One year in Heaven

Hi Mom,

Today is the one year anniversary of you passing from this earth to a heavenly paradise.  One year since you and Dad were together again.  I have missed you so much. I'm living in your house and see you and Dad in my heart every time I walk into the house. You have been my best friend and I miss that.  I miss your smile, sparkle in your eyes, and giggle when you told me something funny.  

Today Judy and I took seven quilts and one afghan to Prairie Senior Living Complex to donate in your memory.  Remember all the gingham blocks we cut and sewed together while you lived there? I quilted them to donate.  I found a set of tulip blocks in your stash that I put together also.  Judy made three quilt tops as well.  The people at PSLC even choked up as we talked about you and our desire to share the activities you loved with them. Judy has a lot of pictures of this.  Happy Anniversary, Mom!

 

These three Gingham quilts you and I made while you were living at  PSLC.

  I found these quilt blocks in a tub of your stash.  I put them together into a quilt.

    

Judy made these last three quilts.

Today we donated those seven quilts and an afghan to Prairie Senior Living Center. 

In August I was able to do your proxy temple work.  You and Dad were sealed together, both sealed to your parents, and I was sealed to you.  After our sealing, the gentleman who stood in proxy for Dad gave me a big hug and said, "This hug is from your Dad" Oh, my. What a spiritual moment! As he hugged me I could see in my mind and heart Dad standing in front of me and he said with a big grin, "Well, you are stuck with us now" and you popped up from behind Dad, looking over his shoulder laughing with joy.  I was filled with joy as well.  Thank you for that beautiful image in the temple.  I love you forever, Mom & Dad!

I pray the angels give you and Dad both a huge hug from me. I'll see you again one day.

All my love always,

Rose

Judy put this video together of the donation of quilts to Prairie Senior Living Complex in memory of Mom. Thank you, Judy.

2023 in Review

 Happy New Year 2024

2023 has been filled with challenges and blessings.  

Of course I miss Dad as the one year anniversary came around.  Finally in August I had some time to myself and able to begin grieving his death.  As well as grieving Dad's death, I am also grieving another stage of loss of Mom.  After Dad passed away Mom's dementia became worse and it was harder without Mom & Dad looking after each other.  I began spending days with Mom then nights also - mostly 24/7.    I didn't feel I was getting enough personal time or breaks and was beginning to be so stressed I was having anxiety and panic attacks.  In June Mom's doctor felt it was the time to change to living in a memory care facility.  Prairie Senior Living Complex is the place for that.  10 days later I got a call that there was a bed available for Mom to move in.  June 23 my heart broke as we moved Mom into long term care.  I have been with Mom & Dad most every day for the past 16 years and now Mom is no longer on the farm.  It took time for both of us to adjust.  Actually Mom has settled in well and now has a private room.  She is very social and more helpful that needed there.  She is involved in activities when we are there or the aides come get her and take her along.  My adjustment has been a little slower at coming along.  I really miss not being with Mom every day.  I go to Colby 3 days a week to spend the afternoon with Mom.  At times it is hard to leave her because she is struggling with me going.  My heart hurts.  

When I visit Mom I try to always be in the moment.  She will jabber on and on while nothing fits together or makes any sense.  I tell myself to just listen to her voice and watch the expressions in her eyes.  Overall she is happy to see me.  We have cut out 2 quilts and she 'helped' me sew on them. I have a little more time for the things I feel I need for myself.

    Gingham quilt top

Derrick decided to remodel Mom's house this winter and wants me to move down to the underground house.  I had not ever really thought about that but do believe it will be good.  The house is zero entry with 36" doors throughout with 3 bedrooms instead of one.  The quilt room is there and I would not have to move the quilt machine and I will have a 2 car garage.  Derrick wants to put a couple hired truck drivers in my house as he is renting a house in Selden for them now.  I have been cleaning, sorting, and organizing for Mom ever since I started spending days then all the time with her at her house.  With this remodel I had to get the house packed up and moved out for that to happen,  My sisters have basically told me that they are busy in their lives because they work and that they do not have time to help me pack up Mom's house,  After all I don't work and it will be for me in the end and they are not going to help me move-that is my problem not theirs.  Karen helped me the most coming home for 5 days at a time every few weeks and Allen came home for a week and sorted and cleaned in Dad's machine shed and garages.  Everything is sorted, packed and moved to storage.  Dan Wachendorfer Construction began on the house a couple weeks ago.  Things seem to be moving fast.  Moving makes sense but I have lived in the little house on the farm longer than any other home I've lived in as an adult.  It is about the same amount of time as living in our childhood home in Hill City.  This will also be another grieving time.  

