tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48176127623414500752024-03-19T03:32:00.846+00:00A YANKEE IN QUEEN LIZ'S COURTThis is a blog about my foray into Quilting. I love fabric to distraction and want to be able to fool around with it and make extraordinary things. That's my wish. The outcome may be somewhat different but we shall see.Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.comBlogger124125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-80306026149624972017-11-10T22:46:00.004+00:002017-11-20T18:47:00.722+00:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Stacy-Lee Lessell</div>
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29th July 1973 - 30th September 2017</div>
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RIP My Darling Younger Daughter </div>
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I love and miss you beyond words can say</div>
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I know it's been a really long time. But I know a lot of you know how ill our younger daughter had been. I'm really sorry to say that she passed away 6 weeks ago and was in hospital for 3 weeks before that in the Intensive Care Unit of Watford General Hospital, who were exceptional and really tried their very hardest to save her.<br />
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To say we are gutted is putting it mildly. She was my baby and my best friend. I know we really looked alike and were very alike, so we really shouldn't have gotten on but we so did. I miss her so much and really have had my moments. I think about her as I wake up and for the rest of each and every day. It's so very hard because it's not the way it's supposed to be. I'm the mother and Larry is her father and we should have passed away first.<br />
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I got a phone call from the hospital at 11 am that morning to say that she just wasn't going to make it and to come as soon as possible. The problem was James (her brother) and my lovely daughter-in-law and younger grandchildren were all in Synagogue and I had no way of getting in touch with them then because it was our most religious day of the year - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur" target="_blank">Yom Kippur</a> which also happened to be a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbat" target="_blank">Saturday</a>. I knew that although it is a fasting holiday the children wouldn't be fasting and Danielle would take them home and feed them. So I got hold of her an hour later and she got a message to James and they and our elder daughter Sara-Jane and her ex-Husband and children joined Larry and me at the hospital.<br />
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Stacy was laid to rest the following Tuesday, which isn't as fast as we usually bury our dead but it just couldn't be helped. And whilst we would normally sit <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_(Judaism)" target="_blank">Shiva</a> for 7 days and evenings which prayers at around 20:00 each evening we could only sit Shiva for 1 day and night because the next day at sundown <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukkot" target="_blank">Sukkot</a> started and one is not allowed to break the Shiva for a holiday and then start sitting again after the holiday finishes. Wish we could have because one day wasn't really enough. But rules are rules. Anyway my Mom passed away on first day Sukkot so I had to light yet another <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahrzeit_candle" target="_blank">Yahziet</a> candle in remembrance of her death.<br />
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There were in excess of 200 people at the funeral and the even more at the Shiva.<br />
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Dad is in the Middle Top</div>
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I'm in the Middle sitting</div>
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Stacy-Lee on the Right next to me</div>
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James is on the Left next to me</div>
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See you soon
Patricia xxx<br />
American by Birth and MOUTH<br />
but British in every other way
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Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-18151859795838730342017-07-22T20:07:00.000+01:002017-07-22T20:34:19.901+01:00I know this isn't soon but ....Hi,<br />
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I've really been away from here, except for the odd post but now I'm really back and sewing on my newly opened sewing machine that I purchased about two and a half years ago. It's been quite a trial with it I can assure you. I have been using sewing machines on and off for a very long time. I don't suppose you remember but I purchased a Brother something or other 30 and it is now obsolete. If I was sewing clothing on it, it would have been perfect. Or if I'd opened it up when I bought it I could have returned it for something more suitable for quilting, but I didn't!<br />
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I have bought more feet for this machine because it came with nothing quilting related! I purchased the feet over the last couple of years and some more than once and some are useless. Anyway I found out that a quarter inch foot, of which I bought many are no good anymore as you really need a scant 1/4" for all the patterns that are about. The last but one thing I bought was this<br />
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But it didn't work, because I had no way of making sure it was a real scant 1/4" and guessing isn't my best thing. Finally, I found a thing that works beautifully and some tape that even with my shaking I am able to sew perfect scant 1/4" seam. YAY!!!</div>
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Onto the next. I have been in a quilted postcard swap which I didn't need a scant 1/4" seam for and the first one I sent out last month was this one which was meant to represent summer holidays. Well seeing as we aren't going anywhere this year I figured that a garden scene would be perfect and I absolutely loved making it and the receiver of it said nothing has fallen off (which I was worried about) and that she loves it.</div>
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This months, which is being posted on Monday are these two. They are supposed to represent song titles. One is really easy</div>
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Whilst the other isn't - except to say it was written and sung by Cat Stevens:</div>
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You can guess the titles if you feel like it.</div>
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I am so glad to be back and sewing again. </div>
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Stacy still isn't good but she's still here with us for which I am eternally grateful.</div>
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See you soon<br />
Patti xxx<br />
American by birth and MOUTH<br />
but British in every other way
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Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-25024767304720345242016-02-06T17:29:00.001+00:002016-02-06T17:30:31.373+00:00Time to say Bye xxxAs much as I have loved this blog in it's day it is now time to say bye. Too much is happening and I'm spending too much time on my computer and not enough with the people who matter or the things that matter. So it's been a good run but<br />
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Bye and see you on Facebook or Pinterest. My pinterest name is pattimyself and on FB it's Patricia Lemberger Lessell.<br />
