A Day With Friends

This morning, I was getting a few things ready for when Sandy E and her sister Jeannette were coming. As I was getting ready, Debbie wanted to know if I would be home, and mom called to see if I could take the bolt cardboard, she got from Debbie McGinnis yesterday. I said sure. 

So, first to show was Debbie and we talked about the quilt she wanted to make for the "therapy quilt" to give to her daughter. She has enough photos of her grandson to make a quilt for his brother as well. So, we chatted about what she could do. 

Then mom showed up with the trunk of her car FULL of the cardboard that has the bolts of fabric to put on them. I told her I thought they were the smaller ones that everyone gets to wrap their quilt on, not the bolt boards that are at a shop. I couldn't take 200 of those! I don't want my downstairs to look like a quilt shop at this rate. She was going to take them to the dump and recycle them in the cardboard area. She ended up getting help from some guys that were there unloading their cardboard. Worked out for her. 

Once they were all gone, Sandy and Jeannette arrived, and we sat to work on our embroidery. First, we enjoyed lunch. Then sat and talked as well as worked on our embroidery. I was trying to find a flower to the round robin I needed to do. We decided on the fuchsia pattern. So, I tried to get it going and realized the first flower petal was too big, so we talked about adding the 2 to it. If I did all 5, it would have been too big. 

I was able to get this much done before they left. 

After supper I pulled it out and worked on it some more. I need to add the bottom part to it. I just hope it works out okay. They are big. 

I was playing most of the time after they left, then pulled the piece out while we were watching our shows that are on Saturday night. 

I didn't want to start the bottom part of the fuchsia, so I pulled out my beading work. I worked on this piece for a bit. Think I got about 5 or 6 rows done. I need to finish them both at this rate. Tomorrow is casino day. So, I won't be able to do much tomorrow. 

I really had a great day with my friends and Sandy is so much like a sister to me, that I had even a better time. We love chatting and relaxing with each other and her sister is just as much a kick as Sandy. So, it made for a great day of Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!