My shell of a House

So this is what I have to look at.

Kind of sad really

It seems like every time I turn around I think of something else that I lost.

I guess that will pass with time.

Everyone says now I can start with a clean slate -

I would rather have the old slate.

Guess this is my poor pitiful me day.

That will pass with time too.

Louisiana Flood

Now I can say I survived the 1000 year flood in Louisiana

That's all I can say

We lost everything we own.

I have been so excited to retire and play in my sewing room.

I had (notice I said had) everything I could ever want or need.

This is my 2016 Maxima after the water went down.

 

The morning of the 13th the water came in so fast we had to wait in the truck until we were rescued.

That's my husband's truck and my car in the background.

We were at 2 1/2' within 2 hours.

 My house took almost 6' of water

I took this on our1st walk thru of the house.

This is my embroidery machine.

The quilting machine is behind it.

Both machines were under water for 4 days

This is a picture of my life in front of my house.

Everyone's house looks just like this

Nothing left -

 heartbreaking to throw away all my beautiful fabric and machines.

It was gutted today

 It will be along time before I will be able to do any sewing.

We ended up being boated out of 3 places last Saturday

Ended up staying with strangers for a few days.

Now we are at my daughters.

Who know what will come next or how long it will take our town to recover.

We are blessed that we were able to survive -

 

A Not So Good Quilt

I put the good things on here so I might as well put the failures.

I started this a few years ago and could never figure out how I wanted to square it up

And this is what I finally came up with

I'm not happy with the results

But at least it's done and I don't have to think about it any more.

 Here is a shot of the back

Another Stack-n-Whack

 I am so excited to share my new sewing machine.

Get a load of this Juki TL 2010Q

It's a straight stitch semi industrial.

1800spm

I love it

 I ordered a set of led lights from Amazon

Definately makes a difference

And this is the first thing I've pieced on it

I pieced this a few weeks ago

It is huge 

and I didn't even put the last row on

I made this stack-n-whack for my daughter's birthday

My grandson picked out the fabric back in January

and asked me to make it for her

 

 144 squares

So I stopped at a twin size

 Below is the fabric I used.

Above is a close up of some of the blocks

I just love how they are all different