Posted By drsao on August 30, 2009
As I am moving about gingerly I have been ever so quiet and have even been asleep for most of the last 3 days. The only thing that I requested of my DH Max was NO HUGS and DO NOT MAKE ME LAUGH because it is just TOOOOOOO painful (for real.)
OK – so look what he cut out and gave to me……and of course it made me laugh. Have you heard the expression “LAUGH UNTIL I CRIED?” Well, now I think I understand this expression. It hurts to laugh!!!
Sigh….it is a good thing that I love funny people!
Max's Cartoon
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Posted By drsao on August 30, 2009
Today Catherine left a basket of goodies for me – love these frozen lemonade treats! TOOOOO NICE. She gave me the funny glasses with straws attached too. Daisy May is having fun licking the frozen lemonade cups! THANK YOU SO MUCH CATHERINE. I am feeling much better now…..I am going to get up and rejoin the human race tomorrow. I appreciate all of the good wishes, e-mails, and prayers.
sao, Daisy May (the cat) and the basket of lemonade
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Posted By drsao on August 28, 2009
While on my way to the Powhatan Library this morning – with visions of making pillowcases for cancer patients and laughing friends dancing in my head – Silver Belle was hit by a truck. Poor thing – she got hit on the rear passenger side. I heard from the auto shop that the truck that hit me was totalled and I am not sure yet whether or not Silver Belle can be fixed.
Greg took this at Powhatan Auto
Silver Belle
sao in the hospital
I am going to be fine too – I will just feel like I have been run over by a truck for a few days! No pun intended. Actually I am a wee bit loopy – but my SIL says that I am ALWAYS this way so it is difficult to know whether or not the meds are having an effect on me. Actually he can say whatever he wants because he left work to go get stuff out of my car and to notify the insurance company – and, oh yes, he took the pictures too!
SO HERE IS MY OFFICIAL THANKS to my SIL, Greg, for grabbing my STUFF out of my car – and for taking my Williamsburg FABRIC INTO WORDS Challenge Quilt to Sara to be quilted . Colleen got my sewing machine out of the car – what team work. I was so concerned about my Molly (Singer Featherweight) but the paramedics wouldn’t let me do anything – they just pushed me onto a surfboard and taped me down…they even taped my hair down. WOW.
I am happy to say that MR. CLICKER survived. I was so worried about him. He is my “BELL” when I teach and school children far and wide would have been very upset if something would have happened to MR. CLICKER. Yes, he has his own case – for he is extremely valuable – how else would the children know when to look at me and listen?
Mr. Clicker Survived
My poor basket did not survive. If you know me well, you know that I LOVE BASKETS and so I am sorry to lose one……this is all that was left of my basket – the rest of her is now just a gathering of twigs here and there.
My Poor Basket
Cat Heaven
Cooper *6 year old grandangel* was most worried about the book, CAT HEAVEN that I keep in the car! I am going to assume that the book is still in the car!
And I guess I will have to finish the CELTIC KNOTWORK QUILT quickly because its project box broke and the clasp is MIA.
Project Box Bit the Dust
Actually I am so very blessed to be able to be sitting here writing about this – my guardian angels were holding onto me tightly today. I am thankful. The best part is that I was carrying fruit to the library and for some reason the strawberries and kiwi exploded……..I think I am going to keep that little bit of green embellishment on my bag – it will be a sweet memory of a positive outcome (and also TIDE TO GO won’t touch it!) And the explosion of fruit made my car smell BERRY NICE!
Hug your loved ones and your furry people today.
KIWI Embellishment
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Posted By drsao on August 23, 2009
I am celebrating right now – yeah – because I have now completed the bindings on FOUR QUILTS this past week. I just LOVE crossing things off my list – especially my UFO list.Here you go…..#1 SPLIT-NINE PATCH (my brother told me to tilt the camera to get THE WHOLE THING in – but I am not sure this worked……it makes me feel like I am on that flight simulator ride at the Aerospace Museum in San Diego!) Some of these blocks were from an online swap exchange. I really like this quilt!
Split Nine-Patch
#2 Milky Way…….from the Cutting Bee with Augusta Cole in January! I absolutely find it almost impossible to take a picture of a quilt at my house WITHOUT a cat lounging on it…….they can hear that quilt touching the floor from any place in the house! All of the fabric for this quilt came from the cutting bee – I had so much fun – I am going to do this again next year!
Milky Way
#3 Moda Piece and Plenty Mystery Quilt – 2008 – finally it is complete! Now that I have it made, I am not sure what to do with it. It isn’t exactly the kind of quilt that you would take on a picnic.
Moda Piece and Plenty 2008
#4 Maverick Ant Stars (Maverick Stars is a free Bonnie K. Hunter pattern at Quiltville.com) and I made the sashing from Leaders and Enders using 2″ wide fabrics of varing lengths – I like the look! I think it is absolutely official – I love scrappy quilts.
Maverick Ant Stars
I also made my Country Piecemaker’s Myster BOM block for August….I think we will be finding out how these pieces go together next month!
Country Piecemaker's Mystery BOM for August
And I made my Chain of Fools BOM from Quilter’s Corner for August…..I know, I know, it looks a lot like the block for July – that is BECAUSE I accidentally made the July block again! Can’t believe it but I did…..and I am going to keep it and PRETEND that it is the August block! I like it better than the August block anyway…..there……have I convinced myself.
Chain of Fools - August Wannabe
MY CARRY-ON CHALLENGE
And this is NOT a quilty happening – but I did get my luggage for my New England Tour in October – on sale at Macys! YEAH. At Target today I got lots of little travel sized toiletries. I just might be able to pull this off!
Here is my 21″ bag……..will I be able to meet my CARRY-ON CHALLENGE? I am going to try to pack for 8 days in ONE SMALL BAG! I practiced today going without any hairspray and I must admit I had a bit of a wild look! sigh. :):)
sao's Carry - on Challenge
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Posted By drsao on August 23, 2009
At VA Scrappers on Saturday, Nancy taught us how to make an easy STAR BLOCK starting with 5 inch squares made into half square triangle blocks! Nancy likes to lightly spray her fabric with starch before working with it.
First put two 5 ” squares together (one square is your background and one square will be the color of your star)……draw a diagonal line across the block. Sew 1/4″ on EACH SIDE of the drawn line.
Draw a diagonal line and stitch 1/4" on both sides....
Cut on the drawn line – open and press. You now have two half square triangle blocks.
Cut on the line - open and press
Trim so that your HST is now a perfect 4 1/2″ square….
Square to 4 1/2 inches
Now cut this HST at 2 1/4″……
Cut in half - measure up 2 1/4"
Cut in half again -
YOUR HST WILL NOW be cut into FOUR EQUAL SQUARES 2 1/4″ each
Rotate the squares so that you have formed 1/4 if a star (this reminds me of the spatial task on the Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale – has anyone taken that IQ Test?) Sew the four squares together to form 1/4 of the star.
Rotate and sew the blocks together to form 1/4 of the star
Put four of these together and you have a STAR BLOCK! You can make this scrappy *I like it this way – or you could use 4 HST using the same fabric to make one star.
STAR BLOCK
The back looks like this….
The Back of the star.....
I really like this and it looks like a great and easy way to make a star block.
I BELIEVE that this technique is included in the NICKEL QUILTS patterns.
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