DH has been having some issues with balance and shuffling. Today we went to the neurologist for a review. He says the only thing he can see that indicates Parkinson’s is the shuffle and is sending DH to the physical therapist to work with him on that. He also said that DH should be reminded frequently to stand up straight and take long strides. His brain will be retrained in that way. DH had a brain scan and the doctor remarked that the brain “looks beautiful”. Apparently if it is Parkinson’s, DH is very fortunate that he is getting it at this age instead of younger as it advances more slowly.
Since Christmas I have not had a dependable phone, even though the Apple people have tried to repair it, and replaced it once. We went to the store and I now have a new IPhone 7. So hopefully all my phone woes are over.
The rest of the afternoon, I played with the digitizing program and hopefully tomorrow will be able to do some more stitch outs.
Daughter gave me this cute knitting bag. My guess is she was tired of seeing the Ziploc bags in which I was constantly carrying the knitting. So now this bag carries the beginning of a new pair of socks. Perhaps I can find the instructions soon and put them in the bag as well.
I also took apart the legs of 2 pair of jeans in preparation for adding designs on them. If you have ever had to remove the original stitching, then you know why they hold together so well.
I knitted 2 inches of ribbing for these unknown socks and then decided the yarn is too heavy for the pattern I chose, so will look on Ravelry to find a different pattern. There are plenty of socks patterns that use a size 2 needle. See the shadows, even the weather person didn’t forecast sun for today, so it was a big, happy surprise.
Once again, I am reminded of how frustrating and difficult learning a new skill is. I don’t wonder why children get tired and balk . I’m ready to throw up my hands and scream. Their whole early life seems to be learning new skills. I think I understand and have the concept learned, and then, I mess up. It is very frustrating and exhausting. And if I keep at it without taking a break, I start making all types of stupid mistakes. So tonight I have only my first attempts at digitizing applique to show you. I was going to do the owl quilt in the conventional way and got “smart” and decided it would look nicer if the applique was embroidered on. Yes, it does look much nicer, but the learning will make the quilt take me longer.
One is never too old to learn. Mary came over today I had fun learning once again (refreshing) the basics of digitizing for applique. I have several quilts that I want to do including
this owl and flower quilt that will be so much easier to do and neater looking if I digitize the designs for the eyes and wings and do them with the machine embroidery. It is fun and can carve a few hours out of your day while you are having fun. And there is a snowman quilt next on my list. On my, I can find so many things that will be much easier and prettier with this method.
Footsteps is now bound and finished. It was an embroidery design by Anita Goodesign that has been waiting to get embroidered. It is done in tiles. One hoops the muslin and then when the block is outlined, put in the fabric you are using. That saves a lot of fabric as it is not hooped – just treated as applique.