Oh Lotti I am so sorry to hear you had a bad bad night. I hope the cortisone has kicked in and you are beginning to feel a little better. I would not like to be doing that journey next week in your condition, I hope you are much better by then.

Great rugs! Take care, Lotti!

How pretty the mug rugs, Connie! Glad you figured out what is going on with the pain, Lotti... I don't envy you going to Shenzhen while your trying to heal. Do take care!

Two in process ! Another one started today !

No pressure then girls

Thanks for the story, Rita. So amusing!! Your kids must have been thrilled with their bedtime stories when growing up! I have to just read books to kids since I'm terrible at making up stories.

Connie, the mug rugs you made are wonderful! Lotti and Rita are very lucky!! I can't wait to see what you get in return since Lotti and Rita always make such beautiful stuff!

Lotti, I hope your knee feels better soon. I'm glad you went in to get it checked out!

Nancy

Dang, Lotti, hope you feel better soon. At least feeling better with cortisone is fast acting. All the mug rugs are gorgeous. Isn't Connie's precision amazing?

I love the mug rugs, well done Connie making them different.

Poor Lottie hope it clears up soon. So it was a lot more than the cramp. Did doc say rest , fat chance with you.

Great story Rita

Oh Lottie, poor you. I hope the treatment works and the pain goes away soon but stay away from any saws just in case

Lottie and Rita your mug rugs are terrific. Lovely work Connie.

Lottie and Rita both those mugrugs are great.
Lottie hope you get to feeling better soon.

I just received my first rug mug in the post today, yipee! It's so lovely Connie thank you so much. A friendship braid with my initial (so nobody else in the family can use it.) and it is so perfectly done. There is even a pretty little label on the back. And also a photo of Connie in her sewing room - what a great sewing room! Your's is so much tidier than mine.

And now for something extra special...
When I came home from the doctor today I found a big white envelope in my mailbox...
Guess from whom?
Duuuuh, would it be posted here if it was the winning 'badly packed' stuff from Alex?
Noooooo, I am now the oh so happy owner of a fabulous Connie-0riginal-MugRug!!!

Yup, here is....
The beautiful fabulous, oh so beautifully sewn back


And.... Drumroll please.............


Isn't it wonderful?
Can't wait to tale it to the office tomorrow and show it off to everyone!!!
Will it be a MugRug for actual mugs? Certainly of Connie ever calls! Until then? Maybe well start with a nice spot on the office wall first!
Since I moved into my new office only about a year ago, there are still some empty closet doors... Think we'll have one dedicated to mug rugs and other Quilty things...


And, Oh, yeah the doctor... After the night from hell, I decided it was time to call the doctor and ask his opinion... Loads of pain and cramps all night, no amount of painkillers would do the trick, well I stopped short of OD'ing on them... I ended up sleeping for exactly one hour, from six am until seven am... Way too little even for me. Doctor said that I absolutely need to drop in... And I did, after hurting me a little more, he decided that I have an infected knee, wasn't sure if the tendons or what, but definitely needed immediate treatment. Got blood tested. My nice do for who usually does acupuncture, all kinds of alternative meds and treatments decided that we need to roll out the heavy stuff... So I now have to do a short treatment of cortisone... Hate the stuff, but he convinced me, and as I get to take tablets, for only three days, they should hopefully help and then get washed out, apparently the cortisone shots take a good two weeks to be worked out by the system, the tablets should be out much faster. And as I'll be hopping on that nice short 14 hour flight to Shenzhen on Sunday, this is no time for dilly dallying... After last night, I don't really care what I have to take to make it better, by four am I would have happily chopped off my whole leg if that had been an option!
So very early night tonight (in fact I've been in bed for e past half hour...), and hopefully back to work and actually be useful tomorrow!

Rita, you keep me in stitches. Great ad-lib

I'm certainly hoping...