They say to never do this

But I was having so many problems with my tension that I was willing to try anything. So I did the unthinkable. I adjusted my bobbin tension.





But I took a picture first so I could go back to the same position if it didn't work. It didn't work.

And there are so many things I want to be working on right now....



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Ta Da

Room finished!













The man is coming back from a trip in about an hour. And I finished about an hour ago. The mice will play while the cat is away. Most of the women in my life do the same thing. We wait until they go out of town and then we work on a big project. So much easier.

And this is still kind of a temporary solution. Most likely a long term temporary solution. But not the original plan we had. That will come later.

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Saturday night, 9:15 pm

I have a plan.





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This is a happy mommy.

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Busy morning

We had to go here today-






For a test for the bug. And we had some time between the injection and the scan so we went here-






And here-







She was such a trooper. I am so proud of my bug.






(Looks worse than it was. She was watching a movie.)

Her band-aid had Tasmanian Devil on it, which she has never seen. She wanted to know why she had angry lions. So cute.


(She had a DMSA scan to see if there is scarring in her kidneys from the reflux. EIDT: Test came back with no scarring! Yea!)

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So close, and yet so far

Don't you just hate it when this happens?




I could have sworn I calculated my binding correctly...Dang it. But then when I went back to my cutting table, there was the missing strip. I felt a little better. But only a little.

(This is the butterfly jar quilt I finished for Bug. need to take pics to show the whole thing.)


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Annual Fair Tradition

It seems that some rituals may be more widespread than you think. No matter how odd it is. One of mine, in the euphoric time period that the fair is in town, is to go and get a new toe ring. And it turns out that is Barbara's tradition as well. And she was being so coy about her relationship with the fair, not really sharing a lot, seemingly going along for the ride, definitely not revealing her joy at our shared passion. Hmm.

So while on our fun evening out with our book club pals, we did just that. (Excuse the toes. Neither of us were expecting a photo shoot.)




I love that they call it installing. And you know the secret to correct toe ring sizing, right? Windex.


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