November 1, 2013

Sunday!!!

Dreamland!
Sunday our Son gets to go home!! Infection is gone....starts his dialysis classes with wife on Monday through Thurs and then they do it for the nurse in their home on Friday!!....I am going down for the girls for the week too.....oh, shucks!!....heehee.....I see rainbows being made for one thing and crocheted things for dollies.....  We thank our Lord for his healing...and we continue to pray as the transplant time approaches that no infection would occur before hand.  Quilted Blessings!!  Karen

Our Son..... part 2

Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Woof!
God has blessed us....our son is on the mend....his White Blood Count is down to 40 in the effluent fluid...almost nothing...his hemoglobin is 8.3....up from the low 7s....how blessed we are to see his body respond.  Now to get his appetite back....friends are bringing food to the hospital...they have such an amazing support team through their church and friends!!.....Hebrew 11:6 ..... faith....oh how blessed to have God and know Him and embrace His truth and faith....
Sweet Goldilocks
So, he comes home on Monday and starts classes at the Dialysis Center for the week...doing it themselves in their home on Friday with a nurse there to watch....they are doing so well and handling this with courage and faith....Transplant should be in December sometime and that is good due to the changes in the healthcare system.  It would be so much easier for them to have it happen before January 1st.  God has this, He does and that is not a flippant statement.  Gods depth is beyond what we can comprehend and His love is the Center of life....
What a Pair!!
Thanks for your prayers and concerns.....
Visiting Daddy as Repunzel!!
I am working on a Goldilocks Quilt from Craftys.com....so cute.....I am on the last block; the beds...she is going to the UK for my Doll Monthly Quilt partner who just had a baby this week, Hannah Elizabeth and is also blessed with a 22 month old girl....so this quilt is just what I think they need!!......It was one of my favorite stories as a kid and my kids too!!......
Have a blessed day!!  Quilted, of course!!  Karen


October 26, 2013

Our Son

Precious at the Saints of the Lord!!
Our son Kevin is needing prayers....he is going to have a kidney transplant between 6-8 weeks now if things go as planned.   But, on Monday after his suppose to be simple procedure of a dialysis access for Peritoneal (in the abdomen dwelling) his gutt got infected.  The Doctors say this has never happened so soon after placement. He went home on Monday afternoon, had it flushed at the center on Tuesday with 500 cc's solution, and then early 130 am on Wednesday he had spiked a fever.  I was there to help with the girls and I encouraged his wife to call the Dr and then that Dr sent him to the ER.  So, from there they have been putting in  three antibiotics into his abdomen once a day and then checking it with the morning exchange....He has gone up in counts of infection and then down yesterday to find the access reddening today and his count slowly raising again.  He is not carrying a fever today.  I say all this to ask for your prayers.  He kidney has only 11% filtration and his blood counts are, of course, low.  He may not be able to have dialysis now and maybe must wait on his transplant with many  careful blood checks done with outputs until that time....
He does have a match for the transplant, actually, from his old church here in Plymouth..and also has other matches and those on the waiting list. So, we trust God that He does have this taken care of.  This has never happened before showed my hub and I that God totally has this, He just needs us to have faith in Him....Kevin feels poorly and has alot of pain at the sight of cellulitus. They have to decide soon what to do with the access and future dialysis needs.
Please Pray that the Doctors can all come to a fast conclusion and understand each others and be in full communication. Also, that his two precious little girls will not have fear or unsettled feelings that they can not voice and that his wife will have the strength to endure and be all that she needs to be for her hub and her little girls and to fully rely on her Lord.  She is such a wonderful awesome woman and we love her!!.....as we love our son.....  Here, he was worn out after a short hike, but the hike included stairs in the hills of southern Indiana.
A Soldier that needs his arms lifted by Us in prayers.
They have a strong support through their church.  May God be praised in all things and worshiped in all our ways before Him. 
Quilted Blessings!  Karen


October 1, 2013

Is It Sew and Show or Show and Tell?

Sew We Quilt Blog to Win



What fun!!   Just a gift to us " just because" we sew and we show.....ALOT!!.....
..There will be a drawing the last day of October, where you can win 250$ of product! what a blessings...Just Because!  Just visit her blog and check it out, I hope you are successful and win Let me repeat.....it is so easy!!.....just follow her sweet instructions and you may be a winner....
.I amazingly won a WONDERFUL iron a few months ago from her
...my steaming BFF now....
Hugs and Quilted Stitches and maybe....lucky you....
I  am heading back to staining, just wanted to let you know about this great  Just Because Day.....
Happy me?...just because when I empty these paint and stain cans i can beging to hybenate into my sewing room!!    AH!!   ....which is basically my cabin!!.....just ask Hub!.......Karen


September 29, 2013

Combo!

Little Machine Quilt Stitiches
Mug Rug
It has been a combo time for us! We are building a porch over a deck off an upstairs bedroom..we think it will help this winter with some drafts....we have been staining the Koi Bridge, porches etc!! I would stain you if you came around I THINK!! :) ....and I have worked on my Swoon Barn Quilt Blocks...so we have been outside!!.....
I did finish my Doll Monthly swap projects today and will send them on the last day of September to my current quilting friend in Michigan.....my plan is to get a quilt loaded on the longarm soon and continue to get things ready to open up "the shop"....truly I am!!....we were just away from cabin for a couple years and now it demands we get it caught up outside....You know .....  LIFE!!!.....  Hope your coming October will be very positive and blessed!! Quilted ones from me....to you......Karen


Doll Monthly Quilt Swap

Upstairs Deck project

I know! it is RED!! be careful picking out stains!

Swoon Barn Quilt #1....three to go!!

September 16, 2013

Simple Jelly Rolls

Don't you just love all the help you can find to do the very best quilt top, easy and enjoyable to accomplish?...I sure do.  This video is just that!!  Please enjoy it as I work on Doll Quilt paper pieced today...show you tomorrow.  Have a sweet, safe day.  Quilted Blessings!!  Karen

September 14, 2013

Patterns....Camoflouge?

By Design
I am convinced, everywhere I look that God loves patterns too....even in Marine life....I am sure God Loves Quilts too!!.....I thought this was such an awesome video....  I am painting on a Barn Quilt today...many layers of paint on the design...and working on a Doll Monthly Quilt and maybe even Quilting on my Suziebell!!.....Oh, yeah, first Exercises!!....got a used Total Gym 1000....:).......Quilted Blessings!!  Karen