QUILTS AND SCHOOL

Quilts are such a fulfilling hobby. It is like you have a blank canvas and a whole pallette of colors to work with. I have often envied artists who have painted even the smallest picture. They have used their imagination to create something. I have two pictures hanging in my bedroom. One is on a large piece of cardboard, painted by a young friend who used various elements to create this picture. I find it very pleasing at times because it shows that he has great potential but is struggling to tell the world what he feels, it also has a piece of tire on it. He calls it his, Hit the road piece. The other picture is of my youngest daughter drawn by her husband. the love expressed in that picture shines for everyone to see. Well ,to me my quilts are my canvasses of life. I am finishing up some tops that I have made in the last five years. It is hard to quilt them on the frame with a sewing machine because you do not have the control that you have with a regular machine. I have done four quilts now. Two were just scrolling around on the fabric. then I made one for my daughter that has oriental motif. It has bridges. I choose the material because that is how her and her husband feel their lives are. Bridges between their past life and the future .
The one I am doing now is pinwheels. It is a little like learning to color inside the lines in a coloring book. the first few rows have squiggly lines but now I am getting better at controlling the machine. I will try to post a picture of this latest quilt.

Going to work with my kids , as I call them is also like having a blank canvas and being able to help them become good people. In the four months since we started with this new class, I have seen such great strides of growth with them. Not only have they grown physically and mentally
but they are developing skills ,such as cutting, coloring, eating meals without spills. The list goes
on and on as I am sure that those of you who are just starting on this process giving birth,raising
children are well aware of.

I personally enjoy seeing the videos that you all post. It is wonderful seeing the family growing .
You should all be very proud of yourselves and your families. I know I am.

I have started school again. I am taking a class on being a teacher's aide. It at a adult education school. It is a new class, so we are guinea pigs so to speak. But then I always like to be first in line. Also going to start learning conversational Spanish with a friend of mine. Then I can talk with the kids better. It is hard on me not to be able to understand a child and unable to have them understand me. Course there again that is my desire to be first in line .

Well, I have rambled on long enough. Time to go back to the quilt frame. Write if you get work, Stop by if you are in the area, the latch key is out.