Maybe I Found My Word

Yesterday was a birthday at the Quilt Haus!  We celebrated with lunch at La Madelaine's wonderful French Restaurant.  And presents!  Yes.

She does not adhere to the Birthday Week idea, yet.  I gave her a fancy box that will hold blocks andthings needed for a quilt all in one place.  It was filled with all sorts of little things, like a ceramic knife and a gift card for an outfit for a cruise she will be going on shortly.

While we worked in the morning I got another quilt finished to the top stage.  It is called Machine. And, silly me, all it needed was the outside borders!  I washed the backing last night, something I generally do not do, but it felt stiff with that sizing.  It came from Connecting Threads so I am not really sure why that was.

So it will go into the to be quilted pile.  And what in the world would you do?  Maybe a quilting path like Krista does?  That might be the only way to go on this one.

I started this quilt way back several years ago, maybe three.  It came from V and Co.  She calls it Handmade.   (click on it to go to the pattern.) When she showed the quilt, I immediately fell in love with it.

The rest of the machine is fabric from my stash.  Although she does sell kits.

I was going to present this as a mystery quilt.  It would have been a fabulous one!

I used to follow her blog daily but now that she started doing patterns/books and fabric all she wants to do is sell you stuff.  She no longer posts casually and friendly like.  It is all business.

I miss that.  Now I am just a consumer to her.

(Geez, I must be having a bad week or something!)

I guess it is obvious I have nothing to sell to you.  If I did, I might present this blog in a totally different way.

I am still working on my word for this year.  Now I am thinking it might just be "sock it to 'em with Honesty".

So it you want to hear it straight.......give me a call.

Having Your Stupid Moment in the Morning.......

...leaves the afternoon open for another one!

I had an appointment with my eye specialist this morning at 9:15.  I have a growth in my right eye he watches and measures yearly now.  It has not grown at all and we are comfortable with that.  It is different from scar tissue, which I will get to in a minute.  It is actually epithelium cells, but they have no changed in size or shape in the year and a half he has been following it.  So we are cool with that.

I also have a lazy eye, that nothing can be done with.  I originally had lasik in when they could no longer correct it with lenses.  It worked beautifully.  Then it got a cataract and a new fancy lens.

Now it is cloudy making it difficult to see anything now as it is getting worse.  I have scar tissue behind the new lens.  I say new, it has been 4 or 5 years now since the surgery.  And it necessitates a procedure called YAG.  I like the name, YAG.

They use a laser to burn the scar tissue.  And they go through the outside of the eye, and it doesn't get burned.......go figure.

So here's the stupid thing.

When my eyes were CLEAR, not dilated even, I wanted to take my machine to get cleaned and oiled by Alex who is near the eye doctor's office.  And I didn't want him to think I was a total slob so I opened up the bobbin area of the machine to clean it out before putting it in the car.  The walking foot was on, so......here is the stupid thing.......while the bobbin case was open, I took the walking foot off. 

I drop the stupid little screw that holds the stupid foot on the stupid shaft.......yes.........down into the stupid bobbin area.  Whereupon it immediately finds one of those stupid little holes and fits its stupid self right down into the dark, scary, evil depths of the stupid machine.  (Everywhere you see the word stupid please insert the four letter word of your choice, I did.)

He said, in his thick Russian accent, not problem, lady.  I find it when I open machine.

the afternoon is still ahead of me........let's see what other stupid things I can do!