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Patti xxxPatricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-90607597074711923022015-12-13T17:00:00.000+00:002015-12-13T17:10:12.766+00:00NIL by Mouth<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "coming soon"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "coming soon"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;">My poor Stacy is still in Watford General Hospital and it's now 3 and a half weeks! If you remember it started with a Crohn's attack and a chest infection almost 4 weeks ago.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "coming soon"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;">Larry and I have been ill since last Tuesday so that was the last time we saw her until today. We have spoken to her every day. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "coming soon"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;">We still aren't well but she was really fed up and I could tell, because she texted me yesterday not to phone so I got really upset and didn't sleep at all last night. I tried everything to get to sleep but it just wasn't happening. I texted Stacy but no answer. Finally I phoned around 10ish and she sounded absolutely awful.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "coming soon"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;">What did I do? I thought sod it just go there and spend 5 minutes with her but don't get close. Also to take up my Kindle because her one has stopped working even though it's only a year old, if that.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "coming soon"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;">So we both got dressed and Larry took me because he hates the way I take off and put on the wheelchair from the car and the new hoist is so slow it's like a turtle and I'm not very good at it to be honest, but I'm only telling you guys. Larry NEVER reads FB he thinks it's terrible and he never reads my blogs either, so I'm safe so long as YOU don't tell him.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "coming soon"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;">I went in and Stacy was hooked up to two new drips and was totally out of it. She is also nil by mouth which further concerned me as it means she isn't taking any of her medication.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "coming soon"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;">I asked the nurse what was going on and if the Crohns team had been to see Stacy, because Stacy told me they were coming. The nurse looked at me like 'and who do you think you are?' So I said to the nice nurse 'I'm her mother'. The nurse stepped back and apologised and said 'Sorry, I thought you were her sister.' I can take that. Don't know how Stacy would feel about it. Does that mean she looks really old or I look really young. I'll go for the second option, but really don't think I do.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "coming soon"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;">The nurse told me that the surgeon and his team were coming tomorrow to discuss what to do as Stacy was still in a lot of pain. I really didn't take that well at all. I told her that under no circumstances could they possibly operate because she has, apart from everything else, PVOD. The Nurse had absolutely no idea what this was. Surprise Surprise! I explained the basic ins and outs of it but am still not sure she understood me. She gave me the phone number of the ward so I, Larry, could phone in the morning and let the day staff know exactly what is wrong with her and to warn the Surgeons that if they operate they will kill her.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "coming soon"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;">Stacy was sleeping this whole time except for when I tried to wake her up by gently shaking her leg and she opened her eyes and I left her an Apple plug and my Kindle, which I can manage without because I have other ways of reading - like my phone which is fine to read on. But I'm not sure she will remember I was there.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "coming soon"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;">When Stacy is awake she really is fed up with being in hospital and I certainly don't blame her. She isn't well and has spent most of the last 5 months in one hospital or another. It really sucks!!! And I really feel for her.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "coming soon"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;">The whole thing is truly heartbreaking. I so want her to be able to go on an unforgettable holiday and I so hope she gets better soon to be able to go. The pledges have stopped because my goal was reached, but I didn't think they would and I hate being greedy but as my son said I should have checked how much everything was going to cost before I put a sum up. I just thought of a number and away we went, regardless if the amount is enough or not.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "coming soon"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;">Please get better soon my Stacy because we love and miss you, and if you were well we would be seeing you all the time but we don't want you to get sicker by catching whatever we have.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "coming soon"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;">All my Love Forever</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "coming soon"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.56px;">Mum xxxxxx</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Patti xxx </span><br />
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Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-4901781679242881792015-12-04T20:34:00.000+00:002015-12-04T20:37:47.887+00:00Please Help If You Possibly Can<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Please help if you possibly can. Our younger Daughter, Stacy, has been ill for most of her life with Crohn's Disease which is debilitating to say the least. <br />
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However about 12 weeks ago Stacy was diagnosed with PVOD which stands for Pulminary Veno-Occlusive Disease. This disease is so rare it is rare even in the realm of rare diseases, and always terminal with a median time of 2 years from diagnosis. However Watford General Hospital knew she had Pulminary Hypertension last June, so we have no idea how long she has had this for. This disease is so rare that only 1 in 10,000,000 - yes you've read this right it's one in ten million people have this.<br />
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This has been really awful for all of us, but especially for Stacy, and all she wants is one last holiday with her family, but we don't have the resources to give this to her as we are both just Pensioners on the State Pension.<br />
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One night when I couldn't sleep I suddenly thought of Crowd Funding by Just Giving so I have made a page for her where you can donate anything from £10.00. Every single donation will be so gratefully received. Here is the <a href="https://crowdfunding.justgiving.com/patricia-lessell" target="_blank">link</a> to our page.<br />
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Thank you so much for even reading this and we are really grateful for everything donated.<br />
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Patti xxx<br />
American by birth and MOUTH<br />
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Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-7803108734506531622015-10-29T21:32:00.001+00:002015-10-29T21:32:08.578+00:00I know it's been a really long timeI know it's been ages, but so much has happened in our lives it just isn't true.<br />
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Our younger daughter Stacy, middle child - well woman really, had been ill for quite some time with Crohns, amongst other things, and every time she was admitted to our local hospital instead of waiting to see if she was actually having a Crohns attack they just put her on intravenous steroids.<br />
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I don't know if you are aware, but, as usual, there is a price to pay for everything you put in your mouth - be it food or medicine. Well the upside of steroids is they cure whatever ails you quite fast but the downside of them is they can cause all kinds of nasty things. So along with the Crohns she now has had, for quite some time, Osteoporosis, Avascular Necrosis of both hips (this means they are dead), had her left hip replaced twice and it still isn't any good, the surgeon who replaced it both times left her without a left hip for 9 months. She also has Fibromyalgia and rotting teeth, which all have to be removed, and Watford General Hospital, or somebody there, told her she had a heart murmur.<br />
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Call me stupid but I thought you were born with a heart murmur and it wasn't something that just happened later in life. She does not have a heart murmur. It turned out she had something way worse.<br />
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The last time she was discharged from WFGH, in June, they said that they would refer her to Hammersmith Hospital. Well nothing happened. And she kept on getting really swollen up. She looked like she was on steroids big time, but wasn't. Her whole body was so swollen it was untrue, so much so that she was unable to even open her eyes because they were swollen shut. Finally she called our local doctor and he took one look at her and made an appointment for her to be seen at Hammersmith Hospital on Monday 17th August.<br />
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An Ambulance took her to Watford General Hospital on 31st July, and Larry and I went before her to complain and wait for her to arrive. Stupid us, we didn't complain but just waited there for two hours for the ambulance to bring her. We had our two eldest grandchildren with us and Stacy eventually arrived at around 5pm. At 6 we left Stacy there and took the children for something to eat. The children and I got back to the hospital around 7. At 1a.m. a doctor came and said that there was nothing they could do for her because it was the weekend and there were no doctors on and if they admitted her she would not make her appointment on Monday at Hammersmith. I was so angry and I told the doctor that if anything happened to Stacy over the weekend I was holding her 100% responsible. Didn't seem to even phase her.<br />
