Best laid plans
So you remember my last post where I said I wanted to make at least a block this weekend in addition to the pants? Well I decided to watch a hockey game on Sunday night after binging on the Olympics, but that was OK as it finished at 8.30 ish, giving me an hour and a half of sewing time before bed- the perfect amount before I get fed up. At 8.30pm the game went into overtime and then a penalty shoot-out. It was now 9pm. No problem, I thought, an hour is sufficient.
And then immediately as if sensing I was rolling myself off the sofa in the right direction, Alex rang me and told me he was on the way to A&E with a wrist injury after falling over at work and can I meet him there please and take him home? This particular hospital is about 30-40 minutes away and if you know the Leicester Royal Infirmary, you’ll know already it’s not the greatest of hospitals. I was very glad when he came out of triage and met up with me as I was expecting to be robbed in the waiting room if I sat alone in the corner for much longer. By 1am four nurses, a doctor, a radiologist and a possible scaphoid fracture in a splint later (but inconclusive as the X-Ray often looks fine for such a tiny bone) we were home, and tired and without having done the sewing I was planning. By the way he’s gone back to work but not driving, and will be having another X-Ray in a fortnight to see if they can see a break, if not it is officially a bad sprain.
So over the last 24 hours I got these finished, well, two of them anyway, one left to sew and one was already finished (inexplicably blurry, sorry).
None of these are the block I was hoping for (which would complete my side of the bargain in the Popular Patchwork Quilt Together thing, more on that another day) but I prepped these applique blocks in front of the TV. These are the corner blocks for the lone star-esque quilt I’m casually making. The Winter Olympics are just too distracting, I have no idea how I am ever going to make any progress over the next fortnight unless it involves sitting in the living room somehow.
February 11, 2014 11:29 am|
Hope that it is just a bad sprain. Now turn the telly off and get sewing. 😉
February 11, 2014 12:24 pm|
Hi Penny, so glad to hear your partner is ok, yikes what a scare! Also these applique blocks are so so amazing! I’m completely in love, been itching to try some applique since before Christmas but other projects have crept in, you may have just given me the nudge to give it a go! 🙂
February 11, 2014 1:55 pm|
I hope the wrist is better soon, it is surprising how debilitating an inoperative hand is. Enjoy the Olympics – knitting is easy to do while watching sports.
February 11, 2014 2:05 pm|
Kerry they look amazing! Hope his wrist heals soon!
February 11, 2014 2:57 pm|
oh no, sorry to hear about Alex! I’m in the LRI zone at work and have already planned that if I need to be taken to hospital I will scream until they take me to QMC, I have heard such horror stories about it. Love the applique blocks, applique is perfect for sofa work, so just do loads of that!
February 11, 2014 6:50 pm|
You know I’m with you on the seductive siren song of Sochi! But bugger to him-indoors’ wrist! I hope it’s okay. Your applique is beautiful, though!
February 11, 2014 9:19 pm|
Hope everyone is feeling much better now, it’s rubbish being in A&E. The blocks look super pretty and I think a trip to hospital is a good excuse for lack of progress!
February 11, 2014 10:10 pm|
I hope the maternity unit isn’t too sh@te seeing as that’s my planned destination in the next month or so, but then i’m guessing Alex didn’t spend much time there with his dodgy wrist! Any chance you can move the sewing machine in front of the tv and multi task??
February 11, 2014 11:55 pm|
Ha, I totally got distracted by the snowboarding tonight when I got in from work! Oddest A&E I’ve ever been in? Nottingham, hands down. And living in the East End of Glasgow, that’s saying something…
February 12, 2014 8:57 pm|
Ha I was born at LRI! Hope that wrist heals soon. My sewing stuff is all in the living room with the TV so I have been enjoying morning nap time sewing +Olympics.
Love those blocks btw