Going ok, I guess

Three weeks since the last post, and it's going ok with the MIL.  We had one more problem, well a fight almost.  She decided to stop using her pill box (where she sets the pills up for a week) and take her meds from the bottles instead, AND instead of taking them in the morning all together, and the blood thinner at night -- she (with her infinite medical wisdom and background *cough cough*) has decided to take them spaced out through the day.  I was trying to get her to call the doctor and just confirm that this would be ok -- I mean, he may want the blood pressure pill to be first thing in the morning, not in the afternoon.  She got mad and even raised her voice, so I raised my voice back and in the end, *big surprise* she is going to do it her way.  I however, am going to count her pills in her pill bottles to try to keep track of whether they are being taken properly.  It all boiled down to control really.  She doesn't want anyone else in charge of her medicine or telling her how to do them.  Not even her doctors it seems.  As of the day of the fight, it looks like she has missed two or three blood thinners over the last month, and maybe one of her other pills.  But the remaining two looked to be spot on.  Let's see where it is in a week or so.

The good news is, we got her a medical alert pendant and she seems to be wearing it whenever I come in.  That's great!  We're going to get a phone line run in the hallway so the monitoring box can be more centrally located.  But for now it's in the living room.  When we called to test it, DD said, "have her turn the tv down so they can hear her!"  and I said, "Nope, when she really has an emergency the tv will probably be blaring, so let's see if it works with that as background noise"  LOL.  And it did, hurray!

As far as quilting, yeah, what quilting.  I took the Charm Stars off the frame and will be picking out the quilting.  I really do want to custom quilt it, and may have an idea that won't involve ten thousand thread colors!  So it's worth giving it a try.  In the meantime, I have Alexa's wedding gift, a table runner on the frame. It's going really well.  I used wool batting so the stitches are showing up really well. 

The four patches in the center are getting feathered swirls and curved cross-hatching (above) and the setting triangles are my very first attempt at curved cross-hatching ;)  (below)

 



My favorite though, is the feathered hearts in the diamonds..  There is still some blue wash-out marker visible, but they are still looking beautiful.  You can't go wrong with hearts on a wedding gift!  I'm going to put the bride and grooms names around the outside in the sashing and the wedding date.

The wedding colors are mustard and mint, so I didn't use those exact colors, but hopefully the yellow and greens will remind her of the wedding and make this a treasured keepsake.  So I'd better take this little bit of free time I have and get some more quilting done, the weddig is at the end of the month and that's getting closer and closer each day.