed fabric with a wildlife theme to use for the backing. I started out to make it a size he could use for a throw to cover with in his easy chair, but when I spread on my daughter's queen sized bed to show him at Christmas it covered the bed (without borders).

After all the machine work is done and it is sandwiched, I'll start on the quilt for my oldest son working on Ex's at night and move down the line. When I finish quilts (2 each) for 4 children, will move to grandchildren (11). Children are getting one bed sized pieced quilt and one art quilt (wall sized). Of course since I can't just work on one project at a time, will work on others bouncing back and forth. Otherwise I'd get bored to death with the project and probably take forever to finish it. I have some counted cross-stitch and Brazilian Embroidery projects that I want to squeeze in along the line.

A couple of family reunions to work on too. They are so much fun and each time hope more can attend. I feel to many families today are to busy in their own lives to make or take the time to keep family ties. I remember my parents and their kin always had or took time to visit, families stayed closer.

My quilts

A lot has happened since last post. Still waiting to get back home. Can't do a lot while staying with my Granddaughter. She rents a nice 3 bedroom mobile home (single wide) and just doesn't have any spare space. She now had 3 children. Her baby daughter is almost 2 months old and a little doll - but then as great grandmother I'm prejudiced.

I'm waiting for the electrical company to connect wiring back to the building so that I can move home.