just another weekend...

What can I say... Picture this if you will... Friday- late afternoon - just home from work - the relief that at last it is the weekend... I change into my oldest, daggest clothes - P makes a cup of tea... I decide to have my cuppa out the back and read a few pages of my book - P takes Matilda our cat on her usual supervised walk.. The bliss, the quiet, only the screech of the cockatoo next door to break the peace... Suddenly the cat hurtle passes past me as P shouts - Matilda  yowling. P catches up - she has been stung by a bee he says, apparently she wanted to get up close and personal and the bee wasn't too keen. Matilda is still crying and can't put her paw to the ground. I ring the vet - bring her in immediately - I am told. We all get in the car - E with Matilda in the cat cage - talking reassuringly to her - by this time Matilda is panting... We get to the vet which is only a few minutes away - as we walk in Matilda vomits... We are taken straight in - Matilda is examined - her heart is racing and her temperature is high - in the space of less than 15 minutes - Matilda has had quite an allergic reaction to the sting. She given two very big injections and then we wait to see how she goes... Within about 10 minutes she has cooled down and her heart beat has returned to more or less normal... Within half an hour later we are on our way home again... We are all subdued - the vet had explained that animals, like humans can have varying reactions to bee stings from irritating to fatal - Matilda it seems - falls into the quite allergic category and perhaps if we hadn't see it happen and acted quickly it could have been a lot worse... So much for our quiet night...

Saturday P took me up to Patchwork with Gail B  for me to choose some material for the embroidered blocks I have been doing. I just adore that shop - I don't get to go there all that often but every time I do I come out sated... P took his book and sat in the car - he knew he could be in for a long wait... I wandered for probably a good half hour before I sought some help... The young woman who assisted me was wonderful and  she gave me some really good ideas... The red and green material I chose was one of the ones I had first looked at - the patterned material was in the same range and will break up each of the blocks... Again I was given the idea to fussy cut the patterned material so that it 'married together' the shape of the embroidery shapes and the two solid coloured borders. The overall look of the quilt will be light and fresh rather than traditional Christmasy which is what I wanted. Hopefully when I have my 'long' weekend in a couple of weeks I can achieve a little more... I am quite nervous about cutting into it...

While I was there I spotted this - I had promised myself I would buy this when Leanne Beasley said that it would be available for sale - I hadn't made it to Urban Stitches a few weeks ago and this was one of the kits featured... I am looking to start this when the Christmas quilt is finished... Perhaps it will be my new start for 2012...

I also picked up these two... I am magazine hopeless - really I am... They are my addiction. G, a pattern for the pantieflashers will be in Mollie Makes no 4...

I loved this design in Leanne's Vignette... I just love the colour ways... This design is crooking its little finger and begging for me to follow - but I shall resist....

Well, enough from me. To you all out there have a good week and take care...

S xx