Lots of Quilting Progress

when I am stressed I sew

and

I sew as much as I can

and as my stress level is a bit out of control

at the moment

I have done quite a bit of sewing

starting with my mummy's chemo quilt

this little bit of love, is just waiting to be quilted now

it has all its borders on

the block layout has been swapped around a little bit

and its bright and happy and I hope it

makes Mum feel a little bit better on a bad day

and that she feels the love I have for her when she

is snuggling under it

and In My Garden, as of 4pm today it just needs its final border

stitched on, then when I get home I will quilt it, just

in the ditch very basic but that is all it needs

I will take proper photos of both quilts tomorrow when my

quilt holder uperers are awake and home from

school.

My sister is home from her holiday, I have spoken to her

she is in shock like the rest of us, its the unknown that

we aren't liking, I spoke to my brother yesterday

he said he didn't know what he should do, not

that any of us know what we should do

I am so happy that I am going

home next week, it will be the first of a few trips

home this year, I am hoping to go down at least once every

12 weeks, for as long as I am needed.

Life can be so unfair sometimes, but I guess that is what life is

all about. You take the happy with the sad, the good with the bad

and we are now taking one day at a time.



My Mummy

has cancer,

Non Hodgkins Lymphoma

and

stage 3A lung cancer

she saw her oncologist this morning and

next week starts radiation and chemotherapy

treatment.

Its a very scary time for us all but she is very positive that she

will still be around in 20 years

she asked could they give her the thick white hair chemo

as she has very thin hair at the moment.

Lots of prayers are still needed that my mummy

wins the biggest fight of her life.

I am flying home next week for about 10 days

to do what I can do to help, to spend some time with her

and to give her the quilt I made yesterday.

Its my mummy's chemo quilt

stitched with lots of love, just for her.

Now if you know my mama

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not say anything unless she does

as my sister and brother still haven't been told.

I was only told because they had to cancel postpone their trip

to visit us at the end of Febuary.

They will both find out

tomorrow

fingers, toes, everything crossed please

and I am going home yippee

Trying to Think Positive

but if my dh tells

everything is going to be FINE

once more I am going to smack him over

the head with a frying pan........

I know he means well

but we already know

everything isn't going to be fine

today is the day we find out

just how full on the fight

is going to be

and the waiting to know is the hardest thing

 I am dealing with at the moment

xxx

Trying to keep busy

So that means serious sewing time.

Dh has been fabulous, he has kept the kids

occupied for me today and the house quiet

I didn't sleep very well last night

and I had a hangover due to a

serious case of drowning my sorrows

and I was up way to early like 6am 

anyhoo, last night I picked out 2 quilt patterns

1 time consuming, complex pattern

and 1 oh so simple pattern

I started on the complex one and after

repeatedly unpicking it I put it aside

for another day when I don't have so much

on my mind and when I can concentrate

This is what I made instead ( its not the oh so easy pattern either)

fabric is Fig tree quilts, there is a pale yellow spot 2 1/2"

border to go on and then a redy floral  5 1/2" border

and its done, ready for quilting as soon as I get some wadding

and backing fabric later in the week, once this is sewn up tomorrow

I will start on the 2nd oh so easy pattern, just to keep busy

 I stitched block 8 of In My Garden together after dinner

and have done nearly all the stitching tonight  (4 words to go)

while I tried to watch tv

block 9 is finished I will get that sewn up ready for stitching in

front of the tv tomorrow night

and the fabric I bought in Batemans Bay



Thank you all for your prayers and good thoughts for my family

it means so much to me

xxxx



So very Sad

I just received some devastating news

can't go into it too much yet

I will share eventually

but I am absolutely shattered

devastated

sad

scared

worried

and I wish I wasn't here.

If you are the praying kind

please say a few prayers

for my entire family

we are going to need all the help we can get

over the next few months

I'll be back soon, I just need some time to

process the news I have been given

and to give up smoking!

xxx

First finish for 2012

I have been storing crates, boxes of fabric,

boxes of stuff, my empty sewing machine box

and other 'stuff' under the quilty beasts table

I see that stuff everyday, and everyday it

drives me crazy.

So today at lunch I decided that today was the

day to make the quilty beast table a skirt.

So I dug through my most likely never to be used fabric

and found a range that I thought would work as I

had enough to do my thing with

2 hours of sewing,

14 cup hooks,

5 metres of curtain wire stuff

7 metres of fabric and

ta da

the quilty beast has a skirt

and I love the change it has made to my sewing room

and Henrycat has a new hiding place to chase

his lizards into lol

I have left the back open as its against the wall unless the beast

is in use

Two of the girlies and I went to Tura Beach today to collect

a Sunbeam Reversagrill. I can't wait to use it

It can be used with the grill plate

or with the flat plate

I am planning on using the grill plate more than the

flat plate.

