Plaster Class

Well I am back from the hospital.

Home after my fourth and hopefully final

correction of my bothersome leg.

If 17 years ago, my femur had been pinned correctly,

I wouldn't be lying here, in a cast from my ankle to upper thigh,

writing this sorry tale...

But it didn't get pinned correctly, all those years ago,

when I broke my femur, while living in Germany,

And I have had no end of trouble with my leg since then.

However this time, the consultant seemed happy with the operation

and now only time will tell how it all heals

and whether my leg is 'fixed' once and for all.

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It was so lovely having the boys to visit in hospital.

Sadly there was an outbreak of Novovirus in the hospital

and so we were advised not to bring Baby-Kalico in to visit me.

(My operation nearly didn't go ahead

as there were no 'clean' beds on the ward I needed to be on!

This was remedied at the last minute and I was lucky enough

to have my own room and my operation!!)

(The black brace was replaced with a cast
which was then replaced by another cast
after I twisted my knee in the first cast!)
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Oh boy! Did I ever miss this little face!!

Not sure she missed me as much

as I was told that she was very happy

the whole time I was away!

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At the last minute, while we were driving to the hospital,

I grabbed the handwork from my car

and shoved it into my hospital bag

so I worked on my rose-star hexagons

a little bit while recuperating from the operation.

It did cause quite a funny incident...

A 'nurse' who came around in the evening serving tea

saw what I was sewing and said

"Oh my little girl is sewing these"

Now I am sure her 'little girl' was probably sewing hexagons,

but I doubt they were as complex as these,

however far be it for me to say otherwise....,

but the cherry on the cake was when she picked one up,

looked at it disdainfully,
and when she tossed it back down rudely on my bed she said again:

"Yes, my little girl is sewing these".

It probably wouldn't have annoyed me if the tea she'd just served me had been in a clean mug!! :)

Pins, pins, pins

I never seem to have enough pins! Last night and today I have been doing lots of pinning. I have pinned 8 baby quilts, 2 are finished, 3 are in need of borders and the last 3 are just pinned LOL.

DS1 was taken out, I was at home in quaranteen with DS2 and his chicken pox SO while he slept, I laid out my Scrapbuster quilt on point with the navy corners. I have one more block to do, but it's pinned LOL. And then once that's sewn tonight I'll pin the whole thing together (see how many pins I need). DH came back from the shops with Jack and brought me some pins - he's the man! OK, I did ask him too, but seeing as he normally forgets stuff, I'm impressed.

Not much sewing, but soon...

Yesterday DH moved the wardrobes up to the new bedroom, this meant unpacking them all and repacking them again. It's amazing how it's easier to unpack than to repack. Somehow you can't just sling it back in as before, you feel the need to tidy it back, weird? Not like me at all LOL!
Here's the view from the new bedroom window

Here's an action shot of DH vaccuuming the carpet so that I have no excuse, but to repack the wardrobe...

Here's the view from the en-suite


So not much sewing done, although I did make a few decisions and did some preparation along these lines...

1. I am going to use my stash to piece together a backing fabric for my scrapbuster top and I will not be buying backing fabric. So I went through my boxes and chose fabric that I had liked at one point, but couldn't see myself using for a while as well as left over fabrics from other projects that would remind me of things when I turn the quilt over..Now I just need to sew them all together!

2. I am setting the scrapbuster quilt top on point and I am not buying any fabric for this purpose. In fact last night after packing some of the wardrobes back, I cut out the setting triangles (after much mathematical muddling on my part) from a large piece of navy fabric that I had. I was pleased to use this up as I had bought it by mistake! Don't ask, let's just say it looked like black when I bought it online LOL. The squares had to be 23" so it was a real fiddle to cut, but they are done now and waiting to be attached as soon as ...

3. I washed the fabrics for the hospital quilts, I hope to make a start tonight. They are very simple so I hope when I visit Vicky tomorrow, I will have at least one or 2 to take with me... this will depend on how my day pans out! As well as if I get the fabrics cut, ironed, pinned, sewn... Where does one find the time?