Naaaaaaaah Miz Flutterby, she'll be right!

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Sharon from Melbourne Australia (Queen of Down Under)
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"Butterflywings" wrote in message
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Please, ask for the braces. You CAN type with the soft ones without any
trouble.takes about a good hour to get use to their being there..put them
on at the Drs office and wear them home. Hopefully you'll see/feel a
difference by the end of the first day. I did. took me a goodly week to
get sue to wearing the hard ones at night but I didn't have the severe
cramping in the morning and most of the total numbness was gone. I wasn't
aware of how much or how often I was rubbing my hands during the day until
I had the braces on and started rubbing them. I don't rub my hands very
often anymore. and if I start--I grab the braces because it's a huge
signal I overdid.

Sure wish I could help you more

Butterfly

"Sharon Harper" wrote in message
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Alas, my hands don't get much down time. My current employment sees my
hands in use 99% o 8 hours a day. Add 3/4 hours a day of home work and
pretty much the only down time they get is when I'm asleep. I haven't
actually "sewn" or quilted for about a month now and there is some
relief. I've learnt to live with the rest. I will be trying some more
sewin when I gets back from holidays, so we'll see how we go.

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Sharon from Melbourne Australia (Queen of Down Under)
http://s195.photobucket.com/albums/z37/shazrules/
"Butterflywings" wrote in message
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Has he given you both Soft and Hard braces to wear? Hard ones at night
that keep your hands from curling into a fist and soft ones with gel
packs for the palms (like fingerless gloves) and then softer wrist
braces to help keep them on your hands/you wear rubber/latex gloves over
them when you are doing wet things during the day. I wore mine for quite
a long time and now I wear them when I 'need' to or if I KNOW I'll be
doing repetitive motion things for awhile...also did he LIMIT the amount
of time you use your hands between things? I mean TOTAL LAY IN YOUR LAP
rest? Yes, it's gonna TAKE TIME....you didn't get there overnight and it
isn't going to get better overnight. All I hope for are good days and
better than good days with 'do nuttin' days in between.

FWIW.......I don't know what is going on with your hands...so i can only
say from MY experiences.

Butterfly (who discovered that crocheting 2 days in a row is NOT gonna
happen even with not doing anything else besides making dinner)

"Sharon Harper" wrote in message
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Lets see, sorry I missed the original post.

I have two quilts currently happening - one is in the quilting stage
for one daughter, the other needs the blocks sewn into a top and then
backed and quilted for daughter number two. These are the two most
important before the old hands give out. On that front doctors have
given up - they have no idea. Oh well.

Next on the line of importance is my baby lone star which I hand pieced
and tied into a quilt for my pop before he passed. It's starting to
come apart at some seams, so I want to repair that and make it larger
(queen bed sized). Luckily I still have some of the co-ordinating
fabrics left (I always over buy) and I have some ideas about what I
want to do.

Then there are the RCTQ BOM blocks I did last year (or was it the year
before? The first one we had) in xmas fabrics. I need to find a
co-ordinating fabric and make them up into a quilt (before Xmas 2009,
lots of time!!).

Then there is the stash that needs to be used up......all the patterns
I've collected.......

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Sharon from Melbourne Australia (Queen of Down Under)
http://s195.photobucket.com/albums/z37/shazrules/
"- dlm." wrote in message
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Butterfly, you most certainly aren't the only one with multiple
projects in various stages as well as forms. I don't even want to
think about the number of quilts in progress, home decorating sewing,
knitting, needlework, designing cards. Just writing it all down on
paper caused undue stress, so now I'm just thinking and working on a
couple of things that have immediate needs for completion. Then I'll
move on to the next two or three things on my list.

- dlm. in central MA 'who just wants to be able to say the word
"DONE!" '


"Butterflywings" wrote in message
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You do me good. Nice to know I'm not the only one that must have more
than one thing going on at once and not only in various stages but in
various forms (sewing/quilting/crocheting/knitting even tho the last
2 had to be on a hiatus for a number of years. Knitting still is). I
miss knitting in the fall but I get over it. It'll be easier this
year as I have been 'playing' with the crochet hook.

Butterfly

"Morag in Scotland" wrote in message
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I never did get the hang of finishing one thing before starting
another. I currently have three works in progress. A nine patch Dora
quilt for my 2 year old, a seaside wall hanging for my 4 year old and
a hexagon christmas wreath quilt/hanging which at this rate will be
for Christmas 2015.
Morag

"Pat in Virginia" wrote in message
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With school starting, vacations over, relatives gone back home
(hopefully!) ... it is time to rev up the needles! What about your
current project/s?

Right now I am working on the Pink Hug Quilt for my friend. This is
a support for when she has the mastectomy. Some generous quilters
from RCTQ Land have sent lovely pink fabric to enrich the quilt.

We have not had this thread in a while, so it will be fun to read
the replies! Thanks,

Pat in Virginia