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Stacy was admitted to Hammersmith Hospital on August 17. We were told later that week that what she had was rare even in the realm of rare diseases and it affected around one in 10,000,000 people and that it was incurable. Well I've lived with Multiple Sclerosis for many many years and that's incurable so I thought so she'll manage. What we didn't know until the following week that what, in fact, she has is a very rare form of Pulmonary Hypertension called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonary_venoocclusive_disease" target="_blank">PVOD</a> which, well you can read it for yourself because I sure don't want to go into the ins and outs of it and cry I shall be doing again.<br />
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Stacy was in Hammersmith Hospital for 8 weeks and we went every day and sometimes twice a day there and back so she could go out and have her hair done, out for lunch a couple of times back to Watford, and have her nails done as the polish had to come off for a procedure. It was about a 35mile a day journey if we went there and back once a day.<br />
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But I have to say that as bad as Watford General have been over the years that's how good Hammersmith were. And when we explained that her Gastro doctor at Watford had put her down as a Hypochondriac, and we believed him I'm ashamed to say, the new doctor who is amazing said she was anything but and was in fact a very sick young lady - well she looks young.<br />
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This is why I've been missing for so long and why my sewing machine is still in it's box and all the rest of my stitching hasn't been touched. No matter how much I want to do something I just can't.<br />
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See you soon<br />
Patti xxx<br />
American by birth and MOUTH<br />
but British in every other way
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Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-44196928497004401092015-08-30T16:08:00.001+01:002015-08-30T16:08:18.686+01:00No explanationsI will be gone for a while due to stuff happening in our family. But I shall be back sooner or later.<br />
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American by birth and MOUTH<br />
but British in every other way
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Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-32681542578481296372015-07-21T19:02:00.003+01:002015-07-21T19:07:50.472+01:00I know it's been months and months but ....... I haven't been great and I haven't even opened my machine yet. It is still in it's box. Why you ask? A very simple answer really. You see on my old machine - well it wasn't old exactly but I did sell it because my dumb arm and hand quit working and with it I sold the best thing I have ever had for a sewing machine.<br />
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Well this really nice guy from the States asked me if I would like to try out his lighting for sewing machines and instead of the light just focusing on where you sew it lights up the whole sewing area. I am endorsing this lighting method because I know it's really great and the reason I haven't opened up my machine is because when I sold my other machine I couldn't get my Ecolux Light off, so I didn't have it anymore!!! I so didn't want to use a machine without it. Once you have tried it you will never ever want to sew without it. Here it is for you to see. I sure wouldn't be without mine that's for sure. You can buy anything from 3 LED lights up to 9 LED lights and you will never be disappointed with it. The lighting is just GREAT as only LED lights can be.<br />
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Scott has told me that they have now have a new baby within their arsenal of greatness. And it is this:<br />
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As well as having a normal power supply to your electric sewing machine you can now plug it into your USB port, that is, if you have a sewing machine that has one. Me? I have absolutely no idea if mine does because I still haven't opened it, but I shall soon and share what I am sewing, and there is so much I want to sew quilt wise it just isn't true. <br />
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Not only is Scott from Ecoluxlighting sending me a new light for my new machine but he is also sending one for my European readers to have. Trust me this is the best thing since sliced bread and I love sliced bread - especially with Peanut Butter and Jelly (that's Jam to you Brits) on it. I also like Peanut Butter on Ryvita too.<br />
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I know this last bit of info was more than you needed but hey I just had to share.<br />
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So if you click on the <a href="http://www.ecoluxlighting.com/#!home/mainPage" target="_blank">Ecoluxlighting</a> logo on the right of this blog it will take you to Scott's website (I hope). Maybe I ought to put it here too just in case I'm wrong.<br />
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Patti xxx<br />
American by birth and MOUTH<br />
but British in every other way<br />
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Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-53601192527461868062015-04-25T21:07:00.003+01:002015-04-27T20:39:16.542+01:00I'm all grown upAs you will see from the title of this blog I reckon I'm grown up. Maybe and maybe not. But I have decided to go by my full name on here and my other blog anyway. I like it. I've been Patti since I was 10, Patricia before that and after 16 I became plain old Pat which I really don't like. So what's this all got to do with quilting? Absolutely nothing. But I thought I would explain how grown up I am now.<br />
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If you look to the right hand side of this blog you will see a brand new icon thingy. It's called Farmers Wife Quilt Revival Class and apparently Karen Walker who teaches this class for The Farmers Wife quilt, which is something I've wanted to do for ages, is just the best class so what can I lose but a little money? Nothing. <br />
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Almost everyone knows about The Farmers Wife<br />
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which I have owned for years and years, and I decided because I can't figure out how to get a scant quarter inch seam on my new machine, what with all the quarter inch feet I've bought for it, I figured better be safe than sorry and have a lot of help. So I've joined this class (icon to the right) and also a Farmers Wife Board on FaceBook which has all of the templates if you want to stitch your quilt using paper piecing which I really like doing because everything is so perfect this way.<br />
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Anyway (that's instead of So) I have downloaded and printed the first 5 blocks from the FB Group and now I'm going to look at the first of 10 or 11 lessons that I have bought from Karen Walker and I'll let you know soon which way I like better. <br />
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I've also learned a different way of paper piecing without have to rip the paper off. It is ingenious! Just watch and see!! Now why didn't I think of this first?!?<br />
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After I put the above on on here I found a slightly better lessons, that is broken up into two parts, if you want to paper piece (foundation piece). It's cheaper to do (uses wax paper) and is so easy. Also there is no tearing and you can hear better as the one above is really hard to hear - sorry about that folks and no you aren't going deaf if you listened to the first one! I just think that Karen takes more time and explains everything that much better, in my humble opinion, but you can make up your own mind.</div>
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As you can see I've included Part 2 of Freezer Paper Foundation Piecing (ok paper piecing to the British public). But it really is the best way. Well I think it is and you can turn any pattern into a paper piecing pattern too.<br />
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You'll be delighted to know I'm done for now, so what I will say finally is ....<br />
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See you soon (hopefully)<br />
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Patricia xxx<br />
American by birth and MOUTH<br />
but British in every other way
