Tag: Quilting

Are things looking up for me or what today?? This morning I found $10 hiding in my rain jacket pocket that I didn’t realise was there … woohoo!! And what did I do with that $10?? I was very very naughty and went shopping and blew the lot! Not grocery shopping, though (I actually already spent most of my last $20 in my wallet at lunchtime on essential items) …

I called in on the way home to pick up my car dashboard cover that was ordered (and thankfully paid for) a few weeks ago, and while I was there called into Spotlight to see if they had any freezer paper. They didn’t, so I called into Amitie in Bentleigh, who had also just sold out … Never fear, though, they made a quick phone call for me to this little place, and they had rolls of it in stock:

I couldn’t believe my eyes – and I’ll definitely be returning there when I have some free cash … all-American goods, including some of the ‘weird’ items that I’d never heard of in my recipe books. Aha, now I’m going to look back into some of those American cookbooks and check it out … plus if there’s anything else in those books that I’ve never heard of, at least they’ll be able to tell me what the local equivalent is, if there is one 😀 Here’s the website if anyone’s interested, as they also do mail order it seems … AND they have ALTOID TINS woohoo!!!!! And I have to say they had those Halloween candy corn lollies I’ve never ever seen before – and Lipton iced tea in cans etc … I’m in heaven! 😉 (I LOVE trying new stuff where food’s concerned … it’s a whole new treasure trove to explore!)

Oh yeah, back to what I splurged my new-found wealth on … a roll of freezer paper 😀 So that means I’m now all set to start thinking more seriously about my applique quilt. I’m about to go and soak all the yellow background fabrics and the blue fabric from the first block ready to start sometime soon. It will be really nice to have a light quilt on the bed for during the summer months … of course, I’m not saying exactly WHICH summer this will get finished, but hopefully some time before I retire – so I’ve got about 25 years to get it done LOL.

Other than that, I’ve got a real pep in my step today – I love the 6am starts (strangely enough, ‘cos I’m not a morning person), ‘cos I can still do a few chores such as shopping straight from work and still have plenty of time to do a bit more when I get home in daylight … LOVE it! Back to a 10am start tomorrow, though, which is not so good … BUT it’s day 7 of work tomorrow, which means the last one, which means I then have a 4 1/2 day break YIPPEE!!!!!!!! Haha, you can tell I’m definitely more like my ‘old self’ today can’t you? LOL.

And on that note I’m dragging myself off to the bathroom-cum-laundry to get these fabrics washed 😀 Here’s the whole kit and caboodle laid out on my bed … that’s if you can see them on the blue of the duvet cover already on the bed LOL. Seeing as I literally have everything to start this thing, it’s criminal to leave it festering in a box.

I managed to pick out a couple of quilt designs that I like, to show you – there are quite a few more, but they’re in actual quilting books and I don’t think I’m allowed to post piccies due to copyright … these ones came from old quilting magazines that I’ve ripped the pages out of, so goodness knows where/what the original source is. Also, one day I might just re-create the other book quilts in my software program and show those piccies, ‘cos then I’m not technically breaking copyright … I think … I was serious enough to try quilting years ago and bought designing software ready for it, but I still haven’t been brave enough to give it a go Whatever design I eventually go with will be, as Isabelle puts it, blue blue blue ;P I’m envisaging deeper blues with turquoise, as opposed to pastels, but who knows what it will end up being? Anyway, here are some designs that I like – the 3rd one is a cot quilt, but the design could be repeated to make a larger quilt, I think.

I especially love the last two!!

Thanks for your comments and emails of support after yesterday’s post. Today I still feel a bit blue, and have pretty much resigned myself to the fact that it’s likely I won’t be going to Sydney – Mum and I had a good talk on the phone last night and as she put it, I seem to be taking one step forward and two steps back at the moment, and there’s no point going just because I ‘really want to’, if it’s possible it will put me in greater financial difficulty in the end, which is absolutely right.

Actually the reason for the phone call from Mum last night was to let me know some bad news from the family in the UK (I knew it had to be something, ‘cos I’d only spoken to her the day before) … one of my cousins had walked into the house to find her husband had committed suicide, which is a really really awful thing to experience I’m sure, and something I could never entirely imagine to its full extent and horror. To be honest I don’t feel really upset about it, as I didn’t know David that well – I don’t have any memory of my childhood prior to the age of 10 (when we emigrated finally to New Zealand), and I’d only met him once in my early 20’s when I visited/lived there for 6 months. I do, however, feel very sorry for my cousin for the situation she’s now in and she’s been in my thoughts a fair bit today. Even though we’re not close, and we hardly know each other as adults, she’s one of the very few family members who ever keeps in touch with birthday and Christmas cards, and by the sounds of it she hasn’t had an easy life. My UK family aren’t aware of my blog (and the majority don’t have computers anyway to my knowledge), but {{hugs}} to you anyway Carole, may peace and inner strength find you in the trying and difficult days ahead.

Well, that’s me for today – I’m feeling very very revolting and haggard after my early morning start thanks to daylight saving … it’s been the slowest shift in history, and I just can’t wait for this day to end so I can get to bed and have a bit of sleep. Only two more 5am’s left, hip-hip-hooray 😀