Design Wall Monday-January 25, 2016

Not much sewing this week. Working on getting Dad's estate settled, a little yard work and just the general every day nonsense!  Spent some time yesterday sorting through and getting the batik left over pieces cut into good sizes for the next scrap quilt I want to make. I have the pattern, but need to find it! If I remember correctly it will be  good leader and ender project to have by the machine.

I did get one block made for another BOM being done by one of the yahoo groups I am in-Quilters Who Care. I am making mine in R/W/B as it will eventually end up going to our Thank you Quilters group. Their quilts go to Ft. Hood which is right up the road from us. Here is the block for January.

I plan on working on the lay out for my Trifecta blocks this week. Maybe there will be more to show next week! Now back to 
Judy at Patchworktimes!

DESIGN WALL JANUARY 18TH, 2016

If you read my previous post you know why there has been nothing posted or even sewn. However last week I did get the last of my blocks made for the Trifecta block of the month from Cotton Cupboard in Lakeway, TX. Now I need to call her and see if there is a good time to go out and get all 72 blocks laid out!

                                                 The last 6

                                These are  some of the blocks

                  Hope to get back into the sewing groove this week In                                                  the meantime 

                     For more eye candy back to Patchworktimes

AN ENDING AND A NEW BEGINNING!

It's the start of a new year for me-a few weeks later than what the calendar says, but that's the way it goes sometimes! The last time I posted anything on my blog was late October. Since then a lot has happened. We said our final good byes to my Dad on December 23rd at Indiantown Gap National Veterans Cemetery in Annville, PA. The last few months had been difficult for him but he made his own decisions up to the very end.  Participated in the cake cutting ceremony one last time for the Marine Corps Birthday on November 15th, 2015

This is the obituary my husband wrote for Dad. Galen did a much better job than I would have.

 And yesterday (January 16th) we had the final Memorial Service at the church here in Texas. It was a celebration of his life, all 98 years of it. Several organizations of which he was a member participated too. The Masons and the local Marine Corps League. The league here had  also made sure we had the 21 gun salute and taps played on the 23rd. We had not been expecting that at the cemetery so we were very honored and pleased.

All is all it has been a very emotional few months. Now Galen and I are finding our new normal as the saying goes! It seems strange not having him around but we also know he and my mother are watching over us and while we can't see them they are always with us.