More of this 'n that

 With snow on the ground in spots because the wind is blowing a gazillion miles per hour, it is good weather to stay inside!! I have finished the red work quilt top above.  Yea!!  Now to quilt it!!
Also, my friend in Brighton had this top from one of her husband's relatives and I will attempt to finish it for her also....sometime in the future.

Now to add to the adoption story.  My cousin was able to locate her birth father's children, and one half-sister is living still, but after locating them earlier, she was able to meet some of them, including some cousins.  I found a note with a half-sister's phone number and called her this week to let her know of my cousin's death.  We had the most marvelous conversation and I will stay in touch with her for a while at least and decided to send the file and pictures along with other paperwork to her.
There were pictures of her mother and information of her mother's children, but apparently they were not receptive of a meeting nor any contact with her.  I discovered that her mother, Hilda, had been one of several children born in the first part of the 1900's and whose father left her mother unable to take care of the children.  They were placed in homes, some were adopted and others were sent to work with families, but they were all separated. The parents had been of Scandinavian decent and Belgian decent.  The mother went to work doing laundry for miners in North Dakota.   Hilda went to work for a family. A few years later she began dating a man who was a brother of an older sister's husband.   They were engaged and he subsequently broke off the engagement.  Hilda learned she was pregnant and had begun dating another man who wanted no part of this baby.  She went to Denver to a home and gave birth to my cousin.  More later....