I have been concentrating on a pattern called "Remember 'Whoo' Loves You". It is a basic 9-patch quilt with an appliqued owl and the words above embroidered just underneath. I just couldn't pass it up on a recent trip to Ladybug Quilts in Manteca--here in California. The pattern shows it done in pinks and greens, but I saw it done in scrapy 30's fabrics and it was so cute. I have a bunch of 30's left over from a project and some I just keep collecting.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Close Call
Sometimes what you see in the movies or on television comes to life. I do have another great story about that, but last night we had a little bit of a close call. I was driving east bound on Business 80 and was coming up to the Marconi Curve. It is called that because the exit right before it going east or west is Marconi Avenue. There is a tall concrete barrier between the east an west bound lanes. As you go into the curve you can't see what is ahead. I love the way the road is and used to take it at 65 mph--until one day there was a stalled car and I almost rear-ended it. There is no sign that tells you to slow down, I just do now. So, last night at 8:45pm I slowed down coming into the curve. Thank God I did. Just around the corner was a black SUV driving west down the east bound lanes. He was going the wrong way in the dark!!!!!! If I had been going faster, I wouldn't have had the time to stop and get out of the way. A friend was in the car with me and I had her call 911.
I said a prayer of thanks, dropped off my friend and then went home and made some 9-patch blocks. Nothing like a little sewing to soothe the soul.
I said a prayer of thanks, dropped off my friend and then went home and made some 9-patch blocks. Nothing like a little sewing to soothe the soul.
Monday, March 4, 2013
Hello there
Not a good day to talk to me. I want to be home cutting out my new quilt pattern--Remember Whoo Loves You--not here at work. Today I get a 15 minute lunch (which I am spending whining) because no one thought to tell me that the lunch schedule has changed. So, I spend 15 minutes looking for the class I am supposed to be in and they are at lunch. Darn.
I went to the Manteca Quilt Show this weekend. It was fun. The only quilt I remember was a reproduction of the Simple Graces quilt featured on the cover of the book by Kim Diehl. I got the book for Christmas and want to make that quilt. Later we (my circle of friends) had lunch at a place called Johnny's. I had a patty melt (my favorite). I ususally try the patty melt if it is on the menu. So far, Red Robin makes the best and most consistant, but this one was really great! If you are in Manteca, California, be sure to go to Johnny's and there is a lovely waitress (Lacey) who was great and buy a patty melt (only $7.95 with crispy friees and you don't even have to ask the fries be crispy!!).
There is the bell.....
I went to the Manteca Quilt Show this weekend. It was fun. The only quilt I remember was a reproduction of the Simple Graces quilt featured on the cover of the book by Kim Diehl. I got the book for Christmas and want to make that quilt. Later we (my circle of friends) had lunch at a place called Johnny's. I had a patty melt (my favorite). I ususally try the patty melt if it is on the menu. So far, Red Robin makes the best and most consistant, but this one was really great! If you are in Manteca, California, be sure to go to Johnny's and there is a lovely waitress (Lacey) who was great and buy a patty melt (only $7.95 with crispy friees and you don't even have to ask the fries be crispy!!).
There is the bell.....
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
So much to say
I can't believe I haven't written since January. Let me tell you why.
In the past month I have had the worst time staying awake. I have always been able to sleep where I must, but lately it has been almost impossible to keep my eyes open. So, I called my doctor. I didn't even know what to say beyond I was excessively sleepy. This has earned me a visit to the sleep clinic at Morse Ave on Thursday, February 14th. I came home with a device that fits on your wrist and has two wired pieces that fit on two fingers. I was told that only if there was something really wrong, that I would hear from them or my doctor. I slept with this thing that was no big deal except the bruise it left on the back of my hand. No matter how much weight I carry, it isn't in my hands and the skin is thin there. The next day I picked my daughter up from work. I had heard how there was some kind of mask to wear that turned out to be the wrist thing, and not knowing how that would affect me, I took a medical day off from work as I had an appointment that would have made me really late for work. So, after picking her up, my daughter and I went shopping for her. I finally dropped her off at her apartment around 1:00-ish and went home.
