Bev's Row by Row

I have finally completed the row I had to do for Bev's quilt in plenty of time to swap them over at Anne's place tomorrow night! Nothing like leaving it till the last gasp! I am very happy with what I have done. My row is the butterflies under the hearts at the top.

I only have Karen's row left to do and then I have done all I need to do. I can't wait til
September when I get my own completed quilt top back!

This is the second last Row By Row quilt I have to work on. This one is Bev's from Grass Valley. I will post a picture of my row when it is done. I am doing some more butterflies. My dearest friend and quilt designer Gillian has allowed me to use her "butterfly ballet" pattern for this quilt.










I will shamelessly plug her website here. Go to http://www.deezignerquilts.com/index.htm
Gillian has such a great and refreshing approach to quilts. Yes. I do admit I am shamelessly biased about this!

May 31st - the day from Hell!

started off okay but went pear shaped when Jeff failed to arrive home from his bike ride after work. After a few worried calls to his mobile, I set out to look for him at about 810pm with strict instructions to Mick to call me if he heard from dad or dad came home.

At about 8.30 I got a message from Mick that Dad had rung and he was okay and in the hospital!! Two things were wrong with that sentence. Jeff and hospitals just don't happen. I headed straight for the hospital.

It turns out that Jeff had a freak accident with his bike just outside the gates of Muresk Agricultural College. A lady coming from the college found him unconscious on the side of the road and called an ambulance. He suffered a cut to the forehead where his riding glasses broke and a broken collar bone and concussion. He was very lucky. He looked like he had done ten rounds with Danny Green! He has very little memory of the accident. It turns out that his left handle bar snapped off at the gooseneck on the bike. He remembers falling and hearing the ambulance men talking but nothing of the ride to the hospital or even being put in the ambulance. He doesn't remember me being there until he was admitted onto the ward. His biggest worry was that he couldn't remember who undressed him. It was me!

It is over a week since the accident now and the stitches in his eyebrow were removed yesterday and the bruises are fading. His arm is still in a sling and will be for a few more weeks yet. I have one very frustrated husband who desparately wants to get back on his bike! The doctor told him he could ride his stationary bike after this weekend and could try to ride his road bike again in a fortnights time. I don't think it will be happening quite so soon!

The upside from all this is because he is so bored he is cooking dinner most nights with some help from me and the kids!

Quiltwest 2006

Wow! I can't believe it has been a month since I updated my blog already. Lots has happened since then. I got to spend a wonderful day with my sister Lee and my niece Amy at the Quiltshow held at the Perth Convention Centre at the end of May. We had a wonderful time checking out the vendors. We spent a lot of time looking at beads as Amy is into making jewellery at the moment. Amy's 14th birthday was last Monday so I took the opportunity to actually GIVE her her birthday present. I found this really funky purple handbag which I just couldn't leave in the shop. Amy loved it!

We met up with quite a few of my friends while there and had afternoon tea with them all. It was great fun. There was lots of show and tell of what goodies we had bought from the stalls. I was really quite restrained. I bought a large roll of freezer paper for my applique and some needles and a couple of buttons for an over seas friend. That is all I can tell you about the buttons as I haven't sent them to her yet and she doesn't know I have them! :)

There was so much to see at the show and we actually ran out of time! We were two thirds of the way around the quilt exhibition when the announcement came that the show was closing for the day! We whipped around the rest and had a good look at the beautiful Japanese quilts which were there.

We caught the train back to Lee's house and her hubby Mark came and picked us up from the train station. We had a yummy dinner of Red Rooster as Amy was invited to sleep over a friend's house and needed to be there not long after we got home. It was a fabulous day and I headed home when Lee took Amy to her friend's.

I can't wait to do it again soon!!!