A Stitcher Needs A Little Help!

I'm taking this quote right off of Ann's blog. She asked me to post this here as I tend to get a little more traffic than hers.

Barb (Thursday stitcher) is one strand of thread away from finishing Cirque des
Cercles.She ran out of Waterlilies Antique Brass only mere stitches from the
end.Does anybody out there have about one yard of one strand of that
thread?Barb, all the Thursday stitchers and the Snowbirds blog stitchers will
all be thankful!!!

I've checked my stash and I don't have any. If you can do us a huge favour and if you can check your stash and let me know if we can help Barb out!

Thanks!!!!

PL Night

Well, another week and I still haven't seen the end of that motif! Its a big sucker, hopefully next week will see me wrapping up this motif and moving onto another one. When this motif is done I'm going to pull out my measuring tape and see just how big it is (on 32ct.). I've been asked several times what colour of floss I'm using. Its DMC Colour Variations 4240, I wanted to use an overdyed for this project but becuase of the sheer size I had to keep the cost reasonable. The new DMC colours were the right solution, I've bought 36 skiens I'm hoping its enough.

Tomorrow's Valentine's Day and I'm actually looking forward to it. Todd asked me what I'd like this year, I kept it very simple for him. I told him all I wanted was to go up to our local pub for a burger and beer, and I wanted to go on Valentine's Day. He was a very good boy and made a reservation.

SBQ : February 6th

Well since I'm doing secret stitching yet again... this time its Fair & Square so why not answer an SBQ instead???

Q :Are there other crafts that you have tried and abandoned? Why do youlike stitching better?

A : I've tried temari, dabbled in a wee bit of quilting, and some chain maille. Why do I like stitching better? I can't really explain it, there's something soooo soothing about stitching. I like its exactness, the fact that you have to organize and be organized. Can you tell I love organization (heck its my field!). I just LOVE stitching!

Well I got my results today from my bone scan and MRI. The bone scan didn't really show anything we didn't already know, that there are signs indicative of Plantar Fasciitis. Quel suprise. However we did get an answer from the MRI (which also confirmed my PF), the exact wording is : "Focal fluid accumulation on the plantar aspect of the fourth tarsal-metatarsal joint outlining ligamentous structure." So this translates to I have also dammaged the ligaments in the top of my foot! My Dr. suspects it probably happened at the same time I partially tore my P.F May 2007 the reason this pain didn't present itself until months later is because my P.F. hurt more! LOL. The Dr. was very frank and said there was nothing he could do for me to treat it, but he had consulted with some colleagues of his.

He's referring me to a doctor specializing in musculoskeletal medicine for a treatment called prolothereapy. Essentially I'll be injected with a saline or sugar/water solution in the area where the ligaments are dammaged. This will cause inflammation which in turn my ligaments will go into healing mode and my ligaments will start producing collogen (which is what they're made of). The idea is that through this process my ligaments will begin to heal/strengthen and the pain will go away (we hope). So if you've had this treatment I'd love to hear your input. Did it work for you? For me the down side, nither the provincial health care plan nor my insurance plan cover this treatment and its not cheap. But what am I to do???

Also I'm being put on the list to see one of the two foot/ankle surgeons in the region. Unfortunately the list is a long one and I won't get in to see the surgeon until the fall. This doesen't mean surgery is a sure thing but if this prolotherapy doesen't work a surgeon is most likely my last resort... if he can do anything.

Photo (SLR) : Ice sculpture at Winterlude 2008

An Evening With Tour

Yay! I'm so proud of myself! I worked on Tour Des Marques for the second week in a row. If I've said it once, I've said it a million times : if you work on a project you can actually see some progress!

Tomorrow I've got a follow up appointment with my new Sports Dr. I'm hoping he has all my resluts and there will be a reason why I'm in pain! I'll be sure to let you know what he says.

Give is Finished!

Like I promised yesterday, I started and finished Give today! I'm now all caught up with this series. I know the next two charts just became available this weekend. I'll be anxiously awaiting them in my mailbox!

Give

c2007 Lizzie*Kate
Double Flip #71
Stitched on 32ct Lambswool linen using GAST & WDW

When I picked up the mail on Saturday I had a lovely surprise waiting for me! In round 4 of Fair & Square my partner crapped out on me. She never sent my squares, I honestly hate it when people sign up for things then don't follow through, don't send an explination, nothing. If there's any doubt that you're not going to complete and exchange or RR please don't sign up. Anyhow I didn't ask for anything, or demand a replacement but Vonna, the sweetie she is arranged to have Marie stitch me up replacement squares. I really appreciate the effort that went into these squares, they're beautiful and Marie included some beautiful extras. Thank you! On the Fair & Square note I finally stared the squares for Round 5!

Thank You Kathryn!

Kathryn awarded me with the You Make My Day Award (the second I received)! Thanks Kathryn! I always enjoy your blog because you give me a view into life in a tropical paradise, she has property in Maui and travels back and forth between the mainland and the island. I have yet to experience anywhere considered tropical ... yet. I'm sure my day will come. I enjoy her photos of Maui (actually they make me insanely jealous!) and the projects she picks to stitch are just lovely!

Its hard to single out ten people but I'd pass this award onto anyone who drops by and reads my blog. If you ever leave a comment be assured I'll pay you a return visit!

Hmmm spell check still dosen't work for me!

Stitching Updates

I have to say I'm horrible at keeping promises! I promised I'd share a progress picture of Paradigm Lost with you on Thrusday. Well I never did. What's my reason? I had really gotten into one of my projects while I went to the first stitch night at my LNS! Honestly you can ask Christin and Manon, I did try to work on PL while I was there but I just couldn't get focused and was easily distracted. Not a good idea when you're stitching Quaker motifs! Soooo I pulled out my much loved Double Flip-Its.

Tonight I finished Remember. I am so in love with this series, I'm pretty much obsessed! So I think I'll get caught up on these then I'll get back to my other projects. Luckily there's only one word left for me to stitch and that's Give. I'll get a start on that tomorrow. If I have a good, focused stitching day I might even finish it! Then I can finally start that Fair & Square I talked about earlier this week!

Remember

c2007 Lizzie*Kate

Double Flip #71

Stitched on 32ct Lambswool linen using GAST & WDW