settlers peace

Warning: Pity Party Ahead

If you are here for quilting and craft inspiration, today is the day to skip this blog.  However, if you can offer up any creative suggestions to simple daily tasks, offers of encouragement or prayers, please read on and leave a comment.

Wednesday afternoon I got a call from our youngest daughter, S. age 17.  20 minutes after starting a job of painting logos for a restaurant, a gust of wind caught her and had blown her and the ladder over.  She landed on her wrists and head on the concrete.  After the ambulance ride, the ER doctors, the 2 orthopedic doctors, the pediatric concussion specialist, and the orthopedic hand specialist, the results are a mild concussion, stitches in the forehead, severe whiplash, and two broken wrists.  One wrist will heal in a cast for 3 months, the other, her dominate hand, will require surgery with plates and pins to get it back together, that is scheduled for later next week, ugh. 

She has been a real trooper through it so far, not an easy thing for someone so independent.  Such a drastic change from invincible to needing help opening a drink, packages of snacks, doors, seat belts, getting dressed and going to the bathroom.  We are so thankful, it could have been so much worse, she could have gone through the window or backwards with no way to protect her head or break the fall.  The wrists will heal.  She will one day be back to playing the piano and painting.  And one day, I won't be the hands for two people, I too, will be back to sewing and playing with fabric.  Until then,  "I can do everything through him who gives me strength.  Phil 4:13"

Freedom

I'm finding that I work much better with a monthly goal list, it comes in handy when I am wandering around the kitchen bored and looking for a snack.  I'm reminded that they are other things that I really want to be doing.  So it was with this quilt.

The pieces were left-overs from the 'cross quilt' that I made for a friend.  I really wanted to use up the bits and pieces of blue and move on to something else.  The letters are pieced from this book, and oh so fun to do.  I think that I'd like to do something with jumbo letters, too.  The quilt will be going to a local veteran as part of a community service project thru our guild.

 Sadly, my list was a bit extensive for September and some deadlines passed, but I am having a sense of freedom in no longer having the pressure of those tasks.  I've been able to enjoy some of the nice weather and do some hand stitching out on the porch.  I didn't realize what a lovely explosion of color it was until I came back from answering the phone.

I was in the process of making some hot pads and didn't get any photos of them finished before they were gone.  The tiny apple core blocks in the box seem to be only eye candy, as I haven't stitched any of them in awhile.  Maybe I should add them to a monthly goal list....... maybe next year.

Hope that your day is colorful!