You know how it is at the LQS when you spy something on the 'reduced' table. It just jumps in your buggy and follows you home. Mine was a yard of Michael Miller glow in the dark sort of white cotton. I made a pillowcase with our 5 year-old great niece's name appliquéd in balloon letters on the hem. Before I shipped it off to 2,000 miles from here, I let DH play with it. Wrong. He inspected it with the lights on, with the lights off, with his hand over it while the lights were on. Timed it to see how long the glow would last. (Easy to entertain a great-granddaddy but difficult to get the pillowcase away from him.) We mailed the case and it has been happily received. Loved. Big fun. I need to mention that I enclosed the leftovers from making the pillowcase in the likely event that the Daddy there would also want to play with it. Daddy and 5 year-old were last seen making headbands with the scraps and doing Kung Fu poses. Next they plan to make masks and go out trick or treating or rob ATMs. Anyhow. For under $10 you can make a gift that is a winner. Now I'm wondering if the glow in the dark quilting thread has any sort of long life and entertainment value. Polly
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14 years ago