Blocks, blocks, blocks

Yesterday, I went on the correct day and got the long overdue mammogram...oh YEAH!!  Boy was that fun. NOT!!  Today, I had a dental appt. for teeth cleaning.  Tomorrow I go to the Dr. for a checkup on my shoulder surgery.  It is doing fine and I am sure I will get an A+ for moving the arm.   I hate it when I have some kind of commitment day after day.  It seems I don't get anything done when the week is full of Dr. appts.  I look the picture of health and for the most part I am...it is just all these little irritations that take it right out of me.  I just want to stay home and get some things accomplished.

I did get a chance to sew blocks yesterday.  I made 3 wonky blocks and two paper pieced spider web blocks.  I also started loading a backing on my longarm.  I want to get the table toppers quilted that I pieced in the mountains quilted.  Then I can get the borders on and those babies can go in the finished pile.  Yesterday afternoon, I got the backing fabric pinned on the machine leaders and it just was not right.  I decided to re-watch one of the loading videos so I could figure out what I had done wrong.  I got online and just decided I was past the point of making sense with anything so I read my e-mail and watched the boob tube.  

This afternoon, after the dentist, it was so rainy and dreary that I crawled into the chair and got a quilt and dosed.  Later, I watched the longarm loading video and then pinned the backing.  Now I have to figure out what I want to quilt on the table toppers.  I really like them and I don't want to mess the quilting up.  It has been 5 months or more since I have touched that big girl, Lizzie Girl.  I decided I would wait until I was a bit fresher like in the morning after my Dr. appt.

I dug out some runners I had pieced for the NC house also.  Two are completed and I am not sure what I was going to do with the third smaller one because it does not look like I was finished with it.  Pictures attached.  I would love to get them both sets of table toppers quilted tomorrow and the binding sewed on so I could start the hand work.

Once thteal ones are finished, I will get the 3 above finished.  The above are scraps from a quilt top that I made a year or so ago.  I have at least 8 quilt tops or more to get quilted.  I need to get some practice time on the long arm before I try to quilt a real top that I have spent a lot of time piecing.  Once I started playing on it last year, I relaxed and things went OK, so I just have to get to that point again.  Hopefully, it won't take me long to get back up to speed.  Oh well, that is it for today...til we meet again.