I cannot BELIEVE that I have not posted in almost three months.
I suck at quilting.
You see, I only post on here if I’ve done something… Anything, really.
And since it has been three months since I’ve been on here, that just shows how dedicated I am to my supposed “favorite” hobby.

I’m sorry!! However, I hope to make up for it with the picture that I’m about to show you.
My Mom was in town to help me out with my kids a month ago (I’ll tell you why in a minute…) and she helped me lay out my ENORMOUS Hawaiian quilt.

WOW!, right? I absolutely love it and I am sure you all are massively impressed. I could not have done it without assistance, so I am so grateful that my Mom was here to help me do it. She helped my iron the background fabric, which was a BIG chore that absolutely takes two people, and then she helped me lay out AND pin the big design to the background. I think it took about three hours to do and we did it in the dead of night when my kids were fast asleep. Now I need to get on the stick and baste that sucker together so I can get those pins outta there so I can begin the hand appliqué. (Which I estimate will take me, oh, I don’t know…. For.Ever!!)

Basting will take me some time to do, so now I am searching for someone local to help me out. FYI: I’m not a big fan of basting. I hate it, actually. So I am hoping to wrangle my sister into doing most of it for me under the pretense of me teaching her to “sew”. (hahahaHA!)

During this whole adventure I found out that I have severe carpal tunnel syndrome in my right hand and borderline in my left. Three different doctors have advised me to get surgery to correct it… I just don’t know if I can. The recovery involves THREE weeks of no movement of the hand. And then for a month or so after you can’t lift anything and there are other activities that will be limited as well… But I guess I have to wait for the surgeon to tell me what those activities are.

I’ve got two kids.
One is almost five and the other is three.
Taking my right hand away from me would be disastrous.
I mean… you KNOW that quilting would be way out of the question for a while.
And we all KNOW that I love quilting so much that I just couldn’t stand to ever abandon my hobby.