Another busy few weeks! I totally forgot to post this list last weekend.

We are sort of in a groove now my my in-laws. The CNA we hired is there from either Monday thru Friday or Tuesday thru Friday, then my husband goes over Friday at 5 and stays until Monday morning.

We’ve toured 2 different Assisted Living places with memory units. I don’t think Grandma would qualify for assisted living but grandpa would probably. Two local places were TOTALLY different, so I think we have a plan for now, but so far they stay at their house unless Grandma needs to go to a nursing home or worse.

It’s such a sucky situation to be in, waiting for a person to die and seeing family members in such bad shape. Grandpa’s dementia is so bad. One night he woke up and peed in a coffee cup and dumped it in the kitchen sink- before the CNA woke up to help him into the bathroom with his walker, he had also gotten out frozen peas and dumped the bag on the floor! They both have walkers now AND call buttons but forgets to use them! Grandma one night when Dan was there, she got up and cut and toasted a bagel TWICE then gobbed on peanut butter, got out some bacon then put it in the freezer, then fell but Dan caught her! They have to be watched 24/7 and are bad in their own way. I really don’t think this will keep going for long, but we’ll see, we’re sort of just doing it a day or week at a time! It’s all very sad.

For some GOOD NEWS, Bjorn has now been with Deutsche Bank for a year in the grad program and the program puts the grads in 2 different teams, 6 months at a time, and he really LOVED his last team and wanted to stay there, and his manager really like him too (and the other grad that was there- a girl) but supposedly the team only had room for ONE grad for permanent placement, the manager said he liked both of them but it was up to HR, then finally they both found out that they BOTH got final placement with this team, so both super happy! So we made a little cake for Bjorn to celebrate! His team is “historical market analytics” whatever that means. It’s computer programming for internal things I think and by “historical” even 30 seconds is OLD when it comes to the market… LOL

Sonja has been learning to crochet, of course picking pretty complicated patterns then “winging” it with certain things, this was supposed to be a hat but her tension or stitches were too big so it didn’t fit, so instead she turned it into a bag! Pretty clever!! (I made the pockets for her)

Dan and I had a chance to do a DATE night this week too and went out for sushi.

And Swiffer had fish too for his 10th birthday this week!

We try to keep family life “normal” with all the stuff going on, I try to get some sewing done when I can but often I’m too tired to think or I need to make phone calls for different things, so I often end up on the computer playing games. I did finish an audio book recently.

“The coworker” is about an autistic/asperger woman in an office environment, with of course a “perfect” female coworker who’s also a bully, then the autistic woman goes missing one day…..A very good book with a great plot twist.

Here’s my 2024 project list!

Anything I’ve worked on this week is in red

#1 (Jan 2021) Gnome EPP project- #3 done worked a bit

#2 (March 2022) EPP flowers- I did a bit in the car on the way to the beach!

#3 (June 2022) Black patterned and grey and pink quilt Bunny Slope LARGE- top done ready to quilt pattern in my shop

#4 (Jan2023) Hunter star rainbow blocks- pink, blue and green done- using them for backing for another quilt which needs binding DONE see below

#5 (Jan 2023) Washington puzzle rainbow blocks- DONE!

#6 (Jan 2023) Crossed Canoe rainbow blocks- 4 done

#7 (Jan 2023) Butterfly rainbow blocks- quilted needs binding working on a scrappy binding

#8 (Jan 2023) Priscilla rainbow blocks- DONE!

# (Jan 2023) Arkansas Traveler rainbow blocks- using them for backing for another quilt which needs binding DONE, see #4

# (Jan 2023) Morning star rainbow blocks- using them for backing for another quilt which needs binding DONE, see #4

#9 (Jan 2023) Tangled Star blocks – 2 blocks done turned into a pillow

#10 (Jan 2023) Chimney Sweep blocks- DONE!

#11 (Jan 2023) Storm at sea blocks- top done, ready to quilt

#12 (Jan 2023) Road to Fortune blocks – 12 blocks done top done ready to quilt- put together with butterfly blocks! quilted needs binding, working on scrappy binding

#12 (Aug 2023) Scrappy Florence- Done Get pattern here

#13 (Aug 2023) red and light blue Contained- Done Get pattern here

#14 (Sept 2023) Charm Arrows quilt- working on blocks

#15 (Oct 2023) Fruit Log Cabin- DONE! pattern here and KITS here

#16 (Nov 2023) Teal and black Handy Man- DONE pattern here

#17 (Dec 2023) Tied with a ribbon charms – DONE! pattern here

#18 (Dec 2023) Window Charms – DONE,  Get pattern here

#19 (Dec 2023) Charm bow-tie quilt – DONE, pattern here

#20 (Dec 2023) Jacob’s latter charms – DONE, pattern here

#21 (Dec 2023) Charming pinwheels – DONE, pattern coming soon

#22 (Dec 2023) Charm Wrench quilt – DONE pattern here

#23 (Jan) Pineapple blue and red quilt – DONE

#24 (Jan) Angelic charms- DONE, pattern here

#25 (Jan) Beachcomber jacket- DONE!

#26 (Jan) Safety scrappy – DONE! get pattern here

 #27 (Jan) Sweet Dreams sort of scrappy – DONE pattern here and kits here

#28 (Jan) Coin Toss scrappy – DONE pattern here

#29 (Feb) FQ Anna’s Steps quilt- DONE pattern here

#30 (Feb) Optical baby quilt- DONE pattern coming soon

#31 (Feb) Providence quilt – DONE, pattern here

#32 (Feb) Pink white and grey Kaleidoscope quilt- DONE

#33 (March) Star and Cross and Pineapple quilt- DONE!

#34 (March) Signature circle- DONE

#35 (March) Bluey Crazy Cat quilt- DONE pattern here and KITS here

#36 (March) Red White and Blue charm quilt- DONE, pattern coming soon

#37 (March) Cowboy churn dash quilt- DONE pattern here

#38 (March) Jungle quilt- DONE! Get pattern here

#39 (Jan?) Rainbow block of the month- July is done

#40 (March) Bee Yellow and black quilt- top done ready to quilt

#41 (March) Scrappy Green and Teal trapezoid signature blocks- working on blocks

#42 (March?) Signature Charms quilt- DONE pattern coming soon

#43 (Jan?) Gnome Kronk- DONE get pattern here

#44 (April) Picnic Pink- DONE

#45 (April) Royalty Pink and Grey- DONE get pattern here

#46 (April) Sweater Weather Green – DONE!

#47 (April) Genesis 9:16 scrappy- DONE pattern here

#48 (April) Jungle Meringue – DONE, pattern here

#49 (April) Duck Duck Goose Scrappy – top done ready to quilt

#50 (May) Christmas gingerbread quilt- quilted needs binding

#51 (June) Christmas Cookies Quilt- top done ready to quilt, pattern coming soon

#52 (June) Teal Pink Miami Baby quilt-DONE pattern coming soon

#53 (June) Jelly race different house fly- top done ready to quilt

#54 (July) Brown Orange Blooming Onion- top done ready to quilt

#55 (July) Camellia Sewing and Pink and teal- top done ready to quilt

#56 (July) Wind in Sails coffee- working on blocks

#57 (July) Grey and White Flying Fish- working on blocks

#58 (July) Palm Green, Red and Yellow- top done ready to quilt

#59 (July) Pink Pumpkin Vines- working on blocks

I’m still looking for more pattern testers, if you want to be added to my list, just email me