JUne 1, 2021    

A new month,  hooray.  AFter a few months of trauma,  I feel like I am on the road back to normal.  But at my age,  what is normal.  

I broke my shoulder in January. By the time I was fully healed in mid April,   I neede a srthroscopy knee surgery, Which I had and fully recovered from. But I feel like I just don't have my energy back.  I wonder if it is too much trauma to this old body and its going to take a lot longer to bounce back than it used to.,  

Whatever.. OLdest son went to drug rehab again,  but is doing well and we are hopeful. It's been a long haul and a very stressful and upsetting one.  Watching someone destroy their life with drugs and alcohol.  Finally in order to keep his job he went to a month long in house re hab.  I am still holding my breath,  because we've been through this before.  But I am feeling hopeful.   

This is a quilt I recently finished piecing and picked up from the LONG ARM quilter last week.  

Its another scrappy /stash quilt made with fabrics I already owned.   But still new backing fabric and batting and the long arm fees,  There is about $200 wrapped up in it.  

People think making a quilt is inexpensive,  But buying new yardage which is usually $10 to $12 per yard,  backing fabric and batting can put a home crafted quilt in the $400 to $500 dollar range.  

This is why mostr of my quilts are now scrappys,  I have a ton of fabrics. So why not use them up.