Passing for Normal

Good morning, my friends. If I write fast this morning, I might be able to get this done before I need to get ready for my doctor's appointment. If I run out of time, we'll have to meet back here later today. 

Yesterday was the first time since we've been home that the day seemed pretty routine. I did my usual stuff in the morning, did a little housework, did a little laundry, and I had plenty of time for sewing. It was a good day. Then, this morning, I was up at my usual time, and that left me some time to write this post before I need to go. 

So what's going on with the sewing? Thanks for asking. I took the first stitches on the fourth block for Home is Where My Flock Is. These are fun to stitch.

Two more rows are quilted on the Painted Ladies. That brings me to just three rows left to quilt. Here's the top half of the quilt.

And here's the bottom half. 

From there, I headed into the sewing room and sewed together January's block for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. The pieces were cut. I needed to sew together 24 half square triangles, and then trim them to 2-1/2 inches.

And voila! My first inverted star. Amazingly, I sewed it together on the first try with no mistakes.

And then I added a solid blue border. My friend, Kate, did this with hers, and I like the look of that. Also, it'll protect those edges from stretching.

And since I didn't get any of my bonus triangles sewn together while we were traveling, I've turned them into my first ever leaders and enders project. I have a whole shoebox full of bonus triangles sitting beside my machine. With them so close at hand, you'd think I'd get into the swing of starting and ending with them, but I was having the hardest time remembering the ender. I'll get it, but it's going to require developing some muscle memory about it.

Nevertheless, I managed to get about five 4-inchers and five 1-1/2 inchers sewn together. Hopefully, I'll live long enough to sew all of them together and turn them into something before I die.

There was some happy mail yesterday. I needed a backing fabric for the Raggedy & Friends quilt. (It still needs to be sewn into a finished flimsy.) So, I went in search of "Raggedy Ann fabric" and found this from an Etsy seller. There's way more fabric here than I need, but it was a good price, and so I went ahead. This piece was just a bonus. There's about two yards here.

And there's about 4 yards of this one. This is the one I'll use for the back.

I can turn what's left over into a donation quilt for Quilts for Kids.

Also, I wanted to show you this creation of Mike's. When we're RVing, we've had this ongoing problem with different wraps, especially the stretch-tite plastic wrap, falling to the floor as we go down the road. The stretch-tite box has been pretty much destroyed from falling so many times. (The box is kind of important for that particular product.) So Mike created this rack unit on his 3-D printer. Each wrap is contained on a shelf with a lip that will prevent it from sliding out of its spot, and the rack is attached to the wall with double-sided tape. Cool. As always, he's my hero.

Okay, so I managed to get it all down with time to spare. If I hurry, I can get in a little slow-stitching before I need to go. I'll be back tomorrow to tell give you the news about my shoulder. It's raining hard at this end. I hope y'all are having better weather at your end.