Here I am with more confessions and a picture!
So... yesterday morning when I thought I was going to the post office I spent about 2.5 hours (from 9-11:30), trying to set up a lab appointment and get a simple question answered. It used to be, your doctor sent in the order, then you went to the lab and waited. As of last week you called to set your appointment. Now, we have to go online to make appointments (and as someone who never liked waiting in hospitals, I think appointments are actually wonderful). It actually went pretty well today, was seen within 15 minutes of the appointment time, the check-in procedures and stuff were fairly easy, but there is no live person at the front desk. But yesterday, oh, after that much time on hold and getting to full mail boxes and stuff I wasn't ready to deal with people. No biggy. Hubby home in a couple hours, we can go do it together. Except we got to the post office and it was closed early, don't know if it is Covid hours or what, but I should have had another 2 hours of lobby time.
That's part of the frustrations around here, we were our masks and do what we are asked but everything just changes daily and I don't deal with it well. So, had to go back today and even later but now I have a tracking number to prove it!
Confession 2: I am in the "I see all the flaws and am not happy with my project" stage, which may have added to my recent funk. Is it good enough, am I good enough? Should I do it over? Well, I slapped it in a box and I'm sure by the time it comes back to me it will be lovely!
So here's my center, it is what it is. Like most of my things, it has a story. When I first came to this forum, I found this thread:
I don't get what the 'reciept' is for when making string quilts
And then before I joined the Fabric Moratorium I bought 50 pounds of fabric from an estate sale of "smaller pieces" (under 3 yards). I never got to meet Mary in real life, but I've spent some pretty significant time with her stash by now. My block of "ribbons" is made from a big bag full of what I thought were little fan blades, but later I found a number of "basket" blocks, maybe cake stand or candy dish -- haven't looked it up but no handle. The little blades turned out to have Mary's hand drawn tiny little triangles to make those baskets on the back of them. And I've been sticking them together as in that thread I listed. I'm hoping when my top comes back to me, to finish it with the basket blocks I have. I think I'll have enough for a top/bottom border to end it as a rectangle.