Amish Ocean Waves & more

This is DD's project that began in the summer when she was home (for ACL surgery). It is being made for one of her mentor's who is such an encouragement to her as a woman in family medical practice.

After browsing through many books, DD selected design and colors based on a quilt from a historic Amish collection  in one of Rachel Pellman's books. We cut and sewed together off and on when we could in between DD's summer internship and while DD's leg was propped up and being iced. We ran out of time for finishing before DD had to return to school in the fall. We stopped before the last decision of choosing the correct background color. It was left to me to do and I stalled out! The sky blue matches the design that she colored in but navy blue was auditioned too, just in case the sky blue was too obnoxious. I think the sky it the best!

Next the dilemma of size. It seems a bit small to me although borders will enlarge to couch (or wall) size. That is probably just fine and I should get a move on for finishing! But there has been NO quilting this spring except a rare few minutes with the Bible Quilt applique. I do not expect my time to be freed up soon :( This semester is way overloaded with teaching classes, guest lecturing for a special request, taking classes (fabulous art therapy among others) and covering other classes for a friend with a family emergency who will be out for the rest of the semester.

There has been fun in Feb - something different and unexpected but wonderful ...that is DS is planning to go back to school in fall and has invited me to do road trips for college visits with him. FUN TIMES!

A personal non-quilting accomplishment recently was refinishing and trimming out three floors in our old home (Oct/Nov 2016 - although we still have not moved all items back in rooms and don't have furniture of the other room. We let DS take the huge garage sale acquired sofa previously when he moved out and there was nothing else of substance in that room; it was more a storage area). So this re-do has been a long time coming - since moving into this old house 17 years ago. First there was all the work on the other parts of the house we lived in daily, then repairs and upgrades that had to bee done (Did I ever report on the major sewer line, siding, and window replacements?) well, in the end... it looks lovely!

And last but not least I made it out to NYC to visit DD when she was studying there in fall. We walked over to Central Park on Sunday afternoon and spent the entire afternoon at the Met! Loved this Tiffany! It was brilliant and huge!
  

I hope to have more quilting news next time - Although it may just be a re-cap of more fall activities. At least I plan to post SOMETHING once a month. I have some baby quilts in the works (one partly made and one in the dreaming stage) for two family friends. This work is inspiring but keeps going to bottom of the list (with work on top).

Other quilt activities and plans are in the works... to be brought to fruition soon I hope! 
Happy Quilting to All!