Midweek: thank you all, adjustments, Christmas -- and sewing

 

A Christmas Day toast

Thank you all for your kind comments and suggestions.   S's knee is much better and he's getting used to using the walker.  The physical therapist came on Friday and recommended some exercises and a couple of adaptive devices to make navigation easier.  The social worker from the hospital senior care office is coming tomorrow.    

I tested negative for Covid after the five-day quarantine.  That's one test it's good to fail!   S did not come down with it.  (No way could I have masked or kept distance from him.)  

On Christmas Eve day we drove 65 miles to my sister's house and enjoyed a noon meal with her, her husband, her son, DIL, and their daughter.  My nephew is a paramedic and thus the ideal person to help S get in the house (and back out again).  (Even a very open-plan ranch house has barriers.)   The socializing was good for S and good for me.   We were home at 4:00 so I didn't have to drive in the dark.  

We enjoyed our version of a movie marathon (two Saturday, two Sunday, one Monday.) 

I've watched Christmas Story and White Christmas many times but I'm pretty sure this was the first time I'd seen the others in their entirety.  

I noticed the quilt in Holiday Inn. Both Bing and Fred slept under it.  (I think it's a shoo-fly variation.)  

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Sewing centers me in times of stress.  Here's how I'm managing. 

I thought I could be heroic and make table runners for Christmas gifts. Not a good decision to make Dec. 20.  I gave up on that idea.  

I set up the Singer 301, aka Sweetness, in the living room.  The cutting mat is on the dining table and the portable ironing board is on the kitchen counter.  (The green table was a gift from friends when they moved to a new house back in 1991.  It was in their garage where it held paint cans. It's solid oak, painted green some time ago, used as a nightstand at one point. It's been in our laundry room since we moved here.  I'm glad I kept it.)

It's rather like being at a retreat in that I have to plan what projects to work on.   

Living room sewing:  Part 5 of Indigo Way.   I used Deb Tucker's Square 2 ruler.  It's the best way to make square-in-square units. 

Keeping up with Indigo Way is my One Monthly Goal for December.

I turned on a Netflix series to keep S occupied and spent time in the downstairs studio to make hourglass string blocks.  I have a box of 1" strips that I've gradually sewn into long panels, then cut into quarter-square triangles.  Ta-da!  Here's the flimsy.  The blocks are 8.5 unfinished. 48 x 72.  

Linking up with OMG, Midweek Makers   Wednesday Wait Loss