Heart String

I have made another heart string quilt. This one is for Jo a work colleague for my DH this time. Jo has breast cancer and will soon be undergoing either a lumpectomy or the more radical procedure of mastectomy, she is unsure yet of what is to come. I hope that this quilt will bring her some comfort.

The quilt was put together and quilted on my new machine. The blocks themselves came from Stephanie again. This quilt took longer than the one evening the other heart string quilt....3 days instead!!!

Weddings, birthday party, and my new toy

What a week I seemed to have worked almost non stop. In between juggling my 2 jobs, school holidays and my normal daily stuff, I helped a friend decorate for her boyfriends' 40th birthday party. Little did the majority of the guests know but there were to be an announcement to surprise one and all. First there was the "Thank you for coming, oh by the way we have just got engaged!!" and "Don't expect a wedding any time soon." Half and hour later walking into the room was the civil celebrant....."With the power etc...." and then they get married. The couples parents had no idea so there were a lot of screams, yells and tears. It was great night.

The only "down fall" of my busy schedule was that it prevented me getting intimate with my new toy
I brought myself a new Janome 6600p. I am still playing with it to figure out what it can do and I can do with it! But I competed my first project. I sewed a label for the quilt I have been working on and off for 2 years.

This quilt was made of scraps from my Bendigo signature quilt. Hundreds of scrap pieces joined together in long pieces, squared up then black borders placed around each block then cut on the skew. The quilting is a design the DH had played with using auto cad...just geometric shapes forming diamonds, stars, squares and kites.

Did you miss me?

The rain is falling outside, quite heavily too, I must get up and turn on a light but this is the first time in a while I have managed to get time in front of the puter long enough to side and update the blog. So I will and sit by the light of the monitor and continue to type.

Last weekend I have a get away with 9 other good friends. We went to Collingully, in Meckering, http://www.collingullycottage.com/, a wonderful "little" quilt shop with accommodation up stairs. We arrived around 330pm, after having to buy a new rear tyre in Northam, it had a 4" nail in the tyre that had eroded the inside away. Lucky to not have a blow out on the way, and of course the spare was in the boot, which was full with quilting essentials.

On arriving, after unpacking the car, I proceeded upstairs to put on my PJ's, of which I remained in all weekend!!! I showered Sat and proceeded to put on clean PJ's. Between us all we catered for the weekend, so every now and then we would get up reheat the next meal and then continue with the sewing.

On the weekend I manage to put together the majority of my scrappy oriental coins, need now to add borders. I then started to cut out the bits I needed to make the block for my Applewood BOM, "Pinwheels and Posies". I made 4 blocks of each. I then started to work on the Hydrangea flowers, 12 in total plus 72 leaves (not pictured).

I also stated to piece a bolster pillow that Lynley and I are working on. We will be working on it Saturday afternoon.

This last week I have started to decrease my antidepressants, I am hoping that I can come off them all together. My life style has changed a lot as well as my mental out look, and I feel that I am in a good place to try. I will have to go back to the Drs when I am on the lower dose to check my progress. At the moment I am alternating two doses to cut down, in another week I will be on the lower dose totally, should be interesting...that will be when I am hormonally challenged!!! Bring on TKD and the boxing bag!!!

Oh speaking of TKD I had grading two weeks ago and I am now a Yellow belt 2. Zach is a Red belt 1 and Sarah a Blue 2. David is a white belt in Kick boxing and has had his first lessons in the class....he was a little sore afterwards...oh I can empathise with that......I had days after I started fitness that I had trouble walking! The things we inflict of ourselves!!