LAUNDRY BAGS

About a month ago I cut out 5 Laundry bags, these are the first 3 I have sewn up. I am looking forward to making more.

Cheers
Kaylee

AUSSIE HERO QUILTS APRIL BOM

Each month Aussie Hero Quilts and Laundry Bags post a BOM, the April BOM is a star block, ta da, this is the first time I have made a star block so I made two, they were fun and easy to make. I have sent them off to Aussie Hero Quilts.  I can see myself making many more of these star blocks.

I have also been busy making some bias binding to use on little girls dresses.

Cheers
Kaylee

BACK AT IT AND SOME SEWING

                                                                         

I cut out LOTS of 6-1/2" squares, enough for two quilt tops.

Then I sewed them into 6 of these.


                                       

Then I made this quilt top, I just need to put a boarder on it and I will be sending it off to
Aussie Hero Quilts (and Laundry Bags).

                                               

My first quilt top for Aussie Hero Quilts, if you have some spare time and some material scraps Aussie Hero Quilts are looking for new members to help make quilts and laundry bags for our guys and gals serving overseas.  They will accept any scrappy quilt top or whole quilt you can make.

Cheers
Kaylee

POST KNEE OP

I hope everyone had a great Easter break, mine was a quiet and relaxing one as I had my knee op just before Easter. I won't post any gory photos, I am going really well and it was successful . I am very happy and was lucky not to have suffered much pain. I would definitely go to the same Orthopaedic surgeon again if I need something else done and would recommend him to anyone who needed work done. Cheers Kaylee

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATE

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY DARLING KATE, HAPPY 25TH BIRTHDAY SWEETHEART.

My eledest daughter had a birthday yesterday, turning 25, oh my where have those years gone, I can remember so vividly holding her in my arms as a tiny baby. Kate is the most wonderful, thoughtful, supportive, gorgeous daughter I could have hoped for and I just "love her to the moon and back".

We have been lucky enough to have been at Kate's since Friday night celebrating this milestone with her for the whole weekend.

Have a great Monday everyone.
Cheers
Kaylee

FABRIC CUTTING

I have been cutting, cutting and more cutting. A couple of hours on Saturday and a couple of hours on Sunday I spent cutting fabric. I did this all sitting down as I can't stand for too long. Firstly I have cut out 5 Laundry Bags.

Secondly I cut out LOTS of 6-1/2" squares to make disappearing 9 patches to make quilts for Aussie Hero Quilts and Laundry bags. This will be my first time to make a dissappearing 9 patch and I am looking forward to seeing the finished quilts.

Cheers

Kaylee

KNEE OPERATION

                                                                        

It all began over the Christmas/New Year holidays, I woke one day and my right knee was a little sore, it gradually got worse during the day so I took a Mobic (anti inflammatory) for 5 days and the pain was gone, one and a half days later the pain came back so I repeated this process twice more, I couldn't understand why the pain kept coming back until eventually the tablets weren't working. Finally I decided to go to the Dr after a weekend of pain and only getting approx 8 hours sleep over a 48 hour period. The Dr sent me for blood tests and an xray, two days later I walked up town during my lunch break to do a job and on the way back I could barely make it back to the office, I was in excruiating pain, I was lucky if I got 3 hours sleep that night. The pain was so bad it brought me to tears on the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The following morning I didn't go to work and I was seeing the Dr for my test results, xray clear, blood tests showed an elevated level in uric acid so the Dr said "you have gout" which is a first for me and I hope NEVER again might I add, the Dr put me on gout medication, now usually you only need to take 10 tablets and it is cleared, well I saw the Dr a week later and still had the pain though of course not nearly as bad, he told me to keep taking the gout medication and meanwhile 22 tablets later I still had pain. So another trip back to the Dr which brings us to Monday of last week (25 February) and he suspected I might have a tear in my cartlidge, so this time he sent me for blood tests and an MRI. Thursday morning and another trip to the Dr for the results, yes I have a torn medial meniscus (my right knee cartlidge). So I saw the Orthopaedic surgeon this morning and I am having an operation on Tuesday 26 March, I really don't want to but the pain is at an unacceptable level for me to put up with indefinately and considering I have had the pain now for
10-11 weeks and another 3 weeks before the operation, that's enough pain for me for now.

Cheers
Kaylee