From the Podiatrist to quilt stores...
I went to the Podiatrist first. I found out the "bump" on the side of my foot is a Ganglion Cyst. He "aspirated" it (sounds better than sticking a needle in it and sucking out the synovial fluid that I was in it). I also had "casts" made so they can make orthodics for me to wear in my shoes. He said they are very thin and will fit in most shoes. I also have an appointment to have a toe nail cut away so I can clear up a little "problem" (gross, huh?). But after that I drove to Madison and met a friend. I found some border and backing fabric for the lap quilt that I am making for my Mom (Yellow Brick Road). I also bought more sock yarn! I am not even finished with the first sock and now I have yarn to make 5 more! LOL I also bought a book about embellishing quilts with beads. I went to two other quilt stores on the way home, and found a binding fabric and another book which gave me an idea for what to do with my appliqued flower blocks that are still OK after that serious bleeding problem and subsequent ruining of 8 of the blocks. Now I am going to go to bed. Hopefully I will SLEEP tonight!!!
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Can't sleep again!
Damn it! I am awake again, and can't relax. I had inservice today. The whole day was looking at data and goals. I was one of the presenters, since I do the goals for social studies. It just was such a boring day. No school tomorrow- the elementary teachers have their inservice tomorrow (there are too many teachers for all of us to meet anywhere all at once). Then Thursday and Friday are work days. I had them rearrange my room this summer, so we will see how that works out. I made a list of things to do while listening to our superintendent this morning.
Tomorrow I am going to Madison. Way back in June I left my school chair at the quilt retreat and a friend took it home. We are meeting tomorrow at a quilt store in Madison, and we'll transfer my chair to my car and also go out for lunch. I will be going to a few more places on the way home. The quilt store we are meeting at also has yarn, so I might see if they have some cool sock yarn. I still have to finish my first pair, of course. I'm going along well, though! =-)
One of the women from the campground died today. She was in her 40's and had an aneurysm burst in her brain. Her husband heard her fall and ran in the room she was in and called 911. She has been in a coma since last week. So sad. They have a daughter who they were taking to her first year of college this weekend. One of my co-worker's mother was killed this summer. She was getting the mail and a car tried to pass a tractor pulling something, and then realized there was a car coming head on, so he slammed on the brakes and tried to go back behind the tractor, but he lost control and hit my friend's mom broadside. Her father witnessed it, too. Just so senseless. I guess you never know when and how you are going to die (unless you are Owen Meaney).
Speaking of which, I finished my book tonight for book club. By John Irving, called _A Prayer for Owen Meaney_. It was a VERY good book. Sad, funny, thought provoking- interesting.
I finished quilting a lap quilt tonight. Next is binding. =-) This one is called "Tribble Trouble" after the Star Trek episode. It's in cream/tan and blues.I really like it. I started that one at a quilt get-a-way at Iron River years ago. I finished the blocks that weekend, added the border a couple of years later and now have it quilted.
I have it on my list to take pictures and to get the photos I do have off of the cards and into the computer. Then I can post some. =-) Yes, I am back to making lists... the only way I really get things done. If I write it down it gives me a goal, a purpose. I've been very lazy this summer, reading, gardening, knitting, beading, quilting... also cleaning, but less of that. But...
Summer's over, and I still have so many things I want to do!
Tomorrow I am going to Madison. Way back in June I left my school chair at the quilt retreat and a friend took it home. We are meeting tomorrow at a quilt store in Madison, and we'll transfer my chair to my car and also go out for lunch. I will be going to a few more places on the way home. The quilt store we are meeting at also has yarn, so I might see if they have some cool sock yarn. I still have to finish my first pair, of course. I'm going along well, though! =-)
One of the women from the campground died today. She was in her 40's and had an aneurysm burst in her brain. Her husband heard her fall and ran in the room she was in and called 911. She has been in a coma since last week. So sad. They have a daughter who they were taking to her first year of college this weekend. One of my co-worker's mother was killed this summer. She was getting the mail and a car tried to pass a tractor pulling something, and then realized there was a car coming head on, so he slammed on the brakes and tried to go back behind the tractor, but he lost control and hit my friend's mom broadside. Her father witnessed it, too. Just so senseless. I guess you never know when and how you are going to die (unless you are Owen Meaney).
Speaking of which, I finished my book tonight for book club. By John Irving, called _A Prayer for Owen Meaney_. It was a VERY good book. Sad, funny, thought provoking- interesting.
