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adventures of a cross stitch drama queen skip to main skip to sidebar adventures of a cross stitch drama queen keep calm and carry on saturday january 09 2016 quick post just posting to add my goals for the first quarter finish a long first dear mr claus second moroccan tiles third material girl quilts hst qal fourth bonnie and camille log cabin swap fun fifth quilt for ginger sixth garden path posted by jlk at 2 56 pm 1 comment wednesday may 13 2015 this kid one of my favorite things to say about finn is that he s the baby i didn t know i needed he was as you may have surmised a surprise the pregnancy was not an easy one i am not someone who enjoys being pregnant i don t find it wonderful and magical i find it uncomfortable i find that i am particularly clumsy i twist ankles and fall down stairs my tailbone has never quite recovered from a fall late in mavis pregnancy i also cry a lot and get overwhelmed easily so finn i was in a fog the entire pregnancy nothing felt right i didn t want to sew i didn t want to cook i didn t want to eat but i managed i didn t want to go anywhere nothing was funny everything was hard i remember sitting in the lobby at church one sunday mavis was misbehaving as she is wont to do i was sitting on the couch with her while the meeting was going on and i was sobbing i could not take another minute of life a sweet friend came and put her arm around me it was a good thing she did too because a not so sweet man thought it was a good time to tell me to enjoy these moments because they go by so fast um right i was in the 9th circle of hell but i ll be sure to have a good time as soon as finn was born all was right with the world he was huge 10 lb 4 oz he was sweet from the beginning the past 6 months have passed by in a blur we ve gone from him nursing every 2 hours to him eating rice cereal and applesauce he sits up on his own he smiles and giggles and flirts with anyone who stops to look at him and me i sew i cook i clean i do the laundry but i don t like to fold it we all love finnegan posted by jlk at 8 27 pm 2 comments tuesday april 28 2015 commercials remember that commercial that begins with a collect call it s a son calling his parents when asked to say his name after the tone he says wehadababyitsaboy and then the dad rejects the charges and sits down to say to his wife they had a baby it s a boy well blog friends wehadababyitsaboy that explains my absence in a nutshell last spring i found out we were surprise having another baby for a number of reasons we kept it quiet for a long time and then when we started to tell people i lost the will to blog and sew and cook and clean and do anything besides moan and groan it was not pretty but you know what is pretty my baby boy finn i miss blogging i have a lot to say and only a few tiny people around during the day to say it to and they don t listen so i ll meet you back here in a bit okay okay yoo hoo hello family posted by jlk at 7 57 pm 6 comments thursday may 08 2014 so it s may it s may which according to a song is a lusty month i m not sure why but man alive am i happy it s may the sun it exists the windows they open the noses they sneeze we are just starting to get little buds on trees spring is green and brown around pittsburgh early summer is very colorful it makes me want to skip with joy april was a rough one around here i won t dwell on it much suffice it to say that sometimes life throws you curveballs you gotta roll with the punches sometimes you re the windshield sometimes you re the bug i was angry and upset for a good long while but woke up to realize that s just not me so i let it go i m not angry now but i am worried from time to time i have immense faith that god will provide on to happy things one week from today is international quilt market here in pittsburgh i am so excited i may not sleep all week just kidding i love to sleep two besties are coming into town and we ll hit the ground running if you happen to read this blog and are coming i would l o v e to see you i will be in the quilted fish booth find me please posted by jlk at 12 17 pm 2 comments sunday march 16 2014 my grandpa the first memory i have of my grandpa zundel was when my younger brother was born grandpa who we actually called church picked up me and my older brother and took us home to richmond with him that sounds really boring when actually it was the most exciting thing that had happened in my short 3 year life he took us home in a private plane i had blonde pigtails and wore the sweater he had brought me from a trip to germany a man in a brown suit on the plane tried to talk to me but i don t think i answered it was so terribly exciting i m also pretty sure that on that trip i slept in his closet did his closet have a couch or did they have a sitting room attached to their bedroom he had a green leather chair he always sat in that chair to watch tv we loved sitting in that chair the one he had for the longest time had a huge indentation in the seat it was like sitting in a bucket grandpa did not like it when we sat there but it was just so comfortable once when we were staying with them one summer my grandpa came home from work he took the train into chicago he had been pick pocketed i remember in detail how he reenacted someone crawling over to him on the platform and pulling on his pant leg creating the diversion for someone else to take his wallet i was horrified he enjoyed telling a good story and could tell them well