Five done - four to go

It took me all day, but I got the final three blocks done for this section of the quilt... the next four are a different layout.  I couldn't believe it took me so long, but I had to keep taking breaks - including an hour and a half for a nap.

The morning started out good... until I went into my sewing room... right off, I accidentally hit the pencils and some fabric and they slid behind the freezer that I use for my work surface.   So, I had to move several things in order to move the freezer away from the wall to retrieve my 'stuff'.  The freezer isn't that heavy and it slides pretty easily over the carpet, but the bending I had to do plus moving the freezer so soon after getting up for the day caused me some serious pain.  I held out as long as I could, but finally about noon, I took a pain pill (script).  I haven't taken these particular ones before - they made me soooo tired that I couldn't do anything except lay down and take a nap.  The entire day felt like I was moving in slow motion - I was getting things done, but it seemed to take forever.

Tomorrow, I plan to start on the remaining four blocks for this quilt.  Hubby has a dr. appt on Thursday so I don't know if I'll get the top together enough to start putting on borders or not... it may have to wait til Friday.

AQS has started offering online video classes... they sent me a coupon code that would save me 40% along with the 20% you save for being a member of AQS.  I found a couple of classes that I was interested in... one is for long arm quilting and the other is for thread painting... got both for less than what one class would have cost if I hadn't had the coupon code and wasn't a current AQS member.  I haven't sat down to watch either of them yet... if it's like the ones Craftsy.com offers, they are good forever so I'll watch when I finish up this quilt top and get the buttonholes and buttons onto my daughter's apron ( no, I haven't done them yet).

When I went grocery shopping yesterday, I found some portabella mushroom caps stuffed with Parmesan cheese, artichokes and spinach.  They just looked too good to resist; had to bring them home and try them -- had two of them for lunch  Pretty good!

Ok, enough blogging... I'm going to go play a couple games on FB and then kick back and watch tv ( Hotel Impossible).  Til next time  :)

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