sniffle, sniffle.

I somehow managed to contract a cold. All day yesterday I told myself it was allergies, but now today I had the body-aches and I had a slight fever - which never happen with allergies. I've been drinking lots of hot tea and juice, yes, and squirting that zinc stuff up my nose.

I ran out of orange juice but simply do not have the energy to brave the Sunday afternoon Mart of Wal crowds to get another one. Maybe tomorrow at noon when I get out of class.

I may have caught it from one of the youth group kids - a couple of them were kind of sniffling Wednesday night. And the end of the week was sort of low-level stressful (the food didn't get done on time for Youth Group and the person who donated it is a shut-in so we had to prepare it, my co-leader and I were running around like Lucy and Ethel in the kitchen while we had the kids work on their homework in the eating area). And there was the worry about my chair's husband, and some time-crunch things. And I think it just depressed my immune system enough that I caught the cold.

So I've spent most of the day sacked out on the couch (I did go to church but did my geeky "I'm not going to shake hands with you because I have a cold and hand-to-hand contact is a good way to pass viruses" thing).

I did do this:


I know I showed a shot of this before when it was just a top, but now it's finished.
I finally got the border on one of the three quilts I've had quilted recently. I forget what the piecing pattern is called, but it's basically a modification of the old Rail Fence pattern. I realize now the picture's a bit out of focus (and the quilt looks foreshortened), but with my ears stopped up a little I don't want to be climbing on chairs to try to take a more "aerial" shot of it.

And here's a closeup, showing a corner of the backing fabric. I really like that backing fabric and I'm so proud of it, it was on sale for $3 a yard, which is really cheap for first-quality quilt fabric. (I often pick things up at the end of their "season." To me, fabric doesn't have a "season" if I like it.)

The quilt is about 4' by 4' - lap quilt size, or "put across the bottom of the bed so my feet don't get cold" size.

I also finished the first of the Caribic socks for the Dulaan box, and am debating whether to cast on for the second, or whether to try to finish the second sleeve of the Hourglass while I read and knit this afternoon.