Long time no post!

Above is a picture of the quilt I made for my five year old granddaughter, Juanita. This was taken at her birthday party in September, when I was in Florida, visiting my daughter and the grand kids. It was a great visit, and a long time coming, I had not seen them since Juanita was born-5 years ago!

It's been soooo long since my last post. After an extremely busy last summer, I was a bit burned out during the fall. I spent most of the fall cleaning my home and reorganizing my studio.

Then, I ended up spending the week of Christmas in the hospital after suffering with pulmonary embolisms (blood clots) in both upper lobes of my lungs. Needless to say, that has taken pretty much all the wind out of my sails for a while. I'm now on a blood thinner and am starting to feel better, but I do get short of breath easily, so I still have to take it easy and portion out my energy output.

Now that spring is nearly here, and the weather is starting to get better, I am anxious to get busy working on new quilts, and watching my flowers grow and bloom.

My lilies are starting to sprout, and my crocuses around my pear tree are peeking up through the leaves. As soon as the ground and the leaves dry out I need to get them raked so my flowers will get more sun.

I have several new quilts in my head and they are screaming to get out. One of them started out as a zentangle. Zentangles are doodles that are done on a small square of heavy weight paper. You can find out more details and see examples of zentangles by going to their site at
zentangle.com