scraps

well all i have started my paper piecing adventure, with very little time on my hands lately i havent had time to sit at my machine.
so im sorry to say bonnie hunters mystery quilt has gone into the too hard/no time/looks too complicated basket. and i am naughty and peeked at what it looks like in the end and i must say i think i should have used the same colours as bonnie did as i have seen some of the black red and white ones finished and i dont like them at all. but it is amazing what colour changes can do as i love the one that bonnie has done as it looks beautiful in those colours she has chosen. awww well learning curve
"hefty quilter thinks to her self " note to self dont do mystery quilts.
i mean really its each to their own some people love them i personally dont like the thought of starting something unless i know what it looks like in the end to start with "have i confused yall yet"? but i thought i would give this one the benifit of the doubt and start it but when i ran out of ME time to do any sewing i fell behind and saw what it looked like in the end. like i said i totally picked the wrong colours for it and didnt like the black and white and red finished.
so those first 2 steps will be put into a different quilt some how.
so this is as far as i have gotten with my english paper piecing and i love it , it will be finished by the end of 2008 and it WILL be for my bed, i love traditional quilts , i love the calico as it makes lots of stuff look antique. thats why i use so much of it i guess , ggg.
as i dont have much of a stash as such. i have alot of scraps and strips just big enuf to cut out my hexagons and use up all my scrappy bits, i guess i have just enuf scraps there for another 20 large hexagons the finished size of the hexagon block including calico borders around them is 7inches from one side to another. im guessing about 100 if im lucky maybe 150 to do a queen size , correct me if im wrong please lol
any way thats all for now im off to the hospital in a hour for more blood tests and then on tuesday im in for the cut to get my gall bladder out. ! wish me luck as i do not have too much faith in hospitals and doctors in australia , especially in queensland , thanks to dr jayant patel. if yall dont know who im talking about check out the link on the bottom of this post . it will show you how many people he killed at the bundaberg base hospital in queensland australia.
cheers.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Queenslands-Dr-Death-linked-to-80-deaths/2005/05/24/1116700709781.html

quilty coat of many colours?

gee this song brings back many fond memories as a child for me, my mum loved dolly parton and i get a warm feeling of calm when i hear this song.
i love it also cause it is one of the basis of the reason why quilting became what it is today.
not because of dolly but because back in the day they had to use scraps of rags to make clothes and blankets. but every quilter knows that so i need not explain. lol

what do you get ?

what do you get when you sit for 6 hours at the hospital waitiing for a sister whom had gone into day surgery for a colonoscopy that was supposed to only be there for 2 or 3 hours?
well 4 of the 6 hours i sat and stitched i started my hand sewing project which is some kind of english paper piecing i think lol i dunno the girls in quilt chat sent me this link and i decided i would have a crack at it.
this is what i achieved in 4 hours along with allot of patience because everyone in the room was hungry as they all had to fast the night before and by 4pm they were getting mad!
so was i too actually cause i didnt take my lunch with me (im on a diet) and what they said was supposed to be 2-3 hours turned into 5-6 hours.
so when she recovered from the anistetic i dragged her out of there and came home to cook dinnner. i tell you there is no rest for the wicked lol
theres always house work to do or someone to take care of , always some one wanting to be waited on hand and foot.
I agree with judy at sugar queens dream , yes for the most part i love men too but there comes a point when enuf is enuf , after me sitting at the hospital all day and i got home at 6.pm i walk throught the door and look at my dh sitting on the couch watching the idot box.
he had been home since 2.30pm and it was too much effort to start putting dinner on or even bathing our 3 year old.
i was furious along with lack of sugar due to my diet , i was starving i could have eaten a horse and chewed on the rider too.
but it never occurs to him it would have been nice for him to start dinner or bath lily.
considering when he goes to work , i always iron his work uniforms, pack his lunch for him make him coffee in the mornings, make him a snack when he gets home from work , make dinner , do the dishes, pick up the clothes he has dropped on the floor at the end of the bed cause he is too lazy to take 3 steps to put them in the washing basket. as well as bath our daughter and all the while, while he is at work i do the house work , contend with my 2 older sisters and their 3 kids whom are usually here all day everyday and usually end up staying for dinner.
you could call this "HEFTY'S DINER"
i never get a break from my dd in the 3 years i have had her lol. i have had 1 day off from her, dh doesnt belive in daycare.
im usually the family daycare cause i have constantly got my sisters kids for some reason.
there are not enuf hours in the day for me, and by the time im due to host my slot in quiltchat i am exhausted and dont make it into the chat room most nites which is bad cause it is something i love.
but of course something has to give and i am handing in my deputy's badge back to the sherrif and will no longer be a OP in my favourite chat room.
oh and the complaints go on and on but thats enuf for now lol
i have vented and feel better now.

where do i start?

yes i know its been almost a whole month since my last post , i wont go into all the boring details as to why i haven't been blogging and why i haven't been in quilt chat.
And yes i know i am wayyyyyyyyy behind in the bonnie hunter mystery quilt steps i have only just finished step one I'm using white on black , red, and calico my favorite fabric lol
and yes i know everyone is doing red and black and white but my sister#2 like black and white and i thought it is time she had a quilt.
considering sister#1 finally received her brown turning twenty quilt for her birthday a few days late but she got it lol.
She couldn't be happier with it even tho much to my dismay i didn't like the stitching in the ditch that she wanted.
so here's a picture of step 1 that i have completed.

On the home front, i finally got my surgery date which is 5Th of February 2008 to have my nasty old gallbladder removed.
So I'm gearing up for that the girls in quilt chat tell me no sitting at my machine whilst recovering as it will kill me with the pain and more than likely pull my stitches that will have, i am having key hole surgery they make 5 incisions to get that sucker out and remove it from my belly button. So now i have to find a english paper piecing project i can do whilst i sit infront of the tv for 5 weeks, thinking i mite do something like cathederal windows or grandmothers garden i think thats what they are called.

DH is still limping around on his sore foot that he hurt at work and he got the all clear from the doctors back in august that he was fine after spending 2 weeks in plaster they said it wasn't fractured.
well anyway the health and safety officer at work asked him last week if it was still hurting and he said "yes of course it is you don't think i would be limping if it wasn't hurting and still playing up" so back off to the doctor and they xray'ed it again and still weren't sure if it was fractured so they sent him for a MRI on his foot and found yes it is fractured in the TALUS what ever that is lol. so the poor bugger has been walking around on a fractured foot since august 2007,
so they inform him that he either has to have it back in plaster for 2 months or have surgery on it and then back in plaster for a couple of months either way he is having it in plaster, so once again the maid (ME) will be indisposed for about 2- 3 months waiting hand and foot on him, so in that time my quilting and my chatting will once again suffer as he doesn't think it is valuable use of my time lol. (joking)
no seriously having him at home for 2 months will be like having 2 kids at home.
so if you all don't hear from me for a couple of months you will know why lol.