Catching up - Post #2

Finally the day arrived that we got to go pick up college girl from school!! Just before we got in the car I remembered that I needed to get pictures of the Glace quilt. Hubby held it up for me out on the deck and then he went to pack the car.

The lighting was not great that morning but it is what it is;


I was just about to pack it up when I realized that I didn't take a picture of the back. Now my son was available and he did the honors;


It is so nice to have those tall guys around for quilt displays!

Here are some close-ups of some of FMQ I did in every other square. I hadn't yet trimmed any of the loose threads after washing and drying the quilt.




The roads were clear and dry, no rain or snow in the forecast. What a blessing that was. Six hours one way, out in the middle of nowhere and over a mountain pass. Since it was extra cold at home and our usual method of leaving our dog was not going to work, he got to go with us. That was a first and yet another reason to be thankful for a Suburban. Quigley, our golden retriever, was in the way back and had lots of room to look out the windows or snooze away (which, by the way is MY favorite thing to do on this trip normally). We dropped my son and the dog off at a friend's house and then proceeded on to my sister's house.

My sister loved the quilt. She draped it over the back of her white living room couch, right next to the Christmas tree. The walls in her living room are a beautiful blue and I thought the Glace Scruffily quilt looked right at home there. Oddly enough, I didn't bother to take any pictures of my sister with the quilt. We all had dinner and then hubby, myself, college girl, my sister and her daughter all went downtown to see;



Although I LOVE living in the country there is something to be said for downtown in a big city all lit up for Christmas. The show was lots of fun, although I did expect it to follow the movie, White Christmas, more closely.

We kind of got lost navigating from the theater to the freeway and so had ourselves a little tour of downtown after hours. Hubby was not so amused.

We all slept in the next morning, visited with our friends, went to lunch, did some shopping and then headed back home. That is a tough trip to make two days in a row. But again we were blessed with clear roads, nice weather and safe travels. It was so good to get home.