Thankfulness

Get your Feast On, Little Pilgrim!!

2 Corinthians 4:17-18 says all!

oh! the 1950's!

Heading down to quilt soon on a "Finley" quilt top I made...reminds me of my Mom!!....anyways!!....I just wanted to share pictures from a post from FB today and also a little family pic when I was around 4....I remember the Brownie camera my older brother was using to take it....there were 5 kids then.....on to the finish line with 8 :)......My Mom was a saint who later made Reproduction 1800's Porcelain Dolls and then after Dad died in '93 she quilted until she passed away in 2004.....Heritage!! Thanking God for my littlest Pilgrim of 8 granddaughters and 1 grandson.....Ok, so I am getting gabby now!!  Oh, our son that is on hemodialysis 3 times a week now had gout over the weekend in his foot but he is much better now, this is also due to his treatments and his protein balance n diet...
 Hugs on this Quilting Day, every day is a new day to Quilt!!  Blessings!! Karen

Aspen Frost Quilt Block with Quilty

I think this is pretty cool......very cool!! She will have this in her magazine soon also. !!  Chevrons in the corners?..... interesting!!..Two blog entries below you can find a tool to make perfect half-square triangles also. unless you use Square in a square technique with Jodi Barrows and make them her way....the tool is pretty cool though! so, go below and watch that video too, you won't be sorry....trust me!!......Heading down to longarm today, what are you up to girlfriend?!! Have fun....the only rule I have in Quilting......Quilty type blessings today!!  Karen

The Season to be Jolly

Can it really be here!! the Jolly Season!!....so much to be Thankful for!!!.....planning to make a wall hanging for each family this Christmas; from  Craftsy.....I think it is really sweet, don't you....take a peak at it !!.....  Our kids got together this Saturday to spend the day with Kev at the dialysis center for his 3.5 hour treatment.  One drove from DC to Ohio and then they came together to Indiana; all safe and sound back at their homes today; ahead of the impossible storms that hit Illinois and Indiana.....Thanks Kids!!
As always, Quilted Dreams and Blessings!!!  Karen

Christmas !!  

Our Kids

After The Storms Today

McTavishing Or Doodling

Have you McTavished yet? or Doodled with Jenny? .....You really should try!!.....Quilted Blessings!!  Karen

Half Square Triangles Conquered

 Hello!!!
Goldilocks and the Three Bears are done and ready to ship to the UK....along with two Christmas Mug Rugs with Children in Black Silouhettes....love them!! Want to do more!!  Goldilocks was fun to do and her face is just so sweet too!!  I can't attach pictures as my I Phone Camera lens got scratched and my photos show the affect of that....that explains my poor photos in the recent past that I have posted.....I apologize!!....so when I get the money to purchase new insurance (argh!)....you will have to wait on that!!.....I did find this great video though on something I think You NEED for your accurate quilting pieces...I can not wait to send for it myself!.....
Our son did well with his hemodialysis on Tuesday....he goes again for 5 hours today (that includes travel time and waiting his turn)..he is tired afterwards and takes a good nap then he is ready to go for a day or so until the next treatment....his abdomen finally feels better; we all figured out he had a bug that day...as I came home and have been sick for a couple of days now....he was just so afraid somehow he still had affects of peritonitis.....now his concern is keeping his tunnelled catheter on his right chest sterile and covered!!....it goes to his heart....it is the fastest way to start hemodialysis but it has its precautions for sure!!

Have a blest Quilting Day!! I am cleaning and then starting "something" on my longarm......I will give you a peak.....well, when I get my Iphone fixed!  It is all in a "day" as my Mom use to say!!
Blessings!!  Karen

Our Sons' Journey Continues

Mindy and Kev

Our Son

Reality

Sweet Elenor! She has some great ideas on making a wedding ring quilt!  I thought I would check in with you.
  I was with my sons' family all last week and then went back to see him on Sunday.  He is in hemodialysis now on Tues, Thurs and Saturdays...he gets there, so far on time, and then has to wait over an hour to get started.  He has a mid-day appointment.  Please keep him and his little family; Mindy (wife) and Coralynn and Amelia (little girls) in your thoughts and prayers.  He has live donors on a list; he is fortunate; he has a waiting list of friends and family that match and want to be a donor.  His donor from our town here in Plymouth is waiting to start the 3rd part of her journey of her matching kidney, so, since he has had to go on hemodialysis due to getting peritonitis with the Peritoneal Dialysis, he really is praying the transplant is soon.  He has to be infection free for 2 weeks before any transplant can happen; so they think it will be in December.  That also would be an answer to prayer as the healthcare is changing for everyone and especially them January 1st.  Kevs' faith continues to grow...  God is showing that HE is in control and that HE holds Kevin in His hands....He is soverign.  I am back home and working on the doll quilt to send to UK for November; then it is my plan to get my shop open and offer some longarming and the fabric that I have for those that would like to purchase it! and take Quilt lessons.  But, for now, Kev and his family is # 1 in our lives.  His sister and little Caroline are going to see them this weekend and I am sure Leah will keep him company during his 3.5 hour dialysis on Saturday...happens to be my Hubs birthday and Kevs' Dad....he is 44....opps....lets try 64....heehee.....we will be married 44.....haha......
I pray you are all well and safe....God Bless and Quilted Blessing!!! Karen

Precious!!

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

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

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

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!!

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

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

Try It!

Swoon Quilt

Quilting and Quilting some more!  Trying new wings in the longarm quilting world these days and finding it so much fun!  Trying to just relax and enjoy the process and pray it looks good when it is done!  In the last month I put together and quilted a Swoon Quilt....I do love the fabric I used from Lori Holt in it. It is a challenging quilt top to put together but please try it!! You won't be disappointed in the results....
 I also made a doll quilt with the same pattern and fabric for my Doll Monthly August swap.  I am just going to post my phone pictures and hope you enjoy them.  I love to quilt and would be happy to finish a top that you have completed!  Just email me.  Quilted Quilted Blessings and more!!  Karen

Circles and Circles!

Swoon Completed!!

Doll Monthly Quilt Swap

Close Up!

Apple Quilt For My Daughters , put magnets inside to stick on her metal desk.

Aprons

I am still longarming on quilts I want to hang in my "shop".... but,  I found this awesome Apron tutorial tonight Riley Blake Designs   I found it by way of Maureen Craknell Handmade ......you know how we Quilters love to see what others are doing....Anyways, I think it is a sweet Dresden Design!  I will reveal my two quilts I am finishing soon.....complete with Finial/Rope Display!!

Super Cute!!

Do you have a clothes line?  Just love the clothes pins on it!!  It is great being a Quilter!!.....Blessings!!  Karen