As I was putting my stuff down, I get a call from Kaiser. It is this nice woman named Sheila. It seems my doctor wanted me to do an overnight visit at the sleep clinic and it had to be that night, February 15th. What this means is that I go at 8:30pm to the medical building C at the hospital in Roseville. I had to shower and shampoo my hair, but no conditioner, no lotions, no perfumes. I could bring a pillow, but nothing else. Sheila seemed so calm when I spoke to her. I was thinking that this might interfere with my plans on Saturday to get together with my friends to sew, but no--the sleeping would be over and I would be sent home at 5:30am Saturday morning. Funny, at 7pm, an hour before I was to leave, I noticed there were messages on the answering machine that I missed. Message one at 10:00am was a calm Sheila asking me to call the sleep clinic. Message two at 11:00am was a terse, "It is very important that you call (number) as soon as possible." Message three, at noon, again from Sheila, but now she sounds paniced that I haven't called back. I had no idea. I was sure I wrote my cell phone number on the form at the sleep clinic and that never rang. Hmmmm.
I went to Kaiser and did as instructed. I was supposed to call for security to let me in as they close the doors and lock up at 8:00pm, but the doors were open. I went up in an empty elevator to the 4th floor. I watch too much television. The elevator was a bit creepy to be totally alone. I go to Neurology as told and pick up the phone. A guy answers and meets me at the door. He hands me a clipboard with forms to fill out. So there I am sitting in the waiting area in Neurology all alone clutching my pillow and filling out forms.
There were questions such as did I have nightmares (not really), did I feel sleepy when I wake (no, but later yes). When I finish, I go in and am greeted with that nasty blood pressure machine. For those of you who have heard my woes with that machine, just go to the next paragraph. For the rest of you, new people to feel my pain! I don't know what is going on, but I only let my blood pressure be taken manually. Those machines just kill me and I am bruised every darn time. It shouldn't hurt that much to get your blood pressure taken. When I have insisted on it being taken manually my blood pressure is always significantly lower. So here I am and this nice guy only uses the machine. There isn't any equipment to even insist on it being taken manually. Of course it was high and I had another bruise under my arm.
I answer more questions such as, are you claustrophobic? YES! So I get a thing with nose pillows and it is like the hospital shows where the people on oxygen have those plastic things in their nose. There are wires attached o my head. My hair was a mess. I am sleepy here. I purposely did not take a nap so I would be sleepy. How do I know how easy it will be to sleep knowing someone is watching me. When I was already to sleep the tech guy, Daniel, dims the lights until it is dark and over a loud speaker wishes me a good night.
Turns out I can still sleep with someone watching (and video taping) me. I know I woke up a few times because the nose thing slipped as I moved. I did have to use the bathroom once--you have to be unplugged. I didn't know what the result was--just that I would get a call within the next next two weeks. At 5:00am they wake you up and at 5:30am you are out the door. When I got home, my husband was awake so I took him out to breakfast.
Whatever I did when I slept, I did not have to wait very long for a call. I am now going to take the next step and have an appointment with a respiratory specialist and will use the sleeping machine for seven days while it records more data.
All this because I might have sleep apnea. WOW! It has been a very interesting and not unpleasant experience. I am going to get back in the habit of writing this blog. I set up my laptop and will keep it up. That alone will help. Hope you are well.
In the past month I have had the worst time staying awake. I have always been able to sleep where I must, but lately it has been almost impossible to keep my eyes open. So, I called my doctor. I didn't even know what to say beyond I was excessively sleepy. This has earned me a visit to the sleep clinic at Morse Ave on Thursday, February 14th. I came home with a device that fits on your wrist and has two wired pieces that fit on two fingers. I was told that only if there was something really wrong, that I would hear from them or my doctor. I slept with this thing that was no big deal except the bruise it left on the back of my hand. No matter how much weight I carry, it isn't in my hands and the skin is thin there. The next day I picked my daughter up from work. I had heard how there was some kind of mask to wear that turned out to be the wrist thing, and not knowing how that would affect me, I took a medical day off from work as I had an appointment that would have made me really late for work. So, after picking her up, my daughter and I went shopping for her. I finally dropped her off at her apartment around 1:00-ish and went home.
As I was putting my stuff down, I get a call from Kaiser. It is this nice woman named Sheila. It seems my doctor wanted me to do an overnight visit at the sleep clinic and it had to be that night, February 15th. What this means is that I go at 8:30pm to the medical building C at the hospital in Roseville. I had to shower and shampoo my hair, but no conditioner, no lotions, no perfumes. I could bring a pillow, but nothing else. Sheila seemed so calm when I spoke to her. I was thinking that this might interfere with my plans on Saturday to get together with my friends to sew, but no--the sleeping would be over and I would be sent home at 5:30am Saturday morning. Funny, at 7pm, an hour before I was to leave, I noticed there were messages on the answering machine that I missed. Message one at 10:00am was a calm Sheila asking me to call the sleep clinic. Message two at 11:00am was a terse, "It is very important that you call (number) as soon as possible." Message three, at noon, again from Sheila, but now she sounds paniced that I haven't called back. I had no idea. I was sure I wrote my cell phone number on the form at the sleep clinic and that never rang. Hmmmm.
