Baby Quilt Inventory

SO Still kicking around in the HAIRY boot.  SO I put some borders on these two cute panels.

Then out to the garage door for some spray basting.

I'm using up a bunch of scrap batting for these two. I'm out of batting!

I did the two borders a little different on each one. I struggle with the crooked edges on these prints. But they're sure cute and trendy.

There's a tiny grid on the background of the picture, so I decided to do a straight line grid on one of the panels. 

I used the crayola washable marker to make the lines, and then used my walking foot to quilt it.

The other panel I just did my favorite meandering quilting. I pieced the backing on one of them and the other I used some darker gray that I had on hand.

The binding looks really good too!

One with grid and one with meandering. 

Now off to the washer! But OOPS! I didn't use any detergent at all and look!

The marker didn't wash out! YIKES! In it goes for another go round with some Tide! Phew, all good, it washed out fine. And here they are all washed and ready to gift.

Now let's see, what else can I get used up from my stash-that is overflowing my shelves.

Oh yeah, this cute Red Riding Hood fabric I got shop hopping, I think, last year! Look one print with the cute Red Riding Hood pictures is from Dear Stella and the story in words I'm using is from RJR Fabrics. 

I'm using a pattern I got shop hopping THIS year called BQ4 from  Maple Island Quilts . Their line of BQ quilt patterns are really easy and fast to make and use a bigger block so you don't cut up cool prints into tiny bits. 

See Bob there, helping?

And out to the garage door for spray basting!

This is a really modern design-I really like it a lot. 

If I had a higher contrast between the two Red Riding hood prints, I might like it even more. 

I'll probably make this one again-maybe in the bigger size-the pattern has multiple size and layout variations.

I liked this story print with the whole story on it, but I wanted to make sure I got the whole story on the quilts so I put it going the long way on the back! It's cute!

The binding looks good, I had to use a bit of the word print to have enough for the binding. 

And out to the tree for a big photo. 

Good looking quilt!

I just did the easy peasy meandering again on this one. 

If I was more patient today I might have free motioned a more boxy shape, but I wasn't in the mood for it.  And here's the back! It looks good and you can read the story!

That's all for baby quilts for awhile. I'll be ready for the next time I need to have a gift! Now what next?

 

Tenex Procedure

 I've been having a lot of pain from my Achilles Tendon, I mean a lot-when I got off work some days, it was a struggle to make it out to my car. Going up and down stairs was just killing me! I had x-rays, and an MRI and then Ultrasound and they all agreed that I needed to do something. The choices pretty much were 1. go have a major invasive surgery that cuts out the Achilles tendon and then reattaches it and maybe use some tendon from somewhere else to fix it, and be out of work for about 6 months or more or 2. go have a Tenex procedure that uses soundwaves to remove the calcification and bone to relieve the pain and be out for about 3-4 weeks.  So, on the 20th I went and had a Tenex procedure to fix my calcified Achilles Tendon and fix my Haglund's deformity.  (That Haglund's thing is a bone that's growing out and poking into the Achilles tendon-it hurts pretty bad.) The U of Iowa department of Sports Medicine has this procedure and I was surprised at how easy it was!

Web MD Tenex Here's a link that kind of explains what the Tenex procedure does. This is day one. They actually only made 3 small incisions to insert the tool in there to remove the calcification and Bone .

I have a little bit of bruising and a little bit of swelling, but honestly it doesn't hurt really at all....well I'm still pretty numb from the local anesthesia, but really not in pain at all.

I can tell you it's hard to take a picture of the back of your foot!

So here's day two. Still no pain really. The worst pain is from the boot.  I don't have a photo of the boot....yet....hang on.

Anyway, day two feels good, looks good-I mean what I can see anyways.

Here's day three, looks the same as the day two to me.

I was put in a boot after the procedure and I'm supposed to keep it on for two weeks. I can take it off the sleep and to shower, so that's good. But that boot is hard to get snugged on tight enough to not slip up and down on my heel. 

Here's day 5. Still looks good and really no pain at all. The boot is actually the painful part.

I can see one of the incisions and it looks good-healing nicely.

And here's the boot. 

I should call it the HAIRY boot-it's pretty much covered with dog hair because my fella thinks he needs to be touching the boot all the time.

Ringo seems to know it doesn't belong here! 

SO that's where we are with the foot fix. I'm feeling pretty confident that this will work out well. I go back on the 9th and then I have physical therapy on the 10th for a week-hopefully less!