I was recently sent EIGHTEEN POUNDS(!!!) of fabric scraps!
Holy moly, right?
I received the box yesterday and when I opened it, I was shocked speechless.

This is your basic “dream come true” situation.
You see, I run a blog called “Aunt Scrappy”.
And that blog has that name for a reason…. other than the name just rocks.
Just read the “about” section to your right and you’ll see what I’m talkin’ about.

I KNEW there had to be at least ONE quilter out there that would love to give their scraps away instead of having fabric scraps sitting around, never to be used again. (And what quilter worth her salt would ever even DREAM of throwing those precious scraps away?!?!?! Quilt blasphemy. That is what that would be, in my opinion.)

Well, my Mother in law found me that one quilter.
Marie!! Thanks SO much for contributing to my habit.

I promise you that your leftovers are safe with me and will be used very SOON! You, and anyone else for that matter, are completely welcome to unload fabric scraps on me anytime you please. You have my address… or at least know where to get it! As for anyone else who wants to unload… let me know. We’ll talk. You’ll send. I’ll be happy. You’ll be happy.

Funny that my MIL is mentioned in this post because she is the BIGGEST, most prolific, perpetrator of my quilting habit. Part of that EIGHTEEN POUNDS of fabric scraps were sent by her. I’m pretty sure that ever since she took me to my very first quilting class, that she hasn’t been able to enter her local fabric shop, “The Patchwork Pig”, without leaving with some sort of an assortment of fabric for me. I would say that a good 90% of my fabric has been donated to me by the MIL. Apparently she loves me…. and knows that every woman needs a big fat fabric stash! And now I’ve got her on board with my mission to collect fabric scraps from wherever I can get ‘em. With her on my side I know that I will have enough fabric to quilt the world over by the end of this year!! (Not that it will be enough… I’m just sayin’…)

Before I go away again, I just wanted to give an update and try to explain why I’ve been MIA. I got the carpal tunnel surgery and have been recovering. Next Friday will be the two month mark. I am still healing because my hand still has a way to go before I get my strength back. The other reason for the absence is because I haven’t been quilting. What you saw in my last post is really the last time I’ve done anything. The Hawaiian quilt is still pinned and waiting to be basted. I’m hoping to pick that project up again very soon.

However…. I am getting another surgery next Friday. I am getting surgical hardware removed from both of my feet. And as one of my feet in RSD ridden, there will most likely be some complications. I hope not, but the Doctor tells me to prepare because chances are so high that he all but said it would definitely happen.

For those that don’t know what RSD is and what I am talking about, I’ll try to give a short version of “my story”. RSD is a painful nerve condition that I’ve had for almost two years. I broke my foot one morning in August of 2006. The fracture took 16 weeks to heal, and about halfway into that nightmare my foot decided to swell up every time it was not propped up and then it would turn a loverly shade of purple that made it look like my foot was choking. I have undergone 16 sympathetic nerve blocks to try to snap that particular nerve out of it’s current major freak out mode. My foot hasn’t been purple in a little over a year, but it still is a tad swollen most of the time and if the color changes, it only changes to a reddish hue. I still suffer from pain in that foot and it really sucks. I am only grateful that I have gone into remission this much. But now it looks like I will rapidly return to square one next week. And before you ask, yes. I do have to get this hardware taken out. The screws are working their way OUT of each foot. And that in itself is painful. Put that sick situation on top of a nerve that is flipped out… and you get an increase in pain and suffering. Seriously… if I could sue this nerve, I would.
And that, is “my story”.

I’m hoping that while I’m in recovery from this upcoming surgery that I will drag my huge Hawaiian quilt into bed with me so I can baste it while watching movies. We’ll see if that happens.

Hopefully I will be posting more often now.
Because that will mean not only that I am that much closer to completing my Hawaiian quilt, but that I am using up some of my new fabric scraps!!
~Crossing my fingers for the energy to quilt often~

**Forgot to mention that as of last week The Husband and I have been married for 7 years!**

Happy Anniversary to us… And many, many more!

I cannot BELIEVE that I have not posted in almost three months.
I suck at quilting.
You see, I only post on here if I’ve done something… Anything, really.
And since it has been three months since I’ve been on here, that just shows how dedicated I am to my supposed “favorite” hobby.

I’m sorry!! However, I hope to make up for it with the picture that I’m about to show you.
My Mom was in town to help me out with my kids a month ago (I’ll tell you why in a minute…) and she helped me lay out my ENORMOUS Hawaiian quilt.

WOW!, right? I absolutely love it and I am sure you all are massively impressed. I could not have done it without assistance, so I am so grateful that my Mom was here to help me do it. She helped my iron the background fabric, which was a BIG chore that absolutely takes two people, and then she helped me lay out AND pin the big design to the background. I think it took about three hours to do and we did it in the dead of night when my kids were fast asleep. Now I need to get on the stick and baste that sucker together so I can get those pins outta there so I can begin the hand appliqué. (Which I estimate will take me, oh, I don’t know…. For.Ever!!)

Basting will take me some time to do, so now I am searching for someone local to help me out. FYI: I’m not a big fan of basting. I hate it, actually. So I am hoping to wrangle my sister into doing most of it for me under the pretense of me teaching her to “sew”. (hahahaHA!)

During this whole adventure I found out that I have severe carpal tunnel syndrome in my right hand and borderline in my left. Three different doctors have advised me to get surgery to correct it… I just don’t know if I can. The recovery involves THREE weeks of no movement of the hand. And then for a month or so after you can’t lift anything and there are other activities that will be limited as well… But I guess I have to wait for the surgeon to tell me what those activities are.

I’ve got two kids.
One is almost five and the other is three.
Taking my right hand away from me would be disastrous.
I mean… you KNOW that quilting would be way out of the question for a while.
And we all KNOW that I love quilting so much that I just couldn’t stand to ever abandon my hobby.