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Day 8 after…

admin — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:19:43 +0000

…my 3rd chemo.
The first one was hard on me. The second was a “piece of cake”, but the third is getting into me again. Seems my body doesn’t bounce back as easily anymore. New is that the last digit of my fingers hurt, not only the nails. It’s hard to pick up small items, or get a tight grip on something. No hand sewing right now.

So, I use my good BERNINA to krank out quilts for charity. This is the kind of “mindless work” my brain can manage, because Chemobrain has set in. I’m forgetting things, my concentration level is very low.
But even this has one big positive side effect: I’m getting rid of lots of unwanted fabric. Since I do nothing else for days in a row, I had to make a promiss to myself: Do NOT refill those bins just emptied!

4 Elements

Lisa — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:26:55 +0000

4 Elements, 28″ x 28″

In 2007, a group of quilters organized a connection to the Fabric of Life organization. During a CQA meeting, we had the opportunity to buy hand-dyed fabric from Mali/Africa. This quilt is my contribution for the fundraiser auction for Fabric of Life, soon to be held (more info on this a.s.a.p.).

The title reflects how I see fire, water, earth and air, – the 4 elements-, interacting. I strongly believe, life needs a bit of every one to keep a balanced sum of all.

Be a Girl

Lisa — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:46:29 +0000

In cleaning up my sewing studio, I regularly find “Orphan Blocks”, usually test blocks or sometimes people give me leftover blocks “you’ll make something great out of it”,,

Yeah, well. Curse or blessing? If it becomes a charity quilt, definitely a blessing! Ten orphan blocks with pink centers (I don’t even like pink) mixed up with nice colors makes a girl’s quilt.

RDM Quilts

Lisa — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:31:54 +0000

Block Party Quilters are very passionate in support of the children at our local Ronald McDonald House. Over the course of 20 years, we made thousands of quilts, and still going. In 2007 alone, 480 quilts where delivered to the facility.

Despite a busy year, I managed to make 6 quilts. One of the quilts is on permanent display as wall decoration in the family room of the new RDM house extension. This quilt is made out of blocks of a Internet block exchange “Prettykittyblocks”, ergo all cats. The idea to donate especially this quilt came as I learned, that the children who stay at the RDM house are very ill with very heavy treatments shaking up their little bodies. The immune system of these kids is so fragile, they can not have a pet around for a long time, so I made a full variety of kitties as ”Pets”.