Something to Finish and a Blue Block

I heard from the Infectious Disease Doctor.  I have an Appointment tomorrow.  Wish me luck.

While going through my UFOs I discovered this project.  I started it a long time ago and I think it needs to be finished.

It's a no-brainer and will keep me busy so I don't worry too much about my appointment tomorrow.  The squares are all 2.5 inches.




It is still blue month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  I noticed that many quilters had used blue for the Bonnie Hunter leader and ender challenge.   I have been making my blocks with lots of colours.  I just love colour.  But yesterday I made a blue block.  And I like it.

Feeling Green

I have had a very stressful week.  The nuclear test I had last Tuesday showed an infection in my left leg.  I have been complaining of that for the past 7 weeks.  Yet no one took me seriously.  A new doctor finally listened and ordered the test.  I am grateful to her.

But now I have to keep busy or my thoughts will over take me.  I found some green blocks.  I have no idea when or why I started them.  Some are done and some need to be finished.  I was working on that but my rotary cutter is no longer sharp.  It is becoming dangerous to use it.  Does anyone have any solutions for this problem?

I decided to do some knitting.  That is also a green project.  It is easy to see and easy to do.  I will work on that until it gets too hot.  Then I will go outside and enjoy some green things in the garden.

 

I will try to link up with Kathy's Slow Stitching Sunday.

Blue Waffles

I have been working on my waffle blocks.   I really love these.  It's a leader/ender project.  They use up lots of small pieces of fabric.  Here are the blue blocks I worked on this month.

I am going to try to link up with SoScrappy.  I linked up and thought it hadn't worked.   So I tried again.  As a result I have linked up twice.  Sorry about that.

Alien Abduction

I feel as if I was abducted by aliens yesterday.  From my trip to the hospital, to my ride home, nothing felt like anything I had ever experienced before.  I rode my scooter over to the hospital because Wheeltrans was giving me a hard time.

There was a lot of construction on the road I took there.  There were huge piles of gravel that were almost impossible to ride over.  Part of the road was flooded.  Some of the sidewalk was missing.  I rode in the bike lane. 

At the hospital there was a long line of people, all safely spaced 2 metres apart, waiting to go in.  Once inside I was bombarded with questions, given a green sticker, some hand sanitizer and instructions to get to were I needed to go.  Unfortunately the directions were not correct.  I became lost in a mess of uninhabited corridors.

When I finally reached the right place, by accident, there were more questions and a denial of who I was and a lack of the proper papers that would allow me to have the tests done.  Everything had been arranged by my doctor.  I had been notified by phone.  I had no papers.  Happy but frustrated I was ready to go home.  The only thing that stopped me was my fear of losing my way again and maybe ending up in a Covid unit.  So  I waited for a fax from my doctor's office.

When it finally came I was directed, once again wrongly, to a black door on the left.  The door turned out to be green.  That is when I knew I had been abducted.   Everything after that was a blur.   I was made to get off my scooter and transfer to a huge camera thing that looked like it belonged in another world.  I was given an IV injection of what I figured were radio active isotopes.  Some photos were taken and I was told to get back onto my scooter.  I thought I was done, but no!

They told me to leave and return at 2:15.  That was 3 hours away!  I wanted to go home but it felt as if they had control of me.  I went outside because I was cold.  But I couldn't warm up.  I waited and waited.  Finally it was time.  I was in pain.  I had a headache.  I had trouble getting onto the slab that was the imaging machine.  My legs were lifted and re-positioned many times.  I was so cold I was shivering.  Finally I was told to get off the machine.  I was told that I needed some X-rays.    They gave me a requisition.

I returned to the intake desk.  More questions.  Had I been to Africa?  What planet am I on? I asked.  I think they thought I was crazy.  I felt crazy.  When the X-rays were done.  I hightailed it out of the hospital.  I took a different way home.

I started to feel as if I was free again.  The fields and road sides were covered in Queen Anne's Lace flowers.  I wanted to pick them, as a symbol of my freedom.  They made me smile.   I felt that I had survived my abduction.

Monday Masks and Other Stuff

Thank you to everyone who sent me positive thoughts for the test I have to subject myself to  tomorrow.  I hope I don't become radio active.  But maybe it will give me super powers.  Kind of like Spider Man or Superman or whatever.  Maybe Super Quilter!  I could fight crime in the quilt studio, like fabrics that seem to multiply after dark.

I managed to sew a couple more masks this morning.  I have more fabric, but I had no more energy to make more.  Maybe after tomorrow.

I also sewed another row onto my scrappy project.  I still need to iron it.  These blocks are so fun to make and bonus... it's a leader and ender project.  On the Fons and Porter show last Saturday I heard them referred to as leaders and followers.  That works too.  These blocks are addictive.   I thought I needed something to take my mind off things.

Slowly and Blindly Stitching

I don't know if this will qualify for Slow Stitching on Sunday or not.  I have to go to the hospital on Tuesday for a scary radiation test.  I don't really know what to expect, but I do know that I will need a mask.  Since I have given most of them away I decided to make a new one.  But my measurements were out.  I had to stitch the elastic on by hand.  That requires eye sight.  Which unfortunately I don't have much of.   I stitched it on mostly by touch.  Threading the needle was a real challenge.  But the mask fits okay and I will wear it.

Lioking up with Kathy's Slow Sunday Stitching.

