1. I'm just about to head off on a weekend with my eldest daughter (10) for a mothers and daughters activity weekend. It's raining but the wellies are packed! Hoping I survive!
2. Head a tiny 3 week old baby this morning - gorgeous remembering new life - so small and perfect!
3. Had a delivery of some amazing biscuits from a friend - special.
Have a good weekend all, despite all the hard.
Clare x
Wow! That quilt looks brilliant. It might motivate me to finish my cross stitch picture. I’ll post a picture if I do.
Ah thanks
I daren’t show it to anyone who actually knows about quilting as it really is full of bodges and bulges. I am full of admiration for those quilts you see in shows and stuff. It’s not easy. But fun - especially as an antidote to fatigue.
Please do post a pic when you’re done, Maybug.
Xx
Hi Deloni,
Love the quilt. A brilliant piece of work if if's your first. Something I've always fancied doing but I don't have a sewing machine.
Think I'm attracted to all the bright colours and patterns available.
I was sorry to find you on this group. You may not remember but I was on the Serous group at the same time as you. However, when there was a system upgrade I was unable to get back on. I'm writing this in hope that it may have rectified itself.
I was all clear in January, but incurable in the first days of July. Just about to ask for a second round of chemo and if I can't tolerate it, I shall call it a day..
Blue
Hi
And I am sorry you find yourself here too. Don’t give up good - I’ve been living with incurable cancer for over three years now. I didn’t imagine that was going to happen when they told me it was incurable.
You can always quilt by hand, you know. Lots of people do, especially when they are part of a quilting group. Everyone sits together and has a natter while they sew. All those amazing Amish quilts in America are hand done.
My three good things from yesterday
1. I did a spot of gardening. It was lovely out there in the late afternoon sunshine
2. I didn’t overdo it
3. Now I’m through the latest chemo I feel well enough to plan a few nice things and feel reasonably sure I won’t have to cancel. So I planned to see a friend in London after my hospital appointment today and to visit the summer exhibition at the Royal Academy
Hi Deloni,
I think we have reached the "graduation class" ha ha! Everyone passes this way at some point. We're just lucky that we can plan ahead.
Hand quilting? Yes I did try it once many moons back but I quickly found I had no talent (or patience).
How many chemos have you had?
My Onc put me on Letrozole but today I have written to her to say I can't tolerate them (bad side effects probably due to the Crohn's)
and have asked to do chemo a second time. Maybe I won't tolerate that this time, or maybe I will. Just feel I have to try for my family's sake.
A good thing - a new garden chair, recliner so I can loll in the sunshine when summer comes. We have a lot of seagulls here. Most people hate them but I think they are so funny - the naughty boys of the bird world. They watch us from the roof and when we go out or come in they squawk loudly..
Did anyone see the programme last night about T-cell transfer? Those two men were so brave and did so much for other. Got to admire them for all they went through. I'm not that brave....
Blue459
Hi
Graduation class? I’m in the post doc group
Three lots of chemo, one biological therapy, three types of radiotherapy. I finished the most recent chemo (as part of a clinical trial) last month. It’s all in my profile.
Xx
Hi Deloni
(aren't we up early?)
Ok, I'll give you Post Doc....
I was originally due for radiotherapy, but after the CT they decided it would do too much damage and the option was removed.. Hadn't heard of the biological therapy and no trial of any kind has been mentioned. Oh well.... Perhaps it depends where you live. I'm on the south coast. (Hence the seagulls) More probably it's due to family history genetics as my Dad's family were all riddled with this.
Anyway, the sun is trying to come out so may lounge like Lady Muck later on!
Blue459 xxx
Hi ,
I love to see the results of your handiwork. I would not say that I am a huge fan of needlecraft but we visited a local country house some years ago and there was a quilting exhibition there. Some of the items were historic but some were more modern and simply beautiful.
My favourite was a patchwork bedspread made to look like a blanket of fallen autumn leaves. Not all the leaves were stitched fully down so the edges of some stood up above the bedspread making it look three dimensional and more natural, and rather than being rectangular the edges of the quilt were irregular and made up of the leaves flowing out organically. The leaves were varying shades including browns, russets and reds and were mainly maple or sycamore shaped. It was displayed hanging on the wall but I can imagine that when put on a bed it would make it look like you were sleeping under a natural blanket of leaves. It was as stunning a piece of art as I have seen and showed such skill and imagination.
Keep posting the photos.
Gragon xx
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