The good news is that my biopsy is benign! Because of significant changes however, I have to have my next mammogram in 6 months instead of a year. I can't argue with that.

This afternoon when I was looking for something else I found these two tubs of inch and a half and inch wide strips. I thought I had used up all those sizes, I was delighted to find them. There is enough pink for at least one more Log Cabin Heart, maybe two, so I will probably start on them early next week. I will have pictures of the process and diagrams of the blocks as I make them.

Poor David is really sick. He coughed all night long, he even kept me awake. He thought it was still Wednesday, poor guy. If he is not materially better tomorrow I will make him go to the doctor.

My little guy Malachi just came down to tell me dinner is ready so I've got to run.

Today I had my once a month class (support group) for BPD. I always feel better afterwards especially with such a difficult couple of weeks behind me. I haven't heard the results of my biopsy yet, but I don't expect it before tomorrow anyway. I did have some time to work at the machines this morning, but I can't do any quilting until tomorrow.

 These are called half-square triangles that I sewed and then cut to size, and stored in a tub. These particular ones are cut at 4 inches. I have determined that when I get through the tub of squares I will be done and there won't be any left to deal with, so the ones that I don't have four of for Pinwheels I am sewing into other blocks. These I am making into quarter-square triangles also known as Hourglass. For this block I need two that are the same. I fold back and finger press to the dark side at the center seam.

 Match the seams up so they look as shown.

 Use a ruler and rotary cutter to cut diagonally,

 I will have two units that look like this,

when sewn they will look like this.

 Opened and finger pressed they will look like this.

Then I am trimming them down to 3 inches. I haven't decided which setting I will use when making the blocks. I could make a four patch with them called broken dishes, or set them into a nine patch with a solid center square. As I said I haven't decided, but I will have a picture when I get to it. It's one of those that I am in no hurry about, I still have a lot of half-square triangles to get through and I plan to decide on how to finish it when I get through them. The plan is to enjoy myself making them.

Since I have so many of the presewn half-square triangles in two sizes I estimate that I'll be several months on these quilts. I wouldn't have time to quilt them for a while anyway, so there is no point in trying to hurry

Tomorrow I will be able to take the bandage off the biopsy site, the tape really itches, otherwise the pain isn't too bad. Poor David is sick today with what the kids had last week. I hope I don't get whatever it is, but I wouldn't be surprised if I did. I have a slight headache right now, but that could be just tiredness. It's probably nap time for me, in fact there is no "probably" about it. It is nap time. Until tomorrow then.

My biopsy went smoothly this morning, but I am tired. It was very early for me and I came home and slept. Now I am prevented from lifting. She told me no lifting heavy quilts around, now how did she know? I am supposed to take it easy, and keep ice on it, it hurts. I am supposed to hear tomorrow or the next day the results.

My thumb hurts too, but I don't think it's infected, not yet anyway. Another thing to keep an eye on.

I tried sewing for a while on the treadle and the bobbin went empty. I guess it must be time for another nap.

I have learned today that I can no longer multitask with any great success. I sewed my thumb while I was quilting. This was not any little nick. When I looked at my thumb the needle had gone through my thumbnail and out the back. David was going to rush me to the clinic because it looked like the needle was bent inside my thumb, but I told him to wait a minute and I took my tweezers and tugged a little on the point enough to be able to tell it was broken off, so I pulled it out and he pulled out the other piece and the thread that was all the way through. What happened was 1st assistant Happy went prowling through the sewing area over the machines and instead of watching her to make sure she didn't pull on the thread with her tail or catch it around herself I tried to keep sewing and watch her at the same time. Silly me. If it doesn't get infected I will be all right. So, evidently, I can't do two things at once anymore.

After Ambrosina got home from her shopping we went to Jo-Ann's and I got some more pinks for the heart quilt. I think I have enough and I will start cutting pretty soon.

Working my way through all the presewn half square for the pinwheels quilt I am working on I decided that I wasn't going to have any left to sit around in a tub somewhere so I am making them all into tops. I have a lot, and I am working on about 6 tops at once. They are all pretty similar so it won't be too confusing. I am not calling it multitasking because of them being so similar, it won't take me long to figure out which is for which top and they will be out of my way. They might as well be stored as tops to quilts as scraps, and they aren't such a mess that way. I will be on these quilts for a while, but that is no big deal as I am working on them on the treadle Ernestine, purely for my own entertainment and exercise. They will eventually get done and I am in no hurry.

