Showing posts with label good fortune quilt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label good fortune quilt. Show all posts

Saturday, December 15, 2018

Candace the Therapy Dog and A Bit of Good Fortune

My house looked like this December, a year ago in 2017.  This fairly rare snowfall lasted all day long.  Here in Baton Rouge we have snow about every 6 or 8 years.














The Basset Boyz were totally amazed at the white stuff.








Today the beaver was in my next door neighbor's yard munching down on some acorns.  The tree there is a huge oak.  I odd to have a beaver rambling around here.  We are used to opossums and rabbits and armadillos.





At the hospice today, Rodney's son Chad brought Candace Marie, his Certified Therapy Dog.  Chad and Candy work with Autistic kids.  She is able to calm them.


He brought her here to visit his dad, who is struggling to breathe since he is in what they call Transition.  I didn't read the book they gave Diane, but I imagine they mean between life and death.








I did have about an hour or so this morning to work on The Good Fortune Mystery quilt.  I chose the oranges, and then stripped them.
I made about half of the needed pieces.  Since Bonnie requested about 3 times the amount of orange I used, I am thinking that there will be another use for the color.  


I will spend some time tomorrow at Hospice with Diane and Rodney again.  I am hoping for peace and calm.  We spoke today of letting go.  That is the tough part.



Sunday, December 2, 2018

The Good Fortune Mystery Quilt









I have made a million of these four patches.  Augh!  I made my allotment and then I made 88 for Charlene to get her started.  I also made 20 more than I needed because I know I couldn't have made them all correctly.

Ya know?












There is a lot of detritus when you make this many four patches that need trimming to the correct size.



 This was the Floor Supervisor making sure I didn't take too many breaks.  Can't be slacking, can we?  Got deadlines to meet.

Next clue came out on Friday last.  So we are already behind production.











 Every one will tell you there are no Quilt Police.  But there really is.  Here is one lady looking over the stack of four patches. She has a very critical eye and passed on an evaluation to the Production Manager.














The Production Manager stood by for a while and watched me work on some strips.  I got called to the office because it seems my quarter inch is not so perfect.


He had the following video as proof.





That aside, here are my two favorite four patches.  Everyone has favorites, right?