Artful Homemade Quilts Have A Way

[BDBoop]

 

[freedombecki]

I found this to be beautiful.

Very beautiful, BDB. Thanks for sharing. It was created by a master embroiderer, probably a teacher or should be one.

 

[BDBoop]

I found this to be beautiful.

Very beautiful, BDB. Thanks for sharing. It was created by a master embroiderer, probably a teacher or should be one.

It is so evocative. I don't know that I could use it as bedding. It's too beautiful. Maybe a wall-hanging.

 

[freedombecki]

Wow. The post I worked on for some time explaining the quilt I finished today was just erased. That's really bad.

I sewed a postage stamp row and placed it at the top of the work, called Mulligan Stew. So good to get a quilt finished early. We ran errands and had breakfast out this morning, and I'm still healing, which leaves me with little energy for anything else, so I had to take a nap this morning, and again all afternoon.

So sorry my time posting has been limited, but facial healing of broken bones takes longer when you get older, plus there was a lot of neural breakup as the occipital area showed a shattering where the facial nerve goes from the eye area to the lips and nose. It all feels annoyingly tingly on the surface, but also leaves me just worn out all the time. I'm trying to keep up on vitamins and minerals that address pain and healing.

Sorry all the work I did to illustrate the postage stamp flowe was erased, but not by me. I'm just too tired to rework it, and I'm already into the next quilt, but cannot show it either.

This is not the same, but is similar if you isolate the flower and shrink the center:

Hope everyone is having a lovely spring.

 

[BDBoop]

Wow. The post I worked on for some time explaining the quilt I finished today was just erased. That's really bad.

I sewed a postage stamp row and placed it at the top of the work, called Mulligan Stew. So good to get a quilt finished early. We ran errands and had breakfast out this morning, and I'm still healing, which leaves me with little energy for anything else, so I had to take a nap this morning, and again all afternoon.

So sorry my time posting has been limited, but facial healing of broken bones takes longer when you get older, plus there was a lot of neural breakup as the occipital area showed a shattering where the facial nerve goes from the eye area to the lips and nose. It all feels annoyingly tingly on the surface, but also leaves me just worn out all the time. I'm trying to keep up on vitamins and minerals that address pain and healing.

Sorry all the work I did to illustrate the postage stamp flower and show a similar quilt was erased, but not by me. I'm just too tired to rework it, and I'm already into the next quilt, but cannot show it either.

Hope everyone is having a lovely spring.

I hope whatever you are taking does help. Is this nerve-endings, regenerating?

 

[BDBoop]

You've probably already done the research, this is what I found in a cursory search.

9. Food and Supplements
Antioxidants help encourage blood flow by helping to send more oxygen to veins; as a result they increase the circulation through the entire body.

A few glasses of water will also help with overall circulation. If you drink anything that dehydrates you like coffee or alcohol, you need to drink more than the standard amount of water for your body size.

Remember, all things should be taken in moderation.

Cayenne Pepper, Ginkgo Biloba, Garlic and Hawthorn Berry.

CN7 Facial Nerve Damage

 

[koshergrl]

Well I just followed your example Becki, and lost a whole detailed post!

First let me tell you I'm sorry I've been distracted and didn't realize how badly you were hurt! I will pray for healing and all good things for you...I am so sorry! Take care of yourself, and yes it does take longer to heal as we get older..I learned that when I had the EternaFlu this winter.

Love you and do get well! now I will submit this, and start on the second half before I lose this!

 

[koshergrl]

Second half is that I have a home to move into now, so I am pretty sure I won't be homeless when the tenancy is up (I'm kidding, I never thought I would be homeless, but it's still mighty unpleasant, not knowing where you'll land!) I have put my app in for an amazing 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 1400 sq feet, huge linen closet, walk in closet in the master bathroom, sky light (I think plural) vaulted ceiling AND fenced back yard house in a tremendous neighborhood...Unfortunately, another couple got an interview first, so chances are that I won't be moving into there...

BUT...if not, I have been offered a lovely, small (1000 sq feet and only 1 bath. No walk in closet, lol) home just a few blocks over, in another very lovely neighborhood. Fenced back yard, adjacent to a little pocket park (on a cul de sac) and next door to one of my cousins! They will hold it for me to see if I get the bigger house...and if I don't get the big house, it's mine.

I took the kids with me to look at it, and they fell 100 percent in love with it. The back yard is very kid and dog friendly.

