Believe or not, there are a few roses, mostly bedraggled, blooming here in Buffalo, NY even after a wintry blast a week ago. Today, I finished clipping all stalks and remnants as well as emptying out all the pots and containers even though I think some could still produce a bloom or two.
I think that is the perfect metaphor for where I have been. I continued on sewing and quilting and cutting fabric, but went through a lot of physical pain, weariness and just unable to get photos and writing on the computer here. Just could not get it done. I followed all of you with blogs feeling like I could not make it to the party. No fairy godmother showed up with a pumpkin coach.
No way I can make up for lost time here, so I will just intersperse what I have been doing. I continue to make comfort quilts and give them away, thank God. I went to an intense workshop with David Taylor at Quilting by the Lake, curated our every third year quilt show, and tried to figure out how to keep quilting on the longarm and get reorganized.
I did make some progress on getting help walking better and straighter, but no clear picture overall despite lots of tests and appointments. I still suffer from vaxx injury. Thank God I am walking straight again thanks to a new exercise physiologist (told by PTs they could do nothing else for me) and new program at a new place as the old cardiac rehab was shut down by the health system running it. I am really trying every day.
Our guild retreat was the first week of Nov. and I finished a bunch of quilts that I had set aside for webbing (thanks again Wanda for teaching me). One quilt I sewed together there after a hard time laying it out, was Good Vibrations 2 by Patti's Patchwork. The directions were not the greatest and it sat for 2 years because I couldn't figure it out. I just buckled down and kept trying. The fabric is Vicki Welsh's gradations that she no longer makes (sob). It was awesome fabric and I used every bit. I marked everything and measured repeatedly. I have to trim off the bottom and decide whether to add more gray (Kona Ash) around. It is about 60 x 80.
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