I found this quilt today at Salvation Army for $15 yesterday.  It's in pretty good shape except for four or five patches.  I'm going to restore it for my father in law.  It will add colour to his mostly bare room.

I wrote an earlier post about my in laws and someone left a comment that made me think about my mother in law in a slightly different light, so I deleted the post, mostly because I was pretty angry when I wrote it.  I know how my mother in law treated my husband and his brother in the past but I don't know her state of mind now, so I will refrain.

I spent most of today working on the quilt and dealing with the plumber.  Our outdoor tap broke and the water has been running for a few days.  I thought the noise I heard was the air cleaner in that corner, but no, it was water running.  Thankfully the tap is fixed now.

I watched videos last night about how to patch quilts and tried my hand at it today, patch as opposed to taking the whole thing apart and starting over.

This is the before.

This is the after.  It's not perfect but I'm learning and the quilt looks lovely.  It's all stitched by hand too, not my favorite.

In the news, two Russian rockets landed in Poland, killing two.  Poland is a member of NATO and Article 5 binds all NATO nations together.  An attack on one, is an attack on all of them.  So now what?  I feel sick with apprehension and my own problems dwarf in comparison.  

God help us all.