Well, Quilty Friday with the teacher friends got off to a bumpy start. No real start time was mentioned, and I figured that most of them have animals to tend to, i.e. horses, dogs, etc, so they would be up fairly early, so I dragged myself out of bed a couple of hours earlier than usual in the summer, and showed up on her doorstep at 9:00. Not too unreasonable of an hour I thought. After all, if we're going to have a quilt day, let's get started and get a move on and go till whenever.
Well, it was good that I didn't show up any earlier since I arrived shortly after the hostess had gotten out of the shower. Then I found out that one of the teachers wasn't arriving until nearly 11:00 and the other maybe not until 12:00. Ooookkkaaayyy. So I chatted with DH and played with the dogs and toured the house and grounds and finally another teacher arrived, around
10:00 so I dragged my stuff inside and then the other teacher showed up and we were all sewing by 10:30. Munchies and beverages along the way, lots of school news and family news, and get to know you stories and lots of laughs.I worked on my red sticks, Bev worked on her wavy squares of darker bali prints, Vicki worked on a pattern out of Quilters Newsletter and Zolea, brand new and snagged into quilting, worked on a Yellow Brick road in 12 colors of orange, turquoise, chocolate and various other complimentary colors. We all made fair amounts of progress and I now have about 30 out of
80 squares done.Zolea left about 4:00 to wash dogs for a dog show tomorrow, Bev left about
5:00 to feed and water the horses, and I left about 6:00 after helping others and packing up my stuff.Really wish we had started earlier and went later, but it was still a nice time. We actually had a heat wave today. It got up to 77 at our house! In real temp, not "in the sun" temp. It was 80 at the quilting venue. Blue sky, not a cloud, and a beautiful view of the mountains surrounding Anchorage, Eagle River and Palmer with the Knik River down below. It was a pretty good day overall.
Steven Alaska