I went to Kaiser and did as instructed. I was supposed to call for security to let me in as they close the doors and lock up at 8:00pm, but the doors were open. I went up in an empty elevator to the 4th floor. I watch too much television. The elevator was a bit creepy to be totally alone. I go to Neurology as told and pick up the phone. A guy answers and meets me at the door. He hands me a clipboard with forms to fill out. So there I am sitting in the waiting area in Neurology all alone clutching my pillow and filling out forms.
There were questions such as did I have nightmares (not really), did I feel sleepy when I wake (no, but later yes). When I finish, I go in and am greeted with that nasty blood pressure machine. For those of you who have heard my woes with that machine, just go to the next paragraph. For the rest of you, new people to feel my pain! I don't know what is going on, but I only let my blood pressure be taken manually. Those machines just kill me and I am bruised every darn time. It shouldn't hurt that much to get your blood pressure taken. When I have insisted on it being taken manually my blood pressure is always significantly lower. So here I am and this nice guy only uses the machine. There isn't any equipment to even insist on it being taken manually. Of course it was high and I had another bruise under my arm.
I answer more questions such as, are you claustrophobic? YES! So I get a thing with nose pillows and it is like the hospital shows where the people on oxygen have those plastic things in their nose. There are wires attached o my head. My hair was a mess. I am sleepy here. I purposely did not take a nap so I would be sleepy. How do I know how easy it will be to sleep knowing someone is watching me. When I was already to sleep the tech guy, Daniel, dims the lights until it is dark and over a loud speaker wishes me a good night.
Turns out I can still sleep with someone watching (and video taping) me. I know I woke up a few times because the nose thing slipped as I moved. I did have to use the bathroom once--you have to be unplugged. I didn't know what the result was--just that I would get a call within the next next two weeks. At 5:00am they wake you up and at 5:30am you are out the door. When I got home, my husband was awake so I took him out to breakfast.
Whatever I did when I slept, I did not have to wait very long for a call. I am now going to take the next step and have an appointment with a respiratory specialist and will use the sleeping machine for seven days while it records more data.
All this because I might have sleep apnea. WOW! It has been a very interesting and not unpleasant experience. I am going to get back in the habit of writing this blog. I set up my laptop and will keep it up. That alone will help. Hope you are well.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
I have already fallen off the resolution wagon
I bought a pattern--okay, I bought two patterns.. Both are so, so, so cute. A woollie pillow with a cute bird on the front. And I bought a snowman pattern (Birdbrain I think....). Three red snowmen in a bucket--it's a Bunny Hill pattern. What am I going to do with myself?? Now I need a piece of red wool.
I am sewing with Alisa again tonight, so I will have time to put a few pictures on this blog. Come back and see the patterns I bought.
I am sewing with Alisa again tonight, so I will have time to put a few pictures on this blog. Come back and see the patterns I bought.
Friday, January 25, 2013
It has been a long time
So Sorry! I can't believe that I have neglected my blog for so long! I was really ill with a cold that just knocked me out every afternoon and early most evenings. I have been just moving on as best I could. I still have this darn cold (yes, I am sure it isn't the flu) and the cough that goes along with it. I can partially blame that and I confess--I let the "sewing room" become a junk room. Since my sewing machine is still in the kitchen, I wasn't sewing in my daughter's room, so stuff piled up in there. That is all over now!
Beginning tonight I am spending 1 hour cleaning, sorting and giving away the junk. I got a wonderful television for the room and I am going to enlist my son's help in setting it up on the vanity. I bought a sewing table for the room. I went on the blog Clover and Violet and saw how the mom had her room set up. She had this really adorable table--very vintage--that was literally in the middle of the room. Much in the way my friend, Kim, has hers set up. I thought, I could do that without any problem. I went to the Antique Trove and found out that the kind of table I would want might be costly (the one I wanted wasn't even priced yet) and there is the problem about how to deal with it when we have company and must use that room. Then, later I was at Joann's. There was a table (not vintage) with drawers that folded up to a small set of drawers when necessary. The table was $189.00 and 50% off during the sale bringing the price down to $94.99. On top of that, I would get 25% more bringing the price down to $71.25 because I have a teacher card and it was teacher appreciation weekend. That seemed like a dream come true for the space.
