Does anyone know if there is a support group for parents of adult children who don't listen to their parents?? At what age do adult children get to ignore their parents sage advice and do exactly what they want? In this day and age where the ground beneath our feet seems to be shifting constantly, I'd like to throw a wrench into things and suggest that adult children STILL need to heed their all-knowing-all-seeing-Parents advice in all things 24/7. My life would be so MUCH better if they did! I'm all about the Monarchy!! No make that a communist monarchy or a dictator-monarchy!!! Yes, even better!!! The girl and SIL announced they will be moving BACK to Utah!!! Moving away. And they are apparently taking their children, MY grandchildren with them! I offered to work out a very generous visitation schedule for them to visit their children who should stay here and live with me but they thought I was joking...I was not. Shouldn't I be allowed to lock them all in their house and keep them here?!?!? Damn kids.
This quilt first showed up in my Pinterest feed about a year ago and after seeing it I fell in love. From what I can tell, the very first birch tree quilt was made back in 2012 by Amanda Jean and you can see it and read about it on her blog, Crazy Mom Quilts.
Amanda's quilt has inspired hundreds, if not thousands of other quilters to make their own version - copying someone is the most sincerest form of flattery, right? This was such a fun and easy quilt to piece, made with all scraps. I will probably make another one as a gift in different colors, I just love this pattern. This was my 4th Corona quilt, and possibly the best thing to come out of our lockdown!
Originally I picked out a nice red and white stripped binding, but it just seemed to get lost. Then I tried a scrapy binding, and it was just meh. The black and white seemed to speak to me, I always seem to pick darker binding to "end" the quilt. Now back to the girl and her family, would taking them as hostages really be a bad idea? Since they want to move, I won't lock them in their house but mine; wouldn't that show them how much I love them?!?! Damn kids.
The backing is flannel so this quilt is very soft and warm. Pictured above are the color-catcher sheets I used when I washed the quilt. Not a lot of color came out but enough that it might have left a few stains if I hadn't used them. Red fabrics are notorious bleeders after all but only one fabric bled which is why some quilters always wash their fabrics in advance...I can't be bothered with that, not when I can buy color-catchers to save me! Answer me this, how is it right that the girl and SIL can just take my grandchildren and move 800 miles away and rip out my heart and soul at the very same time?!?!? HOW??? Shouldn't there be a law against that? Seattle has allowed the CHOP, defunded police, protested repeatedly about BLM...how about GRANDMA'S LIVES MATTER??? Maybe I'll defund the girl! Maybe I'll set up an adult-children-free-zone! Maybe I'll protest about Grandma's Lives Matter!!! Who wants to join me??? Damn kids.
I waited 20 years for the girl and SIL to move to Seattle. 20 years! And now after a short 13 months, they are moving away. I am just so sad. I'll just be sitting here wrapped up in a quilt trying to console myself until I die from a broken heart. Too much?? I don't care!!! Damn kids!