Went shopping with a pal today. She is goint to pay me to put together some fleece emergency blankies for her car. Being the paranoid sort she wants two sides of fleece with batting. I imagine that by the time I'm done they will be suitable for keeping cozy on a dog sled. So since TSWLTH will have fleece on sale next week, we went to have a peek. Yes I did mention Malden Mills remnants, but she want "cheery prints". I reckon if you are stuck in the snow in the midst of a raging blizzard (happens here) "cheery prints" might be marginally better than wine red or navy blue. I had been planning on just doing a quick diagonal grid on these. Then we went shopping for rice (for me). All I needed to do was pick up another 20 pound sack. Of course she had to put in her odd bit. Seems she doesn't like any of the rice that comes in 20 pound sacks because she doesn't care for "floral flavors" in her dinner food. That was a bit of a stumper for a few minutes. Then I realized that she actually thought that the floral names on the rice had a bearing on what the rice tasted like. Well it does sort of, but not like that for heavens sake! She was under the impression that blue rose had rose flavor in it, that jasmine had jasmine flavor in it, ditto camilla. It took a while to make her understand that blue rose and jasmine are varietals, and that camilla is a brand name. So now I am thinking of incorporating a bit inspired by the rice pattern into her fleece quilts. Nothing too outrageous, just a pattern of ovals filled with smaller diagonal gridding in the midst of the utility gridding. I'm not sure it would be worth the bother amidst the furriness of all that fleece, but I would know it was there. And I think I would smile every time I saw them.
NightMist