Movable Inclined Ascender

The big weekend has arrived.  Yup, it's that celebration time again, and I couldn't resist lifting this special cake from Cake Wrecks' archive in honor of the festivities.  And probably what lots of you will be concentrating on come Monday.  The color is appropriate too, dontcha think?  Go Patriots!  (said without much enthusiasm, just because I have to)

I'm sequestered in the studio today gloating over finishing the Four Turkeys (Tofurkeys?) quilt/piece/thing.  I finished the signature,

 just a little wonky

and now am assessing how to back it with minimal more work.   Frankly I am very mad at myself for building it on a quite wonderful piece of cotton damask of unknown provenance that needs to be covered up because of doing embroidery which turns up pretty ugly on the back.

 It wasn't part of the initial plan.  I do have a perfectly worn old tablecloth that WAS the exact right size before I added borders so to make it the right size again I have to add stuff to it, bummer.  And I have another pesky problem about whether it needs any batting or not.  My fancy damask can be the filler in essence.  It's already pretty hefty from all the crochet stuff and heavy linen on the front.

I'll go diving into the bottom cupboard to see if perhaps I have one of the old flannel sheets left... or I could always pull one off the homasote!  Whatever, there are decisions to be made.  And I can see the end in sight, almost.  Like looking through a periscope.

I spoke to my friend in the hospital again this morning and she sounds more lucid, but I think being in that place for so long has kinda institutionalized her, very common for patients when they have all decision making abilities handled for them.  Plus I found out she had spent a week in our local hospital with Norovirus just before this happened so she hasn't been in her own life for a month+ now.  She said she is learning to work with the little sight she has left but "things keep coming in from the edges and tripping" her.  Today she may be put into rehab for both her new knee and her vision, so I hope that helps get her back on track and feeling a bit better, though it is apparently only for a few days.  Maybe she will even be home by the time I get there next week.  Hope so.