Pieces of My Life: Home, Family, Friends

I've made the final two blocks for my Pieces of My Life quilt project, hosted by Melva at Melva Loves Scraps.  Making these blocks has been a very special part of my year- a project I chose to celebrate my 70th birthday!    With these last two blocks it's time to tie everything all together and finish the quilt.

Nine Patch and Log Cabin

6 inch blocks

The log cabin represents our home and family life of today.  I've written before that we bought the home in which we still live in 1977.  At the time it was a brand new build in a new neighborhood here in Loveland, Colorado.  In fact, at that time we were the farthest north neighborhood in the city.  A lot more city has built up around us since then!  And the house isn't the same, either.   The first thing we did was finish a family room and guest bedroom in the basement.  A few years later, after the kids were born and we needed more space, we built on an addition off the back of the house which included a master bedroom and dining room/sitting room area.

Spring in the backyard - those windows are where the addition is.

We love our back porch, too.

The Christmas look!

Downstairs family room - it became my sewing room when the kids left home.

Now one of them is back, so he's using that space and I moved my sewing up into a corner of the master bedroom.

Melva asks is this our dream home?  I'm really not sure about that, but it is HOME, and that's what's most important to me!

Do I have grandchildren?  No - not yet.  Our sons are both still single guys, and if that's the path life takes them on I'm okay with that.   When we are together for family time, it's a table of four, but we have a good time with games and activities, and conversation.

Here are the final six blocks which I'm working on sewing together, and then they will join their friends in the other three sections.

I am blessed to have a group of friends here in town that I enjoy spending time with in a variety of ways.  We all taught together and are now retired, but shared enough similar interests that we do many things together still.  Quilt group, book club, golf in the Spring, Summer, and Fall, movies - those are my interests and hobbies, too!

There are a couple people missing from this photo, but you get the idea.

Happy, smiling people!

Melva's final question for these blocks is - do you want to add any other information?  And for me, that is -  not sure yet.  There'll be lots of thinking time as I finish the four sections I've made into the final quilt.  So, I'll get back to you on that!

Linking up with Melva Loves Scraps for Sew and Tell Monday.

And at Quiltfabrication for Midweek Makers.