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Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-62250416480223482592015-03-21T15:49:00.000+00:002015-03-21T15:49:49.551+00:00I'm BaaaaaackHi<br />
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If you've gone I really understand why. It's been 10 months since I last posted but I've got my mojo back now me thinks and it's all because of this <a href="http://hopefulhomemaker.com/2014/12/31/life-story-medallion-quilt/" target="_blank">quilt</a> that I saw.<br />
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I sold my sewing machine last year because I was never going to sew again. And for this reason I also sold my Acquilt machine but there is a very lovely patchwork store quite near to me that rents out their large Acquilt machine to people and I shall go and use their machine if I need to.<br />
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So I was never going to sew again. Not anything. Never again. I was going to be a couch potato because I was so very depressed, although I didn't realise at the time. The death of my brother really saw me go into the depths of depression. I don't know why because we had never been close but still. <br />
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So here is my new sewing machine. For the first time I knew what I wanted. A machine that just sewed - nothing fancy but I wanted it to thread itself really and this does. <br />
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So I have bought a new sewing machine which is sitting in it's box upstairs and has been for months. Guess I was still depressed. I decided to start cross stitching again with a vengeance but my thumb, of all things, has stopped me doing anything. But it's going to be fixed on Monday (hopefully). So everything will be a go again.<br />
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I do crazy things when I decide to stop doing anything. When I decided 5 years ago to stop stitching I sold my overlocker which was also a Brother machine so I had to buy another one when I decided to start stitching again because I don't like raw edges and I really am a type A personality and everything has to be pretty perfect or I quit. So I bought this again:<br />
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So what do you think? I love it. And shall start it as soon as darn thumb is fixed. My thumb is a really weird trigger thumb insofar as it should be bent inwards towards my palm. But is mine??? OH NO!!! It's sticking straight up and hurts like anything if I try and bend it. So by next week everything will be up and running. From my mouth to g-d's ears. If not it will be by the week after when the very lovely surgeon I first saw will do a little tiny op on my thumb and make the darn thing work again.</div>
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American by birth and MOUTH<br />
but British in every other way
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Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-3229776563703465912014-05-29T22:34:00.003+01:002015-01-09T18:26:53.041+00:00My Brother Brian<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Brian was almost exactly 4 years younger than me, minus 4 days, and although through the years we hadn't been close, for which I was always sad. We went to see him in February and I found it quite extraordinary how alike we are. I suppose I should have expected it as we shared the same parents but siblings aren't always alike. We look alike and were very alike in so many ways.</div>
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I had known my brother has been dying for quite some time. He was given 3-6 months almost 6 years ago when he was told he had stage IV cancer and had had it for at least 3-5 years before it was discovered quite by chance.<br />
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Like me, Brian believed in finding a doctor who was proactive rather than being reactive and such doctors aren't so easy to find. But he managed to find one that kept him alive for almost 6 years.<br />
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The growth was on the outside of his stomach and he decided to go an unusual route insofar as after interviewing quite a few Oncologists he decided on an Oncologist who specialised in Pancreatic Cancer as this Oncologist gave him the best chance of a cure.<br />
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But his route was not an easy one as the treatment was for Pancreatic Cancer and not Stomach Cancer so his insurance company refused to pay for it. Brian paid for it himself for the next 5 years at over $1,000 a week. <br />
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A year later when he was in hospital having half his stomach, and the tumour, removed the nurses couldn't figure out why he was so happy. He explained that this was because he was still alive when he shouldn't be.<br />
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Because of his determination in beating this cancer and the route he took this medication is now funded by insurance companies in the US for Stomach and Bowel cancer as well as Pancreatic. <br />
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I'm sorry if this email is disjointed but I couldn't read it and put it together properly because my brother passed away last Friday and was buried on Sunday as our religion dictates. <br />
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Brian you beat the odds. You didn't just last 3 or 6 months but almost 6 years. You fought long and hard until the very end. We came to see you in February and we spent every day with you and Sue (your wife) and my nieces and nephews and great niece. It was the best time we had ever had and I will always remember it and be grateful that I came to see you when I did. <br />
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Brian Michael Lemberger you were one very very special person that touched many lives as the Rabbis said at your funeral and my life a life. I respected you as man, as a brother, husband and a father.<br />
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I miss you my brother and will until the day I die<br />
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Pat xxx<br />
American by birth and MOUTH<br />
but British in every other way
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Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-37522183950489085992014-05-03T12:36:00.000+01:002014-05-03T12:36:35.124+01:00Miss C & Mr RAs you all know we (almost said I there) have 4 grandchildren. The youngest of which is Miss C. My darling son and daughter-in-love introduced their best friends quite a few years ago and they got married and had 3 sons. The middle son is called Rafi. Here is a photo of Rafi with our youngest Chloe soon after she was born:<br />
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So he loves her. He would hug her all the time and kiss her cheek. Now roll forward a year and this is what we had:<br />
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They are snogging. He's holding her and she's holding him in a full on clinch and they are kissing for all they're worth. Almost full on snogging (it might have been because we can't see between them).<br />
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Okay so roll on another year until yesterday and this is what happened:<br />
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Now we have a problem (not really)! She has instigated this one. It's so cute and all I've said is I love it and hope I live long enough to see them get married. So Daddy (DS) said to his best friend all in caps "tell your son to get his hands off of my princess!" But from where I'm sitting it's she that is attacking him this time and not the other way around. Grandpa said "I hope he can afford to keep her". Me? I replied that I hope so too but if he can't then she will just have to work like the rest of us. <br />
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I can't wait to see what next year brings. I will bring you photos of either the rest of the children whom I adore with all my might or else some knitting or piecing or something. Might even be stitching.<br />
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See you soon<br />
Patti xxx<br />
American by birth and MOUTH<br />
but British in every other way
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Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-8925005631553157202014-04-13T14:46:00.001+01:002014-04-13T14:52:51.474+01:00No Tear Paper Piecing<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/OqMiC1_JdqQ" width="480"></iframe><br />
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You may have to turn up the sound a lot or use some speakers but it is so worth it. I LOVE paper piecing with a vengeance because of its accuracy but hate having to remove the paper afterwards. If you are like me you so NEED to see this tutorial.<br />
