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Sunday, August 03, 2008

Sidelined

I finally got my Double Wedding Ring quilt binding made, and I spent several afternoons working on attaching it to the top of the quilt. That was a pretty long process, because of all of the inside and outside corners. Friday night I finally got to start stitching the binding down to the back (and stitching up those inside corners so that my points aren't floppy). I didn't make it very far because my eyes kept getting blurry, so I eventually put the quilt down for the night. I figured I was just tired and that my meds were just working on me a little harder than usual. I woke up in the middle of the night with a swollen tonsil (it never fails - I don't usually come down with something in the middle of the week when I could get in to see my own doctor, it just seems to fall at the beginning of a weekend or holiday or vacation). So I went to the local doc-in-a-box and got the diagnosis that I expected, strep throat. He prescribed antibiotics, and I'm taking them along with the usual painkillers. I just don't have my usual energy while I'm fighting this thing, so I haven't really picked up the binding to work on it this weekend like I'd planned.

But I did take a couple of pictures to share what I have to look forward to once I'm all better. The first photo is the binding that's attached to the front but not to the back yet, and the second photo is how it looks all nicely stitched down. I'm stitching it to the back by hand because I don't trust myself with the machine to make it look as nice. I've learned this: I do not ever want to create another quilt with curved borders. It's not the tips of the points that cause the problem - it's all those inside corners.