We drove over to Cliff's and got yummy things. Then I thought why not stop in a quilt shop while we are in the neighborhood? We did. She behaved, but I had to buy some fabric. While we were there, another quilter came in and was asking advice on a small quilt she was working on. I loved it! It was delightful and simple in design. My friend and I, headed for the nearest best Mexican restaurant, where we drew the design out on a hastily found piece of scrap paper.
A few weeks later, my same friend and I planned a trip to Weiser to visit Judy Ann's Quilt Shop. What fun we had. Her niece was running the store, when we got there, at 3:00 in the afternoon. Such nice fabrics, most of which we had not seen down in the valley. I spent all my mad money! I got two different snowflake fabrics. I found some awesome 50's car hop fabric, and I bought enough to make the front and back of a quilt for my cousin. Such a nice time we had.
That evening I took out that piece of scrap paper and went through my fru-fru quilting fabric and scraps and pieced that entire wall hanging. It took me Monday and Tuesday evenings to sew on the snow man faces; five of them. I got the "Fru-fru Snowmen" wall hanging completely quilted and bound by Friday evening, November 7.
Yesterday, I surprised my friend with this darling snowman wall hanging at our "Cindy's Retreat" yesterday afternoon. I am getting ready to head back there in a few minutes. I, and even my mother, think it turned out well, even though I used the non-winter fabrics on it. I sewed the binding on the backside, then turned it to the front and machine stitched it in place with a snowflake stitch!
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| This is so cheery! |