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I know I haven't posted in the longest time but so much crap is happening in my life right now and I really don't want to talk about it but suffice it to say that since returning from LA there has been no sewing, no knitting, no top-making and no quilting done in this house. Just buying and looking online and drooling but no making of anything. Maybe soon.<br />
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See you soon<br />
Patti xxx<br />
American by birth and MOUTH<br />
but British in every other way<br />
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Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-38925473098447401452014-02-28T15:42:00.001+00:002014-02-28T15:50:14.372+00:00I need another hobby, don't I????Okay so I don't need another hobby. But as most of you know, if you read this little blog of mine that is, that I love Craftsy. When they said they had this knitting Afghan class I thought why not? I mean it's not everyday you get to make a knitted Afghan and as I've completely forgotten how to crochet - and no I don't know how this happened because I once crocheted two shawls as Chanukah presents - one of my mother and one for my mother-in-law. Anyway I kept on looking at this class<br />
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and thought to myself 'yeah why not, cause you don't have enough of other kinds of stash do you?' Umm well maybe I do but hey what's another project. I think this one will be super yummy. My only real problem is they don't really sell Lion Yarns in England so I'm kinda up the creek without a paddle. But no worries I shall find some yarn that is equivalent, eventually. Please wish me luck with that. I am so going to sell my cross stitching stash because I really don't need it as I have enough on my plate with hobbies and him upstairs is sick of all my stash. So eBay I shall be coming.<br />
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Huge Hugs to you all (if you are actually there)<br />
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Patti xxx<br />
American by birth and MOUTH<br />
but British in every other way
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Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-185080675078023892014-02-24T13:57:00.000+00:002014-02-24T13:59:42.525+00:00Recipes - NO photos sorryIt's been my mission in life to provide food for the 5,000! Anyway I have been making Coca Cola Brisket for years and I knew I'd heard of Coca Cola Chicken. I was going to make Apricot Chicken but when I went to put the soup mix in I found it couldn't use it as the soup mixture had cheese in it and I forgot to get the right one (I am Kosher) so I needed a different recipe for chicken pieces. So I thought I would share these three recipes with you as they are so yummy and so easy to make.<br />
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3lb piece of the leanest Brisket you can buy<br />
1 can of full fat Coke (NOT diet)<br />
1/2 jar of Mango Chutney<br />
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<li>Put the Brisket in the pan and spread the 1/2 jar of Mango Chutney over it</li>
<li>Pour over the can of Coke</li>
<li>Put in the oven at 150 degrees centigrade for 3 hours</li>
<li>Let it cool down</li>
<li>Take the cooked brisket out the pan leaving the juice in</li>
<li>Slice the brisket as neatly as you can trying to leave it still in one piece</li>
<li>I use a fish slice to put the brisket back in the pan</li>
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<li>Sprinkle over 1 packet of French Onion Soup</li>
<li>Put other 1/2 of chicken pieces on top of first lot</li>
<li>Sprinkle over other packet of French Onion Soup</li>
<li>Pour over both other cans of Apricots</li>
<li>Cook at 150 centigrade for around 3 hours</li>
<li>1/2 way through squidge down as much of the apricots as you can to make the sauce</li>
<li>Take the chicken out and squidge down the rest of the apricots because they make a really yummy gravy/sauce</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">In a medium bowl, place Coca-Cola, ketchup, apricot jam and soy sauce, and mix well.</li>
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See you soon<br />
Patti xxx<br />
American by birth and MOUTH<br />
but British in every other way
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Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-8132509056368178322014-02-02T22:10:00.002+00:002014-02-02T22:58:18.550+00:00It's been so long<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
It really has been a very long time since I wrote anything on this blog. Sorry guys but it's going to be longer still. We are going to Los Angeles in the morning and will be gone for a little under 2 weeks.</div>
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I have made a couple of tops - well most of the tops. I got the patterns from Moda's website and neither was as large as I would have liked and I was meant to be taking them to California with us but have decided to make them bigger and then I shall show you the tops, then quilt them and show you them again and mail them to LA and hope to g-d they don't get lost.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is one of the Patterns I've used, and both are by<br />www.swimbakequilt.com<br />I am making it for my new Great Niece, daughter<br />of my Niece and her husband and have<br />made it using White Kona and Posy by Aneela Hoey<br />but it isn't big enough and;<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">This is one of the patterns and I used<br />White Kona and Wishes by Sweetwater<br />for my nephew and his lovely bride who<br />married in San Diego last July and<br />this wasn't the size I wanted either</td></tr>
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I have a couple of new photos to show you of our two youngest grandchildren which I know you are just dying to see. So here they are and I shall return in around 2 weeks or so. sorry for the long delay but so much cr*p has been happing and I hate moaning with a total vengeance so quiet time is what I decided.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mr. O who decided I needed to take<br />
photos of him pulling all kinds of faces<br />
I can show you more if you like</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ms. C with her very large<br />
Hello Kitty stuffed toy wearing her crown<br />
which she got from nursery school for<br />
her 2nd birthday which was in November</td></tr>
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See you soon<br />
Patti xxx<br />
American by birth and MOUTH<br />
but British in every other way
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Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-88828100476280332742013-12-29T18:23:00.002+00:002013-12-29T18:25:35.560+00:00I almost forgotNow my birthday is April 30 and my friend <a href="http://kwiltypleasures.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Kathy's</a> birthday is May 1. Now as most of you know I have an enormous stash - well if you didn't you do now. So when Kathy, of<a href="http://kwiltypleasures.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/sunday-stash-and-promise.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+KwiltyPleasures+(Kwilty+Pleasures)" target="_blank"> Kwilty Pleasures</a> made an oath not to buy any more fabric, because her stash is probably as large as mine, until her birthday and as mine is the day before I joined in.<br />
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Then what happened??? I FORGOT!!!<br />
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Yep. But!!! I remembered just in time before I pressed the buy button on <a href="http://www.eternalmaker.com/" target="_blank">The Eternal Maker's</a> website. Whew wasn't that lucky!!! And here is what I was going to order. I so wish I could but I promised not only Kathy but him upstairs too because my buying and not doing has become an obsession.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now this one is really old and I don't know if<br />
I'll be able to get it later but such is life.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This one is fairly new here in the U.K. so I am<br />
assuming that it will still be available by my Birthday<br />
and if not you know what they say - such is life</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I thought this one was old but it's appearing on the website<br />
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I love all these fabrics but then again I loved everything I have upstairs, a lot of which I don't love anymore. We are going babysitting for our two youngest munchkins soon and tomorrow is a really full on day and Tuesday is a day of nothing so .... we shall see.<br />
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After I have cut and stitched some blocks I owe I am going to cut, sew and quilt two quilts to take with me to the States so please wish me luck, because I'm sure gonna need it. I will be using my stash.<br />
