Out For the Count and Some Sewing

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I was on a roll two weeks ago… doing some spring cleaning, decluttering, organizing, and trying to stay on top of my spring garden, where the weeds are growing faster than I can pull them out:

Then, early last Monday morning, I had an altercation with the hallway again….

Now, if you recall, the last time I had an altercation with the hallway was last year when I tripped and broke my wrist… this time I had a dizzy spell and gave my head a big whack on the wall… and then kept going to the ground, landing on my left side and then on my back….

Having learned my lesson last year about broken bones, I got DH to take me to the doctor to get an X-ray and get checked up… the good news was that I didn’t break anything this time… but did have a slight concussion. And boy was I sore!!! I thought I might have broken a rib, but it seems not… but my head – I have never hit my head that hard before, it was an interesting experience…

I now have a better understanding of elderly people who have a fall. It’s bad enough at my age (56), I can’t even imagine how it is for those in their 70s, 80s, and 90s! It also doesn’t bode well for my future if I am having regular falls already – but hey, I am not going to dwell on that, lol!

By the end of last week, I was feeling much better… still sore, but my head was doing better… so I decided to do all the things – garden, continuing with my spring cleaning, etc….

Sunday morning, I woke up and felt like I’d been hit over the head again… so I did a bit of research on concussions, and turns out it can take a while to get over one… so you live and learn, right?!

The long and short of my research was that I needed to rest. Back to my armchair I went, but during my brief spurt of energy, I had set up my sewing nook in the kitchen again, so I thought I would do a little bit of mindless sewing.

I found my 2 1/2″ Christmas scrap basket

and am slowly working on a Christmas table topper…

It doesn’t take much brain power, and I can just sit and chain sew a little bit at a time… I’m just alternating scraps of Christmas fabric with background fabric squares…

I did manage to get out to the studio and iron the fabric for the borders of our Snowballs and Snowflakes BOM…

But I am not happy with the inner border fabric (the one with the white background). I feel it needs to have a medium fabric between the blocks and the dark blue outer border. I remember that at the time, the fabric was out of stock at the Fat Quarter Shop – so I may need to find a different one for that.

Please bear with me while I get over this bump on my head.. I will be a good girl and try to rest as much as I can so that I can get back to regular posting again.

Oh, almost forgot! The latest Rose Cottage update:

It’s come to a bit of a halt (like me!) over the past week, but hopefully they will get busy again at the end of this week…

I just noticed this at the Fat Quarter Shop… Check it out!