Traveling Tuesday

Recently, I got to play with my work friend!

Another Handi Quilter Educator, Harriet, was visiting her family in New York this week. I found out and stole her away and dragged her to the toy store with me.

I forced her to sew:



and hang out with a bunch of quilters.

We were making a mystery quilt. We each completed the first block and had to show them off:



That handsome fellow in the middle is Bob, shop co-owner and our teacher for the day. Jim was taking our picture, but I wish he could have been in the photo, as well.

If you look closely at the blocks Harriet and I are holding, they are not the same. That would mean that mine is wrong. I hurriedly put one block together without reading all the directions. Note to self: don't do that again. I did fix it as soon as I got home.

I had a wonderful time with my friend Harriet and with all the quilters in Woodstock, NY. Hopefully Harriet will have to visit her family at least once a month and we'll get to take many more visits to the toy store!

Gifted Quilt

By the end of 2012, I was seriously behind in gift quilts:  weddings, graduations, babies, etc.  It will take a while for me to get caught up, but I am working on it.

My RockStar hubby is a drummer and his guitar player recently (a year or so ago?) had a second son.  Last week I packed up the quilt for hubby to take to band practice, but once I realized that I had no photos of this quilt, I frantically texted him during his drive SCREAMING at him to not give the quilt away.  Fortunately, he read the text and returned the quilt.  Phew!  A week later, the quilt has been photographed and delivered.

The front:

The quilting:

The backing (wild, right?):

My friend Harriet and I started this quilt as a mystery class a long, long time ago.  I wonder if she ever finished hers?

My husband forwarded this note from his guitar player today:

Thanks again to Debbie for her most excellent quilt!Colin and Max were both enjoying it on the couch last night (both in warmth and pillow forts)

Pillow forts ROCK!