Oh and it's not carpeted! And has a washer and dryer (I'll send mine to my son's house, they can use it). And a big freezer in the garage...

So either way, I'm in good shape. Glory hallelujah pass the tylenol, lol.

 

[koshergrl]

Nerve tissue heals very, very, very slowly..but it does continue to improve.

I think B vitamins are super helpful, too. Lots of lipids...fats...and rest.

 

[BDBoop]

 

[freedombecki]

You've probably already done the research, this is what I found in a cursory search.

9. Food and Supplements
Antioxidants help encourage blood flow by helping to send more oxygen to veins; as a result they increase the circulation through the entire body.

A few glasses of water will also help with overall circulation. If you drink anything that dehydrates you like coffee or alcohol, you need to drink more than the standard amount of water for your body size.

Remember, all things should be taken in moderation.

Cayenne Pepper, Ginkgo Biloba, Garlic and Hawthorn Berry.

CN7 Facial Nerve Damage

Thanks, BDB. I'm sticking with standard B vitamins and high-antioxidant juices like blueberries, raspberries, etc. Your link is consistent with what the maxilla-facial surgeon said. Healing may be slow in the 4-to-6 month category, and possibly a little longer than that. Oh, this was going to be a longer post, but I'm truly tired and have a few answers in my pms to go. Thanks so much for the research. That's one of the best articles I've read so far, on my limited energy frame of reference. <hugs>

 

[freedombecki]

Well I just followed your example Becki, and lost a whole detailed post!

First let me tell you I'm sorry I've been distracted and didn't realize how badly you were hurt! I will pray for healing and all good things for you...I am so sorry! Take care of yourself, and yes it does take longer to heal as we get older..I learned that when I had the EternaFlu this winter.

Love you and do get well! now I will submit this, and start on the second half before I lose this!

Second half is that I have a home to move into now, so I am pretty sure I won't be homeless when the tenancy is up (I'm kidding, I never thought I would be homeless, but it's still mighty unpleasant, not knowing where you'll land!) I have put my app in for an amazing 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 1400 sq feet, huge linen closet, walk in closet in the master bathroom, sky light (I think plural) vaulted ceiling AND fenced back yard house in a tremendous neighborhood...Unfortunately, another couple got an interview first, so chances are that I won't be moving into there...

BUT...if not, I have been offered a lovely, small (1000 sq feet and only 1 bath. No walk in closet, lol) home just a few blocks over, in another very lovely neighborhood. Fenced back yard, adjacent to a little pocket park (on a cul de sac) and next door to one of my cousins! They will hold it for me to see if I get the bigger house...and if I don't get the big house, it's mine.

I took the kids with me to look at it, and they fell 100 percent in love with it. The back yard is very kid and dog friendly.

Oh and it's not carpeted! And has a washer and dryer (I'll send mine to my son's house, they can use it). And a big freezer in the garage...

So either way, I'm in good shape. Glory hallelujah pass the tylenol, lol.

Nerve tissue heals very, very, very slowly..but it does continue to improve.

I think B vitamins are super helpful, too. Lots of lipids...fats...and rest.

Thanks, koshergrl. I've been taking a supr-B complex, Heart Specialist Vitamin by Centrum (best I've seen, imho), magnesium, D3, A, and Melatonin at night to get a full night's sleep guarantee.

I'm so glad your housing prospects are looking up. I hope you get one that accommodates your family and hobbies very well, and that's easy to keep neat and clean for when company comes. <hugs>

Please keep Sunshine on your prayer list, everyone. She has a lot on her plate with just staying alive and still benefitting the health community in her area. I'm betting they use her like a good reference book on health issues that baffle the pros. Sunshine has all her apples in a row on caring for other people's health. I hope she gets help from above with hers.

Love to you all. It's 3 in the afternoon, my keys are sticking, and I had to go pick up lunch when I really needed a nap earlier. That whine being said, I cut 25 strips for the next quilt, which took 2 shopping trips and a shoveling through several fabric storage bins esteray/

 

[koshergrl]

Prayers going up for healing, for strength and for Sunshine too...

My son and my granddaughter participated in a fund raising run in Newport this weekend...

That's a pretty good daddy, for a guy who didn't have a dad of his own.

Here's one of the baby of the family now:

 

[freedombecki]

A million thanks koshergrl. Your son is a true keeper and a blessing to give you grandchildren and living a good life. Hats off to you for all you do!

 

[BDBoop]

 

[BDBoop]

I can't even imagine how much work went into this.