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If you want to join in with us in not buying any more fabric and using what you had to have please just leave a message on this email soon. I mean really soon. So now I'm leaving you with photos of my two youngest munchkins to enjoy.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">O is in 1st Grade - way too young IMHO but<br />
already learning to read and write in English and read in Hebrew<br />
I am so impressed - heck I can't even read Hebrew and he's only 4<br />
AND C is at Nursery School and loving it</td></tr>
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See you soon<br />
Patti xxx<br />
American by birth and MOUTH<br />
but British in every other way
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Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-13525418617948409582013-12-20T20:17:00.000+00:002013-12-20T22:30:53.072+00:00Okay so I haven't ....... cleared up my sewing room yet but I will tomorrow. I know I've said that before but this time I really will because I'm desperate to get sewing again and I can't whilst my room is in it's current state.<br />
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But I wanted to share this with you, if I have any readers left after a two month hiatus. Well I know I have one at least.<br />
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I saw a SAL advertised via following <a href="http://www.craftbuds.com/announcing-the-mosaic-tiles-quilt-along/" target="_blank">Craft Buds Blog</a> which is Lindsay Connor's blog that it starting in January 2014. I love blogs, don't you??? Not just mine but other peoples too so that I can see what I really want to make. <br />
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And some of these quilts, if not all of them, are totally gorgeous malorgeous. Go on and have a look you know you want to. <br />
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I have a list of what I am going to do after my sewing room is in a fit state and here it is:<br />
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<li>Catch up with my bees </li>
<li>I really want to start sewing this the Marcelle Quilt and I have bought the book, albeit the eBook so I have to download the patterns - no big deal and it was way way cheaper than the printed book too</li>
<li>I want to start this bee and make at least 2 quilts from the Modern Bee book</li>
<li>I want to start the Farmers Wife quilt</li>
<li>I want to start the Tula Pink quilt too</li>
<li>I almost forgot I want to do <a href="http://www.add-crafter.com/feathers-qal/" target="_blank">The Feather QAL</a> as well. Boy I will be up to my neck in quilting but I LOVE it!!! It's such a cool quilt and what's more it's paper pieced which I love doing.</li>
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You can see my favorite books here where the above quilts come from and you can look inside each book (I hope):</div>
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It isn't very often that you will hear me say I love and adore a quilt book once I actually get it and look through it properly. But these books are in a league of their own and are the ones that I truly love and adore and nobody is paying me to say this. </div>
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In fact when I clear out my sewing room tomorrow there are going to be quite a few that bite the dust because I don't love them and if I don't love them I'm not keeping them - so away they shall go. I won't be selling them because it's too expensive to mail and my name isn't Amazon!</div>
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I forgot to put that I'm going to be using my stash for this coming year. I did order some fabric today (it as 1/2 price) but I'm not buying any more - NO MORE FABRIC. I have enough for England, Ireland and all surrounding countries. I NEED NO MORE FABRIC!!! And some is heading for eBay or somewhere else to sell it me thinks. </div>
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American by birth and MOUTH
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Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-86126696787365137972013-12-19T23:27:00.002+00:002013-12-19T23:27:59.103+00:00So What Else Is New???Other than I've haven't blogged for over 2 months and uhh I missed my blogaversary? Just stuff really. Not stitching stuff or quilting stuff that's for sure. Although I have bought a new chart to stitch that is sitting up in my very messy sewing room. I know I've said this before but TOMORROW is the day I clear it up. I shall take photos of what it looked like before I cleared it up and then again afterwards. So please watch this space.<br />
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I've just been busy with grandchildren and children. Not all our children - well we have babysat for two of our children and it is a total pleasure to sit for them. I love my grandchildren so much it is untrue.<br />
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On the other hand our younger daughter, middle child, is still without a hip after six months. It's driving us nuts. I don't know if I told you but she has been very ill for a long time with a whole catalogue (notice Brit spelling) of diseases and she is anything but proactive. Anyway because of the drugs she has been on for a very long time she has another disease called avascular necrosis, which basically means her bones are dying, and her hips had crumbled away. So two and a half years ago the surgeon took out her left hip and replaced it with a new one. For about a year everything was hunky dorey but then the hip started to hurt again and it took them a whole year to figure out that it was infected which isn't that rare apparently. Anyway six months ago they removed the offending hip and she was supposed to have it replaced 3 months ago but they still haven't done it.<br />
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Then she got a letter telling her that they had an appointment for her to have her left hip aspirated in January. WHAT LEFT HIP!!! She bloody doesn't have one!!! So I took the bull by the horns today and called the surgeons secretary, who is away apparently, and there is a substitute standing in who promised to call me back today. So glad I wasn't holding my breath because I waited in all day and no bloody call!!!<br />
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Stacy, daughter in question, has also had yet another Crohns attack and was in hospital so if we weren't driving her somewhere with her saying ouch all the time because of the potholes in the british roads, we were exhausted from everything. <br />
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Still no hip but I'll be damned if I'm taking her to an appointment to have a non-existent hip aspirated!!! That girl (the stand-in secretary) is getting another call from me tomorrow. I know you get more with sugar than with vinegar but I'm angry.<br />
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On a brighter side him upstairs had a HUGE birthday last week and we celebrated in style. So it's been a busy couple of months without my doing anything including clearing up my sewing room.<br />
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See you soon<br />
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American by birth and MOUTH
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Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-54708920892998808832013-10-06T16:11:00.000+01:002013-10-06T16:37:54.803+01:00My addiction to PinterestI have become totally addicted to <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pattimyself/boards/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> and have 56 different boards on there with over 2040 pins. So I'm not going to show you every board I have or we would be here all day and night, but I will show you a few boards and something from each board that I really like. <br />
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I started <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pattimyself/boards/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> to save things I found during my searches of the Web and emails I got with great tutorials on them generally, and free Block Of the Months and things I generally loved that pertained to quilting and all things fabric but my poor little computer was running out of room so what better way than to save them on a site I can access really easily and share with anyone and everyone! I also have some slimming recipes on there. Not that I'm dieting you understand, because I'm not.<br />
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One of my favorite boards is my <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pattimyself/accuquilt/" target="_blank">Accuquilt</a> Board where I have put which dies (cutting thingies) I already have and a few I want as well as some and this one thing I would love to make with my Accuquilt Baby Go<br />
