Life is back to normal!

Maddy, Kathleen and Pam - thank  you for your kind messages of support after my previous post here.  The bushfires have largely gone now thanks to recent rains, and although it is still summer, I feel the possibility of further fires this season has diminished, and we came through unscathed for another year.
Ken came through his gall bladder operation and has recovered well.  I have finished the six week bladder cancer treatment and am feeling fine.  I've got my sewing mojo back, and have finally finished two more of my long standing UFO quilts - the Tie Quilt and the Abandoned At An Opshop quilt.  Here is the Tie Quilt:

I haven't been able to photograph the other one as it has been raining non stop and I can't hang it out on the line!  I'll do it in the next day or so if the rain stops long enough.

I'm now working on quilts to donate to bushfire recovery centres for people who have lost their homes.  A quilt is a nice thing to be given when life is so bleak.  Something to wrap around yourself or your loved ones and hide away for a while.  The tutor at the class I attend at the Quilt Shop here brought a heap of unfinished quilts and tops to our class last week and offered them to the students to take home and finish, to be brought back to the next class ready to be donated to bushfire recovery centres.  I took home this lovely appliqued top which just needs borders, backing, quilting and binding.   There was enough fabric to do all of that, so I have cut out strips ready to be sewn up and added to this to complete the top.  Hope to do that in the next few days.
Once that's done, I'd like to use some of my huge stash to whip up some more quilts to donate.  Maybe some quilts for boys and blokes, in plaid and other masculine fabrics.