Catching You Up! Sewing, Health, Gaming, In Hand Games

I have not been doing much sewing lately as life has been hectic.  My fatigue had improved a bit, then got worse again and so sewing goes by the wayside as I try to get more rest.  I cannot recall if I shared these snowmen which I sewed on two different days I did get in here.  One to go before I can assemble it into a cute wall hanging. I just love snowmen!
                                        

This is Cascadia above. In this picture I am playing it solo with an AI, just as fun as having a partner.
I have been gaming (and solo gaming) more this year.  It is something I can do on the hospital table by my bed, or in some cases even lying in bed.  I recently got Harmonies (which is a super fun, easy to set up, easy to learn game in which you are building habitats for your chosen animals) but the bag that came with it had a loose weave and did not last long.  

                                        

Above is full size Azul. We love to play it outside!  We love Azul (but had not played it in forever) so I got us Mini Azul (which is a tile laying game) and though it came with a nice bag to hold all the materials, we wanted another bag for pulling the tiles.  I repaired the loose weave bag and made one extra bag which I think I put with my Cascadia game.

Below is Mini Azul which we have already been making good use of since Kathy has been in the hospital again.  She had surgery a few months ago on her neck and got sick a month ago with a UTI (we thought) and took antibiotics.  Then two weeks ago she got worse, and thought it was the flu.  I dragged her in to the ER and they determined she had a kidney infection (and likely had it from the catheter from her neck surgery) and sepsis.  It is the third time she has had sepsis.  So back into the hospital she went last week Sunday.  For a hot minute they thought she had C Diff, but thank goodness no.  They let her out after four days or so with a PICC line and we had to do antibiotics each morning.  That was fun.  So, Monday she went in for bloodwork and since her knee was swollen and she was having trouble walking they admitted her again.  Infection in knee hardware.  So, they had to open her knee and exchange the disc and do a wash.  Hopefully she will come home (again on iv antibiotics) today.  So anyhow, we have played Mini Azul at the hospital.  We also played our travel Sequence which we have not played in more than a decade.

I did manage to sew my Rainbow Scrap Challenge from A Quilting Life's BOM at some point. I always convert the cuts to Bonnie's ruler as it saves fabric and I have strips in the sizes needed.  However, this day I did the math wrong (for the larger size) and had to cut down all of them so I did not save fabric.  I was over it by then.

I am loving how each pair of blocks comes out each month.  I need to take a picture of all the blocks so far since we are halfway through the year.  Really happy I decided to do double duty on the BOM and the RSC since my sewing time is limited.  

I posted to my ME/CFS Facebook group a picture (in which I forgot Numbsters) and a post about card games you can play in bed.  Some are quite easy and others use more spoons.  It got a really good response, and I was asked to write an article for an online publication for those with ME/CFS.  After it goes live I will link to it and/or post it here.   I had also posted the same picture on a solo gaming group and asked if people knew of other in hand games.  I was shocked to find out that there are over fifty of them!  That led me into a deep dive to research them all and make a few and learn a few.  So, I spent several days last week writing the article as it made my brain more tired than it should have.  I enjoyed it though! 

I took a new picture for the article and included Numbsters and a few of the new ones I just discovered, and managed to forget Maiden's Quest in this picture though I talked about it in the article.  If you are interested in games that can be played in hand or in bed (in case you or someone you love is chronically ill) you can find the lists on Board Game Geek titled "Solo In-Hand Games: A Not Anymore Comprehensive List ;)" and "Solo Card Games that Can Be Played in the Hand."