April, May and June have come and gone!

I think I must just accept that blogging will be a hit or miss activity for me. It's also nice to have this as something without a deadline or reaction to someone's expectations (besides my own). So how is my quilting life? Also hit or miss.

We had a spectacular small March retreat yet I of course have no images to share of progress I made. The Hot Shot pattern blocks were done, and those were put into a top during April. My guild had an awesome May retreat where I did a pieced border for the Hot Shot quilt using Pat Speth's picket fence technique. I also added borders to Dad's t-shirt quilt and worked on a few smaller projects. It was good.

Then nothing for a while. Got the daughters out of U of I and high school for the summer. My mother left my childhood home for condo living. Marked the anniversary of my father's passing away. Then had to take a deep painful breath and pause my life while my family faced life without one of my very talented and loved nephews, who passed away June 16.

Somewhere in the calendar this spring, we added a new pc at home, which of course took my attention re: moving files around. I still need to face the IPod file transfers for my youngest daughter. Maybe this weekend?

This weekend I realized that quilting needs to help me through these changes. I'll throw myself into some commitment quilts-a baby quilt for Jan and Rusty's baby-to-be, memory quilt(s) from t-shirts from my brother-in-law Tom R., and some Project Linus quilt tops. Now if I can just take some photos of works in progress to inspire me to keep up the blogging!