Improvising

As the old saying goes -- necessity is the mother of invention.

I changed the saying a bit to read -- necessity is the mother of improvising.

I discovered that if I put a cutting mat on my pressing table which is fairly firm and higher than my cutting table by about 3 inches that I could do some cutting with the rotary cutter.  I had to limit the size and amount of cutting to match my out of sync eyes.  But I could do a little bit of cutting.

On this quilt I had sewn the last two side borders in place before the right eye surgery.  I had the top and bottom border to sew in place.  These were cut already.  I just had to piece the borders together to get the right size.  With the top and bottom borders at the correct size I put these in place and did the sewing and pressing.

I then did the piecing for the binding and was able to stitch that in place.  Now, will I be able to see well enough to do the hand stitching?  That is the question of the day.  I will check into that tomorrow.

This is the quilt with the borders and binding in place.

This isn't my best work but I made it to be a play quilt, to be used and used for the play of little girls.  Which I know nothing about since I have only boys.

And speaking of handwork, I tried to pick up my embroidery for a second time with no luck.  At least at that moment in time my eyes were way out of sync.  I will keep trying.