Blues on point, Pam, Janice's fish quilt

Some days, doing ‘’the best we can’’ may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn’t perfect – on any front – and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else. Fred Rogers

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I was out early Monday morning (10/24) to VOTE:

at the library, since I realized just 2 weeks ago that I will be at the Fiber Floozie retreat when voting day gets here! The set-up was pretty slick and there was a line of about a dozen people when I got there at 8:35 AM.

Then I hopped on over to Hobby Lobby for some 40% off fabric and I scored BIG TIME! Someone at Scrap Happy had this on the free table several weeks ago:

and I had to have it. When I asked her why she was getting rid of such a pretty piece of batik, she mentioned that it had been in her stash for a number of years…and she hadn’t used it….so out it went. UH OH…..if that’s the criteria….about 3/4 of my stash would have to go!! Anyway, I was hoping to find a match for the pinkish/orangish/fleshy color, but didn’t really have any hope I would ever find it as it’s a really weird color, but voila:

As the 2 ladies at the register called it…it was divine intervention…they thought the color was perfect. I’ve wanted to try one of my quilt patterns in just 2 colors for awhile now…and since half the fabric was free, and the other half was 40% off…this is the perfect time. Stay tuned…..

I also scored some 108’’ wide black for backing on my next 2 quilts going on XENA (my longarm).

I was home by 10 AM and started quilting on BLUES on-point:

Michael left at 11 AM for Stonebridge (his favorite course) and I spent some time after that on the DOORSCHOOSE.ORG website in the afternoon. At the end of the year, I generally take any of my longarm $$$ that I haven’t spent on fabric for my donation quilts and donate it (I think I've been lazy the past 2 years and haven't looked for a place....so I had a goodly sum to donate this year!) This year I targeted one of the Title 1 schools in Lancaster and in addition, some of the money will go to the daughter of a friend, who also teaches in a Title 1 school in Monroe. I’ve never used DONORSCHOOSE before, and I didn’t have the links to the schools I was looking for at first….so it took me a bit of time, but eventually it was done.

Pam stopped by in the afternoon to bring me a stitch marker she bought at her fiber retreat, and to try a piece of cake:

When she left she commented on the beautiful rose…and was pleased it had a lovely and delicate scent:

I continued to quilt all afternoon, and by the time my honey got home from golfing at dinnertime…the quilt was done:

and I LOVE IT!!! I love both the pattern and the quilting!

Michael made tortellinis for dinner and then we split for a bit and I got one of the blues quilts cleaned up and on this to-be-bound pile:

Janice has been working on a quilt for her great nephew for quite awhile...I wish she had taken some pics along the way, becasue you cannot fully appreciate the work that has gone into this fish quilt by just this picture, but here it is:

She'll be visiting me in December to get it quilted and gifted for Christmas.

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