stash report 3/15/08

i sure lost ground this week....i was gifted about 10 yds of scraps (estimated by weight)
and man they are nice!!! now to get some basement time for cutting. i love all my scraps
i may never get them all cut but they are all loved! oh well, better get the stash report done!

fabric added this week 10 yards
fabric added year to date 19 yds

fabric busted this week 00 yds
fab busted year to date 35.55 yds

net busted year to date 23.55 yds

a new friend for larry

my friend margaret brought a new friend for
larry...this is kayla. kayla is about 10 months old,
a lab and hound X. beautiful puppy.

acually, larry and i are in the picture too!! larry
is the grey legs in brown recliner and i am blue
legs directly behind kayla.

dd brandy took the picture with her cell. kayla
has stolen our hearts...and taken over about 1/2
of our living room. thankyou margaret!

larry has had lots of company since he has been
on hospice so very little sewing has been done.
and kayla ofcoarse, gets her share of my attention...she is big but still a puppy! lots of trips
outside. maybe tomarrow i will get bath mat #2 finished. i just started quilting it today and
it got so busy around here so it is still just barely started.

ann

this is all i have accomplished this week

and i already had the center stars done!!!
these 5 blocks are for a swap i am in. the quilt pattern is "galexy of stars and scraps" these
friendship star blocks will alternate with an
eight pointed star block. now i have to do
5 eight pointed star blocks for the swap. i know this is just a start...the quilt takes 24 friendship star blocks and 25 of the 8 pointed star blocks.
they are not hard its just that time is a little
short right now.

larry has had all kinds of company plus getting
all the hospice stuff set up. it seems like so
many people here all the time. but, so much
better for him to know how loved he is.

margaret is coming today bringing a dog for larry. he has been lost since this winter we had
to put his last dog down. she had cancer and was in a lot of pain. i hope he and kayla truely
bond...oops time to start something for him to eat.

ann

larry update

larry is now on Hospice...the dr's have decided that more treatment will do
more damage at this time to his general health than benifit. he agreed. his
metasisized tumors in the "good" lung are growing like gang busters. the goal now
is quality of life. he is relieved that he no longer has to go out for treatments.

good thoughts and prayers are apprieciated

ann

stash report

fabric added this week 00 yds
fabric added year to date 9 yds

fabric busted this week 0.5 yds
fabric busted year to date 35.5 yds

net bust year to date 26.5 yds

aprox fab on hand 3290

a quick update

i have not posted in a timely manner...larry has had some scary changes and we spent over
8 hours in the local ER and have appointments today and monday to find what is going on.

they think it is cancer progressing, ther were X rays and CT scans...checking for blood clots
in his lungs, there were none. larry went from potsing around the house even doing a flight of steps several times a day to almost no activity. any activity definately affects his O2 level.

i am scared, there is nothing i ca do to make it all better. around him i keep my chin up
and try to keep normal activity up in fact to day i will be putting binding on my sisters choice
quilt if i change my activity it scares him which makes things worse for him. i am so
glad i brought a sewing machine up to the living room so i can keep him company
and let him see normal activity.

ann

bath mat #1 done

well, here is the first bathmat finely done.

i echo quilted it with black. i think i like the silly thing. when i did mine i just free motioned it.

so far today i have done well, got the sisters choice quilt turned so now i can quilt the other half. i am waiting a day or 2 before i quilt the

other bath mat i do not do a lot of quilting on the

DM so when i do i am tense and my shoulders hurt. i'm gonna give my shoulders a break.

its been a quiet day here, larry had a bad night so we are both taking it easy. all i am going to do now is some mindless piecing...or maybe curl up with a good book. ann