Melody Johnson: Thank YOU and some tops

Thank you dear readers, for all your lovely comments, and condolences. I am so appreciative. This was a long disease to witness and participate in, and some day I will tell a few stories that never made it to the blog but may be worth sharing. Since Dave's Parkinson's went undiagnosed for the first five or so years, the total time of his illness was about 35 years. We were married for 48 years (minus one day) so that means the first 13 were us just being newlyweds and growing into our marriage. I am so glad that we had that foundation, as it was essential for what was to come.

Now, I am feeling relief and peace and letting myself have time to mourn in all the ways that it presents itself.

There is a great joy too. I am excited about what is coming next, and of course I will share all those joys here.

My sister mentioned that someone had a long arm quilting machine to sell...and we both went... Naaaaah. But it did remind me that I have a closet of tops that I haven't looked at in like 5-10 years. I thought I should look at them now, on the bed and see what I've got, some that I didn't remember even making!

This is my twin bed, for size comparison. Postcards from Sweden was a popular quilt on Pinterest when I pieced this. It's all Waverly cottons from Walmart, which is a good thing if I wanted to make it larger. I think this would make a nice couch cover for my white sofa. And right in the center I see some blue blocks that form a blue blob, so I would fix that before I quilted it. If and when, I mean.

Scrappy Guilt Trip Follow that link for the full story. Available unquilted, guilt not included, just for the postage. 59"x72"

Ooooh. Busy, busy, busy. But it could work on the wall, methinks. It was made for the wall originally, but something made me put it away and forget it, til now. This would be a quick one to quilt, since it would all be stitch in the ditch. feed dogs up. So I will put it in the maybe pile.

There was a time when I was traveling a lot that I stayed with a quilter who had a styled guest room all done up in 30's quilts. I loved it. So very cozy and later on I thought I could/should make some thirties style quilts. This is one of the three or four I made that got put away, right away. Available for just the postage, if you want it. It would work as a twin by adding a border.

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Half a Trip and no more. But I got it out of my system. Some quilters really enjoy the piecing part of the process. More power to them. Here it is in full. I might finish it, as is, not bigger. At the moment I am not emotionally attached.