Well, I went to my cousin's wedding this weekend downstate....nice enough considering I didn't really feel like I was a part of things (and had a bad turn out of guest messages for her wedding gift but oh well, I'll figure something out).....anywhoo.....
Danced up a storm, although admittedly not as much as I normally would have as DH was tired and knowing he would be doing the driving back north the next day to get us home had him taking it easy.
Now I've got my right knee wrapped in an ACE bandage (my sewing pedal leg!) because two years ago some nut job wanted a ride in an ambulance so much she rear-ended DH and I and my knee went WHACK! into the dash. We all assumed I was only bruised and indeed with some excercises prescribed to me by my doctor my knee got to feeling better -- except for things like the changing weather and when I do things like dance (which I LIKE to do). Unfortunately, we had no idea it would be so lingering/reoccuring until after the claim deadline (so I can't even get reimb'd for the aggravation of days like yesterday and today).
So I hobbled into work this morning to get my check and find out the schedule for the week and the boss lady gave me my check and sent me home, telling me to put my leg up and call it was better because I wasn't gonna be able to do the job until I was more mobile. So no work....not the end of the world for today, I could really use some downtime after being on the run for a very emotional weekend....I need the downtime today that even the loss of potential hours and income doesn't bother me too much but.....
I am bumming big time because (besides the pain associated with walking) I was all geared to come back north here and get to work on a project for my mom (one of my Finishers 2006 goals). I had decided on what I wanted to do Thursday evening as I was getting off shift at work, well inspired by the patterns I was looking at there at the shop, etc. Well, I couldn't do it Thursday because I had to do laundry and pack for the trip. We left right after errands and DH's classes were done on Friday (wasn't even worth trying to take the machine with us -- I *knew* I wouldn't have any time downstate this trip), so last night and/or today was going to be the first chance I had to get rolling on this and I can't use my machine because of my friggin' knee and I can't stand to rotary my fabric for this either. I'm so upset about the woman who did this to me and will never know the lingering effects of what she did to get a fix for her ambulance addiction (admittedly, I never spoke to the woman but the emergency responder who I spoke to at the scene let me know that the woman "likes" to ride in ambulances and that they had just picked her up on a call the night before and she hit us just after leaving the hospital). Actually, I'm not upset about her per se but more that because of a stranger's actions to satisfy an addiction, I'm left to pay the consequences. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Anyone ever train themselves to use their non-dominant leg with the sewing machine pedal? Was it hard? Any tips for me?
Anyway, the project I have in mind for my mom is a whole new experience for me in many regards---
- it will include triangles that are NOT PP'd
- it doesn't have neat 90 degree corner angles in the finished product
- will be the first thing from conception to completion that will be for "use" (meaning likely to get dirty and therefore need to really be washable) rather than just to hang on the wall looking pretty (this one is meant to sit on a table/desk and look pretty instead *snicker*)
- following a pattern that isn't PP'd and isn't just a throw together as I go along
- I will *probably* use Warm and Natural for the first time unless I decide to use a length of flannel in there instead for a dense batting......hmmm......flannel is probably too costly....ah, decisions, decisions.....
It's a table runner comprised of triangles, plain squares, and 4 patch squares placed in such a manner where the 4 patch squares run down the long center of the runner and the triangles fill the side gaps and on either side of the 4 patches are the plains. at least that's what my memory recalls...I have to go find my jotted notes in my purse from when I sketched them out at work on Thursday waiting for DH to come pick me up.
I'm pretty sure that since I have FQs of all the fabrics in question (at least for the top) I should be able to adjust things creatively enough to make up for the fact that I don't have 1/8 yd of a full length/width of a bolt for strip piecing for the 4 patches --- I'll just have more than one strip pieced set to make up for it, right??????
bumming about the knee and lack of productivity today (I did sit in on one of DH's basic chem classes today, took notes, think I saw a student cheating on a quiz but can't prove it -- however, I have used my years of educator experience to let DH know how he can eliminate any likelihood of what I *think* I saw repeating itself so the situation doesn't arise again in the future)
I wanna sew, I wanna sew, I wanna sew.....=(
T.