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I had
an early morning routine doctor’s appointment on Friday (11/13), and didn’t get
home until around 11 AM after stops at Comporium, the vet’s and the grocery
store. I was STARVING by then (I was
supposed to get blood work done, so had fasted, but we postponed it until
January) and so spent a bit of time making something for brunch! Then I hit my studio, basted down the new top
and started quilting. I liked the
previous pattern so much that I decided to use it on this quilt too:
I got the quilting 1/2 way done before it
was time to get cleaned up and changed and head on out to Michael’s dinner
theatre. I had organized 20 of us from
SCCL (I rode over with Susan & Jim & Melanie) and the dinner was
wonderful (chicken, green beans, potatoes, corn pudding…with cheesecake for
dessert!) and the play was great. It was
called INTERRUPTIONS and was very funny.
Michael played a plumber and none of us could figure out how he kept
that cigarette in his mouth while he was talking. I rode home with my honey and we watched a
bit of TV before bed.
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Br-r-r-r-r….Saturday
morning (11/14) we definitely woke up to “frost on the pumpkin”. Michael’s chair/quilt had a rare new visitor
when I went out to the living room in the morning:
There was no frost delay for
Michael’s 9:30 AM tee off time though, so he left at 9 AM, with several layers
of clothes on. I made a fried egg for
breakfast and headed down to the studio.
I had a few hiccups while finishing Aunt Grace’s quilt, but finally got
everything fixed and done by 11 AM. I
immediately loaded up one of the baby dino quilts to start getting it
quilted.
It was a bit of a
pain-in-the-butt as the quilt went to within 1/2 an inch of the backing, so I
had to pin on extra sides to hold my clamps
(and to hold my breath that the
quilt didn’t shift too much!) Those had
to be pinned and unpinned each time I advanced the quilt…so that slowed me down
quite a bit (as it is, I’m already an EXTREMELY slow long arm quilter :~). But that’s ok…right? I really do try to subscribe to the “it’s the
journey, not the destination” school of thought. Sandy stopped by at lunchtime to pick up her
quilt.
Luckily she decided to take a
chance on me being home, since our phone and internet have been out at least
since we got up this morning!! She had
been calling and she sent an email, but on her way out for errands she decided
to swing by. She seemed very pleased
with her quilt and we got to talk for just a bit before she left. I continued to work on quilting in the
afternoon and in between the rows of stitching, I got a bit pieced on a new
quilt I am starting:
Michael had soup
for dinner and left for his performance, and I continued sewing until 10:30
when he got home. I was really beat, but
very happy with everything I got done. I
got both quilts finished and off of the frame, trimmed them and got all of the
ends woven in.
I LOVE the beginnings of the new quilt ! (MJnCT)
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