Life goes on

I am bound and determined that I am not going to let this get me down.  I have been working on two lap quilts and finished one for a friend today.  She has been the best.  She helps me in so many ways.  I am so very blessed.  Here are the pictures...but dang...I am going to have to stop being so lazy and break that camera out to get better photos...the I-phone just doesn't quite do it.

Sometimes Things just do not Workout as we Planned

I've just recently found out that my kidney cancer has returned.  I have struggled with this since I found out almost two weeks ago and then finding out about a week ago that they are wanting to remove 1/2 my kidney.  But I have finally decide to go ahead with this surgery and have 1/2 half of the kidney removed on the 23rd.  Please pray for me.

Another Try

Ok, so I decided one more try at the stars and I am a little more pleased with this set than the last but I have decided they really just aren't my thing...I will use them in a quilt but so far all of my recycled jeans/denim quilts have all been put together in a mod podge way so hopefully they won't stand out like a sore thumb.

This time I started with a 12 1/2-inch square and when I trimmed they were at 10-inches but one of the points I think is too close to the edge and I'm concerned my sashing with probably cover a bit of it when I go to put my block together.  This time I did not stack and slash but used some lines on my ruler that I normally don't use for angles and tried to line the edge of each block at the same place to try to get the cuts to run across each block at the same place.  The blocks did come out some better but I don't know...doing this block just feels a bit stressful to me and I don't like that feeling when I am quilting...to me that is my relaxing time...and I guess I don't like thinking quite that hard... :-)

Here are my blocks....