Bone Appetit

This is the first quilt I've made for Project Linus.  

The coordinator of the chapter near me says that the hospitals could use more boy quilts. Knowing that chemo rooms can be cold, I wanted my quilt to have a flannel back.  I knew I wanted puppies. 

I found this print online and snatched up 2 yards of it.  (After quilting, this is the back.)

I asked on a quilting forum if anyone could donate 6.5" puppy prints for me. 

Well, I was DELUGED by generous amounts. I have enough to make 201 more!

Narrowing the choices I was sent to turquoise, navy, tan, orange, black, white, grey, and red sure 

helped guide my choices.  

Originally I was going to do a simple sashing between blocks. But do I ever stick to original plans? No! They call me Queen Plan B for a reason. 

I played around with sashing (ie borders around blocks) and just had fun. 

I put in two of each print so the child who gets this can play Concentration. 

Most of the dogs are realistic looking, but there are some whimsically colored ones. 

Aren't they cute?

I decided to quilt a bone into each block using FMQ (free motion quilting). 

While making this quilt, I prayed for the boy who will receive it. (Could be a girl, but I'm hoping boy.)  I pictured him either  missing his own dog, or hoping for one when he's well.

I took these photos outside on my deck, with the quilt draped over my porch swing cover

which is turquoise.   It's not part of the quilt!

Bone Appetit!

Monday Minutiae

Good morning. It's Monday, and I'm inundated by minutia.  I like that word--"minutia."

Here's what i found at Merriam-Webster about it:

Definition of MINUTIA

:  a minute or minor detail —usually used in plural

Origin of MINUTIA

Latin minutiae trifles, details, from plural of minutiasmallness, from minutus

First Known Use: 1782

Rhymes with MINUTIA

Saint Lucia, Yakutia

Rhymes with Yakutia? Really?  In case you're wondering who, where, or what Yakutia is, some am I, but I'm not going to look it up. I'll just add it to my list of minutiae. (That's not a typo; with the "e" on the end, the word is made plural in Latin.)

An-y-way:

1.  Did you see the chemo quilt I made for my friend Renee?  If not, here it is. She is holding it the day before treatment started. And yes, she colored her hair very bright pink

and got it cut short and sassy. She's a ball of personality. 

2.   Our oldest son (26)  broke his leg on Saturday at a bachelor party weekend. He was playing paintball. He was about to jump from one bunker to another, when his foot planted in a ditch and he heard a pop.    This happened two hours away in Delaware, and he didn't call his wife for several hours. He texted her when he was en route to the hospital like it was no big deal.  (His Aunt Linda is a nurse and he was in good hands.) Thankfully, it was a clean break of the fibula near the ankle and he isn't in much pain.  And he isn't in the wedding; he was just invited to the party for the fun of it. 

3.   I've lost 13 pounds since Easter, and finally feel that I'm in control of food rather than the other way around.  I attribute the success to God for freeing me of the stronghold of eating for comfort. If you don't understand that concept of emotional eating, it's okay. Thank Him that you don't. I also believe that Weight Watchers is an excellent program once a person has determined to lose weight for the right reasons. Accountability is key, and there's something about attaching a dollar amount to the weigh-in that really helps me. I am also a big proponent of walking for exercise--both physical and mental. My goal is to lose 15 by my birthday (two weeks away).  Can I do it?