Thoughts on quilting

February 5, 2007 at 5:50 pm | In Quilting | Leave a Comment

I always wanted to get into quilting.

For years, I worked a full time job – about an hour away from my home. It was get up at 4am, get ready to go to work. Leave by 5am. Get to work at 6am, work til 3 or 4 and then drive back home. I was asleep most nites by 8pm! That left the weekend, for any extra tasks or projects. You can just imagine how much I really got done on the weekends – grin….

Now that I’m retired, and finished with all my cancer treatments – retired the end of May 2006, and finished my cancer treatments mid December 2006, I ready to get started!

I have my own sewing business, and recently purchase some beautiful Disney fabrics – Cars and Pooh. I had planned on using them to make some new children’s shirts – but when I got the fabric, some from Ebay and some from Walmart – I discovered that it was for home use only. Well, I should have known!

So I decided that I wanted to make some single bed sized quilts for the grandchildren using these fabrics. But since I had never done any quilting before, I decided to try something small first.

About 18 months ago, I had purchased some really cute 4″ dragonfly fabric squares from Ebay, thinking that maybe I would make a pillow or something. And the fabric just sat there.

Armed with my fabric squares, I went to my local quilting shop, and we found a pattern that would look good, using the squares. I hoped it would be a simple task – I had no foot on my sewing machine that would give me an accurate 1/4″ seam, so I just did the best I could.

Here’s what it looked like after sewing the squares together.
Beginning of my dragonfly quilt

Next I added a 1″ black border, and a 4″ dragonfly border.
The borders are now on the dragonfly quilt.

I will add pictures as I get more done with this quilt. Finally have time to work on it!

Sandi

More thoughts on aging

February 5, 2007 at 11:14 am | In On Aging | Leave a Comment

Before I started my treatments for cancer, I was on a cholesterol medicine. I stopped taking it – because I didn’t want it to interfere with the treatments. Maybe I was hoping that I would never have to take it again – lol!

Now that I am done with my treatments – my doctor put me back on it! I am also on a cancer preventing medicine – Arimidex, as well as Detrol LA – for bladder problems that I developed while on chemo.

What does all this have to do with aging? Well I’ll tell you. You should see my home. There are yellow stickies all over the place to remind me to take my medicines – they are all taken at nite. I forgot a few times, and suddenly remembered on the way to bed! So now, where ever I look, I will be reminded to take them at 7pm. And if I don’t remember – my dh will remind me.

I have a yellow sticky on my bathroom mirror, on the frig, on a puzzle book that I keep by my recliner – I’m really into Sudoku, another one on my monitor, and one on the tv in the kitchen. Of course, after awhile, I might get used to their being there, and not even see them – grin.

Sandi

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