Just a quickie

It's been a long day... and I'm worn out.
Late yesterday, I finished the gecko quilt top; it's now folded up and laying in wait to be quilted - binding is in a plastic bag and pinned to the said quilt top.

 which means.... an empty bin!!

 I had this morning to do some sewing before I had to get ready to the doctor's office ( he's missed me and put in a special request to see me - yeah right! lol). 

While looking for the next project to consider working on, I came across another bin with one of my friend Annette's UFOs in it and decided to pull it out again to see if I could get it to work.  I took it to sew in one weekend only to realize that there were some serious issues with corner triangles being wonky or oversized or undersized; I decided to pack it back up to work on another day- that was today. 

There wasn't enough gray fabric for the jar lids so I grabbed some of my gray and finished making those strips.  Then, I started cutting sashing to go between the 'jars'; she had some cut already but not enough.

As the time approached for me to get ready for dr. visit, I finished sewing all of the rows except the top one.  Once that row is done, I'll have to go see if I can find my wood grain print fabric - the pattern calls for it, but there wasn't any in the 'pile'.  I hope I can do it tomorrow.

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The doctor gave me a shot of cortisone for my left knee and then prescribed  predisone pills.  Then I had to go over to the hospital to get an xray of the same knee.  The shot took the pain away just long enough for me to get the xray and then it was back to hurting again.

Once the x ray was done, I went over to the body shop to see if they were going to take my car tomorrow to work on it - yep, I have to take it to them in the morning.

Then it was time to go get some groceries to get us through the next few days... oh yeah, and as I was in line checking out, the orthopedic dr's office called and I have an appointment for Tuesday.

There are two quilt shows this weekend that I've been looking forward to attending, but it doesn't look like I'm going to be able to - not if my leg keeps hurting like this.  I had trouble just getting through Walmart for the small amount of groceries ( and script) that we needed.

And, now, at 7:15 pm, I'm heading to bed.  Getting old SUCKS!!

take care

ttyl