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A true scrap  quilt finally finished...First I made the HSTs...they sat a few years...then I put the  yellow in and it sat.for months..I must be getting better as this is the first quilt I have quilted in three  years, albeit a baby size.  I really had a struggle with the little bit of free motion quilting...finally I just did it with the feeddogs up. Love comes in a selfie of 15 year old Lynsey and her grandma. Of course there is a difference in energy between 76 and 15 !!! She is so good to her grandma. Brilliant stain glass maker, Betty McConnell made for me a spring ..read more

 First up...my steal from Trader Joe's.  There were tons of these Hyacinths with three stalks.  Lucky me found one squished in the back with NINE stalks...love!  (stars in the background from Blue Elephant Stitches) Aoife in Portland at an Irish pub...celebrating Cork...where her daddy is from Aoife has dual citizenship as do I. The Wednesday Women got together at Marie's house in Waxhaw on Wednesday I  made this rope trivet last night for her...using the Accuquilt electric, I cut the flower which was ironed on to Wonderunder. I pressed the flower to the finishe ..read more

Thank you Dylan for underplanting tulips in the fall..and thank you Lisa for the stunning Columbine plant. My son has been missing for a year and a half  now..I have had no  idea where he was.  I still have no idea, but he did call two nights ago. So grateful to know he is still alive.  I shared the family news and that we all love him so much. It is all so hard. Our Aoife getting into the St Paddy's Day tea. I think that Aoife is the only grand still interested in dying eggs for Easter It has been a very difficult few days.  However Grandma O'Quilts is up a ..read more

 A big thanks to patient Mary Jerz for quilting my latest flimsy: I am calling it, "The Journey".  African fabric scrap strips in the Railway pattern...bold blue, my sister's idea...perfect.!!! Next: I am almost finished with  my Hour Glass plaid scrap top...then off to Mary again... Today, I walked for exercise and read: The Women,  by Kristen Hannah.  I could not put it down. Great historical novel...bringing back cursory memories of  my Vietnam travel. I was a flight attendant for Pan Am, based in NYC.  I volunteered to fly in and out of Vietna ..read more

All day today with quilty friends at a sit and sew at Quilt Patch Fabrics in Stallings. I  have completed 12 wonky stars in repro fabric....(pattern from Blue Elephant Stitches)  I so love these blocks so will keep on making more. From the boxes of neglect came my Hour Glass plaid and striped blocks.. So motivated now to sew these together after years as little pieces in a bag.. Big thanks to Susie for helping me today...Big thanks to God for bringing friends into my life!! Big thanks to Brachs for making classic Easter jelly beans. and big thanks to Amazon for delivering them ..read more

Happy St Paddy's Day Aoife and her dog Rosie...all ready for the parade in Portland Spring garden here in Charlotte..., so happy!! Underplanting bulbs in the fall was incredibly worth it. Thank you Dylan!! My friend, Susan, brought this treasure to me...a present from the museum in Paducah!! Top done....already with our fine longarmer, Mary Jerz. The latest group of potholders: My Marshall's bargain, now with the iron on star Applique...  African fabric scraps  now stored in my African fabric bag...hanging on the wall. Remind me if I am searching high and low for them a ..read more

Who could not smile when seeing this picture of adorable Aoife. My daughter came in for a visit Thursday morning on the red eye from Oregon. She is sick. No cold, no whatever, just in the bed exhausted with chills. The half-full glass tells me how grateful I am for just  her warming presence.. We are talking and napping in the comfort of  each other. Aoife and her daddy dropped her off at the airport in Portland Wednesday night.  On the way home, Aoife asked if they could please go back and get her...so cute. All the blocks for this Railroad scrap quilt have been made now ..read more

 The eyes have it, Lynsey, age 15; Grandma, age 76. The visit: OMG  Font size shrunk., I do not know how to fix it.... .Well, anyway, Friday and Saturday a visit from Lynsey gave me a great lift.  Just one or two spats when she dressed for a  nice dinner in a tight orange top, ending just below her breasts, revealing a sparkly navel rhinestone piercing....Oh, dear.  I asked her to change, she changed alright.....into a volcano of resentment toward this old grandma from the 80's????   hmmm, I wish......Other than that, we had a lovely visit...Great talks ..read more

For some reason I seem to have an agenda to just do what I feel like doing, instead of the "shoulds". Then feel guilty..Jeeze...The new and improved me will try to remember that I am retired... I deem it OK to just be... A good day today with friends for lunch, more talking than sewing.  It is OK We have known each other 25 years...That  brings  enormous comfort. I am showing here what I have done with my strip sets of African fabric.  I have cut them 4.5 inches wide in preparation for a Railroad Crossing quilt. I hope I am not losing my touch as I wonder once again on c ..read more