lunch at the Greenway Restaurant

Michael left before 7:30 for golf here at SCCL on Wednesday morning (6/29), and I headed downstairs to continue to work on my stratas.  I got a bit of of sewing done before Pat, Loree & Jan showed up at 10:30.  We piled in the car and headed into Charlotte to the CPCC campus for our luncheon at the GREENWAY Restaurant.  This is the restaurant at the cooking school where the graduating seniors put out a lunch for 5 days for around 40 people.  It is always heavenly and today was NO exception.  

We had a selection of breads and spreads:   

a lovely salad:

 fabulous choices for lunch: 

 

I had the pork

pat & Jan had the beef

Loree had the chicken

 and an incredible dessert.  We found out that although the lunches and spreads stay the same for each of the 5 days, the desserts change each day.  On other days they had pumpkin pie (yuck!), key lime pie or a raspberry tart….but today….today was the piece de resistance……    

 yep, an éclair with raspberry sauce and it was OUTSTANDING!!!  Even though we were all very full…we all kept scraping our plates trying to get up every bit of the dessert…..YUM!!  We had a wonderful first year student....Jesse....for our waiter.  

He graciously took a picture of us as well: 

Loree, Pat, me, Jan

 When we got home, Pat came in to pick some basil she needed for dinner, Loree came in to buy some tone-on-tone white and Jan came in to pick up a ticket for a future concert.  After that I was full and drowsy, so I took a short nap before resuming sewing.  By the time Janice and I SKYPED (it only worked for 1/2 an hour  :~(, I had all of my stratas sewn together.  After talking with Janice I headed upstairs to watch TV and continue to reclaim polar fleece!

omelet, hydrangeas & roses

Michael did his usual Tuesday morning (6/28) errand run while I made myself a terrific omelet:    

leftover asparagus, onions, tomatoes & cheese

before spending the day in my studio.  I worked on sewing together all of the stratas for my newest “hidden wells” quilt top.  I didn’t get them all done, but I did make significant progress on them by dinnertime.  When I came upstairs another beautiful bouquet was on the living room table:  

We shared a salad from ZAXBY’s for dinner and when Michael left at 6:30 for the movies…I headed over to Jan’s.  She needed some company so we spent the evening together.  

new hidden wells strata, martini night at Kathi's

My honey left at 7:30 for golfing Monday morning (6/27) and I headed downstairs.  I spent the day cutting strips and putting together 3 strata for another hidden wells quilt.  

is this crazy looking or what?

 I’m hoping to take a strata and some blocks to qu1ilting, to show people other ideas for the quilt.  My honey was home by 2:30 with a score of 85 on a course he would normally hit 95 on….he was STOKED!!!  While I was cleaning up for my evening out, my honey and another golfing partner headed over to Gale & Phil’s.  Phil hasn’t golfed in at least a month, and is having back surgery on Wednesday.  Of course he won’t be golfing for a LONG time after the surgery, so the guys decided to get him a gift.  They had a plaque made with “The 10 reasons we miss golfing with Phil” on it, and also a gift certificate to Ruth Chris Steak House.   

 

Anyway, when Michael got home I headed on over to Pat’s and we walked 4 doors down to Kathi’s martini night.   

our hostess Kathi

guests

We had a great time!  The food was excellent, 

shrimp rolls & stuffed mushrooms

sausage in dough with BBQ sauce

caprese salad on a stick

yummy dessert

and then we played a game called HANDS DOWN 

that was pretty funny!  I was home by 10:30 and crawled right into bed.

eagle embroidery, colorwash top done, champagne & puffy things

We had a relaxed morning on Sunday (6/26) with leftover pancakes for breakfast and then a visit to Jan’s to set up her watering timer.  After that it was “studio time” all day…my favorite kind of day :~).  First up, doing an embroidery for one of my friends at Thursday quilting.  She wants to do a Quilt of Valor for her daughter who is a NAVY veteran and I told her I would be happy to embroidery a bock for her, this is what she picked out:

After that I settled back down to the colorwash quilt and got the outside border all put on….that took me pretty much the rest of the day.   

not sure I like the pink in the outside border...but oh well....

 We decided on a champagne and puffy thing theme for dinner….so my honey first made little quiches:   

 

Then 2 of our favorite stuffed scallop shells:   

 We spent the evening watching TV and I started to reclaim some polar fleece from the 2 fall quilts.  It's a lot harder to rip the stitches out of polar fleece than it is out of regular fabric :~(