Getting There…

My trigger thumb surgery went well.  It was really debilitating to have your  dominant hand bandaged up so you can’t use it and also can’t get it wet for 8 days after surgery …sigh…  those were the l o n g e s t   8 days EVER!!

But I got the stitches out finally and am healing nicely and can use my hand again.  It’s still swollen and can’t do allot of firm grasping with it and no cutting with scissors… so still not sewing.

  

But I have been keeping busy, though!  Do you have lots of quilting magazine subscriptions like me?  What do you do with all the quilting magazines you collect?  I have about 8 magazine subscriptions which adds up to stacks of magazines laying around taking up valuable fabric storage space, right?

So, I go through all my magazines about every 6 months and rip out quilt and project patterns I want to make one day.

I slide them into clear plastic sleeves, then file them in three ring binder notebooks divided into categories like

easy, medium/hard, appliqué, scrap, paper pieced, modern, pre-cuts, decor, wearables, etc…

So, although I can’t cut and sew yet, Yogi and I have done a bit of cleaning out and reorganizing in the sewing room…

well, at least I have!! 

(Zzzzzzzz says Yogi!!)

Tomorrow, finally!!

Tomorrow is the day I’m having surgery to fix my thumb!!  It’s been stiff, clicking and hurting for over 8 weeks now.  I am sooooooo ready for it to be fixed!  I go in at 10:00am and surgery is at 11:30 and should take like 15 minutes, total, so they say !!  I hope I hope I hope…

Because I’m not sure how they will bandage me up, I’m not sure how functional my right hand will be for a while… so you may not hear from me on my blog for a while… I’m right handed so it will affect so much that I do…sigh…but will fix the problem forever!!  YAY!

I did  finish a door quilt that I started at retreat, yesterday.  It’s hanging on my  front door!  It was a panel that I just pieced some simple squares around using stash scraps!

I really like it and it looks awesome on my red front door!  I’m hoping to find a pretty summer flag with a floral/bike theme to put out with it!!

Yogi slept in his bed on my sewing table

as I quilted it on Saturday morning.

Man, I wish I could sleep like that…sigh… maybe tomorrow after the surgery…with drugs!!  LOL!! 

Keep your fingers crossed for me, OK?

 

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted… but that’s “The Bad” part, so ya gotta hear “The Good” first!

Today was bee day at my house!

We only have bee once a month when we can find a Saturday that we can all meet - that’s the tough part.

We all career educators and work or have worked in the same local school system, so we have lots in common in addition to quilting.

I soooo look forward to bee each month!  I wish we could do it more than just once a month…

maybe when we are all finally retired!!  :-)

Can you see Yogi there napping on the back of the couch?

Bee today was the Good part!  The Bad part is the reason I’ve not been posting very much…or sewing very much…

I’m having a thumb problem!! 

Anyone out there ever have a trigger thumb?  I’m right handed and it’s that right thumb that is having pain, stiffness and clicking issues when I do just about anything…  sigh…  I have been waiting almost a month to see the hand specialist doctor.  I see him this Wednesday FINALLY!!!I am worried what he may say…

When I wake up in the morning it is stuck in this position and I have to use the other hand to slowly straighten it…  that’s the UGLY part!!

I’ll let you know after my appointment on Wednesday what can be done about it…

Anyone else have a bad thumb?