December 12, 2022
When I made this card I knew it would be going to one of my grandchildren. I was glad to have it ready to send along to Dylan (A).
This card was one of the first ones I made with a facing. With a facing there is still some hand stitching to be done but the corners are easier than with a binding. The fabric comes from some 30’s reproduction fabrics that I purchased a long time ago.
So hard to believe Dylan will be tested for his driver’s license in a couple of days. Good luck!
Monday, January 12,2022
I’m checking in with a brief update. The days after my first treatment were better than that first afternoon although I had to deal with a bad headache and I wasn’t allowed to take my usual headache meds. The headache has subsided but not actually gone away.
My sleep is a bit off. I’ve been waking up around three or four, getting up for a couple of hours and then back to bed for a couple more hours of sleep. I don’t like laying there awake so feel I may as well be up doing something. Not that much of anything is being done mind you.
I had my first injection yesterday and felt badly after but today I sat still for a half hour after and that was better. It is awkward injecting myself but Pat supervises and makes sure I’m doing it right.
I was able to confirm today that the January appointment with the radiologist can be done by telephone. That is a relief as the ferries are being cancelled almost daily due to staffing issues. There will be times when I have to go down but all of the open appointments with the radiologist were treatment weeks.
So far I’m okay. I’d like to go to sleep at night and feel great in the morning but that will be awhile coming. Thanks for all the good wishes.
Author: Alice Walker
I thought I had read this book previously but a look through some old book reviews didn’t reveal anything. I do, however, remember the movie version of the book.
I have two other books in this series loaded on my Kindle. I don’t know how long I’ve had them because I didn’t even know there was a series.
Had I owned a copy of the book it would have remained on my shelf, but this one I downloaded from the library onto my iPad.
Goodreads Rating: * * * * *
December 11, 2022
I already had a number of card tops made and it was just a matter of picking one for Brian and quilting it. I chose this top because the orange fabric came from Diane’s stash which Brian kindly send to me.
As I studied it to figure out the quilting I thought something looked “off”. I double checked the location of the half-square triangles (because that is usually where I make my errors) but, in this case, it was the location of two of the other blocks that was wrong and it was an easy fix.
After looking through my books a couple of times I gave up on finding the block. It took longer to look through my Splendid Sampler books to find the name of the block than it did to put it together and get it into the mail. As it turns out this one didn’t come from my Splendid Sampler blocks but from my block-a-day calendar that I was working my way through during the first phase of the pandemic.