I’m glad to say that with my knee replacement now in the past and recovery going pretty dang well (all things considered), I actually sat at my sewing machine for the first time in months yesterday. And yes, that was one of our worst blizzards of February outside that window so I’d sent my husband home before the driving got too terrible. Panorama shot of my excellent hospital room at Unity Hospital in Rochester, NY. Now being not quite 8 weeks post-op on a total knee replacement (right knee). Several weeks of trying to catch up at work after all of thatĪfter finally getting life back on track and I had time to think about other things, I realized just how frustrated I was about the fact of my knee still hurting after the double-meniscus surgery the year before, which ended up with… Shortly after recovery, my MIL had a medical event (still don’t know what caused it) resulting in a month of hospital and rehab center then arranging for in-home assistance-her life changed significantly and she can no longer drive and needs a walker most of the time now-all of that took about two to three months to really get situated-she’s doing well now and we have a niece who my MIL was able to hire as her home assistant for a few hours every weekday which works out really well for both of them. The last trip sent me home with a COVID souvenir which knocked me out of the loop for about three weeks Several work and vacation trips back-to-back for about three months I didn’t realize it had been over a year. I knew it had been awhile since I last posted or podcasted. But even the stuff I spent money on is earning its keep by making other people happy. To be clear, because a significant proportion of that fabric had come from my mom, I didn’t have nearly the guilt about having spent money and not using it that I may have otherwise. It’ll get well-loved somewhere else! I think I cut my stash down by at least a third, maybe a half. A quilty friend of mine got first dibs with all the bags of fabric that came out of my sewing room, and then the rest went to my guild for their “fabric roulette” swap at retreats. I told myself that I’d rather have a smaller stash of fabric I was interested in using than stacks n’ stacks of stuff that just made me feel vaguely guilty. During the process, I finally decided to off-load all the fabrics I was entirely sick of looking at-the stuff that had been in my stash for years, much of which I had gotten from my Mom’s stash when she passed away in 2009. And now my jelly rolls look like a shop shelf-so fun to see and more out in the open to encourage me to use them. I’m still in the process of piecing the top together.Įverything is now on comic book boards except the higher yardage (backing) pieces. Having the trim tool saved me, though, as the block gets squared up every round of logs.So even though my seams weren’t altogether consistent due to the change of presser feet, the blocks themselves ended up all exactly the same size. You can tell I used three different quarter-inch seam presser feet in the process by the length of the longest “logs” next to each other. Photo 2: A close-up of one curvy log cabin block (using Creative Grids Curvy Log Cabin Trim Tool). (If anyone recognizes the blocks/BOM/book, let me know!) Anyway, because it has the church block it seemed appropriate for my region office. The quilt hanging on my wall was made by my Mom-no idea what the pattern was, although it smacks of a block of the month kind of thing, or maybe a book of blocks or something. Photo 1: The sew day with friends in my office. If anyone is now doing the New Revised Standard Version of Craftsy (sorry, can’t resist the clergy joke) and would like to give a quick review in the comments, please feel free!Īs I mentioned in my podcast episode, I’ve had a few goings’ on. I do miss the glory days of Craftsy, but maybe it’s still as good as it used to be. That being said, the fact I’m going back and watching my old classes speaks to the quality of a lot of those classes! I’m currently just watching old stuff and haven’t been paying too much attention to anything new, so I can no longer speak with authority about the platform. Craftsy has also completely changed up their class system and payment structure and I haven’t kept up. If any of those classes interest you, they’re pretty much all still available through the current Craftsy streaming app, so just search there. Sorry about that-there are way too many of them and as you know, I’m having enough problems keeping up with today, let alone redoing work from 5 years ago! I honestly don’t have the time to go back and fix them. They’ve actually been broken for quite some time. Just a quick note: I received a notification that all of my old links to Craftsy Classes when they switched to Bluprint are now broken.
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