A year ago I was in 2 walking boots at the same time trying to heal broken bones in my feet. I was diagnosed with Charcot Foot.  I then was fitted for custom insoles and diabetic shoes.  I struggled through June to get it all right and it never was.  I was so fed up with Hanger in Hays and have just had to deal with the painful feet.  It is hard to walk very far and balance is not good.  

The end of May I fell on the driveway slipping on the mud.  I bruised my knee, jammed my wrist and shoulder.  My side and back hurt when I would bend or stoop over and pull weeds.  I wore a wrist brace for several months.  In August I had a flat tire outside of Selden and tried to change it myself.  Something happened and I had sharp pains in my side.  I called Layne to come hep me.  I ended going to the ER in the middle of the night to find out that I had broken a rib that was in the process of healing,  What??  I must have broken it when I fell on the driveway.  Early December I fell off the 4 wheeler on the driveway and landed on my left knee again.  It took a while before I could get up.  It is finally not bruised but still it tender and swells some.  

I had a goal for 2023 to quilt one quilt per month for me and one for Mom.  I did quilt a few for us and one for Judy.  I also made a quilt for Altar Society for their 2023 Mardi Gras raffle and also make another for their 2024 raffle.  I made a t-shirt quilt for Roni and a baby quilt for Amy. After Mom moved to Prairie Senior I started cleaning in the house and quit our monthly quilting projects.  

 Altar Society 2023 quilt raffleAltar Society 2024 quilt raffle

    Amy's bug baby quilt

    Roni's t-shirt quilt for Jenny

In the past 3 years I have put about 8,000 miles on my car for Mom & Dad's health care, business, etc. as Dad did not have the energy to find out what was happening with their van and I was uncomfortable taking in on road trips.  It has not been driven much in the past 2 years.  I have the van running with new battery and new tires and a disconnected fuse that was draining the battery.  I have had to clean, clean, clean.  Dirt and mouse poop filled the van since sitting and having windows open.  I still need to shampoo and armor all the van but it is a lot better.  The transmission is shifting rough so I need to check that out but I am planning to drive it for local trips (within 30 miles or so) and keep my car for longer road trips.

2024 Goals:

• Daily Scripture Study & Prayer
• Attend the Temple quarterly
• Visit Mom 3 days per week
• Deep clean kitchen in underground house since it is not being replaced
• Begin sorting & packing in my house in preparation of move
• Move and settle in underground house
• Set up my house as furnished rental
• Clean Quilt Room
• Unpack storage unit
• Make quilt labels for Roni
• More personal time to adjust to life changes

I am blessed to still have time to spend with Mom.  I'm blessed to have a home to live in that I can afford without pulling out of my retirement investments yet.  I am blessed to be able to remain active and fairly healthy overall.  I am blessed to have supportive family and friends.  I am blessed to have peace with the changes in life this past year.  I am blessed through my faith in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and to have the influence of the Holy Ghost in my life.  I see blessings in every day things every day. 

May 2024 be an even better year that this past year had been.

                        

HAPPY NEW  YEAR 2024!

Rose

Year End-2016 Summary

This has been a year that has flown by so fast I do not know what happened.  I did not review my goals from 2015 nor post goals for 2016.  Now it, too, is gone.  So here is a quick summary of my year.

The second week of January I subbed at school, worked at the library and traveled to Wichita to be with Karen when she had foot surgery on the 15th.  I got there the night before her surgery and returned home on March 10th.  The end of June I spend 10 days at Karen's again just for fun.  A couple weeks later she came out to the farm for a couple weeks and we hosted the Gerald & Arvilla Juenemann Family Celebration Gathering the end of July. Right after Labor Day I took a week and went to the mountains.  I went to the Fort Collins Temple open house, then to Steamboat Springs before camping in the mountains then a short stay in Denver visiting a friend and my niece, Elizabeth.  On November 10th Mom, Dad & I left for Arkansas to spend Thanksgiving with Allen.  We stayed 5 weeks with him before heading back home.  We stayed with Karen overnight traveling both ways but extended that on the way home because of blasting fridged cold with temps as low as 23 degrees below zero and wind chills 35 degrees below. We got back to the farm the night of Dec. 20. I have loved the extended time spend with family this year.