I have started stitching again at night.

I am onto the final block of In My Garden,

I have 2 and bit little blocks to go

then

2 big blocks to sew together.

Then it will be all sewn together, borders added

and quilted.

I can't wait to get it done and hanging up somewhere.

School goes back on Monday yippee, the kids can't wait and

if I am honest neither can I, its been a l-o-n-g 6 weeks.

Have a great weekend, happy stitching if you get a chance.

I have a housework date tomorrow, then we have some of dh's

family arriving, we haven't seen them since our wedding and they haven't met our girls

so it should be a fun day.

Sunday we are planing on going for a hike up Mt Imlay if the weather

is fine otherwise it will be a day in my sewing room for me.



Shopping from our holiday

From Bungandore I bought theses

A Singer Sewing machine caddy box

and this delicious trinket box

and from a little shop in Mogo where I went searching for

Silicone egg poachers to use when we are camping

I found these tins, and I love them.



thats all the shopping I did, oh I did by some fabric but thats downstairs

being used in my Some Kind Of Wonderful quilt.

4.3 people

Yep there is now 4.3kgs less of me

and I am feeling so happy with myself, especially

as I managed to lose 1.4kgs while we were away!

anyhoo onto a very tiny amount of sewing

that was done yesterday

on my Some Kind Of Wonderful quilt.

January's blocks

mind you I only had to stitch them into the strip,

the ice cream is part of February's blocks

and January's sashin is aready sewn onto Decembers blocks.

Guess I should get cracking on the final block of In My Garden

so I can get it finished and quilted and hung on the wall,

before my mama and daddy arrive in exactly

1 MONTH woo hoo

and I am looking forward to Monday because

SCHOOL STARTS for 2012.



We've been Camping

Last Monday we packed up the car and hooked up the trailer and left for a

camping trip.

1st stop was Canberra

Black Mountain Tower

The National Muesum of Australia

The War Memorial

Thursday we packed up and headed to Batemans Bay

along the way we stopped at 2 quilt shops in Bungandore and

Braidwood, I bought a tin sewing caddy and a gorgeous timber box in

Bungandore but nothing in Braidwood

I bought 3 pieces of fabric in Batemans Bay  and that was the extend of my sewing

on our trip, I packed it, took it, and didn't do any of it.

We packed up on Sunday morning and took the kids to Mogo Zoo

it waas FANTASTIC we saw

Meerkats

Rothschild giraffes

Simiang Monkeys

Snow Leopards

Ringtailed Lemurs

Monkeys

Red Pandas

Sumatran Tigers

Feral Kids

White Lions

and so many more.

We finally arrived home last night around 6, today I got the fun job of

5 loads of washing, a trip to the supermarket and unpacking.

and I still have 2 loads left to wash but have no room on the clothes line

to hang it out.

We had a FABULOUS time and are busy deciding where we will go for easter



Time Flies

Happy New Year everyone, I hope you all

had fun celebrating the new year.

Personally I was in bed by 10:30 asleep.

So the past few couple of weeks we have been

busy busy busy

with trips to the beach

trips to the pool

we have been on long bike rides

and big walks

we have slept in and stayed up late

we have played the wii and lots of board games

and cards.

and we have walked, ALOT

 dh and I  get up at 6 each morning and walk

for 1 hr, we average 5km then the kids and I head to the

beach and do another 2.5km, along the path

 I walk they ride their scooters.

this year I am determined to get

healthier

I haven't drunk any alcohol since

Dec 30, 2011

I haven't drunk any diet coke since

Dec 30 2011

I have cut my coffee intake down to 2 per day

1 with breakfast and 1 after dinner

 I am drinking 4 litres of water a day

we are eating low fat healthy food all the time

and since December 30 2011 there is

2.8 kg less of me.

and I feel fantastic.

2012 is going to be the year of the healthy me.

I am ashamed to say though that there has been very little

sewing being done, I haven't touched my machine since

before Christmas, and I haven't done very much hand sewing

at night either.

I have finished January's blocks for

Some Kind Of Wonderful

and I am onto the FINAL BLOCK of

In my Garden

as soon as school goes back life will return to normal for 4 weeks

then my mummy and daddy are arriving for a holiday

I am so excited.

Enjoy your summer holidays everyone