soapdragon Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 3 hours ago, Plum said: Your soap sounds lush I'm glad it came out well. Olive oil soap is nice and good for cramp. How's the hip going? Thanks Plum. Hopefully getting the hip done on Tuesday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 1 minute ago, soapdragon said: Thanks Plum. Hopefully getting the hip done on Tuesday. Fingers crossed for Tuesday and wishing you a speedy recovery xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 3 hours ago, Ursula123 said: I love anything handmade but draw the line at soap, sorry Soapdragon. It's not just handmade soap bars but any soap bar as I have a huge phobia of it. Happy to send you some of mine....it's no different to shop bought stuff - honest! Just now, Luvachicken said: Fingers crossed for Tuesday and wishing you a speedy recovery xx Bless you - fingers crossed they have a bed......................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 Best of luck with the op Tuesday. Hope it's not long until you're recovered. We'll be thinking of you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursula123 Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Good luck for tomorrow and a speedy recovery Soapdragon. Thank you for the kind offer but it's all bars of soap including shop bought, I'm just weird as I can't cope with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Plum, when you said you'd been making houses, I thought you were doing a quilt with houses. I realise you were making a miniature village! That's so clever! Soapy, hope all goes smoothly tomorrow. Up and racing round in no time. If it makes you feel better, my friend's mum had a fall and as a result had her hip replaced. Having some sort of galloping dementia (not the normal sort - playing tennis and the ball hit her in the back of the head and blood supply stopped to the brain and cause the problem) she didn't do well in hospital, she refused to get out of bed and exercise and when they tried to help she just screamed. So they discharged her for being uncooperative! Now my friend has found a really nice care home, the physio has had her up and about and she's racing around with her frame - and is so delighted! In a matter of days - not weeks! Soooo the point of that story is that you have your marbles (well do any of us chicken peeps ever have marbles in the first place?) and so you will be racing around. Go Soapy, go Soapy! I have my pompoms for you - but don't expect gymnastics and splits!!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Thank for the good wishes, all! I'm still looking for those marbles, though Val 😉. I have a brand new (to me anyway!) Kaffe Fassett tapestry ready to put onto the frame to keep me busy thereafter. I think that Ehrman have 'gone off the boil' a bit recently but this is from the 90s. Anyone else a Fassett fan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Very much so. I have always loved his tapestries but never done one. He changed the way a lot of quilters worked by introducing the bright bold contrasting coloured fabrics in large and small prints. I love the brights and pastels though some others don't work for me at all. I love his style, his art, his life and his books and exhibitions. He's unpopular with a lot of quilters for not worshiping them and sometimes being rude and offhand. But yes I'm a fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 I remember him years ago making bargello (spell check wants me to type Barbarella!!!!) tapestry cushions. Not really a fan of his fabric, but will say I do like seeing some of the quilts that use it to a much better effect. A little too psychedelic for me! Am working on Arkansas Crossroads for DD's wedding present. I think I have 290+ days to get it done! My lovely tidy sewing space looks like a tornado has struck and I'm sitting at Jezebel Janome in the doorway - not much space otherwise as I need to get to the cutting space and arghhhh! I want my son's old room back in our old house! Heaven knows how I'm going to stretch it and quilt it too! Sassin' rassin' faffle!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Bargello! I have a LOT of that! When we did 17th cent living history (or living misery, as OH referred to it!) I took up bargello as it's a 17th cent thing - there is a whole room 'wallpapered' in it at Chastleton House, north Oxfordshire...it's a bit headache inducing! Also, once you have worked your first line along the middle of the canvas you just follow it either side and so don't need a 'pattern' or pre printed canvas. Some of the modern designs are beasts though and require far more concentration that I could give them! Good luck with the quilt Val! Sounds as though you have a major project on your hands 😉. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackrocksrock Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Good luck with the hip replacement tomorrow - I am sure you will be up and about in super fast time - they dont let you lie nowadays! I am putting off the dreaded knee replacement but I am sure it will be coming in my future. Problem is the other one too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Thanks for the good wishes! Indeed they don't let you lie; a friend had hers done 10 weeks ago with full anesthetic (I'm only getting a spinal block) and the physios were getting her excercising IN RECOVERY before she even made it onto the ward 🥴. Given that you have to see GP for a referal to consultant, see consultant and get MRI scan agreement, wait for MRI appointment, have MRI and wait 6 weeks for result, see consultant again, go on waiting list for op it's best to get the ball rolling asap if you think you'll need it! If you made a GP appt tomorrow it would probably be September/October before you made it to theatre! Still, I should make significant inroads into the Kaffe Fasset......then I'll need to look at the Ehrman site for inspiration for the next project! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patricia W Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 (edited) Just seen this, Soapy! I got locked out again.... I shall be thinking of you tomorrow. Shout if you need anything xx Edited January 27, 2020 by Patricia W Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackrocksrock Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Saw the consultant a few years ago, said knee replacement was all he could do. He injected my knee with steroids and I have managed so far to evade the knife! Very stiff especially in this cold weather but I am coping with the pain so far. It comes and goes, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 No op today. Computers 'down' at all OUH hospitals (Radcliffe, NOC, Churchill, Warneford and Horton). Got sent home at 12 noon when it became obvious it would be between 3 and 8 hours to reboot the whole system. Surgeon has promised a re book either next Tuesday or the week after. Now, where did I put that tapestry!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patricia W Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 What a nuisance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 12 hours ago, Patricia W said: What a nuisance! I second that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 Disappointing. I was expecting to come on and nag you to get on and move. At least you'll get the Kaffe done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patsylabrador Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 I've made this Easter Basket for my daughter-in-law. The volcano is Mt Yotei which is right outside her front door which makes it nice and personal. I really love needle felting. I thought I'd show the eggs properly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 I've been making cakes....again! The Omlet Forum boiled fruit cake but in a traybake format to fit into snack containers for the boy's morning break. Have also revisited an old recipe along the lines of flapjack but using rice krispies and dessicated coconut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 Sounds finger licking yummy. Have you got another date yet? PatsyL lovely felting. What a good idea to decorate the eggs like that. Must have taken ages. Lucky DIL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 10 hours ago, Plum said: Sounds finger licking yummy. Have you got another date yet? Yes, Plum....next Tuesday 11th hence the cake making! Everything I'd made in prep for the boys after the previous non event seems to have mysteriously disappeared . Also it's YS 12th birthday today so the usual request for brownie instead of a 'proper' birthday cake! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 They're making you wait a lot. Good luck Tuesday. Enjoy the brownies. Happy Birthday mini Soap Dragon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Happy birthday too. Not long to go now Soapy - running around in no time! PatsyL - you have been busy! Purdy felting! Very relaxing apart from the stabbing of fingers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat tails Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 That time of year again when I “have” to make a Chinese New Year toy. This is the year of the rat! I did base it on a pattern, but didn’t buy the pattern, just used the photo... 🤫 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
