June was busy in many ways. Besides the retirement gifts for my staff I also made a rag quilt for a former student who became a colleague and is now moving to B.C. For her husband’s job. I also made a super scrappy denim quilt for an awesome E.A. From Andy’s school who retired. It’s super scrappy like her, think cocktail waitress with mileage. Both brought tears but in a good way. What’s up with you lovely ladies? Her
Two posts in one week? I know. Bittersweet retirement gifts were given this week for three colleagues I have worked with, lived beside for 19 years. I’m certainly going to miss them. Her
Good morning ladies,
Happy summer break! While I may have been a slacker in the blogging department I have actually been busy in the quilt department. You may have seen this already but I want to share a quilt my students and I did for Mayor Ames as he was battling cancer. I made the quilt and then my students hand quilted it. I haven’t hand quilted in a very long time so I hope I did everything right. It was a pretty long process because eight and nine year olds are not very speedy, think about 45-60 seconds a stitch. When it was done I quarantined it for a coup,e of weeks. Ames came to visit n the last day and we surprised him with it. For his facebook post it seems like he understood the intent of the quilt. Her
