More Stuff

Well this is the last of the sewing and quilting stuff. Books magazines marked for future projects and drawn plans she came up with that she was going to do. I need to go through all of it and decide what to keep and what to purge. 

Batts and partially pieced and quilted quilts. I am so glad it is all here, but now to find places for all of it to decide what has to be done first. 

There are containers with partially completed blocks and fabrics that need cutting. I think this is overwhelming at the moment because I am not sure where she was going with all this. She made children's quilts for Linus. 

I am sure I can always cut it up and make more scrap quilts. The plan is to work on a container at a time and tackle it that way. One step at a time. Right?????

Monday this will all come to and end. We will have the house cleaned out and things delivered. Then we will be done with the house until the closing. which hopefully will happen next Friday. 

I am more than exhausted. We cleaned out and boxed all the cabinets in the kitchen. Tomorrow we will have to clean out bathroom cabinets and a linen closet. Then get it ready to put in the truck to move it. Then the cleaning. Her house was not dirty and it will be just wiping out the sinks and clean toilets and check the carpets for the walk through. Keep your fingers crossed everything goes well. Chris  

More Quilt tops

 This top is only showing one quarter of it. The center is using the light aqua and the outer edges are the darker aqua. This is a top my Step Father piece.

This simple blue patches is a scrap user. This is one quarter of the top. I really don't have a big enough area to open them up for photos. 

This is a log cabin with two prints. It will make a statement with quilting on it. I have an idea for the quilting on this one. I might do this one by hand to make more of a statement.

I have several others that are started, but not into a top configuration as of yet.

This has been a couple busy days. I have my sister coming today to get some more of the things from the house. She has a 4 hour trip to get here and 4 hours back home. At least my niece is coming with her to get the things she wanted.  It is coming closer to getting done, but it is a long ways from completing everything.

Closing up accounts and finalizing everything has to wait on death certificate and we still don't have a solution to that. My family is so stressed over all this. But it is what it is. Chris

quilts tops

 These are quilt tops that my Step Father made. Not sure of the name of this block. He loved to piece.

 Here is the close up of this scrappy quilt.

 My Mother loved Log Cabin quilts. She made this one.

My Step Father made this color washed quilt top.

 Closer detail

The center of the color wash.

I would call this a modified court house steps.

Lots of scraps in this quilt.

With a couple borders most will make queen sized quilts. I have my work cut out for myself getting these and all the other ones I have done to get them quilted. 

There is quite a legacy of quilting that happened in my Family. I taught my Mom to quilt. She use to do crazy quilt blocks, but never a designed block. She then in turn taught my Step Father. I told you I would share. 

The day yesterday was very frustrating. The Coroner of the County I live in is holding up the Death Certificates of my Mother and it will cause issues in closing on the house. The Funeral home didn't fill out the paperwork on the prepaid cremation correctly so we had to jump through hoops for that also. 

I was so proud of my self getting things in order as we were told they would be and to find all this out yesterday is overwhelming. Lesson Learned check and recheck everything. The sad part is at the moment of death the power of attorney goes away. sop my hands are tied. Until the will is probated. One good thing was the Attorney was pleased that I had completed everything correctly. It is all the other parties that haven't done their job. Chris    

Frustrating Day

Without going into a lot of detail I am frustrated. I will get back to you tomorrow. I have some quilt tops to show you.

They are ready to be quilted. Till tomorrow. Chris

Good Lord More

This was the first I have been able to get back into Mom's and get more moved. We got a car load. This is part of the extra bedroom closet that had things started in them. Mom had gotten some of the unfinished tops out and gave them to the kids. 

Most of this backings and unfinished blocks. I still have books and other battings to get. Where in God's green earth am I going to put it all. I think I could sew for 10 years without buying anything. Hopefully after the house is finished it will happen. 

Winter is going to be coming and I really need to get thread bought and then I won't have to leave home. Chris

Thought I would sleep in......

Thought I would sleep in and yet I got up the same time as usual. Rest was fitful. I ended up more times than usual waking up.

The real kicker to this whole thing is every bone and muscle in my body hurts today. I guess I was running on adrenalin and over looking my aches. Well today they hit me and I have so much to get done in the next couple weeks.

Thank you for your kind words. We are doing ok. When I get to the house it might be different. I still have to finish the sewing room and get things boxed up to ship to my brother. When he was here he flew an I said I would get things packed and ship to him. We also are going to have a rummage sale to get rid of other things.

I think my daughter-in-law is coming today to help with some of that. We will get things out in the garage to get marked and advertise for the sale in the next week.

The hang up we have had is the sale of the house. The buyers were to have inspections done and they for what ever reason didn't get done on time. Also they haven't completed all the necessary things for the final closing and now that my Mother has passed we maybe will have to wait for the closing until after the will is probated. Things never go as planned.

For those of you who are not familiar to what has gone on my Mother had a three different kinds of breast cancer and it was very aggressive. She was 87 years old and the Doctor told her at 80 years old not to go through anymore mammograms. Which was a big mistake.

On Christmas Eve she found a very large lump and it was down hill from there. I can't emphasize enough to get the exams done even though you are older. It is your body and you have the right to make it happen.

Now if I can find time to get to my sewing room and get this completed it would be a blessing.

Thank you again for your kind thoughts. We open a new page in our lives today. Chris

   

Hard day to face

Today at about 4 pm my Mother passed away. She has been ill with breast cancer since Christmas eve. She moved to my house almost 4 weeks ago and the last 4 days have been really hard to deal with.

She isn't suffering anymore. She had about 27 hours of real struggle. I wouldn't wish that type of pain and struggle on anyone. so glad it is over for her.

We talked some today and she heard what I had to say and I told her to let go. She finally did.

Lesson for everyone make plans ahead of time. I have worked at getting her affairs in order for 5 years. She didn't want to face things, but in her own way. We worked at her will and her wishes and she was pleased but it took a lot to face all this.

Now I have to work on getting the house finished up and try and recover my house. Chris