Yesterday was one busy day. I left the house
at 9:00 am to go quilting; came back for a quick meal with Joe about 5:00; left
again for the quilt guild meeting and not home until 9:11 pm. I was exhausted.
We did have a great day quilting though. Our guild sponsored a workshop to make
comfort quilts for those who suffering from a serious illness or other problems
and just need to know someone cares about them….and nothing says caring more
than a hand made quilt. We had 19 people sewing and 8 helpers plus the
organizers who taught and helped solve problems. It was a challenging quilt
block and the type of block that is best taught in a class rather than figuring
it out by yourself - but a fun one to learn and we all had a great time. The
family of someone we had given a quilt to donated a gift card to a local
coffee/donut shop (Tim Horton’s) to our group as a thank you so the organizers
brought in a couple dozen muffins to share at break time. Although we do not
ask for anything when we give someone a quilt, sometimes the family or even a
business or service group makes a donation and every contribution goes to
buying more supplies for more quilts. We quite often get thank you cards and I
think they read off about 10 or 12 last night.
Today
I’m back with another masculine card and yes, made from the stash bin.
I
found the plain green and striped green that really matched well and taped them
together at the back and then added a matching ribbon along the seam. The fish
is a free clip art that I downloaded a couple of years ago and printed off a
few of them on photo paper and this was the last one left. I thought it would
be perfect for this card but it needed something to be mounted on. I tried
several other green bits and nothing really worked....it needed some pizzaz.....so then I went to the
opposite colour on the colour wheel and found this reddish-wine circle that was
already die cut and never used. Perfect! The sentiment is computer generated
and mounted on a left over piece of the same reddish-wine cardstock. I then
drew a black line to look like he was hooked on a fishing line and called it
done!
That’s
all for a cool….and starting to snow again….Thursday,
Cheers
Violet
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