It's supposed to storm here this evening. It's already windy and overcast. Granddaughter #2 has a spring concert tonight at the high school, just about the time the storm is supposed to hit. We may get soaked going to/from the car.
It looks like the quilt block I messed up yesterday is going to work okay after all. There was just enough slack in the fabric to give me a scant 1/4" of seam allowance. I blind-stitched the two blocks together and then turned the work around and stitched the seam again. It looks okay, and the seam feels sturdy enough to hold. I've already been in the sewing room this morning to prepare another set of blocks to stitch together tonight. And did not cut off anything critical in the process. (Go, me!) It would probably be a good idea to go ahead and prepare the rest of the blocks for hand-stitching, while the process is fresh in my mind.
The hand stitching is hard, though. Both of my hands go numb after a few minutes of sewing. My arthritic index finger has calmed down a little - still sore, but not AS sore - but it's stiff from disuse for two months. For the past few days, when not using my right hand, I've tried to stretch it to get it back into service.
This morning when I went out to feed the birds, hollering, "Hey, birds...BREAKFAST!" a wren let out a stream of tweets the instant I went back on the porch. Are they learning?
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