Happy Birthday to Tetsu's mom!

Why is it just a couple of days of being out of commission makes me feel like Rip Van Winkle? Worse than that, why is it the whole month seems to have gone by when I didn't notice. Yesterday I was thinking that it had been a couple of days since I'd written an entry for the 365 Challenge quilt, and I was out for a couple days, and it's been a couple of days since I bounced back so maybe I'd better get caught up three or four days. MORE LIKE TWO WEEKS!! What happened?! Now my fuzzy head is trying to remember what I did in the early part of December! If I don't get caught up today you know what happens to the 365 Quilt! It becomes a 6 month quilt! Suddenly this has become a major priority!

In the meantime, today is Tetsu's mother's birthday (84?) but she isn't feeling well and didn't want to go out. Tetsu went off with the tea I'd bought her and also some special soy sauce she'd requested before AND a bag I worked on all day yesterday for her. I finished it up around 9:00 last night. I had machine pieced the front pocket (made up of leaders/enders) before I got laid up last Wednesday so it wasn't that big a project. The debate in my mind was whether I was going to go upstairs to the cold sewing room and quickly machine quilt this or stay in the warmth of the living room and do it by hand. Hand won out though I mostly freehand quilted the back.

I had wanted to make her a hanten too and had already bought the fabric for that but I guess that's going to be a New Year's vacation project.