Saturday sewfest

MJ and I have turned into rather a good team when it comes to piecing quilt tops. Every so often we put our stashes together, let them play and see what emerges. Well, the last time we got together, as we were putting things away, we happened to juxtapose her big chunk of coral with my big chunk of flying cranes, and a colorway was conceived. As it gestated over the weeks, I became sensitive to the call of other colors that would like to play along. Hence the visit to JoAnnes for five buttons when I emerged with $17 worth of calypso colors that were all sdancing and drinking cuba libres and singing "Day - o! Dayyayyayy o! ..." So Saturday, MJ and I gathered together with our co-joined stashes and began to piece.

I was cutting and pressing, and MJ was sewing. She timed herself and discovered that she was finishing one square every 8 minutes. Then I got out my second Singer, the fifty-year-old British-made steel portable, and we both sewed and pressed, and in ten hours. from first consideration to final photo, we had completed a pieced and tied quilt. We have SO much fun with this! I found a home for the last one, so this time, she gets to find a home for it.

DH looked at it and said, "Is it just me, or are there a lot of bird butts in this?" Oh - well, I guess the coral really does pick up the bright tailfeathers on those cranes.

It's still singing and dancing and drinking rum. Yes, it looks loud and hot, because it is! And we laughed all the time we were making it.


For those who don't have any yet, here are a few daffodils. Spring is just rolling along here. The willows are turning that lovely sour green, and the flowering plum and ornamental cherries are mad with joy.

During the past week I managed to turn out a couple of hats. Candy consented to pose in their vicinity, as long as I didn't ask her to do anything.