Finally I made myself sit down and post

It has been a long time!  My surgery went well and I am trying to get back on my feet as much as possible.  I see my surgeon tomorrow for my 10 week post op follow up.  I am hoping he releases me to drive and do pretty much what I want from now on.  I didn't think this foot surgery would be as bad as the previous one but I was wrong.  This one was worse.  It is all behind me now and I hope it has fixed the problem with foot pain I was having before. 

Since I have been back to some sewing in the last couple of weeks, here is a progress report.  I am trying to do the Medallion sew along with Lori of Humble Quilts and Randy of Barrister's Block .  Here are the first two parts of mine:

 

I used mostly Civil War reproduction fabrics.  I think it is kinda cute so far.  Tomorrow Randy will post the next pieced border section on her blog.  This went pretty fast, it is about 24 inches square right now.  If you want to join the fun it is not too late.  Lori and Randy leave lots of time between releasing the next section so you can catch up.    Lori has a linky party going on if you want to visit and see more that are posted.  

 

You have all seen the picture of Ruth and me on her blog as she came through Albuquerque.  Here is the one DH took of us.

 

It was so much fun to meet her and her DH and see all of her beautiful quilts in person.  Her Going to Texas quilt travels on her bed in the camper.  It is more beautiful in person than the pictures she posted on her blog a while back.  Her Swap quilt is gorgeous, too. 

 

 

I have a few more finishes to show off.  I have all three of the little quilts I showed in one of my last few posts all finished now.  Here they are:

 

 

This is the November 2012 Small Quilt of the Month for the Small Quilt Talk group I am in.  I loved using all the tiny scraps to make it.  Those are 1 inch pieces in the 16 patches.  The whole quilt is about 16 inches square. 

 

Next is:

 

 

The December 2012 Small Quilt of the Month.  It is 19 inches square.  The red and green makes it a Christmas quilt. 

 

I did not do the January, February, April or May small quilts for 2013 yet, maybe I will get caught up eventually.  They are all really cute patterns.  I did do the one for March:

 

 

I love the colors in this one.  We were challenged to use some uglies in it.  I did, but they turned into some cute little HST's in the end.  This one measures about 16 by 19 inches. 

 

I also got really ambitious and made a doll quilt for my friend who loaned me the walker to use after my surgery.  She has acquired an American Girl doll to sit in the love seat in her living room and the doll needs a quilt.  The idea for this one came out of the Little Quilts All Through the House book by Alice Berg, Mary Ellen Von Holt and Sylvia Johnson.  The book is one I ordered from Amazon while I was bored with sitting.  It has some cute little quilts in it.  Here is

 

   

Candy Hearts!  It still has chalk markings in the picture but I cleaned them off and put a label on it yesterday.  I think I will have to make another of these for my grand daughter before we visit her in the late summer. 

 

With all these weeks where the most I could do in a day was sit in my recliner I did a lot of hand stitching.  I finished the wedding quilt for my DS and DDIL.  It still needs a label and I am working on that.  It has to be something special, I think.  I also have to make a wall hanging with the signature strips that were left over from the quilt.  There were some that people wrote too close to the edge to put them into the quilt.  I think I will fuse them to a background and zigzag around them so not too much is lost and make a wall hanging to go with the quilt.  I was planning to start on that today but we decided to get out of the house for the afternoon.  We walked around a couple of stores to get me some exercise.  I have still been favoring my right foot so I need to practice walking correctly again.  We tried to go for a walk last Friday but I didn't get too far before I started having pain in my hip, back and foot.  I was trying to walk too fast I think, slowing down helps a lot.  Today was much better so maybe in a week or two I will try around the neighborhood again.

 

 That pretty much catches you all up with what I've been up to.  Hope everyone has had a nice weekend.  Thank you to everyone who has served our country, especially everyone who gave their lives to protect our freedom.  You are all much appreciated!