I finished quilting a lap quilt tonight. Next is binding. =-) This one is called "Tribble Trouble" after the Star Trek episode. It's in cream/tan and blues.I really like it. I started that one at a quilt get-a-way at Iron River years ago. I finished the blocks that weekend, added the border a couple of years later and now have it quilted.
I have it on my list to take pictures and to get the photos I do have off of the cards and into the computer. Then I can post some. =-) Yes, I am back to making lists... the only way I really get things done. If I write it down it gives me a goal, a purpose. I've been very lazy this summer, reading, gardening, knitting, beading, quilting... also cleaning, but less of that. But...
Summer's over, and I still have so many things I want to do!
Friday, August 24, 2007
I'm back from Milwaukee...
and it is good news! My mom only has some blockage in two small branch arteries in her heart, and the main arteries are all good!!! So much better than what we were expecting to hear! She still has congestive heart failure and a leaky aortic valve, but if she does some simple exercise she can build up her stamina and not get short of breath so easily! Since I was sitting waiting, or in Mom's room I was glad I took my knitting along. I am making socks for the first time. I bought the yarn over a year ago, It is yarn that was dyed using a computer pattern so a pattern knits in without changing yarn. They are hot pink, with gray, black and white in the design stripes. I had done most of the top ribbing before taking it along. I finished that and am done with turning the heel and am ready to knit the rest of the foot part. I think I have one more row on the gusset to get down to the correct number of stitches again. This is FUN! I'll post a picture when one is done. Then you have to make another one! LOL DB, did you ever make your socks of the same yarn?
We stayed at my niece's house in Milwaukee last night and it was fun. She is such a good hostess. It was so generous of her to offer to put us up for the night. We went out to eat after leaving the hospital last night. She took us to an Italian Restaurant (with real Italians) which had fantastic food.
I am glad to be home. I am extremely tired. It is emotionally exhausting when you worry about someone like we have been worrying. I am so angry at her regular Dr. who told her that she would just have a heart attack and die and that there was nothing they could do. He should have NOT said that to her. Mom was convinced she would not return home from Milwaukee alive. She even wrapped Christmas presents before she went! Well, she, and all of us, are feeling considerably better tonight.
I am working on quilting another quilt on my Nolting. "Tribble Trouble" is what it is called. I have it about half quilted with a maze type of pattern (free hand). I did that Wed. but didn't have time to finish. Of course, I also washed floors and did 4 loads of laundry in between quilting. I plan to finish quilting it tomorrow and get the binding on and ready to hand sew. I'll call the quilter's on retreat this weekend (where I had planned to be) but I am too tired to drive there for one day. Next time. DH is still going up to the trailer this weekend after he works tomorrow, but I just want to stay home and do some things here. I start back to school next Tuesday. Where does the time go???
We stayed at my niece's house in Milwaukee last night and it was fun. She is such a good hostess. It was so generous of her to offer to put us up for the night. We went out to eat after leaving the hospital last night. She took us to an Italian Restaurant (with real Italians) which had fantastic food.
I am glad to be home. I am extremely tired. It is emotionally exhausting when you worry about someone like we have been worrying. I am so angry at her regular Dr. who told her that she would just have a heart attack and die and that there was nothing they could do. He should have NOT said that to her. Mom was convinced she would not return home from Milwaukee alive. She even wrapped Christmas presents before she went! Well, she, and all of us, are feeling considerably better tonight.
I am working on quilting another quilt on my Nolting. "Tribble Trouble" is what it is called. I have it about half quilted with a maze type of pattern (free hand). I did that Wed. but didn't have time to finish. Of course, I also washed floors and did 4 loads of laundry in between quilting. I plan to finish quilting it tomorrow and get the binding on and ready to hand sew. I'll call the quilter's on retreat this weekend (where I had planned to be) but I am too tired to drive there for one day. Next time. DH is still going up to the trailer this weekend after he works tomorrow, but I just want to stay home and do some things here. I start back to school next Tuesday. Where does the time go???
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
I'm up early
I set my alarm for 5:00 this morning so I can start getting used to getting up at that time again, but have been up since 3:30 when a certain cat (who shall remain nameless, but I have only one cat) decided she would come purr by my face until I got up to feed her. I am trying what my Dr. told me to do, crawl in bed at 8:00 with a book (when I am home). Last night I didn't sleep until 10:00 but maybe as I get used to getting up early I can start to fall asleep earlier. I get so sleep deprived during the year otherwise. Well, I will see how it goes.
