Rambling.....

This will be an odds and ends post. I'm rather scatterbrained any more....or let's say worse than before this upheaval with Rick's layoff and all that goes along with that.

I did finish a project, but it wasn't one of my UFO's. It was a quilt that one of my friends wanted for her expected grandson. So this is what I came up with....
I quilted a sun and a cloud in the space around the sails at the top of each boat. I enjoyed making it and the fabrics worked out well.

We are adjusting to retirement. Some days are good, some days I seem paralyzed. I am just struck numb at the attitude towards workers in their 50's! Rick attended a seminar at the Unemployment Office and they were quite blunt in their lecture. If you are looking for a job and you are over 45, companies consider you a liability and will probably toss your resume. WHAAT?
Also, if you have a job interview coming up, color the gray out of your hair. Oh glory! It has given Rick pause to say the least to hear these things and then have no response to the resumes he has sent out for engineering jobs. One of the jobs was him up and down. Exactly what he is schooled to do and has done very successfully for decades. Not even a phone call. What's up with that!

On to other things.
I had to laugh at myself. I thought I had this fabulous stash that I could quilt out of for years. I have a stash all right, but it isn't thrilling me. Much too random....much too, ummmm yuck. The quilts I will make will look scrappy straight out of the chute instead of out of the scrap bin. I love scrappy quilts..intentionally made out of scraps, but my mind doesn't wrap around using lengths of cloth and having a scrappy look!

I guess I didn't have a clue how to build a stash.....maybe there is no formula. How did you build your stash? Project oriented? Color and shade oriented? Just lucky? How much yardage do you buy when stash building? I'm curious I guess as to where I went wrong....though the outcome will remain the same. Unless I have a previously unknown rich multi-millionaire relative that makes me beneficiary to their estate.....OR the contents of a quilt store fall out of the sky and land in my yard one day I will be working with what I already have. Stay tuned....could be very interesting....or just plain scary!!

I am having to take a different turn on the UFO Challenge. Some of the projects I had on the list was going to require me to purchase backing, batting, etc. At this time I just can't be doing that, so I have to substitute projects that I already have all of the elements for. So for right now, I am putting my brother's Dresden Plate into a sandwich and just work on it straight until I complete it. It will definitely take longer than one month. But it will be a completed UFO and that was the goal anyway.

Change and adjustment are the stuff of life.....so we are experiencing LIFE around here. And we are ok.....more than ok. We are blessed. The only difficulties I am having are all of my own making. Let's face it. I was spoiled. When I want fabric, I WANT FABRIC!! I'll get over it. No recovery from addiction is pleasant, is it.

The grandkids are growing like weeds!! Aubree turned 5!!!! Before you know it, Joe and Libby will have a birthday. Mia is several months from a birthday, but she is maturing like crazy. Where are my babies???!!! Well, here they are......











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Blessings,
Becky