More Pink RSC

I’ve been “in the pink” again this week, stitching up more pink blocks for my Rainbow Scrap Challenge projects, starting with pink four patches.  The larger blocks are called Colour Chains, I believe, and I borrowed the idea of this block from Mari of the Academic Quilter’s blog.  I remember lamenting not too long ago that I was really had enough of making these four patch blocks, which have been carried over from last year’s RSC.  A count up has shown that I only need two more to have enough to make a quilt. The bottom two blocks are easy framed four patches, one in pink, and the other in black/white with a touch of pink in the frame.

Pink four patch blocks

Some more simple stitching and I had done the string blocks for this month.  I merrily stitched away and made a 12 inch block in pink, then since I've decided that I may as well make some 9 inch blocks too, made one in pink and one in cream/neutral.  I still  need to trim these down to the exact size, will probably wait till I’ve finished them all before I do this step.

Pink and cream string blocks

We’ve had a busy week with one thing and another.  On Wednesday morning we went down to the Health Centre to get our flu vaccinations.  No appointments necessary, just turn up, we were told.  It was all done quickly and efficiently and we never felt a thing!  With the New Zealand borders closed for the past two years there has not been any influenza circulating in the community, so those in the know are concerned that there could well be a large outbreak this winter once visitors from overseas start arriving shortly.

Time for our flu vaccination

Poor Robin had a medical emergency the next day.  After a spending a wakeful night in pain with a throbbing tooth, we were thankful to get an emergency dental appointment in the morning.  He spent the night sitting up on his Lazyboy recliner chair as it was too painful for him to be laying down.   No wonder he was in so much agony, he had an abscessed tooth which needed to come out.  A script for antibiotics was issued, and he is now well on the road to recovery.  Not an experience he wants to repeat, he told me.  I took my knitting with me to the dental surgery while I was waiting for him to get his tooth attended to. 

Knitting in the dental surgery waiting room

So that’s been my week.  We are spending this weekend at home, so I hope to get some more sewing done.  Then Easter will be here before we know it, and we will be off and away in the caravan.