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Next I have a Board labelled <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pattimyself/block-tutorials-i-hope/" target="_blank">Block Tutorials (I Hope)</a>. The I Hope bit was because I wasn't sure if what I was saving was actually a block tutorial or just blocks, but I think most of them are actually block tutorials.<br />
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Now we have another Board which is labelled Modern <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pattimyself/modern-bom-ii-thats-2/" target="_blank">BOM II (that's 2)</a>. I do have <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pattimyself/modern-bom-1/" target="_blank">Modern BOM 1</a> as well.<br />
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Last, but by no means least, is another BOM that I really love and will so do one day soon.<br />
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Well that's all from me for today. I hope tomorrow or the next day to<br />
1. Shame myself into clearing up my sewing room. I will take a before picture and;<br />
2. Show you photos of it cleared up and;<br />
3. Share photos of some fabrics and blocks I have received<br />
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Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-80889116431507384902013-10-02T19:34:00.001+01:002013-10-02T19:34:29.047+01:00How to Save The Battery on Your iPhoneGood grief it's been over 2 months since I last did a post and this isn't even a quilting post because I haven't done any stitching at all since June. I have to clear up my sewing room so I can get to my sewing machine and mat and everything. All I've been doing is buying fabric - I could put photos of what I've bought but I thought this would be so much more useful. We spent over 7 hours in the Mac store in Watford because our phones were losing battery power as we looked at them. I have done everything The Huffington Post has suggest and my battery is not going down at all now like it was.<br />
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Before you upgrade, if you haven't already, make sure you have backed your phone up to the Cloud before you upgrade. Then upgrade to 7.0.2. It's really good - the only thing that isn't good is the calendar but I found a calendar that I like - I had to pay for but it's good. I hope this helps you as much as it has helped me. So thank you Alex Kleinman because you have so helped me.<br />
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While some of the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/ios-7-features_n_3953256.html" style="border: 0px; color: #0088c3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">new features are fabulous</a>, and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/24/worst-ios-7-features_n_3983244.html" style="border: 0px; color: #0088c3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">others are making us crazy</a>, there's one thing we can all agree on: iOS 7 is not helping our battery life. As Ars Technica discovered,<a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/09/ios-7-thoroughly-reviewed/6/" style="border: 0px; color: #0088c3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink"> iOS 7 kills battery life faster than iOS 6.1</a> on every device you can use it on. We've got some tips to help you out.</div>
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<big style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1. Change Your Spotlight Settings</strong></big></div>
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With iOS 7, you can now search for anything on your iPhone using Spotlight. All you have to do is pull down on your Home screen and you can search pretty much every part of your phone, from notes to music, to mail.</div>
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It's convenient, but it also takes a lot of battery power to index all of your stuff. You can change exactly what Spotlight looks in when you use it for search by going to Settings, General then Spotlight search. From there you can <a href="http://gigaom.com/2013/09/28/how-to-increase-your-iphones-battery-life-on-ios-7/" style="border: 0px; color: #0088c3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">choose what you want to index and search</a>.</div>
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<big style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2. Turn Off AirDrop When Possible</strong></big></div>
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iOS 7 now allows you to quickly and easily <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2013/09/18/ios-7-airdrop-information-sharing-without-a-bump/" style="border: 0px; color: #0088c3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">share files with your friends' iPhones</a>. This is only available for iPhone 5 and newer. It's a great new feature, but it doesn't need to be on when you're not using it. To turn it off, go to your control center by pushing up from the bottom of any screen. From there you can disable AirDrop until you want to use it.</div>
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<big style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3. Turn Your Brightness Down</strong></big></div>
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This is a classic way to save battery life, and it's been made even easier with iOS 7. Instead of going through Settings to get to your brightness, you can change your screen's brightness from the Control Center. Just pull up from the bottom of any screen.</div>
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<big style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">4. Turn Off Parallax</strong></big></div>
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Remember how people are <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/26/ios-7-design-motion-sickness_n_3995898.html?utm_hp_ref=technology" style="border: 0px; color: #0088c3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">getting motion sickness from iOS 7</a>? This is one of the reasons why. The aspect of iOS 7 that makes everything look a little bit 3D and <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2013/09/27/how-to-turn-off-ios-7-visual-effects/2882993/" style="border: 0px; color: #0088c3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">makes your background move around </a>behind your apps. It also drains your battery. To turn it off, go to Settings, General, then Accessibility, then Reduce Motion. Turn Reduce Motion on to stop the parallax effect.</div>
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<big style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">5. Turn Off Bluetooth And WiFi</strong></big></div>
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This is another old one, but remember that if you're moving around and not using your WiFi or Bluetooth, these things are using up your battery. You can keep these features off until you want to use them to save some battery. You can turn these on and off in the Control Center.</div>
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<big style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">6. Disable Auto Downloads</strong></big></div>
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Your iPhone now downloads app updates from the App Store automatically, draining your battery. This feature also automatically downloads purchases from iTunes and the App Store you've made on different devices to your iPhone, which you may not want. To stop this and just update your apps and music manually, go to Settings, iTunes & App Store, and scroll to Automatic Downloads. There you can turn Automatic Downloads off for music, apps and books.</div>
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<big style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">7. Turn Off Frequent Locations</strong></big></div>
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Your iPhone wants to learn the places you often visit to give you "provide useful location-related information." This is takes up a lot of battery life and may also <a href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/apple-your-ios-7-privacy-settings-are-a-mess/" style="border: 0px; color: #0088c3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">make you feel uncomfortable privacy-wise</a>. To disable it go to Settings, Privacy, then Location Services. There, scroll all the way to the bottom and hit System Services. There you can also turn off Location Based iAds (ads from Apple based on your frequent locations). Then go to Frequent Locations and turn that off, too.</div>
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<big style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">8. Say Goodbye To Siri</strong></big></div>
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Unless you're using Siri regularly, you're better off disabling her to save battery. To do so, go to Settings, General then Siri. Tap Siri and you can turn her off. Sorry, girl!</div>