Tomorrow is my biopsy, it would be no lie to say I am somewhat stressed about it, and that could have contributed to my sewing accident. There is though, no doubt I should be more careful.

I am still looking for blue polka dots for my dear Daughter in law Tina's quilt. I have other dear D-I-Ls that I will want to make quilts for too. No one is so blessed as I am with family. I love them all, with all my heart.

It's time that I was working on my treadle if I want to get any sewing there done, and I do, I enjoy it so much, I may be hampered with the large bandage on my thumb, but I can work around it. It's better to stay busy anyway, so until tomorrow.

I have nearly all the basic units of Dirty Attic Windows and some of the blocks put together, so it is time to start pinning the basic units of the next one together, to use in between rows on the blocks.

 I made a block just to see what it is going to look like and I think these little turtles are adorable. I won't put this one together block to block the way I do the others, I think I will use lattice and cornerstones to set them out. It will be a very fun quilt.

 I used Steam A Seam 2 on the green for the head and tail, it will fuse them so they won't fray and I will sew them down when I quilt the quilt. It's quite a way down the pipe line though and I will focus on other things as the main sewing for a while

My biopsy is scheduled for Tuesday morning, that's not so very long to wait.

We had two little boys home from school sick today, I hope nobody else gets sick, although it doesn't usually stop at the boys, when they get sick everybody tends to get sick. It's the weekend coming up, we are having company to watch the Superbowl, I don't watch it, but I will go up and visit a while when they get here. As a matter of fact I think I will go up and get a cup of coffee right now.

Six weeks until Spring, I will make it!!

I finally finished this basket today, I was four days on it, you can see by the machine it is sitting next to it is really big. I found it very tiring on my shoulders and arms, I don't think I will make any more that big. I will have to charge quite a bit more for it than I usually do and it took a long time as well as a lot of cord and fabric strips. I like the way it turned out though, so no complaints there. The pictures don't really give it justice; Ambrosina liked it so that's something, usually anything with pink in it is an anathema to her.

I got around three sides of the quilt I am quilting today. I haven't been spending a lot of time quilting because I have been trying to finish the basket, but tomorrow I'll just make some coasters and those won't take long so I will begin the quilting earlier and my arms won't be so tired to start with. I'm not sure how many more baskets I will make before the spring sales start, I am almost out of clothesline anyway.

The car started today, let's hope that it will start tomorrow too, since it will be payday and there will be a lot of errands, including, I hope, a trip to Jo-Ann's, I am still trying to get enough pinks for the Log Cabin heart I want to make.

Poor little Sammy was home with a cold and fever today. He fell asleep on the couch, but when he woke up he made it clear he wasn't taking a nap, only "resting", because he is too big to take naps. Poor little guy. Whatever it is will probably go like wildfire through the family, we have to resign ourselves to that, but hope he feels better soon. Tomorrow being Friday it is their day to go to Grandma's and he would be devastated if he couldn't go. She wouldn't be too happy either. Ah! I hear another little boy upstairs, time to go up and say hello.

Before I could start quilting on the latest top to go under the needle I had one full bobbin and two partial bobbins to empty so that I wouldn't have to stop and wind bobbins so often. I don't know why that task is so annoying, but almost every person who sews feel that way about winding bobbins. That is the pile of pieces I was able to get through in about a bobbin and a half. Now I know people who would just pull the thread off the bobbins and throw them away, but my thrifty soul won't allow me to do that, and look at how much closer my postage stamp quilt is to being done. Grant you, it will still be a while, this is after all teensy tiny pieces. When I started sewing this top I had gotten carried away with cutting, I love cutting, and I had 6 bags of squares the size of the bags shown, now I am down to two and they aren't even full. The ones that are sewn together are cut apart and put in a tub and I will sew them into four patches when I get the first step that I am working on now done.

So, I finished off the bobbins and got one edge of En Provence quilted. I really like quilting the bubbles which I am using now. I don't consider the butterflies I did on Blue Rose a success and I think that simpler is better. I got about 6 inches on one full edge done and started down the second side. I took two bobbins, the thread I am using is just a little bit heavier than most sewing thread, but I like the way it looks. The thread is a large cone that was given to us and there is no point in wasting it.

I hear that our little boys are home, time to go upstairs and say hello, the afternoon's noise has begun!