Quilty Things

Since I don't do enough piecing, I have started a BOM with my QuiltingForAll group. Since I am having trouble posting my photos on the group site, I will post them here. I caught up this afternoon with the first April BOM. There they are. We are doing two blocks a month, so I am using the same pink fabric for the two blocks. Each month I will use a different pink fabric. I am trying to use the same white fabric and green fabric, but I am running out of green, so as soon as I have 12 blocks, I will change the green fabric for the last 12 blocks. I am also going to be doing another BOM with my Eons quilting group. This one started in August, but with no swapping. I think we are getting ready to do a BOM swap starting soon. I'm also doing at least two Bonnie Hunter scrap quilts all the while, so I'm keeping busy. The job market down here in Florida for older people is very slim and with the way the economy is going, I don't see myself getting a job any time soon. So, thank goodness I have parents who let me live with them and help them out, otherwise I would be on the street. So that's it for now. Watching the Yankees play the KC Royals with my Dad, so I'm going back to the game. BBL.

Thanks for the support

Thanks to all who have e mailed me and commented on the blog. I really do appreciate all the support that you've shown me. My relationship with my daughter is there, although strained. They are coming down to Florida in June and I will get to visit with my granddaughter for at least a day. They are coming for a weekend only and since I do not wish to spend any time with the person she is married to, I have requested that the rest of the family make their own plans with them if they want to see them. I have also requested that they do not confront her or try to make things right. She is conflicted enough. I do not want her in an uncomfortable position with him being right there. So I will end this by saying things are getting better, but things are definately not resolved.

Hurt and Upset

So, I have become a Grandmother. Whoopee!!! My daughter gave birth on January 23rd to a beautiful little girl. That was Friday night. I arrived on my scheduled day of the 24th and spent a miserable 3 nights at my daughter's apartment. I must say, that being disrespected and treated with contempt is not my idea of a good time. That f*****g moron that she married is the most horrible person I have ever met. Her father is turning over in his grave because she married so beneath her. I have never been treated so badly in all my life. I thought I was going up to help with the baby, but every time I would have had time with her, she was brought downstairs to be with his mother (they live in a 2 family house). That baby was with his mother more time than she was with me and that woman lives there 24/7. Sorry to say, I will probably not have a good relationship with that girl because of her moronic parents. I think my daughter has forgotten everything that her father and I taught her. She just threw is all right out the window. I'm just so hurt and angry that I haven't even talked to her since Wednesday the 28th of January. I don't know if I can ever forgive her and I certainly will NEVER, EVER forgive him. He should just be glad that my Hungarian didn't come out and curse him, cause those curses come true. And if he doesn't at least attempt to apologize to me, that curse may still be placed upon his head. Sorry this is not quilty, but I just had to put my feelings down and this was just the tip of the iceberg. I'm one of those people that holds the anger in, but when it comes out, its like a volcano, it erupts. I don't think I have ever been this angry at anyone ever. I'm not going to say anything about him, because "they" say that if you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything, and I don't have anything nice to say about him. The sad thing, is my daughter doesn't see that he disrespects her family, especially me. Sad, sad, sad. Okay, on to the quilty things, they are much more enjoyable.

I have read all my group digests and on "Quiltvillechat" they were talking about a Bonnie pattern called "Jared Takes a Wife". So I looked into it and decided that I would like to make that quilt. Of course, I changed the colorway to suit me and the quilt is green, pink and white. The star points and the sashing are pink, the background is white and everything else is green. All different shades of green. The blocks are coming out real nice, if I do say so myself, haha. I'm also trying to finish up some of my UFO's. The problem with that is, I keep on getting the quilting magazines and I keep on pulling out patterns and then pulling fabric to make the patterns and I create more UFO's. I'm going to start to make some quilts for me as all the ones I've already made have been gifts for others. I think I need to take some time and create for me for a change. Anyway, that's it for now. Keep the piece. Renée

I've Lost My Mind

I am leaving for New York next week for a month. I have started a mystery quilt with Mystery Quilts and I have decided to start a Perkiomen Daydreams Quilt from Bonnie Hunter's book, "Scraps and Shirttails...." I thought this would make a dent in my stash. It has not. You would think that you would use a lot of fabric, but when you start to sew and then you cut and then you sew some more, you realize that even though the pieces seem small, you aren't using that much fabric. There are 20 rows by 20 rows of 5.5" blocks in this quilt. I think I have two rows finished. I am trying to use different fabric in each of the blocks, but it is not working out that way. I can't stand to cut up all that fabric and I don't have as much red and yellow as I had thought. I am really going to have some serious withdrawal when I'm up in NY for the month. Thank goodness for the computer, at least I can vicariously see fabric through the internet. I'm sure that this stay in NY will pass so quickly that I will be bemoaning the fact that it wasn't long enough. Anyway, I've lost it and I hope it doesn't come back. Piece. Renée

Double Delight Progress

I was so bored doing those darn triangles for the square in a square blocks that I peeked and decided to do clues 4 and 5 together. I'm doing the square in a square blocks as leaders/enders. I have three more nine patch and four more Rolling Star blocks to finish, but I am NOT laying this quilt on the diagonal. I will lay it out straight and see how many blocks I need to do it that way. I just don't have the room to do a diagonal layout, so I will do it straight. I've noticed that some of the other ladies didn't do a diagonal layout on some of Bonnie's other mysteries, so I will not with this one either. And if I have to wait until someone puts one up in the photos, I will wait. It's not like I don't have a bunch of other things to do, lol. Going back to sew, piece. Renee

I WON FIRST PRIZE IN THE FABSHOPHOP

OMG!!! I just read my e mails and there was a congratulatory e mail from Laurie Harsh of the Fabric Shop Network, Inc. I participated in the Holiday Hop, because I like to go to the shops and look at all the pretty fabrics and the new patterns. When I was working, I would sometimes buy fabric, but I always do the Hops. I never and I mean NEVER even imagine that I would win something, anything. What a shock!! I'm so excited, I'm surprised that you all didn't hear me scream. LOL. Hear I am in sunny South Florida doing a very happy dance. Piece. Renee

Totally off the quilting topic

I have had it with the hypocrisy. Why is it that Israel can get bombarded with bombs from all directions, but if they should fight back, everyone gets all upset? What part of a country defending themselves is wrong? If Israel just sat back and took all the bombings, eventually all the Israeli's would be dead. But I guess that is just want the people doing the bombing want. Look, the USA was attacked on 9/11. What did we do? Didn't we go to Afghanistan to try to find Bin Laden and get or kill him? Isn't that what a country is supposed to do when they are attacked? For years, Israel has been bombarded by rockets and suicide bombings. One of my brother's friends lost a child on one of those bus bombings a few years ago. It's not like the people getting killed in Israel are soldiers. They are innocent people. Why do cowards always pick on the innocent? That's what I think these "people" are, the ones bombing Israel, COWARDS. Come out from behind the innocent, come out from behind the masks. If you are so proud of what you do, why do you hide? COWARDS, all of them.