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Bold Hearts and Stars B.O.

It seems like I’m always updating this blog sitting at the hospital with my husband!  We are in the ER right now waiting for xrays from a fall.  

During the last two weeks life has been so full of school related responsibilities  (i.e. conferences) that there hasn’t been room for serious quilting.  But never fear -- I was able to work a few things in.

One evening after a rough day I was nearly brain dead but I absolutely needed a fabric fix.  So I pulled out my box of “Blocks - Cut but not sewn” and put to “hearts and stars” together.  One is in a bright child oriented colorway and one is in feminine pinks.   Here’s a pic of the bold one.  

Sometimes I’m in a cutting mood and I’ll cut five or six blocks and put them in the “Blocks - Cut but no sewn” box.  That makes it easy to feel quickly productive when I only have an hour to spare.  I can put together a block that has forty or fifty pieces in it in a short period of time without too much thought, as long as I did my cutting when I was more alert!

Another evening I was still not up to tackling anything new so I walked to mom’s to see what she was working on.  She had gotten stalled on a scrappy block baby quilt.  The corners of the blocks didn’t quite match so she was ready to just stop work on it.  She let me take it to play with.  I applied a french binding and hand stitched it in place.  Who cares that the blocks don’t match exactly?  My mom is 74 -- I think the work is pretty awesome.  We will just ask the baby to throw up on the corners of any blocks that don’t match and no one will notice the blocks are slightly off!

Yesterday I took off with a quilting friend to a gigantic “cloth shop” a couple of hours away from us.  It took us much longer to get there than anticipated.  But I told my friend that it may have been the Lord’s way of keeping us out of an accident that could have been happening had we arrived earlier.  But now on second thought, I think I’ve figured out what Jesus was doing!  Because we took longer to get there, we didn’t have as long to shop in the store.  That was his way of making sure I had money to eat on the rest of this month.  We just got paid and I blew my allotment of play money for the month in less than an hour.  However, I did get quilt backs for six quilts.  My goal is to get these six quilted before Christmas (plus the one I have on the frame right now.)  AND,   I only bought one new piece of fabric that doesn’t yet fit into a quilt!  I was the model of restraint.  (It helped that my friend had already GIVEN me three fat quarters and a 1/2 yard of fabric from her stash before we left home!)

I intended to spend this evening working on Block Lotto’s block of the month.  However, the best laid plans of mice and men go astray.  So I’ll do some applique work while sitting here in the hospital.  

Hey, great news.  Hubs is going home with me from hospital.  It’s only a broken collar bone this time!  Yeah!  I might get to do those blocks this evening after all (and look for the cell phone that I lost during the rush to the hospital!)