Round Robin Row Quilts Revealed

How is that for a title? Say that five times fast…..LOL. I tried and couldn’t get it done!

Our guild Christmas party was last Tuesday evening and it just so happened to be when my group finished the round robin for our row quilts. The group of folks we ended up with in this are just unbelievably, incredibly talented. I had so much fun opening each box to see what those before me had done. So cool, and I learned so much!

Here are some of the photos….I had to take them from the back of the room and folks were just holding up the rows willy-nilly, so the photos aren’t the best, but this will give you some idea of the fun we had! You can click on each picture to get an enlarged version.

Unfortunately, the gal who had my box was not there, so I STILL haven’t seen what has been done for my quilt! I will post photos when I finally get it.

It also sounds like the group will be getting together to look over the blocks, talk, and just generally have a good time, so I will get better photos of the blocks at that time.

Stitches out

Mini-me’s stitches are out! Here is the after shot….

He is definitely going to have a small scar there, but it will be hidden by hair for the most part and will add character to his face.

Do you think we went all the way back to Urgent Care to have the stitches taken out? Expose ourselves to all those pig flu germs again? Not on your life!

We put Mini-me up on the counter and I looked at the stitches pretty closely. The sutures moved pretty easily in the skin and I could see that I could get a good pair of scissors under each stitch without any problem, so it took me about a minute to snip the stitches and then pull them out. For those that are about to faint at this, if there had been any sign of infection or if the sutures were so deep I would have had to dig for them, we would have trotted right back to urgent care and exposed ourselves to whatever was floating around that day…..

Mini-me had no problems with the procedure at all…never even winced once. Big Brother on the other hand, got grossed out just when we described it to him!

Design Wall Monday…..

Here is what is on half of my design wall…..

I pulled my Bali Zinger back out of it’s box to start on as a leader-ender project. The Hunter made the comment this weekend that we really needed to paint our bedroom and the bath, that he was tired of looking at it. This quilt is designed to go on our bed, so I got it out for some inspiration on painting our room. No hurry though, the project will not even start until the end of January when hunting season is over.

I can’t show you the other side of my design wall….it has the round robin row quilt for this month on it. This box belongs to Lorraine O. in my guild. The problem is Lorraine reads my blog occasionally (Hi, Lorraine!) and she can’t see her row until after our next guild meeting! Wait until later in the week….

For more inspiration see Judy Laquidara’s Design Wall Monday post.

Thanksgiving….

Happy Thanksgiving all!

I am so thankful for all the blessings in my life…my husband, children, family, church family, and the freedoms that we in America enjoy. I am thankful for all those fighting for what we believe in here and pray that they all stay safe!

Boys will be boys….

Boys WILL be boys, you know. No matter what you tell them or how much trouble they may get into….

Sunday after church while the Hunter was fixing lunch, Big Brother and Mini-me were playing their version of soccer in the hallway. Something that has happened many times in the past with no ill effects… but somehow, Mini-Me tripped, fell, rolled, smashed or whatever and his forehead came into contact with the stair railing support post…the hard, sharp-edged, corner no less.

You know how head wounds bleed? Well, poor little Mini-me was bleeding like a stuck pig. The Hunter got it cleaned up enough to look at it, and sure enough, it was going to need stitches. It was about 3/4 of an inch long and clear to the bone. Little Mini-me did great and didn’t even cry.

Like Judi at Green Fairy Quilts who had a similar incident this last week and posted about it here,  Mini-me and I ended up at urgent care for stitches. That is AFTER we all ate lunch (I have been in enough doctor’s offices and ERs to know we were in for quite a wait…). Once we finished, I packed up four slices of homemade pumpkin bread, which Mini-me swears makes EVERYTHING better and heal quicker, and off we went to the local urgent care. We sat for a while, Mini-me ate his punkin bread, and we both sewed some hexagons, and finally got in to see the doctor.

The cut sure didn’t slow Mini-me up, as he had all the staff in stitches with his comments and his humor. They put lidocaine on a cotton, taped it to his head, and let us marinate in that for a while. By the time they got back in to the room to work on him, “burrito-ed” him up in a blanket so he couldn’t squirm as bad, and started to work, the wound was pretty well numb. The only time it hurt a little was when they were injecting more lidocaine into the interior of the wound (think dentist and numbing your tooth/jaw to work on a tooth…YUCK!) and Mini-me winced and said it hurt. His little eyes got red and big with tears, but he NEVER cried and later was very proud of the fact that he didn’t). Mini-me got a little worried, though, when he saw the curved needle they used for the actual stitching, but fortunately, it didn’t hurt at all, and he was great.  The doc said most adults aren’t even that good!

He had three stitches total, so not as bad as it could have been. They even put a really cool band-aid with spider webs and spiders on it. Mini-me was thrilled!

Unlike Judi at Green Fairy Quilts, I didn’t carry my camera with me to the doctors’, but did get pics of Mini-me and his stitches today before and after we took the band-aid off.

Here is a pic with the band-aid on – notice also the stair rail in the background…see those sharp, squared off edges? One of those, except down at the bottom, is what he ran into. Thankfully he takes after me and has a hard head.

The next picture is more of a close-up. As you can see, the scar, if any, will be up high enough that it won’t show much at all.

I told Mini-me and Munchie that it was just like sewing a quilt…thread and a needle…and better than using a hair from a mule’s tail like Ma did in Ol’ Yeller!