We are having a nice soaking rain, which we have really been needing. We have had drought conditions this summer. Despite all my work in the gardens they are not looking as nice as usual. I watered, but those weeks we were gone here and there really took their toll. Hopefully the flowers will rally and next year it will be better.
Yesterday the cable guy came with a new modem. I had trouble last week and when I called the guy set up an appointment to replace my very outdated one. The guy who came said he can't believe that they don't just call to set up appointments to change them with people who still have these old ones. It is making a big difference with the internet now. I can actually view "you tube" without waiting forever! Fortuitous problems with the internet!
I finished a quilt! All but the label. I finished the one that will hang behind the head board of our bed. Called "Stars From Hell, With Birds." Stars from hell because I decided to do them differently than suggested in my pattern and paid the price for it! It turned out really nice. I quilted it on my Nolting and did pretty good, if I do say so myself. Two weekends ago I put the binding on at the camper and worked on the handstitching part whenever I could. Last weekend I put the hanging sleeve on it. Today I should do the label. I have another quilt on the machine ready to go. I am trying to decide what to do on it. Maybe I'll get to that today, too.
Last week and this week have been different. I went with my Mom and Dad to my mom's Dr. appointment last week. She is going to Milwaukee on Thursday for a heart catherization. They are trying to determine if there is anything that they can do to help her. She has multiple problems. I feel so bad for her. She's so tired all of the time, and weak. She is getting depressed again, which doesn't help. She'll just give up. I feel fortunate to have my mom this long; she lost her mom young. But I still want her longer!!!
So the last few weeks of summer have been different than I would have planned. You do what you have to do. I won't be going to the quilt retreat at a friend's cottage this weekend. I may just stay home and quilt. DH has to work this weekend (one per summer) and he might go up to the trailer overnight, but I told him I thought I would just stay home. Next week school starts (inservice and work days) and I want to squeeze a bit more of summer out of my days. I did a lot this summer, but still not as much as I would have liked to. I was going to get into a regular exercise plan, but didn't. My diet hasn't done too well. I have not gotten myself under control, but have just drifted along doing what I felt like doing at any given moment. Some of that is good, but not as much as I have done this summer.
Well, the coffee pot "beeped", so I am going up to get some. I think I'll drink it upstairs and listen to the rain. I'll post a picture of the quilt soon.
We are having a nice soaking rain, which we have really been needing. We have had drought conditions this summer. Despite all my work in the gardens they are not looking as nice as usual. I watered, but those weeks we were gone here and there really took their toll. Hopefully the flowers will rally and next year it will be better.
Yesterday the cable guy came with a new modem. I had trouble last week and when I called the guy set up an appointment to replace my very outdated one. The guy who came said he can't believe that they don't just call to set up appointments to change them with people who still have these old ones. It is making a big difference with the internet now. I can actually view "you tube" without waiting forever! Fortuitous problems with the internet!
I finished a quilt! All but the label. I finished the one that will hang behind the head board of our bed. Called "Stars From Hell, With Birds." Stars from hell because I decided to do them differently than suggested in my pattern and paid the price for it! It turned out really nice. I quilted it on my Nolting and did pretty good, if I do say so myself. Two weekends ago I put the binding on at the camper and worked on the handstitching part whenever I could. Last weekend I put the hanging sleeve on it. Today I should do the label. I have another quilt on the machine ready to go. I am trying to decide what to do on it. Maybe I'll get to that today, too.
Last week and this week have been different. I went with my Mom and Dad to my mom's Dr. appointment last week. She is going to Milwaukee on Thursday for a heart catherization. They are trying to determine if there is anything that they can do to help her. She has multiple problems. I feel so bad for her. She's so tired all of the time, and weak. She is getting depressed again, which doesn't help. She'll just give up. I feel fortunate to have my mom this long; she lost her mom young. But I still want her longer!!!
So the last few weeks of summer have been different than I would have planned. You do what you have to do. I won't be going to the quilt retreat at a friend's cottage this weekend. I may just stay home and quilt. DH has to work this weekend (one per summer) and he might go up to the trailer overnight, but I told him I thought I would just stay home. Next week school starts (inservice and work days) and I want to squeeze a bit more of summer out of my days. I did a lot this summer, but still not as much as I would have liked to. I was going to get into a regular exercise plan, but didn't. My diet hasn't done too well. I have not gotten myself under control, but have just drifted along doing what I felt like doing at any given moment. Some of that is good, but not as much as I have done this summer.
Well, the coffee pot "beeped", so I am going up to get some. I think I'll drink it upstairs and listen to the rain. I'll post a picture of the quilt soon.
