This morning, I was up and enjoying my time for a bit. Unfortunately, Patrick got up shortly after and wanted to remind me of things I said I would do.
My plan today was to get downstairs and work on getting the quilt done. Instead, I sat upstairs till 1 pm watching a Paul Newman movie. Then went downstairs to get started.
I was working on the quilt about an hour or so, when mom called to ask what I was doing. After telling her, she decided to come over and get some help on a design she wanted to do for Zach and Jorden's baby quilt, since they are expecting in February, and she was behind. I kept working till she arrived.
I was working on the outer board stars. The single ones. I had the center part already done and was adding the star border. Then she came.
We looked over her design that she copied from the computer. I told her to be careful because some people get upset with copyrights. By the time she was done, it was changed so much that it was "inspired by" and not copied. Which is a lot better now a days. It's cute. She didn't like the rabbit that was on it. So, she watched YouTube to find out how to draw a rabbit. It's a cute rabbit too. So, we changed a couple things and instead of the face of the rabbit, she's going to do the whole rabbit. It should be cute. Then she asked Patrick about colors. The fabrics she had were a little off. So, I ended up pulling fabrics from my stash for her. We found a good color for the rabbit that is "fluffy."
After a couple hours, she left. Then I went back to work. I didn't realize it was 5 pm till Patrick came done. I had the quilt top to the stage above.
At that point I was tired of it. I asked what color for the border and he picked the blue. The trouble with the blue is that it's a blend, and I didn't realize it till I was working on it today. I didn't want the blend on the outer boarder. So, Patrick picked the stars in blue. I goes, but not my favorite. Again, I was tired of it by this point. So, the border is on it. Now the backing is getting dried and will be ready to drop off at Colleen's tomorrow with another quilt. I'm behind on washing the backings. I need to put a sticky there for me to remember to make sure they are out of the drying tonight - and if I forget, I will pull them out tomorrow.
It turned out to be a lot longer day then I wanted. I wanted to just be down there 3 hours and call it good. Instead it went to 4 1/2 hours. Patrick didn't mind. BUT he waited on me to fix supper! I figured it wasn't that hard to fry burgers but apparently it was. I ended up going back down after supper to pick up and get everything ready for tomorrow. Val is coming to pick up stuff and I'm heading to the embroidery meeting. On the way back I will be stopping at Colleens.
Even though it was busy, I can't say I wasn't Happy Quilting/Happy Stitching!
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