The Wedding quilt is home from Lancaster, and I was bummed to learn there are no judging comments from this show ....... so I guess, unless I think I'm going to win something, there's not much reward in entering and paying all that shipping (plus entrance fees!)
Polly Pocket is cooling her heels with AQS, waiting for Paducah. She hung in the Daytona Show, but I'm guessing there will be no judging comments from there since that show is owned by AQS, the same folks who own Lancaster. I have heard that there are comments from Paducah, so we have that to look forward to. She is beginning to show her age, with some snapped threads, so I'm not really expecting much. Seeing her picture online because someone attending liked her will be satisfaction enough.
Currently there is a customer quilt on the frame getting feathers and echoing. It is a vintage top with a medallion of vines and leaves surrounded by a green border, then a border of the vine and leaves, then green, & then vine on the outside. I was feathering the green, and echoing the vines . . . all was well, until the medallion. The applique is too close together for echoing. This was discovered mid-February. Unfortunately I haven't been able to reach the customer, and she wasn't at quilt guild in March to ask. So I've been stalled at the center waiting to get her OK to do something different in that area. She was at guild this month, and as I suspected, when I explained the issue, she said my idea to stipple/meander in there was just fine "Do whatever you think best!" But Murphy's Law: If I had gone ahead and meandered she would have said "No" and I'd have had a lot of ripping out to do, LOL.
Once that one is done I have 3 T-shirt quilts to do - one for my niece who is graduating from Butler University this May, and two for my (spoiled ;) ) youngest DD who graduates from High School this May. She actually has 3 T-shirt quilts to be done. She had enough shirts for a Jr. High one, and enough for a High School one, but she had enough extra (and special) that she'll get another one that is sort of a mash-up of grade school, Jr. High, and High School. Now, that last one will not get done for graduation - no body has that much time between now and the first week of June!! I'm going to get the last of the niece's shirts this week from my sister, and hopefully can get started laying out the design this weekend. Over the years, when my sister would hand-me-down her daughter's clothes, I would set aside a shirt here and there that I thought would be good in a t-shirt quilt. Plus I picked up a few from Goodwill just in case. Her quilt will be a birthday gift, and for graduation we are giving her a hope chest. I can't wait to see her face over each of those gifts, as they are pretty special.
Speaking of college, we made a trip to Muncie to check out Ball State University for the youngest. She's been accepted and with enough financial aid will go there this fall. She plans to study education with a concentration in Deaf Education. The campus was lovely and the people were very friendly. I'm starting to get excited for her. It took us forever to get home, we were lost for a couple of hours! Our directions started in a location across campus from where we had to park, and we just never found the streets that we needed. Our third stop for directions was the winning one! He said we were actually very close to finding Highway 3, and I said that I think we'd been very close to it all evening - probably circling around it, but just not finding it :) And it's important to note that the FitBit registered 16,558 steps for the day -- mind you, we were in the car for just over 6 hours of it! That's a whole lot of steps!!
DS has taken a new job at the same factory as DH. It came with an almost 50% raise - so he is over the moon. He said that it is a nice change to be able to go out with friends for a movie or laser tag now and then. He has a friend who may relocate here later this year, so that will be fun for him.
Middle DD is working at the health food store, and though she doesn't love it, she does a good job and I still think it is a great fit for her. We are headed to the doctor tomorrow to see if maybe her thyroid is not functioning as it should. It would explain a lot of her symptoms. But she's terrified of needles, so the blood work will be tricky. Wish us luck :)
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