Sewing - Raggy Quilt part 2

About two weeks ago I started this rag quilt...the checked fabric is an old jacket I've recycled, it's just been hung in the wardrobe for the last ten years, it was a lovely jacket but it didn't look lovely on me, I've only worn it once when we ( me, hubby, son, mum and dad went to York Minster to celebrate the start of the year 2000, so it has special memories for me),

the plain brown fabric was a skirt I started making but never finished and the leaf fabric and plain green fabric I bought on ebay. This is what the leaf fabric looks like cut out into the leaf shapes, I think it looks great....and this is as far as I've got. This is the first large quilt I've made and what I'm finding difficult because it's a rag quilt is that the seams are on the 'right' side of the fabric and the neat edges are the 'wrong' side. But the 'wrong' side looks just as nice as the right side. I thought I would have eight weeks to finish the quilt but last week someone from decent homes came round and checked the combi-boiler and central heating (which works okay and we are happy with) and he has told us we are having a radiator in the downstairs toilet and the combi-boiler will be taken out and a normal boiler put in, so that will mean a hot water tank in one of the bedrooms, we think it will be son's/ Kitt's bedroom, so that means now that we've had to find someone to look after the cats for four weeks (we've spoken to the woman who did a home-check for Millie from Cats Protection and she says she will have them - £8 a day for both cats) and we were going to put all the boxed up stuff from the kitchen and bathroom in there! The man from decent homes says that when he comes round the work usually starts within a month, so we think it will be November. Great timing, as hubby has got two weeks holiday from work, so instead of chilling out and going out, we are going to be stuck in with noise and dust and half the house in boxes for four working weeks and living off microwave meals!

Josie x

Update 23rd October - I phoned up Decent Homes a few days later and asked when they are doing our area and they said November - February but they are doing our street at the end of January!