Shingles

 Hi all -

I hope everyone is feeling well and had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! I don't have much to share this week because I came down with shingles this week. Luckily, I must have an extremely mild case because I'm not experiencing any of the shooting pain and the rash is small and is already healing. But it did make me tired so I did a lot of resting last week. I also decided to cancel my trip home for Christmas because of the two young great-nieces (a one-year-old and a one-week-old). The doctor said it would be no problem for me to be around the girls at Christmas and both moms were okay with it, but I'll still have the chicken pox virus in me then and I would feel horrible if either of the girls got sick. You can only pass on the virus if they contact the fluid from an active rash and my rash is already drying up, but still better safe than sorry! 

One thing I did do last week was to quilt another piece of fabric for another Easy Does It bag designed by ByAnnie. 

Easy Does It Bag - Outside

Easy Does It Bag - Inside

I wanted to prepare this for the sewing session I'm having with my friend on Thursday to make bags. I don't think the Clam Up bag will take the entire time, so this is my back-up project to fill any extra time. I wanted to make another Easy Does It bag because I love the size of the bag that I made, but I really wish that it had inside pockets. So I'm making another one and including pockets.

I also worked on cutting pieces for another Potato Chip quilt. I started to think about making another potato chip quilt when I was making blocks for Quilts Of Valor (QOV) last month. To make the QOV blocks, I dug through my scraps to find fabrics of the requested colors. While digging through the scraps, I felt like I wanted to use of some of them so I started thinking about another potato chip quilt. Since I was feeling tired and didn't want to think about what I was doing, I decided to start cutting up my scraps for this quilt.

Potato Chip Quilt Units

I'll need a lot of units for this quilt so I'll keep cutting bricks for a little while. Then I can divide the bricks into light and dark units to start sewing blocks. Cutting these is a great project for when I don't want to do any thinking!

Nancy