Easy Breezy Leader and Ender Challenge

It was hot and humid yesterday.  Occasionally we had a heavy down pour.  It was not possible to go out into the garden.  I decided to look up Bonnie Hunter.s new leader and ender project,  They looked pretty easy.  So I made a few - the 6 inch ones.   I kept sewing until my bobbins ran out of thread.   I needed a new spool.  And a new needle.   By the time I had gathered everything I needed and filled a few bobbins, an hour had gone by. 

It was dinner time.  I decided to stop sewing.  I see some more of these in my future.

Insanity is Keeping Me Sane!

Who would of thunk it?    

The daily temperatures are unbearable.  The humidity is stifling.  My air conditioner is not doing its job.  My scooter gave we problems all week.  I have bunnies and chipmunks in my backyard eating my veggies.  We are still in Covid isolation.    And I am out of coffee.

Yet these crazy little blocks are keeping me from losing my mind!

The blue waffle blocks I have made so far this month.    There may be more in my future.  Who knows?  I have lots of blue fabrics.  Blue is my favourite colour.  

I am linking up with So Scrappy.  (As usual I am not able to link up, but I'm working on it)

Insanity?

I feel like I may have a problem.   A 'starting new projects' problem.  Yesterday I posted a Shoo Fly block.  That was the only one I was supposed to make.  But last night I made a few more and today I have 9 of them.

Mine are 6 inch blocks.  I really enjoy making them.  I think I will make some more and turn them into a baby quilt.


I also worked on the waffle blocks.  I made a few more.  There is a purple one in there.  Don't ask me why I made that one.  They were supposed to be blue.  But I liked the colour and the fabric was just laying there.  So I used it.  This is supposed to be fun, right?  So when I get around to the colour purple, I'll just make one less.

While looking for my elastic and some more scraps, I found a bin full of colourful blocks that I had started a long time ago.  So this is not a new project.  I have no idea what these will become.  Only time will tell.

One of these projects will be called Insanity.  I haven't yet decided which one.

Oh, and by the way, I still haven't found my elastic.

A Few Blocks

Let me first apologize for the bad photography.  My camera is on its last leg.  As a result my pics are not very clear.

I managed to sew a few blocks this morning.  I was inspired by Wanda's 16 patch quilts.  So first up are a few more 16 patch blocks.

Then I worked on a few of my waffle blocks using the RSC colour for this month which is blue.

A few days ago a neighbour asked me to make a mask for her grandson.  He specifically asked for Spider Man.   I had some of that in my stash so I made a couple.  Sorry there were no photos that day.  My camera wasn't working at all.  But I had a piece of fabric left over that was exactly 3.5 inches square.  I decided to make a shoo fly block.  If I had been anywhere near a working computer and a sewing machine last summer I would have joined Bonnie Hunter's leader and ender project.  As a result my shoo fly block is my own sizing.  It measures 6.5 inches.  I am not sure if I will make any more of these.  But maybe.

I am waiting for the repair guy to come and fix my brand new scooter.  Yes, I said 'brand new'  I have been waiting since Sunday.  If someone doesn't come soon I am going to return it and get my money back.

Too Hot!

I have been trying to keep my garden alive during this heat wave.  But it is not an easy task.  I have to water at least once a day and sometimes twice.

On top of that my scooter is not working properly.  I called the people I bought it from and they promised to come and look at it either yesterday afternoon or this morning.  They never came.  I cannot keep it in the brake setting.  That means it rolls away from me on a hill or even a very slight incline.  On my ramp it just takes off.  It's very dangerous.  Also, I can't get off it because it moves.  I could fall flat on my face.  I wish I had never bought it.  Sorry to go on about this but it is really staring to bother me.

Okay.  So I will post about a few flowers instead.  I spotted my first day lily today.  It's a peachy colour.,  I love it.  I missed these last year.  So glad I get to enjoy them this year.

My Shasta daisy is also starting to bloom.   I thought I had lost it.  The creeping bell flowers were choking it out.  But now most of the bell flowers have been pulled out.  Still need to do a bit more weeding to get rid of as many of the roots as I can or I will have the same problem again next year.

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My phlox are beginning to bloom.  I love these too.  Last week William picked me a bouquet of them.  Oh, well.  I have lots more in other parts of the garden.

I don't have many roses.  But I do have one called 'Woman'.  It's so fitting.  It is strong.  Comes up every year without winter protection.  And blooms a lovely pale colour.  I have had it in my garden for over 25 years.  This year it is surrounded by spearmint from the neighbour's garden.  I have a lot of weeding to do!  The first blossom was almost done when I took the photo, but another bud is getting ready to bloom.

Now going back to do some sewing.   The AC is on but it is still super hot! 

A Canada Day Street party

We live on a very nice quiet street with lots of trees that form a canopy over the road..  It is only one block long. so there is not much traffic.  A neighbour at number 12 left a card in my mailbox inviting everyone on the street to come over to his place between 11:00 and noon on July 1st.  It was to be a Covid-19 Canada Day party.  We were to bring our own chair and something to drink.  We were asked to respect social distancing and wear a face mask. 

I wasn't sure if I wanted to attend.  But I did go and learned a lot about my neighbours.  It was an enjoyable hour.  No one wanted to leave when it was time to go.  . 

Since not much was happening on Canada Day this was a perfect diversion.  I was proud to be a resident of our street.

July 1st 2020

Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian friends!