then after cancelling credit cards he took us out to dinner i think we went to carsons for ribs he had phrases that were uniquely his cockeyed sam hill hotter than a june bride in a feather bed he was a collegiate athlete who as a catcher for princeton knocked out george bush as he was rounding for home it s a story that is oft repeated in our family and we ve even heard president bush tell his version grandpa zundel always makes an impression he gave me my patriarchal blessing in fact i was the first one he gave he sealed curly and me in the dc temple and when curly and i were having some problems a few years ago he called me on the phone to tell me how much he loved me he lived in a different time zone by the time i was 8 but while we were in school still came out every season to see my brothers sister and i play a game or act in a play he visited me on my mission he and grandma followed me around temple square as i gave a tour and took pictures then they took me and my companion out to dinner at the very fancy roof restaurant one summer he bought all the girl cousins pretty gold necklaces when asked where he got them he vaguely said from a guy i know to this day i have pictured a deal in a back alley where the guy opens a tan trench coat and has necklaces hanging inside the last time i saw him i was pregnant with ginger we went to church with church and grandma jeanne and out to lunch the next day at the cheesecake factory i am pretty sure he did not call me by name that entire time alzheimer s was setting in truth be told i think he thought i was my mom he sang the princeton fight song the entire time to my kids they thought he was hilarious he was a giant of a man who left a huge impression on my life yesterday at the age of 90 he passed away my heart aches for my grandma and my heart aches for me he called me janaboo and he made me feel so special i was his favorite i know his reunion in heaven has been sweet i am so thankful for eternal families i will see him again that knowledge is sweet posted by jlk at 8 59 am 6 comments thursday march 13 2014 whoops my last post was nearly two months ago two months what the flagnog i wish i could say super exciting things were going on but that would be a giant lie nope we ve been dealing with winter a paralyzingly cold polar vortex induced snowy winter and then two days ago it was 65 and i opened the windows and we went to the park and today it is 20 but feels like 7 the end i have logged a shockingly low amount of hours in my sewing room over the winter for one when the wind is howling and the fire is crackling it is just too hard to resist the couch with an already sewn comfy quilt also my baby wakes me up every night sometimes twice like it s her job that makes for a tired mommy and only a couple of hours post kid bedtime to sit on said couch with said quilt in front of said fireplace and then today when i had a list in my head of super fun things today i rolled my ankle as i was coming down the stairs so i have alternated between sitting with my leg up and hobbling after kids it has not been super fun instead i am dreaming of warmer weather and fun projects to finish and here is a fun photo from the summer of a trip we took up to palmyra ny look how sunny it was notice the lack of coats instead of a white christmas i m dreaming of a sunny springtime posted by jlk at 5 12 pm 2 comments sunday january 19 2014 a special quilt last week curly and i were invited to nc to see our dear friend be baptized it s a huge deal we have watched her grow spiritually for the past year and a half the baptism itself was just the icing on the cake she asked curly to baptize her it was such an honor to be there let me tell you this is a strong woman she is not easily swayed she knows what she wants in life and goes after it there have been some hiccups in her journey but she has persevered and while not everyone in her life agrees with her decision they know she has come to it truthfully and honestly because they know the kind of woman she is and they respect her decision i just love her to pieces so i made her a quilt i wanted her to not only have something to remember this weekend by but i wanted her to have a tangible reminder of the comforter when times get tough and they will because that s just life i want her to have something she can see and feel and be reminded of the promises she has made and that god has made with her her favorite color is red so i used this fantastic riley blake chevron fabric for the back i love it so hard the best part about it is that it s 108 wide so i didn t have to piece the back so i went a little overboard with the size of this thing the pattern calls this a lap size ha hahahhahhaha that s a gigantic lap it fits on her bed quilt stats pattern 3 in a box by jaybird quilts fabric songbird by carina gardner for riley blake size ginormous 83 square posted by jlk at 9 42 pm 4 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom the molly patch on etsy fabric fest about me jlk frederick united states i m a sahm to 4 kids 2 animals and 1 husband i find my sanity through cross stitching and quilting i love to shop locally and secretly dream of owning my own store on market street view my complete profile followers links abc stitch fat quarter shop fly girl chronicles fredericktowne players glass posse in rare form kennedy family life in maryland blog primitive sampler sistos slice of sam supreme court the molly patch way off broadway 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