On The Farm Baby Quilt 

I've done a bit of sewing also.  At the end of 2015 Mom, Karen & I bought Aunt Sis's Janome 350e embroidery machine.  I made a quilt for Jonathan & Elizabeth's first baby using blocks made on the machine.  It was so fun to watch the picture 'appear' on the fabric.  It was fun to make but took a long time for each block.  Later I made a burp cloth, bib, blanket with machine embroidery on it for a gift.  Mom & Karen have also made projects with the machine.

Chain Reaction

On the regular sewing machine I made a quilt from the Row by Row gift fat-quarter set that I won in 2015.  The pattern is called Chain Link.  I used 42 of the 46 fat quarters in the set.  I still need to quilt the top.  This fall I took the quilt top in to the Oberlin quilt shop where I won the fabrics to show her what I did with the winnings.

Row by Row 2016
Made by Karen, Quilted by Rose

This year Karen & I collected RxR patterns again and I only made one row for her and she did all the rest of the quilt then I quilted and bound it and took it to Oberlin shop again.  She won another fat quarter pack, thread, and Best Press.  Norma designs the best rows.

Coneflower table runner/wall hanging

I also made a table runner/wall hanging from a kit I received from Aunt Sis when I took Mom & her sisters to Manhattan for their Sister's week in 2015.  It turned out cute.

Laura, Charlotte, &Thomas with the Quiet Book

I designed and made a quiet book for my great-niece, Charlotte.  Laura asked if I'd consider making one so I decided to try.  I researched, collected patterns and pictures, drew my own designs where needed and began working on it.  I used machine applique, machine embroidery and other techniques to make 12 pages-put princess in bed, counting ladder, velcro match color & shapes, snap together flowers, tent with zipper front and teddy bear inside, button shirt, buckle belt, barn with cow inside loop closure door, glove to insert hand with snowman, elastic stretch elephant trunk, bathtub with sliding shower curtain, tie ballet slippers.  The ABC blocks on the cover coordinate with the ABC block quilt I made for them when Charlotte was born.

This fall while in Arkansas I made two more wall hanging tops from kits I had.

 My goal for 2017 is to quilt all the tops I have put together.  I am hand quilting one now and have another embroidered top that I want to hand quilt & one king size bed quilt needs hand quilted because it is too big for the quilt machine.  The rest I think I can machine quilt on Mom's long arm quilting machine.  More great-babies are coming but none are first babies for my nieces or nephews so I do not think I will be making any baby quilts this coming year.

2016 was a good year and I look forward to 2017.  Happy New Year!

Rose

2015 Row By Row Experience - H2O

When I was in Wichita in July, Karen and I went to the quilt shops to pick up free row patterns for the 2015 Row by Row.  The program runs during the summer in Canada and the United States.  Participating quilt shops design a 9 x 36" row pattern and give them away to those that come into their shop and ask for it.  You can also purchase a fabric kit for the pattern if you want it.  The first person to bring in a finished quilt of 8 rows or more into a participating shop wins a prize of a fat quarter pack.  If that store's row is in the quilt, a second prize is awarded.  This prize varies by store.  When Karen came here, we went to Oberlin to get their block.  I fell in love with the barn and fishing pond of that "Fishin'"  block.  It was applique and embroidery.  I purchased their last year block that was of a covered wagon with fall features called "Home, home on the Range".  I thought I'd make these two blocks into a small wall hanging. 

In September I went to Karen's again with another block from the Oakley & Stockton quilt shops that she wanted.  Karen had several rows made and was in the process of a few more.  I decided to make these two rows just for fun.  As I did these I made a few more while Karen was in school during the day.  I ended up with 8 rows.  Karen kept telling me Oberlin shop had not had a winner yet and encouraged me to pet my quilt together and take it in so I could win the prize if I was the first one.  I could not imaging doing that but finally agreed to give it a try.  If nothing else I would have a finished quilt project this summer. 

