WIP update

Monday was a busy but exciting day ... I had a dentist appointment downtown - which Alex was a dream for! He sat on my lap eating a grape sucker (no worries, it was a sugar free sucker from the office receptionist) watching the Olympics and the fish in the aquarium, while Gwen cleaned my teeth.

Then Alex, Anna and I popped into one of the downtown quilt shops - we had about 30 minutes to kill before meeting GR for lunch - he had a rare in town meeting for work, so we planned to met for a really good Mexican lunch. I wanted to see if they had any of Heather Bailey's new fabric line Pop Garden, or Sandi Henderson's Ginger Blossom fabrics in stock - and they did! I was so excited!



I haven't made Anna any of my signature blankets yet - she isn't going without or anything. Grandma made her an awesome pink quilt, and Aunt Mary Ann made her a fantastic yellow nuzzie, and of course I've been using the blankets all the other kids have used, but I don't have any girlie blankets. So, when I saw that the quilt shop had Sandi's fabrics in flannel, I bought enough to make two blankets for her, and two for the shop. The top fabric is Heather Bailey (cotton - and I have no idea what I'm going to make it into), the second two are from Sandi Henderson's Ginger Blossom line in flannel. I'm thinking of ordering this print to make a third blanket for Anna.

After a nice lunch with GR, the little kids and I went to check on my butternut and blue quilt. For the last year it's been in the care of the Quilting Group at the Methodist church, being hand quilted. They've been working on it one afternoon a week for 2 hours and are finishing the last column of blocks, then they have the top and bottom borders to do and it's done! They are doing a wonderful job and I'm quite pleased with how it's turning out.