Kathy Nida

First of all…my math still sucks, but I also think I was possessed some time in February. I was done with piecing that background, so I went searching for the pattern so I could start ironing the piece. Didn’t take long to find…and folded inside the pattern was the background, already pieced. Seriously. All out of green. I don’t even remember doing it.

The plus is I now have the backing all pieced and ready to go. The minus is that I think I was possessed. I guess it is possible that I was so stressed by work in February that my brain filed that piece of information (you already pieced the background) somewhere useful, which means I never would have remembered. It disturbs me when I am that forgetful.

Yes, I took another 50 bad shots of fireworks again this year.

Secondly, I got incredibly good news on the tetanus/diptheria shot front: I may not ever need to have one again. The doc and  his compadre in the office next door had made an educated guess that mine was not an allergic reaction but instead was an incredible OVERreaction to the shot. They guessed that if they tested my blood for antibody titers on the tetanus and diptheria, that I might have incredibly protective levels even 12 years after my last shot. They were right and told me to test again in 10 years. Like I’m going to remember. Luckily, they sent my real doc an email that will go in the file that follows me everywhere, so they won’t harass me about it again until 2019. Yee ha! So I now have a superpower! Yeah, whatever.

I have been doing fabric things…I found backgrounds (which I will probably promptly lose) for two in-process quilts. They are both pieces I handdyed last summer. The first one…

approved by the kitten. And what you can’t see when the drawing is in the way is this…

Bright burst of yellow that will be right behind the head. Holly approves.

And the next one, which is about the same size…

The background for this one is not as fancy, but that’s because the quilt itself is pretty busy and needs a calming influence…

Which obviously isn’t me. I also started quilting Stump.

on Saturday, after a 2-hour nap. I’m wondering about all this tiredness. I think I’m dehydrated. I drink lots of water at school during the day, to save my throat from all the talking, and I forget to do that during the summer except when it’s really hot (which it’s not…yet). So yesterday when I felt tired, I drank a whole bottle of water and felt awake again. Duh.

I’m still running on ADD quilt brain. I started quilting Saturday and then didn’t do any more (will do some today). I am still working on the grapes…more better picture of that later. It’s actually almost done. Then I pieced the two crazy quilt challenges. I don’t think I like either one, but know that they will look better when stitched, so I’m trying to get them all appliqued down.

I think I will piece the sides on before I start stitching. Or maybe not. Can’t decide. Think I would rather see it as a whole while I’m stitching it, for continuity’s sake.

Not sure what to say about them, except you’ll see me working on them for the next few months.

My dad is working on my sprinklers…

There he is through the office window. He doesn’t even knock on the door in between Home Depot visits any more. He just wanders past the window, and if I’m in there, he says “Hi. I broke your shovel.” and things like that.

Kitten likes to hang out with me in the office; sometimes puppy is in there too. Mostly they sleep.

What’s on the computer? Well, a bunch of blogs I read had videos of their (lovely, quiet, clean, artistic) studios, like lovely little tours of where they work. So I tried to do one of those, and it’s um kind of loud and funny and messy. Know that my studio is actually much cleaner now, because I spent a few hours cleaning before I could start working, but if you wonder what my life is like and how I get any work done at all, you may enjoy the video…or not. My children were involved, and not in a good way.

OK, so I need to go drink some water, check for an old guy in the yard fixing my sprinkler line, hang another load of laundry on the line (saving electricity in the summer!), and try to figure out what I’m taking to stitching at a friend’s house. She also wants to know what I’m reading. I did start rereading Eragon, then I will reread Eldest, all so I can read Brsinger (hope I spelled it right). They are fast reads. Hopefully I will get all that done before my mom realizes we’ve had her copy of Brsinger since it came out, and she still hasn’t read it. I can’t really accuse her of Alzheimers or dementia, though, since I piece entire backgrounds and delete that info from my brain apparently at the drop of a hat.