After a 'very' long absence here due to health concerns I am hopefully back. I have so missed being here too. I looked at some older messages I kept and discovered it has been close to 2 years since I posted here. So much has happened. So good and some not so good. The important thing however is that I am still alive and kickin' and DH (Jerry) is still alive. He still has a lot of very good days where the Alzheimer's doesn't seem to be so bad. My own health has stabalized a great deal, though I spent the summer flat on my back. I am up and walking again and back in physical therapy 3x a week. Over the last year I have lost over 70 pounds (gained back 10) and am thinner than ever. Quilting wise being on my back in bed I have been very busy. I have completed several WIP's and have one on the hoop now that I am hand quilting. It is a Grandmother's Flower Garden (king size). This is definitely a quilt that can be done when you have to lay in bed. I also have a log cabin (queen size) that is ready to quilt. I will start the hand quilting on it as soon as I finish the GFG. However the grandist quilty thing that I have had happen is the enlargement of my fabric stash. Three weeks ago I had the opportunity to purchase a portion of a fabric stash from a family member who's grandmother was a quilter. Grandma passed away and the family is getting ready to sell her many possessions. This includes her fabric stash. This woman had 2 very large bed rooms wall to wall in fabrics!!!! One room was quilting fabrics. To make the story very short my fabric stash went from about 1200 yards to over 4500 yards of fabric! I am up to my eyeballs in the most delicious fabrics imaginable. On top of all that I was able to get an entire new bolt of Warm and natural (30 yards) for $10.00. This 3300 yards of fabric cost me the grand total of $400. DH gave it to me as an early Christmas present. My sister who is getting ready to retire and knew a good thing when she sees it went last week and purchased about 800 yrds for $150. She has spent the last several days going through her new stash and getting so excited about starting to learn to quilt. There were so many designer fabrics I couldn't begin to tell you all that was there. The origional Aunt Grace 1930 repoductions alone filled an entire shelf in my stash. I suppose I could go on for a very long time this morning but I also know when to stop. So I am looking forward to trying to keep up with the message board. Right now I am fumbling around with the new digest form that I am not use to so this might take a bit. Feels good to be back. julia
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15 years ago