I'm Still Here

Here it is December already....i am still hangingin there but very little sewing at the present....i did get my old necchi machine going....it takes some heavy oiling and playing with it to get it to move....i did sew a small table topper together in salmon and aqua colors and when i went to use that machine i quilt with it refused to work right so that is where i am with sewing at the present time.....

I have a lot of trouble with A-Fib attacks and i have to do a lot of resting and housework is getting to be a struggle.....but i keep trying not getting as much done as i would like....

Our town does not have a grocery store and i cant walk the big stores in the towns around me so my son takes my list and when he comes he brings my groceries....without that it would be impossible to keep living here in my home....

I still have a problem with sleeping times are radical as ever....one day i sleep a lot then not sleep for another day....tonight i hope to get some sleep as i have to be up early when my son comes....i have a project for him to make my life alittle easier to manage....so sorry how i have neglected this blog but not much in sewing to report and i doubt many would like to hear me gripe about pain  and other problems....

New year coming time for new attitudes and ideas and starting over in a sense ...so  i hope we all can see our way clear to heed these words of wisdom...lol.....next time all... 

HIT A SNAG

I hit a snag with my sewing....i did get my old machine back working again and now when i went to quilt my other little machine wont work....i have been away from sewing for 3 years so i might have forgotten something.....no sewing until i figure out how to get it going again.....it balls up under the quilt and then jams....i has been tempermental in the past so i wasn't surprised.....i got all stressed out and got my A-Fib in an uproar so trying to get that settled down before i try to deal with it again....things were going along pretty good until then....

My sleeping habit is still radical as ever.....tonight i will be up most of the night cause i get a lot of pain before it rains and its due in the morning for 2 days so i took pain med and it wipes me out then i sleep for 8-13 hrs then i am awake for maybe a day before i sleep again....gotta get busy my son brought my groceries from my list yesterday so have to put them up and start thinking about my next meal....with my sleeping habit meal times are all messed up too...who would have thought about making a cherry pie at 1am in the morning but that is what i did yesterday lol.....ok gotta get some decaf and start my day at 11pm more later...... 

Worked on some 16 sq. blocks

 I did some sewing of little 1 1/2 in squares the last 2 days to make some 16 sq blocks...i found 16 of them on my table and some sq already cut so instead of moving them around i sewed them up to get them out of the way....i'm finding that my arm just kills me to sew....i hurt it years ago, popped a bicep....the docs dont want to mess with it because of my bad heart...they told me it would be very weak the rest of my life....and boy does it hurt when i do too much....i found a couple bags of star blocks different sizes on the table when i started to organize things...so much to do in there but i will keep trying...i cant lose the use of this arm this is the one i use all the time....i will get some pics next week soon as i figure out how to get them out of my phone.....more later

TRYING TO SEW AGAIN

After 3 years i am trying to get back to sewing.....i had a second heart attack in that length of time and a bunch of other health problems.....i missed making quilt tops and working with fabric.....so i am making an attempt to go at it again.....My old sewing machine had quit in that time and the repair shop said it was too hard to find parts for it so i didn't take it in.....but i oiled it good and it is working slower but then me 82 years old is working slower also...that is what is so frustrating..

I left a mess when i stopped sewing in there so i am attempting to work on it....i have 2 quilt tops started for Quilts Beyond Borders to work on which will help with all the scrap laying around on my work table...

I cant sew like a mad woman like i use to though so i suppose i will have to get used to that....and not that long at a time,,,I used to get a top done in an evening but not now i dont think....but any sewing i do will be progress from what i have done in 3 years.....more later