When I got home I did all the embroidery on the Oberlin row then pieced the quilt top together.  I quilted it on Mom's long arm quilting machine then put on the binding.  Last Saturday I took it into Country Quilting & Keepsakes quilt shop in Oberlin.  I am that store winner.  As a prize I received a 25 piece fat quarter and as the extra prize for having their block in my quilt I was given another 21 fat quarters that made a complete set of fat quarters from a collection.  What a wonderful gift!! That is over $160 value.  Norma Carman, owner of the quilt shop, asked if they could display the quilt in the store for a while.  They are participating in a quilt shop hop with other shops in northwest Kansas.  She would like to keep it at least through that.  The Row by Row ends October 31 so I think I'll pick up my quilt after that.  I have had many nice comments on the Kansas Row By Row Facebook page and from those that have seen the quilt.  

Hanging in Country Quilting & Keepsakes in Oberlin, KS

 

46 Fat quarter prize

Quilting Treasures Blenders collection

Karen is sending me her Row by Row quilt to have it quilted then I'll send it back to her.  She said as of this weekend one Hutchinson store does not have a finished quilt turned it.  Maybe she can win a prize for her quilt also.  It has been fun working on this project with her.  Thanks, Karen, for all your encouragement.  Also thanks to all the quilt shops that participate in this program. It was fun.

 

Rose

 



Island Sunrise

No, I have not taken an island vacation.  I have been quilting again.  Remember one of the quilt tops I made in July? I have the Island Sunrise paper pieced wall hanging that Karen & I made quilted and bound.  It is finished.

 I am happy with the way it turned out.  Thanks, Karen for your help putting it together.

Rose

Quilting Time Vacation

In July I went to Wichita to spend 3 weeks with my sister, Karen.  We had so many plans for sewing and quilting.  But first we babysat with her grandchildren for most of a week.  Emily & Ryan were working on getting a house ready to move into so we watched Flora.  She was 7 month old and just learning to crawl and stand up and move around things.  She was so fun and warmed up to me pretty well but there is nobody like Grandma.

After that we kept Dianne & Derick's two kiddos.  Braedan & Kinsley came on a Thursday, spent the night with us and stayed all day on Friday.  Braedan was so funny when we went to their house. When we arrived, he came on a run to us but ran right past Grandma Karen to me with a huge hug.  What a sweet boy.  The decided that since I was staying at Grandma's house for 3 weeks maybe he should stay with her 3 weeks also.  I love you but you are too busy for me for that long.  Kinsley, at 10 1/2 months old, is walking (running) everywhere already.  It was a fun time with the kids.

Finally we had time to sew.  I had fabric and pattern for a paper pieced project and Karen wanted to learn to do that technique.  We worked on it and got the quilt top completely put together. I now have the back ready and just need to get down to Mom's to quilt it.  I'd like to have it done by the time I take Mom and her sisters to Manhattan for their Sister's Week in October.  Better get busy, Rose.












  I was already working on a hand pieced applique of a camping scene and did get it finished while I was there. 

Then on to my third project, Larua's baby quilt.  I finally came up with a plan and Karen helped me to make it come to life much easier than it could have.  We went to school and cut out the alphabet letters from the fabric with the fusible web on the back with the cutter that they do letters for their bulletin boards.  We also cut out letters for the names on the backs of her grandbaby big girl bed quilts.  I fused the letters then machine appliqued them, & put the top together.  When I got home I machine quilted it on the long arm machine.  I am so excited to give it to her  The baby is due mid September.

It sounds like this was selfish time and all we did was projects for me.  Karen did not have as much sewing to do as I did but she had more 'getting ready' things.  After cutting out the letters, she assembled the quilt backs for Kinsley's & Flora's big girl bed quilts and appliqued their names on them.  We also got another quilt back ready to take to the farm to quilt.  That was for the 3 quilts she wanted to quilt on Mom's long arm machine when she went to the farm for the Summer Family Gathering.  We put a quilt on the big frames and pinned it so she could hand quilt it in a lap hoop.  After that quilt was removed from the frame, we put in Liz's graduation quilt to be hand quilted in the large frames.  That quilt is so big that it took up a huge part of the basement with barely room to get past it to go to the other end of the room.

We also changed a light fixture in the basement so that we had more light to work by.  I am scared of electrical projects but Karen is not.  I helped but actually she did all the hard parts.  I did the holding and handing of tools.  We also took a good look at the basement to figure out what she would like to do to make it more waterproof and repair any water damage.  Then she wants to removed the big room in the basement into a family room and kids play room that can be used for her large quilting frames also.  We had a lot of fun going out to eat and going to fabric shops collecting Row by Row patterns. 

