Busy Week!

Wow, time flies when you’re busy and having fun! It was a great week all around. We celebrated Father’s Day on Sunday (Bruce’s daughters called) and Monday (my son Ryan and DIL Kim came over). I fixed a chicken tortilla casserole (both guys love it), fruit salad and brownies. No pictures to share, but Kim and Ryan did help us with a couple small projects around the house that neither Bruce (with only one arm) nor I (with still-healing knee) could manage. 

I met with my surgeon this week and “graduated” at my final post-op checkup. They award “graduates” with a bag of candy. But the best part is that I can now swim!! I still have three weeks of physical therapy twice per week, (plus I add an additional session of my own). I can now bend my leg to a 130-degree angle and straighten it completely, (180 degrees). Beyond that, we’re putting together an exercise program that will help me strengthen my core, maintain flexibility and balance and keep me mobile. I’m looking forward to it!

In sewing, I finally buckled down and finished putting this scrappy top together. I’ve also prepared a backing and hung it in the closet for Ruby to quilt when its turn comes up. 

Ruby did bring back this Tabby Road Strippy we worked on, and I bound it and finished it. 

The pictures don’t do justice to the colors, but it is softer (less glaring) than it appears. Here’s a closeup.

Ruby quilted it with kitties playing with a ball of yard. You can see it on the backing better. 

We have our monthly Quilts for Kids workshop today (Saturday) and I have something like 7-8 little finished quilts to bring them. That feels good. 

I’ve worked on this blue scrappy quilt quite a bit this week. It’s going to end up at approximately 48x60”.

All I need to finish are the final five 10” Plus Blocks on the left, which I’ll do at Quilts for Kids (QFK) today. Everything else is pinned up, although I didn’t pin them below the design board; the rest of the blocks for each column are pinned at the bottom. I’ll begin sewing columns this weekend. 

I’ve also picked out a lot of blue chunks and width-of-fabric strips that I’m going to sew into a backing for this quilt, rather like a giant crumb block. :-). That pretty much will conclude my blue sewing for July’s Rainbow Scrap Challenge. I wonder whether Angela will assign for July? 

Also, two more sets of 15 string blocks got sewn this week. I have a total of  9 sets of blocks that I’m turning in for kits at QFK today; 4 sets of blue strings and 5 sets of multi-colored strings. That’s 135 string blocks sewn since my surgery. Not bad!

Alfalfa (orange) and Darla (brown) love to lay in the morning sun. They were a little apprehensive when we changed out the wood blinds for shutters, but they’ve gotten used to the slatted sun and moving panels. We’re not going to tell them that the flooring and fireplace makeover are next on the agenda! 

They just celebrated their 13th birthday last month. We’re very lucky that they’ve been very healthy kitties. Now, if we could only find a solution to hairballs! 

Have a great week everyone!