On The Mends To Feeling Better & New Plans For The Red & White

 Two more days of antibiotics,I have been sleeping & sleeping some more all week long 😄 I will do a follow up to make sure the ear drum is all cleared  up,todays been the first day that I haven't felt like I was in a fog , finally the red & white fabric had its last chance to redeem itself 

Never have I had such trouble with fabric as I've had with this, Waverly fabric does good & has a slightly soft texture but when I went back & looked at the name of fabrics it just said Cotton  ,so I'd had enough! When I'd sewn on  different fabrics in my stash the machine acted just fine but this oh my goodness what a mess ! I was so mad at it I didn't even want to thifft it🤣 so into the garbage , yardages,blocks & all it went🤣

Meanwhile,I got out just for a little while today to get some art supplies for my watercolor classes ,went by the fabric shop where the real fabric lives& found this luscious red & white😄 I also found some cute dinosaur 🦖 print  to make a quilt for my little nephew for Christmas which I'll share later

I'm hoping to get back to my normal routine in the sewing room by Monday & maybe cut into my new red ,& white fabric

Ear Infection

 Random earaches come & go but this one started with the feeling  of my eardrum being pricked with a needle ,the same feeling I got a yr ago when I had pollen get down into my ear canal, I haven't been sick,been in any bad wind ,of or downfalls so I figured itd subside & go away & it didn't,I woke up yesterday morning with severe pain & popping like firecrackers,it was all I could do to drive myself to the Dr.

Antibiotics, steroids, Tylenol, ibuprofen, Mucinex twice a day ,those steroids are nasty little things especially when the dosage is 3🤢 the tylenol is to combat any fever trying to pop up, the ibuprofen is for pain,the Mucinex has got something in it for swelling & pain

My eardrum is swollen & severely infected ,I asked him if I weas to take all of these together & he said yes ! we are trying to avoid your eardrum bursting 

Meanwhile Sadies mom had to have surgery today so they brought her late yesterday evening & James will pick her up early this afternoon after her gets Molly home & settled, today is Graces birthday & they're put out with me because we're not having any fun, I had plans to take them to Oak Mountain,its about an hr drive but so worth it, this us their peak for Fall follage, I'll for sure have to make it up to them after I get through this

Sunday Inspiration

 

What A Mess !

 I spent the better part of the day working on 2 more rows,calling myself checking the back from time to time ,& smoothing it out but now it wants to buckle, I've never had such a problem keeping the batting & backing smooth so I blame it on the batting,its a brand I've never used before,it has a beige tint & a slight thicker texture, its all Michaels has 

At this point I'm  not sure if I want to rip out these 2 rows or rip all 4 out & find a better batting,would glueing it down help? I've never used the fabric glue on my quilts but Im willing to give it a try before ditching the whole thing 

Playing With Red & White

 I've been a little under the weather,not feeling like doing much of anything but sleep but I managed to stitch 2 more rows on the 16 patch quilt & play around with the idea of a red & white checkered board quilt 

I cut the fabrics 3" width  of fabric ,it may of been because Im not feeling  good ,that long length bout beat me down😄 so I cut it into 19"strips & sewed 6 rows together 

then I cut it onto 3" strips

alternating & lining them up

then sewing them together in sets of 2

after sewing all the stripes together & giving it a final trim it came out at 15",later I'll figure out how many It'll take for a good lap size

Slowly Quilting Along

 I've pulled out the 16 patch quilt  & working on stitching a few more rows ,just taking it slow & easy today,our crazy weather caused me to click the heat on even knowing better 🤣 for it wasn't long it got to hot so between that & trying to do too much painting at one time ot bout made me sick , I'm not sick but I feel like I've been ran over by a truck 😄 so just working on this a little at a time &  deciding which pattern to go with for my solid red & solid white fabric 

Watercolor Homework Day 1

I was so glad to get all this done only to have done it wrong,we all did🤣when you have over 10 pages to read you're bound to miss something,we all painted darkest to lightest going down,somehow we all missed the part that said start at the top rows on all 9 cards then go med to lightest med, lightest to highest light by dragging the brush across the block to an opue stage,my lines are too thin somehow the thicker line effects the paint when it goes over the line getting a faded look  so we all gotta do our homework over🤣

each block should be faded at the end, we all laughed & I asked if we flunk can we repeat the course half off,she laughed & said no with yal itd have to be trippel🤣

Watercolor techniques are so different than acrylic & this is certainly going to be an exciting journey