Gratitude List

September 8, 2010

Gratitude List

I have been feeling a bit blue lately.
I decides to make a gratitude list which I have never done before.
I didn't list the obvious, i.e. family, food, a roof over my head.
I decided to focus and reflect upon five small things that I am grateful for.

Please let me share my small list followed by some photos of a quilt I made for Oliver many years ago.
(Because what fun is a blog without any photos?)

I am grateful for:

1. Soap
2. Oliver and Freya's teachers
3. My creativity
4. Success growing our first tomato plants
5. Hand written letters

Thinking about these small things has helped brighten my mood.

I need to think of what I am grateful for much more often.

To Oliver's quilt:

This quilt is a variation on the Log Cabin design.
I like to make up my own patterns for quilts so I can use sloppy sewing.
If I had to match small exact squares and corners it would be frustrating and I wouldn't quilt at all.

I intended to embroider elephants in several block centers but this french knot elephant took 5 hours.

I embroidered two more,

One with very large french knots ...

and an elephant embroidered with back stitching.

I hand quilted it using 'in the ditch' stitches.

It is one of my favorite quilts I have made.

It is wearing now and will need mending soon which means Oliver loves and uses it.

P.S. I began writing this blog at 11:46 pm so it qualifies for Tuesdays blog entry.

I have kept my goal to blog Monday through Friday, sans yesterday because it was a holiday.

I'll have a full goal update this week.

Cheers to a new week!