PROGRESS

Hello to all my visitors! I am still progressing on my recuperation from knee replacement surgery. It is a slow go but I expected that. I have finished home physical therapy and started outpatient therapy last week. It is going well.

I still don't have much get up and go and wish I had more. I can think up all kinds of things to do but little of it happens. I have been able to do some embroidery and that's about it. I finished the five redwork angels that I had prepared. Thank you for all the input of words I might use to make some additional angels. In the end, I decided I might be stepping on the designer's copyright to take the original angel and change words on it. I thought about asking permission to do that but Lori from Humble Quilts reminded me that five angels set with four other blocks would make a nice nine patch quilt. So, I am going to piece red fabric with my background to make pieced blocks of some sort. Haven't decided on that. Below are the five finished blocks and then the individual photos of the three I finished since my last post. I really like the idea of a light weight batting behind the background fabric while doing the embroidery.



I also finished two blocks for the Nice People, Nice Things patterns. I am not making the full quilt. Just whatever blocks I had prepped for stitching and I don't know how many that is.
The "Wool Crazy" book is part of my birthday gift.
And two more books that were part of my birthday present.
A dear friend sent me a nice package with these items in it. A toothpick holder for my collection. A book of crazy quilt stitches to go along with the "Wool Crazy" book, a piece of recycled wool, some perle cotton thread, and the candle holder. The little candle holder will be perfect for the little wool candle mats.
I won a drawing from a blog and my package arrived yesterday. A Christmas cookbook that also has craft ideas in it, two handmade dish cloths, and three terry cloth dish towels. One has a chicken on it and suits me to a tee.
On one of my outings to lunch with my husband, we made a stop at a local thrift store. I can't tolerate standing very long but did manage to find this old wood box. We can't make out the faded writing on it. We figure the box had a lid at one time. I am going to use it for quilts. I think some smaller rolled quilts on end will look nice in the box.
I also purchased the two paper mache boxes. They held some kind of Christmas goodies. They are good size. I think they can be covered with fabric and make nice gift boxes or just for holding treasures.
Our cold weather lasted longer than normal for Florida. I am so relieved that we have a warming trend going on. Saturday it is supposed to get up to almost 80 degrees. We are bound to have more cool or cold weather, though. January & February are hard to know what to expect here.

I am going to miss The Sew 'n Sews get together this coming Saturday. I am not able to drive yet and I live about 60 miles away from the others, so I will be staying home. They are going to be trying some new dying technique and making a silk scarf. I told a couple of the ladies that they could talk about me since I won't be there. We always joke that you are fair game if you don't show up! LOL!

That's about all I can come up with for this post. Thanks for stopping by for a visit.

Karen