That was the week that was...

OK, so I worked in a hospital my entire career and loved most of it. As a patient, not so much love. While I was really not feeling so well, and the morphine pretty much kept my mouth restrained, I was fine. Last night, at 10:47pm, time was up. I needed to get out of there and could hardly stand it until I was discharged today. All of this has nothing to do with the care I received. I loved the resident I was assigned to ( I thought maybe he must be the son of a nurse). During the hours building up to my need to leave, every little sound on the unit seemed to magnify into my room. At one time, as I awoke from a pixel of a snooze, I thought I was laying in a barnyard somewhere-I heard beeping, and grunting and groaning and doors, endless doors opening and closing. I know that 70% of patients with pancreatitis are drinkers, but I did get a little tired stating "I don't drink, I am not constitpated." On a higher note....I am back home, feeling much better and grateful that I can say so.

No sewing today....great story!

Peasant Soup

I love hearty soup in the winter.  Tonight I tried to recreate Olga's Kitchen Peasant Soup.  It's full of wonderful fresh vegetables, ground round and ground veal.....still simmering on the stove!

This is one of the blocks from the Hummel quilt.  The stitching is very intense -- like armor.  The design is made from Mettler threads, some shades very drab until the last dark brown outline is stitched.  This will be a 48 block quilt!

The Dresden plate is one of my favorite patterns.  This is one of the blocks from the Dresden plate pattern my sewing group is doing - each one of us using our own color schemes.  My fabrics are Modas from the Kansas Troubles collection.  One is using vibrant batiks, one pastels and one is using simply scrap fabric.  They are all beautiful but very different from one another.

This is Beth's graduation quilt. That would be my favorite grandson adding to the picture!

Ruby Tuesday

Today I spent the day at Country Stitches, learning to use the intricacies of my new sewing machine -- a Husqvarna Ruby.  I first learned to sew 4-H projects on my grandmother's Singer machine.  It was basically straight and limited zig-zag stitching.  The Ruby is a computerized embroidery machine with more capability than the average sewer (me) needs.  For the really beautiful, older quilt patterns I like, the embroidery capability is probably overkill!  I would like to finish two quilt patterns that require the embroidery capability. One is sampler of Hummel figures, each one stitched on a separate block.  The second is one called Dresden plate.  For that, I am using Moda fabrics from the Kansas Troubles collection.  Pictures to follow.