My Little Friend

Hello, everyone! Today, June 8th, is the second anniversary of Mo the Pug's arrival in my home and heart. His adoption day! You may remember he flew here all alone, all the way from California, a tiny little mite whom we all immediately loved. HERE

Mo has grown up into a fine doggy!
Currently Mo is the proud possessor of a professional dog walker, a nice young woman who comes to take Mo for his afternoon run. I'm better but am under doctors' orders to rest, horizontally if possible. Ugh.

Some weekends will be spent with friends who can give Mo the attention and exercises he needs.

No quilt for Mo's celebration this year but I did buy him a bag of ''bully sticks'' [don't ask]. And he probably will enjoy them much more than his quilt.
After his walk we now sit on the deck for a bit and I do some hand sewing. It's a bit tedious, but better than painful. And less lonely with dear Mo at my side.

love

lizzy

gone to the beach.....

This afternoon, a sudden storm rolled in. Lucky for me, Mo is not afraid of storms, or even interested, despite the dramatic thunder and lightning over the water.

So far

Hi! So far, I am surviving still! Thank you, everyone, for the kind get well messages and emails, it does mean a lot to have friends' encouragement during difficult time. I'm a bit better this Sunday, and was able to get  up and out to enjoy the first rainbow of the summer! And to welcome Mo home from his weekend sleep-away.

Keep rooting for me!

love

lizzy

gone to the beach...

May Projects: House, Dots, Stars

Hi everyone! Here are my works-in-progress, carrying over from May. I did not get everything done. I carefully prepped, with the plan of three lovely days of beach, friends and family, and poolside sewing, enjoying Summer's first days.
But no.
 One problem with having a chronic illness is that no matter how hard you try, no matter how much you want to be well---even great!--sometimes things go bad, all of a sudden. Frighteningly quickly. I spent most of the weekend in bed, in agony, with a far worse than previous pain in my hip joints, wrist, and ribs.

What's the old rag trade proverb? " Man plans, God laughs." And so...

Anyway, here is what I did do. [plus a few new things on etsy and eBay]. New sewalong with Lori, Humble Quilts. Jan Patek's Front Porch, aka P2, as we've already made one Porch quilt.

One afternoon last week I decided I needed a Mr Sunshine, instead of moon and stars, as the pattern shows.

But now that I've seen everyone's blocks with the moon etc, I'm not sure.  Def will add the house star though.
The weird pink 'not very summery' pompom tree is wool, btw. Maybe  it's, uh? crepe myrtle? I hope not, I hate crepe myrtle, lol.

Then we have the ongoing Dotty 365 Project. This is still fun, though I'm tired of sewing circles.

I love looking at the circles---flipflops for the first beach day, a pug when Mo gets groomed, a full moon. Confetti for my best friend's birthday. I do a written diary but also seem to recall what many of the Dots represent.

I'm still doing text backgrounds. I'm especially fond of this print from Mel, who found it at Walmart. Thank you, Mel!

Wish I had a few more yards for P2 and other places.
The Sun is June 1st, today and is Dotty # 209 ["omg, it seems like so many more!"] It's a beautiful late spring day!

For light relief I did a few Star blocks, wool stars on my friend's nice shirts, for When the Wild Geese Fly, also by Jan Patek. WWGF.

Mostly I slogged away on Summertime, it is definitely past its completion date. [yes I plan that, otherwise nothing gets done and I get anxiety issues; self imposed deadlines of course as no one else is counting. Lucky for me and my stupid pain.]

Cathy, I have not forgotten our Ohio sampler! It was totally on schedule to begin June 1. Now I'm not sure. Medical tests inconclusive, a treatment Friday. It could work like my hand issue a few years ago, I could be better right away. Or not. Wish me well.
Summertime quilt update in a few days.

love

lizzy

gone to the beach.....

Some Memorial Day pictures...

Always fun to see the Blue Angels and WW2 bombers, from my deck.

Links to sewalongs:

Humble Quilts Front Porch HERE

Quilty Folks 365 HERE

please enjoy the Linky set ups with the other quilters' work. The Links are at the ends of Lori's and Audrey's posts.