of stuff he sees in the space where my humerus is growing together again. And I can almost get my arm stretched out straight without help but I will get fitted for a brace Thursday to make that happen faster. It will pressure my elbow to open straigh. I do hope it doesn’t take long but it does depend on how much I wear it and how much pressure I put on it.I am also having a dye-injection MRI a week from today. My wrist just isn’t going back to normal so they are going go look. It takes half an hour to put the dye in, then another hour and fifteen minutes for the MRI. I want to know the results but I’m not sure I’m looking forward to the process.
I have been trying to be ‘creative’. I have been working on getting my sewing machine set up to do some quilting. The last quilt I made was for my Natalie – my first grandchild – and she will be 6 in December. I have four other grands and another expected in March and no quilts for them – at least none from me.
I would just like to be able to machine quilt without the strain to my shoulders and arms that I had before. Some of it has to do with the way the machine sits and I’m not sure what I can do about that. It sits on a sewing table my dad made from a hollow-core door decades ago – before I had children. There is an opening for my old sewing machine but my oldest has that now. My current machine needs a larger and deeper box. And it would be wonderful if it had a lift built in so it could be raised to sit at table height for machine embroidery, lowered so the bed of the machine was flat to the surface of the table or lowered completely out of the way, depending on what I was going to do.
I have picked up something called SewSlip (http://www.sewslip.com ) from Fabric Depot this week. It has a Teflon face and silicone backing. The Teflon lets the fabric slide around without dragging or catching on things and the silicone backing keeps the SewSlip from slipping. I would love to have a new gadget for my sewing machine that is supposed to make moving fabric around quite simple called a Fabric Mover. The price isn’t simple though so I’m hoping for good things with this SewSlip. You can even iron on the SewSlip. So they say….That doesn’t mean that a quilt is anywhere on the horizon. I have too many problems with my right arm right now to strain it that much. I do want to do some practicing on some smaller projects though.
What I really need to do is to get my new Studio finished so I can move into it. Bob is busy with outside chores and fixing the ‘finally found’ leak in our roof is really next on MY list since rain WILL come again. So, putting the heat vent opening in and setting in the lower cabinets hasn’t happened yet. I need the place to do things. I need some flat surface. I need my cutting table to be exposed once again and, sooner than later, to have wrapping paper accessible. Birthdays and Christmas are a coming and they won’t be put off just because I can’t get to things.