Thursday, August 02, 2007
It's WORKING!
I finally am quilting on my Nolting! I was struggling with the tension, trying to adjust it and I knew that the bobbin tension was messed up. Making any adjustment to that changes it a lot, so I was back and forth, back and forth. Finally I got a bright idea. =-) I pulled the bobbin case out of my Bernina, and started "feeling" what it felt like to pull the thread out and then I started adjusting the Nolting case to feel the same. When I thought it was, I popped it in, and with only minor top tension adjustment, it WORKED!!!!! Woo Hooo!! I did a bit more practicing, and put my quilt on and started to quilt. So Tuesday I started working on my quilt, "Stars from Hell, with birds". I have about a fifth of it quilted, and then I had to stop to go get a hair trim, and then we went down to see my parents and took them out to dinner. It was nice. =-)
On Tuesday I had discovered that our air conditioner wasn't working. Well, the AC was on, but no cold air was coming out of the vents. Checked the circuit breakers; it wasn't that. Went to look at the furnace and the fan on the furnace wasn't working. Before we left for my parents DH had called a repair person, who was to come Wed. It got so hot in our house, even with opening windows at night it wasn't enough to cool the house, because it had been so hot all day. I just couldn't fall asleep. I finally fell asleep by laying on an ice gel pack (large rectangular one), but only got 2.5 hours of sleep.
Yesterday I had to work, which meant getting up early. A day of working on a "Learning Plan" for a unit in our new curriculum, that had to be done before fall when the curriculum goes before the Board. I thought I would be really bored, and to my delight, I wasn't. Of course, I was going on a lot of caffeine! LOL We got finished what we wanted to. When I got home the AC was working, but it was still so hot; it must have just been fixed a short time before. I found the papers from the repairperson. The "board" had gone out on the furnace, which he replaced. DH had been home from work to let him in and write him a check. With the heat and the lack of sleep, I just couldn't quilt, so I went to bed after supper, making some phone calls, and reading my e-mail. Today I am going to a Dr. appointment and then I am going to quilt. We'll see how far I get. Quilting is at my house tonight. A couple of them haven't seen my new studio yet, and one had asked to see my run the machine, so we'll see. I have backing out for a second one. =-)
I've been watching DVDs of "Lost" while I cleaned up down here. I watched it on TV but I was always missing here and there and would get confused. So at a big sale (buy one, get one free, at Barnes and Noble) I bought the first two seasons. Trouble is, I can't quilt and watch at the same time! I think that I am on the last one of season 2 right now. So this afternoon when I get back I will have to play music instead. =-) When I quilt I go into a "zone". It is one of those things dealing with passion, I think. Well, off to have the rest of my day!
On Tuesday I had discovered that our air conditioner wasn't working. Well, the AC was on, but no cold air was coming out of the vents. Checked the circuit breakers; it wasn't that. Went to look at the furnace and the fan on the furnace wasn't working. Before we left for my parents DH had called a repair person, who was to come Wed. It got so hot in our house, even with opening windows at night it wasn't enough to cool the house, because it had been so hot all day. I just couldn't fall asleep. I finally fell asleep by laying on an ice gel pack (large rectangular one), but only got 2.5 hours of sleep.
Yesterday I had to work, which meant getting up early. A day of working on a "Learning Plan" for a unit in our new curriculum, that had to be done before fall when the curriculum goes before the Board. I thought I would be really bored, and to my delight, I wasn't. Of course, I was going on a lot of caffeine! LOL We got finished what we wanted to. When I got home the AC was working, but it was still so hot; it must have just been fixed a short time before. I found the papers from the repairperson. The "board" had gone out on the furnace, which he replaced. DH had been home from work to let him in and write him a check. With the heat and the lack of sleep, I just couldn't quilt, so I went to bed after supper, making some phone calls, and reading my e-mail. Today I am going to a Dr. appointment and then I am going to quilt. We'll see how far I get. Quilting is at my house tonight. A couple of them haven't seen my new studio yet, and one had asked to see my run the machine, so we'll see. I have backing out for a second one. =-)
I've been watching DVDs of "Lost" while I cleaned up down here. I watched it on TV but I was always missing here and there and would get confused. So at a big sale (buy one, get one free, at Barnes and Noble) I bought the first two seasons. Trouble is, I can't quilt and watch at the same time! I think that I am on the last one of season 2 right now. So this afternoon when I get back I will have to play music instead. =-) When I quilt I go into a "zone". It is one of those things dealing with passion, I think. Well, off to have the rest of my day!
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