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<big style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">9. Don't Use A Moving Background</strong></big></div>
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The new moving backgrounds that iOS 7 offers are super cool, but they will totally kill your battery. To change your iPhone's wallpaper, just go to Settings, then Wallpapers & Brightness. Try out one of the beautiful new static wallpapers or use a photo of your own.</div>
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Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-36753110856882865532013-08-04T20:18:00.000+01:002013-08-04T20:18:00.158+01:00A Word To The Wise ...As most of you know I have MS which I choose to treat with the disdain I believe it deserves. Anyway (there must be another word for anyway but I can't find it) so anyway I was diagnosed with Diabetes oh I don't know 10 or 15 years ago. I've not taken any more notice of this than I have of the MS to be perfectly truthful.<br />
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So what's happened that makes me use the title I've used? I have a blood glucose meter that I've had since I was diagnosed. Okay it's not the original meter and I've been through a few because like everything else I needed to have the latest that was available so one went to two .... and you know the rest. So maybe 10 meters later I got this phonecall from a doctor - not my doctor, but another one from the practice we belong to, and it had been pre-booked to go through my medication and after we went through it all she told me I that as my <a href="http://www.diabetes.co.uk/what-is-hba1c.html" target="_blank">HbA1c</a> has been so good I don't need to test my bloods anymore.<br />
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Nevertheless (I went into word and typed in anyway and then went to the Thesaurus and got nevertheless instead of anyway) I haven't been feeling well for quite a while and blamed the MS - well you do, don't you?!? I do!!! So last week I had an appointment with my doctor and told her what was going on that I was really itchy, incredibly tired and sleeping like all night and well into the next day, really really irritable (not like me at all usually) as well and I can't remember what else I said was wrong (okay okay it was Thrush). My doctor is really great and she said "I think it's your diabetes". And I said no way - that doctor that phoned said I had it really under control and don't need to test my blood anymore. So after Jo (my doctor) said it might be the diabetes I decided to test my blood. Here in the U.K. your levels are meant to be between 4 and 7 and mine was 17.9!!! Which was way way too high.<br />
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So now I've gone onto the internet to see what this can cause. I went to the <a href="http://www.diabetes.org.uk/" target="_blank">Diabetes U.K. Website</a> this is what I found:<br />
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"<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.453125px;">People with diabetes are being denied the chance to monitor their blood glucose levels because vital test strips are being rationed to save money, according to a new report by Diabetes UK."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.453125px;">So I guess this is what was behind that dumb doctor - okay she wasn't dumb ... I was because I listened to her. I never questioned why she said I didn't need to test my blood anymore. I mean you don't question doctors now do you? Well I didn't - at least not until now. I also don't go looking for trouble that's why I don't look up stuff on the internet. I basically just don't want to know what might happen or could happen.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.453125px;">So my word to the wise is : Be responsible for your own wellbeing and take notice of what your body is telling you.</span><br />
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Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-73677355027097152202013-07-18T22:58:00.000+01:002013-07-18T23:18:05.303+01:00Some really exciting newsYou all know how much I LOVE Craftsy and how much they have helped me to learn how to quilt. Well they are having an amazing SALE at the moment which you can find here:<br />
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There were a few classes I should have purchased but I decided after looking at them all and only being able to afford one right now that the following was the one I wanted the most because I am terrified of sewing circles or anything circle related but I always love the way circles look! </div>
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And this is what I want to be able to do. So here goes people and keep a watch on here to see what I will be able to do.<br />
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Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-45666549822507384992013-07-10T16:54:00.003+01:002013-07-10T17:04:26.904+01:00I am moaning and have some GREAT quilts to show youI wish I could get up off this couch really I do but I'm just so darn tired. Saw my MS nurse today who is just lovely and just mentioned, because I so don't moan or tell her anything of any relevance usually. But this time I just as an aside mentioned that I have stabbing pains in my legs, like somebody is stabbing me with a knife and they start in the evening and the stabbing tapers off for a bit until just before I'm dropping off to sleep when it bloody starts again and wakes me up. I told her I was just wondering is all and Noreen (MS lovely nurse) said I need wonder no more because it is the MS, I mean how exciting is this, and I need to take more painkillers. So made an appointment with my GP (to you non-Brits General Practitioner or Doctor) ok I'm a non-Brit too but I've lived here so long that apart from my mouth I should be classed as British I guess but if I was I couldn't complain about the Post Office anymore and I love doing that. Anyway I will just have to live with these pains until the end of the month when my doctor comes back from her vacation.<br />
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Now for the GREAT quilts. I was wandering around Pinterest randomly when I came across the quilt below and thought I love that and want one sort of like that, but in different colors, and I so have to repin this. So I did!! And then went and looked some more and Sherri has a shop on Etsy where she has some quilts for sale. They are all handmade and hand-quilted and totally gorgeous malorgeous. So enjoy peoples because I sure did.<br />
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And what's more she made all the rest of these quilts too. Her name above leads to her blog so please go and visit it I promise you if you like modern quilts like I like modern quilts you will love these. This first one is in her studio and I LOVE IT!!! Heck I love all of them. Every single one (secretly I think the bottom two and and the first one that led me to Sherri's <a href="http://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Daintytime" target="_blank">Etsy</a> store are my favorites). Wish I could be her - well she's way younger than me and she quilts way better than me and has an imagination which I don't have.<br />
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Patricia Lessellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01747595273484731811noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817612762341450075.post-190761057195758302013-06-23T14:28:00.001+01:002013-06-23T14:30:40.456+01:00Blimey O'ReillyIt's been almost a month since my last post and this one is going to be really short. First things first. If I follow you by email, which is my best way of following because I like it the best really, then I am not going to be following you by BlogLovin too. <br />
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Secondly I've been unwell, just for a bloody change and third thing my DD#2 has been in hospital a while so my time has been really limited to say the least. <br />
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The fourth thing is our eldest Grandson Sammy was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_and_Bat_Mitzvah" target="_blank">Bar Mitzvah</a> three weeks ago and he did really well reading both <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maftir" target="_blank">Maftir</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haftarah" target="_blank">Haftorah</a> from the Torah. Each portion is special for that particular Hebrew Date and some are so much longer than others but Sammy was A-MAZ-ING!!! <br />
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Patti xxx<br />
American by birth and MOUTH
but British in every other way
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P.S. I have given you links for all the Bar Mitzvah stuff including what the Bar Mitzvah is all about if you want to read what it's all about. If you don't no worries but the choice is yours.<br />
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