ANOTHER BIG SEWING DAY AHEAD

Well... if you thought yesterday's blog was a bit quiet/boring... I've got more of the same today *smiles*

I will be sewing all day...

ABOVE:  I got the stitching done on three of the small tree runners yesterday afternoon, so will hopefully get the other 5 done today.  Then I 'just' need to put the backing and binding on and they will be done.

I am thinking I might get them all done by Sunday.
And then... what do ya bet I don't sell any!  lol

Murphy's Law and all that.  But at least I will have built up my stock again.

Because my back is giving me so much grief, I am going to be stopping every hour and doing a minimum of 10 minutes on the exercycle, to break up the day.  And give my back a break from bending over the sewing machine.

My friend Susan D told me last night that would really help my backache, so might as well try it.   I did, after all, bring the damn exercycle back from Auckland to use it eh?  AND that's how I hurt my back too... trying to put it in my car on my own.  What a twit.

ABOVE:  I put the exercycle here, instead of with all the other exercise equipment in the garage. This way, I might actually USE it... while watching TV.  

I had to shrink the dining table down by two seats, but that's fine.  If we need more room around the table, it only takes a few minutes to add the extension back in.  And the exercycle can be wheeled into the sewing room temporarily.

ABOVE:  I saw this on Facebook last night ... and OMG!  So apt.  I had to change bobbins TWENTY THREE TIMES yesterday and I was thinking:  'If only there was a way to have bigger bobbins'!!!

*sigh* by the time some clever bastard sorts that problem out, I'll probably be long gone.

So anyway... that's my day planned.  Sewing.  Cycling.  Sewing... etc, etc.
Catch ya later.

ONWARD...

It's midday, and I've not got to do any sewing yet!

The dogs had a grooming appointment at 11, so I went into town and did a couple of jobs first, then dropped them off.  Then I had lunch.

We've been de-cluttering as you know, so I took another load to the Hospice Shop this morning.  In that lot was our Puppy Heating Pad... and before I donated it... I tried it out on my back:

ABOVE:  And yeah! It's pretty amazing... perfect size, not too hot... so much better than a wheat bag that keeps cooling.
I've had it on my back while having lunch and yep, it didn't get donated after all.  *smiles*

NOW... I can finally get back to the sewing.

3.35 pm:  Just got the dogs from the groomers.  Can finally see properly what Coco's been doing to her rump.
Pretty sure it started out as a flea bite, but now she's just turned it into a hot spot.  She simply won't leave it alone.

I've done a flea treatment on them and still she gnaws herself.  Grrrrr.  I'm wondering if the flea treatment I used was too old to be effective anymore?  Does that stuff go 'off'?  I'd had it for quite a few years.

I have managed to get one Tree Runner completely finished, and should have the other three done by the end of the day too.

But right now, I have to make more binding... *groan*

7.30 pm:  And I got the binding done, then dinner cooked for everyone, then I had just enough time to jump in me car and head off for an FBG walk.
I only did the first half of Section 12C tonight, as my back is still very sore, but I'm happy I got out and did 3.4 kms tonight.

Just made a Lemon Meringue Pie! It's a recipe like none I've ever done before... from an FBG girlfriend from South Africa.  Let's see if mine comes out like her's!

Time to sign off for the day... catch ya tomorrow.