 

[BDBoop]

Love the autumn flair.

 

[freedombecki]

Today, the Checkerboard Quilt top, inspired by the Fast-Patch for Kids by a Mrs. Lauder was finished and folded to put in my small stack for April. 5 quilt tops were taken down last week, so that's now 17 quilts done.

Here is a similar quilt by Carrie:

The one I worked on has an owl print on white where her white squares are and pastel bright and dull teal, pink, lime green, yellow, and apricot elsewhere. The only repetitions were from this smokin' roses print on an aqua blue back ground print I bought at the local quilt shop. I went back today and got two more yards, plus found a child's sea life print that is very inspiring, imho.

I'm considering taking a cross stitch pattern and making it into a quilt top for a child, if I can find one to measure 38x50" to 42x54". Our Charity Bees group gives quilts to children born with the AIDs virus or are living in an unstable family environment, who need a winter blanket when it chills down starting sometimes as early as November, and ending sometimes as late as May, but not often. The truly dismal chill is about here from mid December to the end of March, but cold days come when they come, and children need warmth at night.

Prayers up for Sunshine, BDBoop, and koshergrl in their absence, and may God fill them with joy as they go about their lives serving others and doing the best they can with what has been put on their plates, served up as life. Prayers up for my husband, too for losing his way with dementia, and for me to be a better caregiver for him. I didn't have to blow my stack when he returned home after lifting my car keys and going for an afternoon joyride while I took a nap to help heal my facial bones that broke a few weeks back. Another prayer up for Foxfyre who keeps a list of people requesting a prayer at the USMB Coffee Shop, and a prayer up for every one on her list of those who have pain, a loved one who is ill, have deadly diseases or are in hospice, and all those who suffer back pain.

Prayers up also for the children who feel disenfranchised by parents caught up in drugs or other pursuits that take them away from their sense of responsibility to those that need them the most sometimes. And prayers for those who have such issues they cannot discuss them with others, and may those who are sincere be given strength from above. A prayer of thanks for moderators at this board to keep the peace as best they can.

Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light
Protect us by thy might,
Great God our king. Amen.

 

[freedombecki]

OK, Beckums,

I managed to get a password that works, so disregard the email on that one. Here are the tablecloth pics, not washed or ironed on the first ones:







Ironed and ready to put away:



My new quilt project:



That is the first block. The pattern called for that dark red, but as you know I had a bad experience with it fading. I went to the fabric store looking for something that wouldn't fade. The clerk told me to always look at the tiny label for the tiny words. 'color fast.' Luckily the green on the other one is color fast. I chose a nice deep color fast rose which gives the same effect as the dark red. The pattern is a colonial design and I noticed in Colonial Williamsburg that all the colors there were very vibrant.

I believe I learned a lot on the first quilt project, no doubt I will learn on this one as well. The red on that tablecloth was hard to look at for more than a couple of hours at a time. I know you thought I wouldn't pick it back up when I put it down for a time, but I knew I would. I had put the green quilt down for 5 or 6 years. The time became right to pick it back up. The best thing about the new project: No border row. I go nuts having to do those.

Either of my grandmothers would take that tablecloth and put white crochet around the edges. But I'm not either of my grandmothers. It will just have to stay like it is.

I told you about the yellow butterfly after my sister died. Well I had her son take me by the cemetery to see her marker last week. I took 3 color pics of it. I love taking pics in cemeteries, I always get some unusual light effects. Wellll, when I got home, I noticed that all the pics except those of my sister's marker were black and white. My cell camera takes a deliberate action to change venues. I had done nothing to change it. I took the last pick of her marker and then, without even putting the phone down, turned and took the other pics.

Cheers, Beckums.

I thought of your new project when I was looking at red and white quilts today, Sunshine:

Hope your project is coming along well and that the new medicine protocol is helping you.

 

[freedombecki]

A young woman posts her beautiful quilt online:

love it. From Quilt Origineel

Would you believe the serch engine in which I was searching for "Eel Quilt" (I love the sea, and was looking for alternatives to postage stamp angel fish I designed in my engineering paper notebook over 3 or 4 trips to lunch, when I take my colored pencil and tablet with me and work on it while waiting for an order to be served.

I actually found one eel pattern when I loaded the word "Moray" before the word "eel." Here is that one result, but it is neither the full length of the eels nor is it a postage stamp pattern, but an applique pattern:

Credits are here: Mora Pattern At pattern-metadotcom