I had a fun time at Karen's home and always feel comfortable and at home there.  I also was able to bring her home with me for another 2 weeks.  What a fun quilting vacation.


Rose 

Take Away the Blues!

At the first of the year I set a lot of goals especially with quilts to make and finish.  This one is an additional quilt that I had no idea at that time that I would do.

My good friend, Roni, has been diagnosed with breast cancer.  She seems to be so strong.  She will have a mastectomy this week.  My heart hurts so much and I do not know how to express it.  So I do what I know how to do.  I offer help but she has no idea yet what kind of help, if any, she may need.  I turn to what I am best at doing, I make a quilt.  I sat down with the graph paper on the computer and began to design.  I had fun designing the block then the quilt layout.  I thought about using pink an burgundy colors to represent the breast cancer support but I decided that blue would be better.  I used 24 different blue fabrics--thus part of the name.  As a comfort quilt comes the rest of the idea of the name for the quilt.  Roni and I have known each other and been friends for 26 years.  I could not come up with a quilt layout with 26 blocks or I would have done that.  I used black flannel for the quilt back so that it will be soft and warm as well. With every thought and plan in the design, with every stitch made to piece together and quilt the quilt, I have put in all my thoughts and love and hugs and good wishes and prayers for her. 

 

Love you, Roni. I am so grateful to have you as my dear friend.

 

Rose



Sunbonnet Sue Babies Quilt

A few years ago Karen and I were at the Newton outlet stores at the Charlotte's Quilt Shop.  She bought an embroidery pattern pre-printed on fabric of Sunbonnet Sue Babies.  The fabric was pretty cheesy so she made copies on the copy machine at school and used that to trace onto fabric she wanted to embroidery them on.  She bought all the threads in the colors according to the pattern directions.  I loved the pattern also so we decided to share it.  When she was done, she gave me the pattern copies and all her threads.  She said there was no point in me buying all the colors when you only use a little of most of them.  As I embroidered the babies, I would purchase any thread colors that I ran out of.  When done the pattern and threads were returned to Karen.

I worked on the babies all winter a couple years ago.  I like doing hand work when I watch TV or just sit around and wait .  These could be put in a zip lock bag and tucked in my purse and go anywhere with me.  They were so cute an really easy stitches to do.  When I got them all embroidered, I put the set away to finish later.  Someone needs to have a baby girl as their first baby now.

At the first of the year I added this quilt to my list to finish this year.  Even if nobody is having a baby girl, I can finish the quilt and have it ready for when the right baby comes along.  I have told all my nieces and nephews that when they have their first baby I will make them an applique quilt for their nursery.  If they have 8 babies I do not plan to do 8 quilts!  I try to make the quilt special to go with the nursery theme or a theme that means something special to the family.  Some quilts have been made from purchased or free online patterns but others have been my own creation. 

In June, Emily, Karen's daughter, announced that she was having a baby in December.  A few weeks later she found out she was having a baby girl.  Oh, goody! I can make the embroidered Sunbonnet Sue Babies quilt for her.  How fitting it seems to me.  Emily is into retro things, natural things, artistic things, and besides that I got the pattern from her mother.  She saw some embroidered blocks that Mom got in some stuff and fell in love with them.  Mom made them into a quilt for her.  She loved it.  She said her nursery is painted teal and she promised Ryan that she would not go all pink girly in her décor.  I think she will like this embroidered baby quilt.

 

Sorry the picture of the embroidery work and the quilt itself is not very clear.  I'll try again to take pictures of it and if I can get a better one, I will replace this later.

 

I wanted to add a little pop at the border of the quilt but everything seemed to be too much.  I found a tutorial for "Susie's Magic Binding" and thought I'd give it a try.  It added just what I needed and turned out great.  The tutorial was so easy to follow.  Look at the results.



On the bottom picture you can even see some of the machine quilting I did. 

 

Emily's baby shower is not until November 1 so don't spill the beans.  Can we keep this a secret from her?  You are getting a sneak peak.

 

Rose

PS: Look what I made from the scraps.  Baby Flora will have a doll quilt that goes with her baby quilt. (Dec 14, 2014)



Another week on the farm

I was asked to put together a rag quilt from the blocks that were signed at the baby shower for my nephew and his wife, Isaac and Kate. Valerie gave me the blocks and all the other flannel she purchased.  I finished the quilt and got it all clipped last Wednesday.  I gave it back to Valerie to wash and dry it to fray the edges or else she can give it to Kate to do that.  Their baby is due in just a few weeks. 

