repetition is key to learning Quilting or anything for me

This was an interesting time for me. After making the birthday quilt for Mindy I knew I needed to make another log cabin quilt to get it more jelled into my head as to the process. I had signed up for another class making a different pattern, a few months down the road but that was a long way off and my memory was not very sharp still at this point. I would be reading a book and put it down and go do something for 30 minutes or more and when I walked past the book, I wondered who was reading it and what it was about. I'd look at the open pages marked, and at the cover and think to myself that it sounded like i book I would enjoy so maybe I'd read it next. When the kids got home, or my husband at the time, they would tell me I WAS THE ONE reading the book! I always felt like I was making great strides in my memory rebuilding, but things like this, among other things would just unseat my sense of well being. While I could no longer make drapes, valences and clothing there were other things that had stuck with me. I hadn't forgotten how to hang wallpaper and was really quite a pro at that as well as painting. Cooking seemed to come back to me pretty well except to remember to turn everything back off when I done. I could by this time now drive 5 miles to get the kids to school, the mall, friends houses and doctors since they were so close by. BUT I couldn't get them to gymnastics 7 miles away, to the dentist or to my own doctors at National Jewish Hospital here in Denver. I was walking really well by now and could get about 1/4 mile easily without getting too tired but a 1/3 of a mile was still too far and I hurt way too much and it would be far enough away I sometimes would still forget where I lived, as I had forgotten at the beginning of my walking in 1988. So many things I had made good healthy strides on and others I wondered if they would ever come back to me. Life wasn't easy for my ex or my kids but my kids truly tried to rally around me and help me remember those things I kept forgetting. I am sure it was quite wearing on everyone! While I was becoming more abled, instead of so disabled it was still a strain on us ALL and I knew that and tried to minimize it somehow.
At any rate I knew I needed to work on another quilt soon after finishing Mindy's, so decided to make a quilt in the same LOG CABIN strip pieced way, but this time make one for the day bed that was in our master bedroom sitting area. This one had the blue green nad maroon solids and then a lighter shade of each with a print in a white/offwhite background print. When I started the quilt in August, I really had no idea what my layout would be, but I knew I wanted to try something more than the fields and furrows of the other one. Shoot I have PT must run will finish this in a while.....