Queen of the Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcheries: Sylvia's Bridal Sampler...9 Patch

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Sylvia's Bridal Sampler...9 Patch

My 6th block for this quilt......6 blocks in 6 weeks is pretty good I think! As I suspected time to call it quits for now as Paris and Latvija the home of my Ancestors is taking over!

Mr Armchair is doing well with JoJo's programmes and her day-to-day life and learning the routines for while I'm away!!!

Block 6......Nine Patch

And here are all 6 together

Looking good.......to see more blocks hop on over to Fiona at www.bubzrugz.blogspot.com

Holey Dooley 1 week and 2 days till I leave......still like a Dream!!!

A happy Weekend to you all......Dzintra

8 comments:

Terry said...: The sampler blocks are looking good!! I figured it must be soon have a wonderful trip.; August 22, 2015 at 8:23 PM
Anonymous said...: Hi Dzintra,boy your blocks are looking terrific,well done my friend,gee not many sleeps now to goo,lol xx; August 22, 2015 at 9:31 PM
Nat Palaskas said...: Looking good Dzintra. How exciting only just over a week, yeepee for you! Looking forward to see some photos on IG - Have the best time xx; August 22, 2015 at 9:53 PM
Castles Crowns and Cottages said...: Oh Dzintra, soooooo pretty! But I bet you can't keep your mind off of PARIS! HEY! Would you consider doing a Paris quilt when you come back?

I cannot believe how times has flown. I remember you telling me this trip was NINE weeks away. OK, get ready!!!!!!; August 22, 2015 at 10:05 PM
Yvonne W said...: I am impressed with all the blocks--6 blocks in 6 weeks is more than I manage. very exciting about your holiday-- it will be here before you know it. Enjoy your trip.; August 23, 2015 at 8:00 AM
Rachaeldaisy said...: I bet sewing these blocks has been a good distraction from your growing excitement about your big trip. The blocks look great together!; August 24, 2015 at 7:39 AM
Astrid said...: Your blocks are looking great. Soon THE DAY is here! :) How exciting!; August 24, 2015 at 11:43 AM
Janice said...: I'm loving the way these are turning out. So excited for you with your trip. It will be here in the blink of an eye.; August 24, 2015 at 8:34 PM

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Hello, my name is Dzintra Ingrid ... have been known as Ingrid and since our Sea Change I have started to use Dzintra ... pronounced without the D ... (but still known as Ingrid, I know, it's confusing ...)

Welcome to my world ... a journal of our Sea Change ... Mum to three wonderful children ... bringing up a daughter with a disability and seeing life through her eyes ... being a new Nanna ... photos ... inspiring quotes ... taking on a cookery course ... the odd recipe ... and trying to get some stitching done amongst all this ...

Dedicated to Carers...

'Welcome to Holland'

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this ...

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guidebooks and make your wonderful plans. The Colosseum, Michelangelo's David - the gondolas of Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.

After months of eager anticipation the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, 'Welcome to Holland'.

'Holland'? You say. 'What do you mean Holland? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy'.

But there has been a change in the flight plan. They have landed in Holland, and there you must stay.

The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, filthy place, full of famine and disease. It's just a different place. So you must buy new guidebooks. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.

It's just a different place. It's slower paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while, you look around, and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills, Holland has tulips, Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy, and they are all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say, 'Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That is what I had planned'.

The pain of that will never go away, because the loss of a dream is a very significant loss. But if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things about Holland.

Written by Emily Perl Kingsley......Mother of a Child with a Disability

Kerri...

To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sow;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate;
a time of war; and a time of peace.~

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

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Sylvia's Bridal Sampler...9 Patch

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