tea flowers, tea food, tea guests, final tumbling blocks

Michael and I hopped up early on Friday (5/30) to get ready for the big ‘unveiling tea’ scheduled to start at NOON.  He ran to the store for a few things, then picked what flowers we had left (after a torrential downpour last night!) 

2 kinds of roses, and one lone dahlia

our gladiolas out the back REALLY took
a beating!

We put a big blanket over the tumbling blocks wall hanging and I got 2 kinds of cookies made, some Arnold Palmer iced tea and another run of Devo Delights before the ladies started showing up at NOON.  We had lots of wonderful food,

the dessert bar is ALWAYS fabulous!

lots of happy guests,

Lynne B

Joanne & Jeanne

Gale & Deanna

Barbara, Mary, Beth, Carolyn

Sally (front), Sue & Ann Mary (back), Ginny & Karen (sofa

Ginny, Karen, Gale (standing)

Leslie, Nancy, Donna

and finally, about 45 minutes after everyone arrived…the unveiling. 

trimming the batting last Friday

starting to attach the quilt to the frame

ta - da!

I have to admit, it was really thrilling to hear the ooo’s and aah’s of everyone, and several people also said the more they looked at it, the more they saw, which is music to any quilter’s ear.  For all of the quilters at the tea, there was a second unveiling of the long arm downstairs.  It was a wonderful tea and I had a great time…and after a relatively painless cleanup, I flopped on my chair and read for a couple of hours.  I had made a plate of several of the desserts from the tea, and at 4:45 Michael and I and Bryce and Joe and Dee & Howard headed off to visit Anne at rehab.  She had a hip replacement last week (with an unfortunate fall on her injured hip her first day in rehab) but she seemed in wonderful spirits, and very appreciative of the goodies we brought.  We visited for about 1/2 an hour, then headed to Rippington’s in Waxhaw for our neighbor’s dinner.  There were 14 of us, and the food was wonderful.  We headed back to Ginny & Ken’s afterwards for dessert…and I was very glad I could resist both the cherry cream pie and the German chocolate cake!  We were home after 9 and Michael watched TV and I read for just a bit before bed.