SOME work on swoops

Lol. I don't know if my previous analysis of my swoops and spikes piece was accurate or not, but I certainly seem to have internalized it! I got this nasty flu on Thurs night, but Friday day (betas at 4) sent me into the studio to work on it. I moved most of the rays around in the top bit, and pieced them for the last three bits, and decided to applique them with a monofilament blindstitch instead of the turned-under straight stitch approach I had been using, so all of that is out now too (or will be shortly!)

I'm not a big foundation piecer, but trying to remember how to do it with a fever? YIKES! I got my money's worth out of my seam ripper *that* day! I tried to go back in yesterday (Sat was a *complete* washout) but DH saw me swaying in the breeze and lungeing for furniture to hold myself up on and put the kabosh on that idea. No machinery, no sharp objects, no opportunities to burn myself. No fun. I *did* manage to dump the content of my scrap drawer into my Vietnamese rice basket (lovely little indulgence of mine over the winter - $20! Couldn't pass *that* up!!!) and proceeded to sort them by color groups (some by value or theme)to go into baggies. I found some nice subtleties that I didn't know were lurking there, and I think that they might find their way into some postcards as soon as I'm allowed back into my forbidden studio again.

Swoops though? I think it is benched again for a while, since I am NOT! Lo and behold, I got my period on Sat evening (after interspersed fevered sleep and FMT - funny movie therapy - all day), called my Dr, and I leave here in - gosh - 5 minutes to get my baseline work done for this new cycle! I made a bunch of headway on it, but hopefully it will just have to stay up there, unfinished even, until next March! I'm sure that even if this cycle takes though, that there will be days when I am feeling unsure of it all, so it might get some more work done then... but the spike itself might just have to wait!