Long time no write.
I returned at the beginning of September from a lovely visit with family in Israel. Because of war logistics, my flights were through Athens. It was crazy hot and I had to run from one terminal to another in Athens. Barely made the flight which was fine but freezing from over air conditioning. Long story short, I returned home with a terrible cold, sore throat, coughing that hasn't ended yet - three weeks later. Not Covid - I tested. Menachem also caught it from me.
Needless to say, I was not feeling up to doing anything and even now am not overly motivated.
However, my niece, Michelle, moved to Windsor for school and I promised her a quilt. I already had the scrappy quilt top done but needed to quilt it. I used part of an Ikea duvet cover for the backing. Pinned it and turned to quilting.
Did I mention that my hands are now sometimes shaking uncontrollably? It was very challenging to attach the walking foot to my sewing machine. And don't even ask about inserting a new needle.
I have, nonetheless, managed to do half of the quilting. I'm doing diagonal lines and have finished in one direction. Now the other. I find that moving the quilt sandwich under the needle and sewing exacerbates my shaking so I can only do a few quilting lines at a time. Her;e is where I am so far.
Or not because the computer isn't allowing me to upload the photo. I will figure it out later.
But I have pretty much decided that my large quilting days are done. I'll stick to smaller projects.
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