Weekend Respite

This past weekend Bill & the kids treated me to a mini-vacation with 5 of my BFF's at Miss Pam's Ocean Shores retreat. Two days of R&R was just what the doctor ordered, and I do feel refreshed. Bill is the ultimate bomb of a husband as far as I am concerned, and I want to hear a round of applause for him taking good care of little Miss Barf-a-lot while I was gone. She doesn't seem any the less for wear, but I know Bill is happy to be back at the office this morning--

So, I had to multi-task rest with productivity, and thought it might be a good weekend to make a rag quilt for Annie. I've wanted to make one for a few years, ever since the one my neice, Lorraine, made for her when Annie was a baby got a little threadbare--but never had the gumption to start the thing. So I went to the fabric store last week, bought too much flannel, lugged it down to Ocean Shores, and--after a couple of stops at some cool nurseries with Andrea--dumped the bundle out in front of my quilter friends. Pam set up a production line of cutting out squares of fabric, then we all gathered around to arrange and rearrange the blocks til we came up with a pretty pattern. After I got the thing sewed up, Nancy & Margo cut the fringe and Pam sewed the top binding, while I took lots of breaks to watch Cindy quilt on her project. Many hands do make light work, and the results of our team effort are now snuggled around Annalee this morning, who is stirring in her bed. Gotta go.


I'll post a picture soon.


Jean

A good friend is like a warm quilt wrapped around the heart.