Mid-Week Check In....
First, I'd like to give my deepest thanks to all of you following me here on this new blog.
Thank You!
To those who leave comments.
Thank You!
To those who have sent me personal e-mails.
Thank You!
It does my heart good, restores my faith in people and makes me feel like I made a difference with some in what I gave and shared for over 20 years online.
People in this world are searching....
sadly I don't believe most of them know what they are searching for and strike out at anyone who has found it and practices it. Not to say I don't have missteps along the way. For at 55 years old, every night when I lie awake in bed I go over every year in that 55 years and see the missteps and pray that I am forgiven for those I hurt, that they forgive me and pray that I can forgive the hurts done to me.
To love your neighbor as yourself...
hard.
I only have to gaze at a crucifix and remember what He endured for all the sins that had been done, were being done and would be done...
and that weight, that burden...He felt.
It's easy then, isn't it - to forgive.
I had a wise priest friend tell me, "Vonna, you don't have to forget - because you have to protect yourself - but you must always, always forgive. And if your heart won't, pray that it will, and one day you will wake up and forgiveness will be there. Ask and you will receive."
Wise words, I try to live by (try being the operative word there).
Anyway...not what I came online to say today, but obviously on my heart, so out it came.
Perhaps someone needed to hear it, contemplate it as well as I did and do.
I came on to show you this:
I started working on Cora's 2nd Birthday Quilt. This is block 1:
The Elsa block for the Princess Parade Quilt!
It took me two tries and 6 hours to finish 😆
But look at those points!
I tell you folks....like putting a puzzle together.
and then the thinking and contemplating on: if I sew this piece this way and press the seams what direction will it go?
I struggle with orientation in space.
Period.
I cannot for the life of me orient objects in space.
It's why I struggled in Organic Chemistry during college and WHY I did not become a doctor 😝
Honestly after reflection I wouldn't have become a doctor anyway, because that's not what God meant for me, BUT Organic Chemistry did it's weeding job on me anyway!
So the struggle was real, but the final piece...Exceptional!
I used snowflake material for the back ground because she is: the Snow Queen!
I thought I was so nifty for that substitution! (ha ha)
Here's the whole quilt for reference:
This is the designer's original quilt pattern. Since the time she created it she has designed and included in the pattern Merida (Scottish Princess) and Tatiana (Frog Princess)
you are supposed to pick any 12 princesses you like,
but Cora likes all of them.
So....I'm just going to do all the blocks and figure out a 15th block on my own (I may do a name block) and then design my own layout.
I also would like to jazz it up a bit.
After subbing snow for the background of Elsa....
I decided I'm going to find material with movement for ALL of the princesses.
Like a batik that looks like water for Ariel and Moana....
(that's as far as I've gotten - ha ha!)
But even if it would turn out like a small ditsy floral background or tiny dots...something with movement I think will make the quilt exceptional. We will see what I come up with.
I'd also like to do some corner stones around the princess frames. I'm not one for plain frames. Maybe add a large ricrack around the total frame encompassing the princesses....
BIG IDEAS...
and only one block done! HA HA!
I have until July 8 to get the blocks done, the quilt put together and then quilted.
That's a lot....
if any of the people reading would like to purchase this pattern you can find it: HERE
She's On Etsy and the Shop Name is LoRayMe
She has a lot of great patterns.
The norovirus has hit our house....
😖
Ellie started with it Saturday afternoon.
Jake got it Sunday night.
They both are STILL struggling with it. BAD.
Since I was a microbiologist in a hospital I did infection control along with bench work so I still get alerts from the CDC and it's hitting the Northeast and Midwest right now.
Waste water samples have seen a severe spike in the last month of norovirus. Sadly, it is turning out to be a new variant and is virulent.
Early onset of symptoms after contact.
I am wiping down EVERY surface, every door knob...
I make them wipe the toilet after every use.
We have gone through 2 large tubs of Clorox wipes and I bought 4 more.
Cora is here every day and I make them stay in their rooms as much as possible.
I just don't want Cora and her Mommy who is 32 weeks pregnant to get it.
So far so good....
please pray that Cora and Katie don't get it. If I get it so be it, but please spare Cora and Katie.
Marching on and fighting the good fight!
See you next time!
