So Meghan sent me a text about 1 am -- still no baby and they did "something" but she's still in pain and headed home. I suspect that's all the way to Escondido, an hour from the hospital. Poor thing. I wish there was something I could do to help. But not from 3000 miles away. I hope this baby comes soon. She's having the same kind of labor I had with her. Took me 96 hours -- Wednesday night to Sunday morning. She started Thursday night and it is now Monday morning. Bless her heart.
Anyway, we had a blast at Nan's and I took my camera, but did I take a picture? DUHHH!!! No! So this morning I took a photo of the fabric I started out with for my One Block Wonder (OBW). This is absolutely the WRONG kind of fabric to use, but I have over 5 yards of it, so I'm USING it!
Then we did this amazing registering the fabric thing, cutting 4" slices through 8 layers (oh, and girls, I FOUND my rotary cutter in my bag -- I KNEW I'd brought it!). Then with a 60 degree ruler we cut through those 8 layers to make triangles. Then sewed the triangles together and -- well, check it out!
Now even I thought I was done sewing for the day, but I caught a second wind. I've been wanting to do Carol Doak's Block of the Month ("BOM"), but frankly I'm more into her house and tree paper piecing. Well this year she's doing "scenic" -- so I made the October BOM.
I think it's kind of cute. If I add it to the other house blocks I've made, plus what she does for the year, I'll have another "scenic" quilt. Since it's scrappy, it should be a lot of fun. I'm way into scrappy these days!
I hope everyone has a wonderful day. I'll post when and if I know something about the baby. I suspect I'll be doing a lot of sewing today to keep myself busy and my mind occupied so I worry as little as possible. And my Mom is going in to see an ENT for some lumps -- she claims she's had them for years and years, but they want to biopsy them. She tells me that even if they are malignant, they are easy to cure. She has a ride through the place where she lives, but I'm on call in case they need to do more tests or something. So I'll be sticking around the house.
Bye for now!
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2 comments:
Boy Billye, you are really getting the hang of blogging, I told you you'd be a great blogger. I don't see why that fabric doesn't work, because your blocks are gorgeous, and your block of the month is intriqueing, I am anxious to see it in with your house blocks. I hope everything is fine with your mom, it sounds like she has a positive attitude, but I imagine she is still apprehensive. I hope that the baby is born soon, sounds like she is about ready.
I can't imagine a prettier fabric or blocks. How beautiful.
I'm frantically trying to think if I have anything in my small stash that would work like that.
(And I'm slapping my own hand at the same time because I've promised myself that I'm going to work on finishing everything I have in progress before I start something new.)
Thank you for the inspiration.
Darilyn
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