Well, of course not literally…but I did manage to make 7k steps every day for the week so I’m feeling pretty good about that. This week I will shoot for the same goal and maybe next week I can bump it up to 8k. Baby steps…baby steps.
Which is how my quilting is coming along as well….baby steps. My indigo is soaked and laundered and needs to be pressed. Then I have to do math since this print is directional as well. I did add the first border but I’ll save pictures until the second one is added. I’ve also made some serious progress on my star block of the month. The pie pieces are almost assembled and then I can get the block together. One more good session in my sewing room and I should be able to knock that out and get things prepped for the second border. It’s taken a while, but at last I have progress for this month and I should be able to get my UFO completed although I most likely will not be able to get much, if any, other sewing projects done. I wonder which UFO I will pull together next? At this point, even I’m not sure.
At this point I feel as though I should make a confession. Hello, my name if Opal and I am a quilter that has not been to Paducah for Quilt Week. Whew, I feel much better now. I’m sure some of you have been or maybe even go yearly. I saw that for 2017 they are also having a Fall Quilt Week. Isn’t that exciting? I hope it goes well so that they offer it again. Well, really the most exciting part of all this is that the Monkeys are thinking that it is time for us to descend on Paducah! So, if you have been and/or are regular goers to Quilt Week I would love to hear any tips you may have for when you go! I definitely would like to visit Hancock’s of Paducah. <sigh> I think that will be some happy fabric dreaming for me.
In the meantime, I need to get some of those UFO’s taken care of so I can shop with abandon. After all, if I can get completely caught up on my UFO’s, well, then I’ll just need to get some more projects, won’t I? Plus I will have a whole year to save to that makes it budget friendly as well (because I have enough UFO’s to keep me busy so I don’t really need to go shopping, unless I need something for a UFO.). I’m so excited!
Seriously though, if you have any tips with regards to Paducah please feel free to share them in the comments!
I suppose that is really all that I’ve been working on. I started an afghan for my husband because I was on a crocheting roll and he had picked out some yarn eons ago and I thought while I was in the mood I should get to work on it. Now, it feels like I may have a bit of tendonitis in my elbow…at least as best as I can figure without going to the Dr. (don’t yell at me Hazel). So, I’ve been icing it today and will do some real resting of it this week. I thought it was because of the yoga I was trying. No, I’m not trying to find excuses. Really. Part of the yoga DVD I was doing had a bit of floor work including planking and downward dog. The reason that I started doing yoga (and all this stepping) is so I can lose some weight. Like say, more than 30 lbs. I thought that maybe I was straining myself with the floor exercises because of my extra fluff. So, I stopped. I do miss it though and was hoping in a week or two with some rest it would be back to normal. Not so much.
So, I racked my brain a bit and realized that I went through this when Small Blonde was of a certain age and weight….where he still liked to be carried but his weight was making it a bit prohibitive for me to be able to do it well. Little Red is reaching the same point and I really only have one good arm. The other one is all scarred up from my trip through a plate-glass window. The arm is good, but he’s squirmy and then he rubs up against the scar and it just doesn’t feel good. So, that leaves me one arm to constantly carry, wrestle, and subdue this small human that we call Tiny Grizzly. In my mind that means it was inevitable that I would have another bout of this when this small boy reached similar weight. For the record he is 35 lbs and has no regard for his personal safety when the thrashing tantrums take over. Thankfully he can now climb in and out of his car seat so that makes things a little easier when he is amenable to such things.
At any rate, rather than jumping into going to the Dr. where I’m sure that I would be prescribed some anti-inflammatory, I thought I would just try some home remedies first (don’t worry Hazel, if it does persist I’ll head to the Dr. I promise.).
Well, that was certainly a whole lot about me! I suppose I should close with some quilting! Here is a long arm quilter that I admire. You can find her blog here. Her name is Judi Madsen and even her blog and online store have a great name – Green Fairy Quilts. Anyway, she has some amazing pictures and I visit her blog when I am in need of inspiration. Maybe you will find some there, too. She does some amazing things and I wish I had half of her vision.
As for me, I think I’ll head to Hancock’s of Paducah’s website and do some happy dreaming.