I Know this is turning out to be more of a quilting blog but ...

Anyway it's been a week and a half since I last blogged.  I haven't done anything at all because I have had an abscess on one of my teeth for the last four weeks and have been in such pain it honestly has been worse than childbirth and I've had three of them - children that is.

What a pain in the you know where!  I am now on my fourth lot of antibiotics which is the most I have ever had in my entire life.  I don't take them generally but save them for when I really need them because I am allergic to so many.  So I've had two lots of one that I am not allergic to and am about to start on the 2nd lot of the second one that so far I am not allergic to.  The allergy had always turned up the second time I take an antibiotic but as there won't be any gap in taking the 2nd lot of this one maybe it won't happen.  The last time I took any antibiotic was 5 years ago and that was the first lot I took that had absolutely no effect whatsoever.  Before that it wasn't on my records at all and I have been with the same doctor for the past 30 years so you can see how rarely I take them.

I have found out (because somebody told me) that it seems to subside when I am sitting up but when I am in bed and laying down it is just awful so last night I sat up all night and haven't slept at all and my tooth isn't killing me today - yet but tonight I am definitely going to bed.

So what did I do all night.  Well I redid my quilting blog and I really love it because it is much simpler than I usually go for and it has loads of great links on both sides.  And now I am going to show you what I have been up to before a month ago.

All images are clickable to enlarge them.

This is the front of the Pin Cushion I made and 

sent at the end of April if memory serves me right

but I don't think it ever arrived at it's

destination.  I offered to redo another one

but haven't heard which is just as well 

really as I have been in pain - okay

so I am a pain.

And this was the back.  I really loved

making this and would happily make it

something like it again.

This is the first of a lot of blocks I am making

for my elder daughter's birthday.  But I'm afraid she 

shall have to wait and it will be really late as I

have to make some other stuff first - but I'm

sure she will be find with waiting.  I really loved making

this too as it is a quilt as you go and was a lot of fun

and can't wait to make some more of them.

This is the first block I chose to make of 

Ryan & Charlie of 

Patchwork Squared QAL

I think I like it but

I should have stuck with some of 

the colorways they chose.

The other things that have changed in that blog is there are lots more icons on both sides of the blog that lead to really really interesting places and I hope you like seeing them as much as I do.  So please click on them because they all take you somewhere really special.

I promise as soon as I've done some stitching I will be posting that too and I know I owe Catherine a Blackbird Design piece of stitching.

So that's about it from me for today except to say I will be back a lot sooner than I have been posting and I have really missed you all.

Lots of Love 

Patti xxx

American by birth and MOUTH

But British in EVERY other way