I've had this book for years and it's a great read! Mind you I love magical books and it's nice to have some in NZ. Maurice Gee is another excellent NZ author with magic in his words.

She does amazing work, one day I'll try one of her patterns, but it'll have to wait till all the other things are done first.
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I love that pants pattern too, one of my faves.
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In our house the living areas are neutral, partly because I like the lounge paper and the dining room/kitchen needs to go with the cupboards and benchtop. However, in the other end of the house it's my choice. So the boys rooms have one wall denim and 3 in butter, our room is Cab Sav (think the darkest red wine), the hall is lilac and the service rooms are duck egg blue. All that colour makes me happy and as we're not looking to sell for a long time the "neutral" thing can go jump.
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I love umberalls, except when it comes to going to the loo of course. I don't have a pair atm, but one day I'm going to make a 1940's inspired pair, there are a few things that need to be finished first though. Currently working on black trousers and shorts for eldest.

I should have gone to Spotlight yesterday and picked up some thread, I decided the jeans I'm making can wait till tomorrow when I can get my thread at The Fabric Store where I'll get good service in a friendly environment. I loathe Spotlight, with a passion. That fabric is gorgeous though.

I know them, got some of my wedding fabric from them back in the 90's. Might have to see if I can fit it in on Friday before the eye appointment.
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Love the skirt, but I have to know, what fabric shop is closing down?

I too had endometriosis for years, basically I had severe pain at the beginning of my period from day 1 (14 years old), my GP put me on the pill at 15 which was blissful when I got to avoid the occasional period. When I was 21 I had a laparoscopy to check for endometriosis, they didn't find any but this was 24 years ago now and it would have been there, just not the obvious version.
About 6 months after that I added bowel issues to the pain, diarrhea prominent IBS was the diagnosis and I started taking loperamide on a regular basis to control that so I could continue working. In my 30's I had 2 children and in my late 30's started having issues with constipation and my cycle changed to longer periods with shorter breaks in between. Had a colonoscopy which found nothing so continued on.
A while ago I started bleeding when having a bowel motion from time to time, no pain but quite a lot of blood, no reason found aside from piles apparently. I ended up demanding another colonoscopy which was done in August of last year which found some "prominent mucosal folds" which were unusual but came back cancer free. The bowel specialist ordered an MRI and then another one when the first didn't show him what he wanted to see, at this point I was very glad I have health insurance as otherwise I would have been using the public system here which probably would have sent me on my way when nothing cancerous was found.
The second MRI showed a lot of endometriosis, to the point where they diagnosed me as stage 4 without actually having gone in and had a look. I did some research and made an appointment to see a local surgeon who specialises in excision. He recommended a hysterectomy as my uterus was overlarge, keeping the ovaries and he said we'd need a colorectal surgeon.
I've now had the surgery, all the endo has gone, one small patch had to be lasered, hoping that doesn't come back, uterus has gone as well as 4" of bowel that was almost completely blocked due to endo growing into the walls. I suspect that the assumption was made by all my doctors over the 20 years that as I'd had a lap it couldn't be endo; they were very, very wrong. I don't blame them, it was probably a reasonable assumption to make, but it did result in some very serious surgery being needed and the loss of one ovary which couldn't be saved.
I'm almost 8 weeks post-surgery and definitely feeling better, I have something approaching normal bowel function for the first time in 20 years and despite the post-surgery pain it's still less than I had monthly.

I love the maxi shape, what pattern did you use? The Atlas is right on the colour though, it washes you out which isnt' something I've seen done to you before, either dye it or remake it in something that pops.