Happy Friday

I wish I had more to share. It’s been a crazy busy week, and the Labor Day holiday got me all confused. I have spent the whole week trying to figure out what day it is! Most of the days have been meetings and paperwork, so not much sewing. I did get four placemats made. 

They are from the pattern I shared a few days ago. 

I used four fat quarters from the Billy Reue Kaleidoscope collection from FreeSpirit Fabrics. By the way, Billy Reue will be a featured guest at our quilt show next week. He is doing two presentations on Saturday. His sister Yvonne is a member of our guild, and he will be here for a visit, so we lucked out on that. 

Other news: I have an appointment to get another steroid shot in my right hand for the trigger finger. I had one a few months ago, and I was hoping I wouldn’t need another, but unfortunately, my finger is hurting and locking up again. It’s gotten painful enough that I am willing to get the injection. When I had it done to the left hand, it ended up taking three injections to clear it up completely. I tried to cross stitch a few nights ago, and my right hand said “no”. I am scheduled to do a demo Friday at the quilt show on English paper piecing, and I get the shot Wednesday, so I should be in good shape. I need to make up some samples, and I will need to do that this weekend, so I’m not sure how that will go. I’ll take some extra strength Tylenol before I start! 

I will be quilting all day today. I have a double wedding ring on the frame that is giving me a lot of problems. I need to rip out some stitching and was going to do it yesterday, but ran out of time. I have one of my own to quilt that I want to enter in the show next week. If I can just get it quilted and bound, Betty said she would put the sleeve on for me. Wish me luck on getting both quilts finished.