Sunday, May 16, 2010

Another Irish Chain and e-probing

This is a pic of the pieced top of the Irish Chain quilt that I'm donating to the school fundraiser. It's a yellow background and the chains are made of purple, blue, green and rose colored batiks.



I like how it looks, except it took on a life of it's own and has grown into a VERY large queen sized quilt! I want to get it quilted up in the next 2 weeks--wish me luck! I'm going to do a simple grid through the chains and probably a feather wreath in the yellow blocks. Borders are yet to be determined.

We are finally having glorious spring weather and Don and I were in the garden yesterday, moving some bushes around. Unfortunately, I paid a price for this and have a quite painful knee now. I had the MRI done yesterday morning and will see the doc to determine if/when to have the surgery done.

The MRI was quite interesting. I'd never had one before nor even seen the HUGE machine. I was able to keep my head out of the thing, thank goodness, but what a noisy thing it is. About halfway through, I started thinking how Sci-fi this experience seemed and by the time I was finished, I'd concluded that I'd been abducted by aliens and had been electronically probed.

On to other tasks of the day.

3 comments:

  1. Love the quilt. You are lucky you didn't have to have an MRI of your head. Now that is a noisy process!

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  2. Beautiful quilt!! Irish Chain is one of my favorites. I'm in the process of piecing one using the Leaders and Enders method.

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  3. I probably wouldn't have chosen to put those colors together - preferring the single colors in an Irish chain (which I've never done, so what makes me think I know.) I really like how that turned out, though. That's what I like about being part of a quilting community - getting new ideas.
    Ron had an MRI of his head when he had double vision for a month - one image slightly next to and above the other. He got used to driving with his head cocked. Scary, isn't it? Anyway, it is VERY noisy, and I think it would make me clostrophobic. Sorry about the knee, but isn't it fun to be working outside again?

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