I spent the whole day on Sunday at my friend, Sandy's. Joann's closes at 7pm on Sundays, but lucky for me--the sale and the discounts were good until Monday because it was a holiday! On Monday I went to Joann's and found not only my table, but the rechargable Ott lights (cost $99.99) were at 50% off. I called Sandy because she desparately wanted one. She decided to drive down to me from downtown. 45 minutes later....I bought the table, a pillow form and a rechargable light for $118.00 with a whooping savings of $180! Afterward, Sandy and I went to Thistle Dew Quilts to check out their wool. They did not have any that wasn't too light or too dark. I bought a pattern and Sandy bought a pattern and we left. We stood outside dissecting the store as usual and went our merry ways.
On Tuesday, I get this call from Sandy. I had dropped my pattern and a construction guy (there is a ton of construction going on there!) returned it to the store. Since I used Sandy's name to buy it, they were able to trace it to her and I went and picked it up. I use her name because I almost never shop there. The owner was rude to us one time--the very first time we were in there and I am not in a forgiving kind of mood enough to shop there when I get 10% off at Quilter's Corner.
Whew! Must go now. Time for my nap!
Beginning tonight I am spending 1 hour cleaning, sorting and giving away the junk. I got a wonderful television for the room and I am going to enlist my son's help in setting it up on the vanity. I bought a sewing table for the room. I went on the blog Clover and Violet and saw how the mom had her room set up. She had this really adorable table--very vintage--that was literally in the middle of the room. Much in the way my friend, Kim, has hers set up. I thought, I could do that without any problem. I went to the Antique Trove and found out that the kind of table I would want might be costly (the one I wanted wasn't even priced yet) and there is the problem about how to deal with it when we have company and must use that room. Then, later I was at Joann's. There was a table (not vintage) with drawers that folded up to a small set of drawers when necessary. The table was $189.00 and 50% off during the sale bringing the price down to $94.99. On top of that, I would get 25% more bringing the price down to $71.25 because I have a teacher card and it was teacher appreciation weekend. That seemed like a dream come true for the space.
I spent the whole day on Sunday at my friend, Sandy's. Joann's closes at 7pm on Sundays, but lucky for me--the sale and the discounts were good until Monday because it was a holiday! On Monday I went to Joann's and found not only my table, but the rechargable Ott lights (cost $99.99) were at 50% off. I called Sandy because she desparately wanted one. She decided to drive down to me from downtown. 45 minutes later....I bought the table, a pillow form and a rechargable light for $118.00 with a whooping savings of $180! Afterward, Sandy and I went to Thistle Dew Quilts to check out their wool. They did not have any that wasn't too light or too dark. I bought a pattern and Sandy bought a pattern and we left. We stood outside dissecting the store as usual and went our merry ways.
On Tuesday, I get this call from Sandy. I had dropped my pattern and a construction guy (there is a ton of construction going on there!) returned it to the store. Since I used Sandy's name to buy it, they were able to trace it to her and I went and picked it up. I use her name because I almost never shop there. The owner was rude to us one time--the very first time we were in there and I am not in a forgiving kind of mood enough to shop there when I get 10% off at Quilter's Corner.
Whew! Must go now. Time for my nap!
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Decision Made
I decided to get another "close" fabric. We will see how "close" it really is when I give the quilt to my friend. I went to Quilter's Corner today--partly to get the fabric I needed and partly to see the new classes being offered. There was a meet the teacher day with quilters showing of their class product. One woman actually glues her fabric to a backing and then quilts tulle to the project. It is amazing to see what she comes up with, but it isn't my thing at all. While I was there (with my friend Sandy) Dawn helped with finding a fabric to go with autumn squares--the 2011 Saturday Square sampler squares. The squares are all in the orange, gold and green families with a healthy bit of purple/maroon.
While we were there at Quilter's Corner, I asked Nancy if she was at the last Saturday Square meeting. I said I just loved the blue snowmen that were embroidered and set in a frame. The woman who had the frame and her mother, who is the embroiderer, were both there and I was able to get the name of the pattern company--Bird Brain. I continue the search. I wonder if I have the pattern and only have not imagined it in blue.
While we were there at Quilter's Corner, I asked Nancy if she was at the last Saturday Square meeting. I said I just loved the blue snowmen that were embroidered and set in a frame. The woman who had the frame and her mother, who is the embroiderer, were both there and I was able to get the name of the pattern company--Bird Brain. I continue the search. I wonder if I have the pattern and only have not imagined it in blue.
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