Patrick left early to go to his golf tournament. Nothing special, but he does it each year for the local Elk's.
I enjoyed having the morning to myself. I actually decided to get some work done. First things first, I needed to finish the quilt for the Gala.
After it was done, I realized I should have made the border a little lighter in color. The dark red doesn't help it like a lighter color would. I will give this to the church to work on for the Gala.
Then I found all the 4.5" squares mom had cut. Of course, she was asking for them back.
I decided to go through that stack and see if there were a lot of one or two colors to work with. I found some and put them together. I was able to get about 10 blocks done of each.
A lot of those colors were used in some of the other quilts that we completed. I just wish I had seen them before mom started mixing and matching them up with "scraps." We could have had a lot of coordinated 9 patches instead of the mixed-up stuff.
I kept some more that could be worked together. I'm hoping to get more blocks out of them then I did with this stack. I have some at the fair that I will need to work on as well.
Patrick came home. It was about an hour before we had to leave to pick mom up. I loaded the car with her stuff and some of Nancy's. Once that was done, we were ready to go.
Arrived at moms and "dumped" all the blocks back on her. Then we headed down to Longview to meet up with my brother and sister-in-law. We had supper at Red Lobster. It was a really good visit and went well. Mom enjoyed herself too, I think. She brought some food back and so did Patrick.
Dropped mom off and brought back a quilt top, quilt and some thread. Not sure about why I got the thread.
Sat and watched TV for a bit and now it's time to call it a day. I'm just happy I was able to be Happy Quilting/Happy Stitching!
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