February 5, 2013
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February’s Quilt……I am conquerer!
After making up my mind to try to do a quilt top a month again this year, I went through my stash of precut quilts. Thanks to Accuquilt Go!, Go! Baby, and Studio fabric cutting systems I have about 6 ready to sew up. I chose one that I felt like doing and started in. I have my sewing machine set up in the living room for the winter as it is too cold to work in the sewing room. I don’t like sewing there when its so cold as we don’t heat that part of the house anymore.
This one is called Churn Dasher and Stars. I am trying to use up my stash of scraps and remnants but when I saw this pattern, I decided not to do scrappy but to choose 2 co-coordinating fabrics. So, I chose a small lavender and white print and lavender marble and white. Simple and they looked nice together. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize that the fabric for the stars should’ve been stronger until I had most of this quilt put together. Then I was faced with the $64 question. Do I change it or go ahead and finish it as is? For best effects I really should change it since the stars do NOT stand out at all, but on the other hand since I am making this quilt to use up my extra stash it seemed futile to redo it.
I left it as is and know that this quilt will keep some one warm regardless if the churn dashers are the predominant block instead of the other way around. Oh well, there’s always a next time if I want it. Not all is loss either because it just gave me a new wrinkle in my brain. I learned something from that mistake…or at least let’s hope that I did.
Speaking of wrinkles.
I put the border on only to have not wrinkles but sea waves. Now, how on earth did THAT happen? It one thing to have a tiny bit of fluting but this was terrible. Picking out those seems trying not to stretch the fabric was no fun at all but after I did it 2 or 3 times, I was ready to throw in the towel so to speak. But I am determined to win this battle so I persevered. Its not perfect but it will do.Here she is:
After about a month of having the sick bug here we are glad to finally be on top of it. Lavina had pneumonia and was treated with antibiotics 2x before it took effect. In the meantime we started her on something called Reliv in hopes to build up her immune system. I believe this is the 4th time she’s had it since she was hospitalized with it 2 years ago.
Now we found out that Kendra Lily also has it but are praying for her recovery as well. She’s in Guatemala with our son and his family. He and his wife are both nurses so they know what to do to treat it. 
We had a scare a couple of weeks ago when Vernon burned some trash in the furnace. Not sure what the girls had in their trash but something exploded and blew the furnace door open. Vernon saw that the fire was shooting up the chimney but he does try to burn the creosote out periodically and didn’t give it much more thought. That happened about noon but by suppertime we noticed the bathroom right beside the kitchen was extra smoky. Investigation showed that the stovepipe from the furnace to chimney was more holey than righteous and some sparks had set the insulation to smoldering. By the time we found it, it had been over 7 hours. With the help of a couple friends Vernon was able to pull out all the insulation that was affected. He hosed the rest of it down and changed the elbow that was rusted through. We praise God for His protection over us. By looking at that piece of stovepipe we marvel that it hadn’t happened a long time ago.
Here’s some charred boards from under our floor in the bathroom.
When Vernon dropped the elbow, it literally fell apart!Well, now I need to sew up some new dresses for Kaitlyn this month. She is getting taller. God bless you all.