 

 

When Valerie came out last week she also brought me two grocery sacks of tomatoes that she picked from her garden.  These tomatoes were the most dense I have ever seen for large tomatoes.  Roma tomatoes are this dense but they are small.  I took all the peppers from my freezer and made salsa.  I ended up with 33 pints and 3 quarts of salsa from this.  I will have some good eating *snacking* this winter.  I will share some with Karen as she always shares hers with me. This year her garden was not so good. 

 

 

This past week I also helped Dad and Mom build a corral in the north pasture in order to make it easier to load the cattle out of there instead of trying to walk them home across the field which is usually planted to something.  Dad decided to make it from old grader blades and make the corral permanent.  Those blades are solid steel, 8 foot long and 6-8 inches high and (I'm guessing) 3/4 inch thick.  They are heavy!!  They are hard to handle.  Dad started out working on this alone.  Why is it so hard for a man to ask for help?  Mom went out to help the next time he worked on it.  She can't really lift but she could place the bolts in and put the nuts on.  I went out to help the next time.  I helped did post holes (my tractor skills are not so smooth when I am to backup only an inch at a time).  I helped lift the blades and carry them to where they were to be used and then held them in place till bolts were in place.  Dad finished up the gate and moved some of the cattle home so they could be taken to the sale. 

 

I had a lot of sore muscles after helping on the corral Thursday evening and Friday morning then standing at the sink working tomatoes and peppers for salsa.  I am not used to that kind of hard physical work all on one day.  I now need a couple days to rest but that won't happen for a few days.

 

Rose



 

Noah's Ark Quilt

I can finally reveal one of the projects I was working on and talked about earlier.  When I was in Wichita the end of June, Karen and I did the applique on this baby quilt.  I could not reveal our work then because it was for a gift for my nephew and his wife, Isaac and Kate Broeckelman.  Today was their baby shower and I gave the quilt to them.  Here it is.

The guests at the shower wrote or drew on flannel quilt blocks and I have been asked to put a quilt together with these blocks and additional fabric Valerie got to go with it.  I'll post a picture of this when I get it done.
Rose

More projects

I have been working on more projects.  Even though they are not completed, I feel I've made good progress and different phases are done. 

First project today is a completed project.  I made the Double Irish Chain quilt top several years ago while I was staying at Karen's.  We worked together to make this.  I had purchased a precut kit (strips with pattern) from e-Bay several years before that.  I probably had the kit for 6-7 years before sewing and had the top made for 4-5 years before I finally decided to quilt it last month.  I machine quilted it with a meandering loop design on Mom's long arm quilting machine.  It really did not take too long and it turned out great.  The quilt is completed with binding and all.  I even hand stitched the binding down.

Another project that I have been working on in between other things has been the embroidered flowers.  In an earlier post I showed two flowers done.  I now have the other 4 flowers embroidered.  I am so excited to have these done and to put this wall hanging together and hand quilt it. 





This past week I have been working on Baby Broeckelman quilt.  Karen helped me pick fabrics and work up the appliques.  I have the top completed and will get it put together and quilted once I return to the farm next week.  No pictures of it yet as I have not given them the gift.  You will have to hold on and let the suspense build for a little bit.  I promise pictures soon of this special baby quilt.

Now I am helping Karen with applique on a quilt that she made when in North Dakota sewing with a friend earlier in June.  We are having fun but I will need to go home soon.

Rose 

 

Murphy Quilt

Last August my sister's sister-in-law contacted me asking if I'd make a quilt for her.  She had 24 beautiful hand embroidered rose blocks that she had done and did not know what to do with them from there.  We agreed on price and terms.  She left it entirely up to me to design the quilt top, purchase fabric and supplies, machine quilt, and finish a queen size quilt from her blocks.  I have slowly worked on it and finally got it finished last week.  I ended up spending 8 hours sewing the quilt top, 3 hours making 2 throw pillows from the extra blocks and 2 pillow cases, 7 1/2 hours quilting, and 8 hours hand sewing the binding.  Over all, I really like how it all turned out.  I have called Mrs. M to let her know her quilt is completed.  I hope she will like it.  This is the first quilt I have been hired to make and am a little nervous about her reaction.

 

Rose