Hello - I keep thinking I'm not going to have anything to post as I sit firmly planted in this lift chair, but as I enter the 6th week since I fell, I've manage to scrounge up a few things. I go back to the ortho doc on Monday... I think he would have preferred I waited till 6 weeks were over... and it will really only be 5 weeks and 3 days since I fell... but by son has Monday off for MLK Day and this it more convenient for him to take me to the doctor. My hope is I'll be cleared to start some PT... I can get a couple of sessions at home and then go to the office rehab which is only about a 7 minute drive from my house. Also wonder how soon I might be able to drive... since I injured my left knee I should be able to do it eventually.
Last week was nice... I had a visitor almost every day and that helps to pass the time... and on Friday we celebrated my older son's 40th birthday.... not sure how he got that old ...oh wait... I do know how that happened and I'm really feeling my age at the moment. The knee isn't too bothersome but my lower back has decided that it no long wants to cooperate ... I know it is from inactivity and sitting in the chair all the time but I don't know how I can do anything about it except take some ibuprofen... and I'm concerned about how much muscle tone I've lost in my left leg ... wonder how long it will take to get it back...
ok... I'll stop whining...for a minute or two...LOL
I finished the stitching on my Blessing Sampler for 2025....this is Ninon by Jardin Prive...
now this sampler certainly reflects my predicament... lots of little annoying issues...it is riddled with mis- steps and counting errors... I knew I had a couple on the right side of the piece and I thought I got it back on track on the left side but ackkk!!! more problems arose... I ran out of the blue thread... a friend came to my rescue and picked me up a skein at Michaels. I could then stitch up all the letters and go back and squeeze in the floral motifs and the last thing I stitched was the 3 pink hearts and well... not one of them is exactly where they should be... sigh...but it is done except for the beads I want to add to the watering can... hoping that I can go through my bead stash and find something that will work... oh I'd LOVE to take a trip to Hobby Lobby... and while theoretically it is doable... I'd have to impose on someone to get me out of the house in the wheelchair and then drive me there... get me out of the car and back into the wheelchair and push me around... and it is not my nature to impose on others... I want to do everything for myself... and this is hard to deal with...
Did a bit of knitting... this sock is Opal Hundertwasser 4 4056-692...
I did the heel in Opal Uni-Solid Burgundy... I love how I'm getting stripes of different widths and I don't have to manipulate the yarn to achieve that... oh and that lime-y acid green makes me happy... this is good knitting for watching movies.
I finished one sock where I'm alternating 2 Opals that are in the purple/green colors... I got no clue as to what either yarn is I'm using... and I have a small start on the mate...
I'm itching to do some sewing... need to try again and see if I can do it without having the blood pool in my left foot... just gonna do something simple... squares... lots and lots of squares... particularly enamored with the Maggie Pearl pattern by Penelope Handmade which you can find here... you can do this with a FQ or a Jelly roll or a Layer Cake... and I have all of those precuts...
and if I can sew I can look out different window for a change... right now I'm watching a flock of black birds perched in the oak tree across the street... the other day I watched an owl sit in the tree for quite a while... it was nice.
My dear friend Laurey retrieved a quilt for me from my long armer Delinda... I'm calling it the Twirly Yellow Flower quilt but the actual pattern name is Flowers for Nana's Girl from the Kim Brackett book Scrap - Basket Sensations... it is OOP but I found a listing here for a used copy.
I want to hang this on the living room wall this Spring... I don't remember if I made a binding before I dropped it off... I kinda doubt it... I need to have someone who knows what they're doing to look in the basket I put bindings in...otherwise there is plenty of the backing fabric I could use... I want this done by the end of February... and I hope to be in better shape by then.
As for decor I was able to take some pictures... this is the tier table with a slew of little snowmen...
on the top tier, these guys were all from Hallmark and were from the Mitford series of books by Jan Karon... here's listing of all the books in the series in order... I might go back and re-read them... they were very enjoyable. Oh that was a tangent...anyway I got soooo many snowmen from Hallmark back in the day... had a great Hallmark shop that was on the way to pick up Nick from school... would leave the house early so I could pop in and browse at least once a week... it had a super train/Christmas/Dept 56 houses display in the back ... sigh... it closed and now it an "adult" bookstore... ewww...
Okay back on track, again... this is the small shelf display...
up top one of my favorite snowmen cookie jars. Nick got me this in a little resale shop and it is so pretty... so much detail...I love the bluebird on this shoulder...and Lizzie Kate's Winter ABCs...
on the middle shelf from left to right the snowman in the round tin is from the Holiday Hoopla series by WTN&T...
in the center is Welcome Winter from The Drawn Thread ...
and on the end is Alfred Heart and Hand... I stitched him because Alfred was my Father's middle name.
My collection of snowman heads is on the bottom and in looking at this display I could squeeze in maybe one or two more snowmen heads and definitely add some small snowman pillows... need to make a note of that so I remember...
I did download this cute snowguy yesterday...Happy Heart Snowman from Emily Call Stitching... you can find him here.
Well the weather has been cold ...and it is going to get colder... Monday's and Tuesday's highs are predicted to be 15 degrees and going down to minus 2 degrees... only saving grace is there isn't any snow in the 7 day forecast ... however we still have to get through February... the shortest but the cruelest month... I was looking back on the posts I did this time last year and we were in the 40s and the 50s and one day in February I was out on the porch as it was 60 degrees... I doubt we will see that kind of warmth for a while... opening my utility bill is gonna be scary... and this prolonged cold has me worried about the dahlias and the cannas I have in the ground... they've come back for several years but the last several winters have been much milder ... and while I dug up the dahlias in the raised beds I didn't get them stored away the way I should have... not sure I'm going to salvage them... I did place an order from more tubers to be delivered in Spring... but boy have dahlia tubers gotten pricey... I hope to pick up a bunch at Costco... since I'm not going to get into the store I keep checking the website ... edited to add that Costco already has dahlia tubers listed... a bag of 12 for $49.99... which is a great price... only $4 and some change per tuber... I ordered 3 different collections and they won't get shipped till the beginning of April which is fine... I probably won't get them planted till mid May... I gonna ask my friend Bill to check what they have in the store they next time he goes to Costco... I'm not picky as I LOVE all dahlias... and this gives me stuff to look forward to.
Well as I said before off to the ortho doc on Monday.. nothing else on the calendar at the moment... hope for some in home PT... and some more motivation to get something done other than scrolling mindlessly on the internet and IG...
I'll link up with Kathy's Quilts today and I hope you have a happy week ahead of you!
happy stitching-
carol fun
Love the socks!
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