Welcome from Victoria Australia.
My DH and I have been to Tulsa many times and love your city. You have some of the best museums and Art Gallerys. We took friends there on our last visit and they hope to return too. On our next visit we would love to travel a little further south and spend some time around the lakes district.
Sorry to hear of the passing of your DH. My quilting group add a 2 1/2 inch strip of fabric to a ball each meeting and when the ball weights 2lb we make a scrap quilt which we give to Cancer Research for fund raising.
Machine or hand stitching will be a fun adventure for you to start off 2014.