After rehoming Dorothy, this happened:

I never dreamed that a twisted foot, a minor sprain, would be such an annoying thing to deal with this past week.

I will spare you the details, but I have needed to stay off my foot as much as possible, wrap it in ice packs and take Tylenol. But I still needed something to do. I like projects!

This is a very small sampling of scraps I have collected over the years. After each quilt creation I cut the remaining ends of fabric into strips and toss them into a bin. Fabric is too expensive to waste and scraps can come in handy. My daughter mailed several boxes (yes, boxes!) of these strips to the lake last year.

Having these strips meant I didn’t have to stand at a table to cut fabric. Lowering the ironing board meant I didn’t have to stand to iron seams and blocks.

In other words, I could put my foot up on a chair and still DO SOMETHING.

Yes, I have plenty of books on my Kindle reader, but lately reading makes me sleepy. And I can’t sit around napping all day long. No, no, no!

I can practice my guitar chords, which I do, until my fingers give out. I can search Pinterest for blueberry cake recipes. And write emails.

But…sewing random strips diagonally across newsprint squares certainly makes me feel better than anything else.

I spent part of an afternoon sitting on the floor separating strips into colors, so future stars could be blue or green or yellow…

Stay tuned.