Scrappy stars

I had big plans for my summer:

a two-week road trip, lots of quilting, visiting with friends.

So far, that's not the way it's turning out.

My summer has taken a bit of a detour.

Instead of a road trip or working on quilts,

I've spent much of the last 10 days holding down the couch

due to an injury to my sacroiliac joint.

The SI joint is one of those parts of the body

that is affected by nearly every movement,

like bending and twisting and sitting and turning over in bed.

It's slowly improving, and yesterday I managed to sew a bit.

Lots of you were enthusiastic about the zig zag layout for my large scrappy HST.

I ventured into another direction 

with these 24 inch stars

and calmed them down with neutral corners

instead of the HST corners as above.

Sometimes we just have to refocus, regroup, rethink

and take a road we hadn't planned on.

One silver lining?

Quilt camp is on tonight at my house!

I've committed to spending every Wednesday evening quilting

with my quilty friends.

That's a good antidote to an aching SI joint.

I'm linking up to The Needle and Thread Network.