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WELL, RATS

I rather enjoyed getting credit for that beautiful quilt. How dare you, Lavinia, for taking credit for your own creation.

Been cutting for the mystery quilt and still have sub cutting to do. Then I'll be caught up to February. Will do some piecing then and by April meeting might even be caught up. The steps are simple and fairly quick. The gal who is teaching it this year is an outstanding, albeit a bit unconventional teacher, who announced at the outset that she believes mystery quilts should be simple enough for a beginner. I agree. I was lost and messed up with a bunch of triangles and bias edges on my first mystery and the darned thing has been in the UFO collection for about ten years now. I will salvage what fabric I can and pitch the rest. The mystery last year was complex and drove even the experienced quilters up the wall. I tried another and had a terrible time although I had a fare amount of quilting experience. The teacher (at a retreat) acknowledged that the class was a failure and that she'd never teach that one again. She had us cut up far more than $200 of fabric in a myriad small pieces and at the end of 2.5 days only two or three people had completed a single block. Last year the guild sponsored one and it was a serious challenge to very experienced quilters. I'd learned to shy away from mysteries by then. This year, with a change in teacher and philosophy I was inclined to participate. She gave the size and fabric requirement for many different finished products and I'm doing a 52" square wall hanging. If I love it I'll graduate to a bed quilt.

I am the only quilter I know who does not have a bed in the house sporting a quilt except an antique GFG MIL gave me in the guest room. As that room has no sun protection and gets a lot of morning sun I keep back side up. She made sure that I knew what a tremendous sacrifice she made to pay $100 for it. Ha ha, the laugh's on her. I had it appraised for $525. I wish she were alive to know that. No I don't, forget I said that! It wouldn't be worth the satisfaction. I'd have a whole lot of other gifts around here with prominent strings attached that wouldn't be nearly as neat as that one. You can tell how dear she was to me. If you want lessons how to be a nasty MIL just ask.

Jane

posted by Jane in NC @ 3:18 PM