Another Finish & Goodbye

Yes, another finish

on Saturday I made Heather Bailey's 

Book Bag

made in 2 hours, it does have a couple of adjustments

the pattern used ruffles and I didn't want ruffles, so I

left them off, but the ruffles give the bag flap

length so my flap was to short.

Minor addition and the flap is long enough

the handle also wasn't long enough for me, so I added

a bit onto the length, then it was too long so I 'took' it

up to the right length.

Fabric came from Japan, its been in my stash since we lived in

Western Australia

and look at my hexagon progress, I need to stitch the top

point section together and the centre diamond will be made

I put it on my bed yesterday and the diamond is huge, so my 

original plan to add 2 rows around once its finished has been

cancelled, I will make 2 half diamonds, sew it to the 

background, sandwich it, do a crosshatch pattern,

bind it and it shall be done.

I have lots of hexies ready to do while we travel and

are away

Which is where the goodbye comes into it

I won't get a chance to get online again so its goodbye,

see ya later for nearly 2 weeks

A Big Finish

Ta Da

Tail Feathers 

designed by Natalie Lymer of CinderberryStitches

using Butterscotch & Rose fabrics

dodgy photo but the holder uperers are at school

now I need your thoughts and opinions

remember I cut up 4 jelly rolls to make a hexagon quilt

well I pulled what I had done off the wall on Sunday and

started sewing the hexagons together

and yesterday it hit me as to what I should do with all those

hexagons

I will add another 2 rows to the outside of the uber large diamond

then appliqué it to the centre of the background fabric 

then I thought I could make 2 half diamonds to appliqué

to each side of the background fabric 

sheesh here is a really bad diagram of what I mean

will that look ok or should I make 4 half diamonds and

have them appliquéd top and bottom also??

I am open to suggestions, please

and yes I have more than enough hexagons to create this

big quilt for my bed

we are going away next week, home for my mama's birthday

can you guess what I will be doing as we drive to Melbourne

on Wednesday and then as we sail across 

Bass Strait on Thursday

go on have a guess :)

and big congratulations to 2 of my girlies who are 

SSC reps for their classes with badges!

Google Reader

I am confused!

Am I going to lose my blogs I read list on the sidebar

Or

The list of latest blogposts when I sign in (which I ignore and use the list on my blog sidebar)

Can someone please clarify because googling google reader just confused me even more

The plan of attack

Is Chemo ....... Again

This will be round 3 of chemo for her, then as far as I know they will reassess in 3 months.

At least it's 'treatable'

Thanks for all the P&PT xx

Needing Prayers & Positive Thoughts today

Mum has had a recurrence of her lung cancer and today we will get the results to see exactly what we are dealing with and whether the treatment her oncolgist wants to do is an option.

I tell you the wait is driving me crazy and I am just hoping she will tell me the truth, she had a lung biopsy last week but told me she just had a broncoscopy to see what her airway was like.........hello mum, you should know that my sister will always tell me the truth, you have been rumbled

So pleased we are heading home on 2 weeks for her birthday and Easter.

If you could say a little prayer for her I would be very grateful :)

Really.....

I am unpicking YET AGAIN

Sheesh will I ever get these blocks made

They are supposed to have the 2 dark triangles at the top, so why did I put the light triangles at the top....

Reverse Sewing Marathon

that was my day,

I am working on Block 4 of Civil War Journals

and yesterday I started to sew the remaining 9 blocks

all was going fabulously until I realised that instead of sewing theses

I had sewn these

and today my ironing board portable work space

looks like this :(

I unpicked 144 pieces of fabric and then re-sewed them

the correct way..... 

Ugh its been a while since I have had a day like that!