This little quilt was a problem child, right from day one. Maybe it was because I used some of the fabrics I inherited from my mother, who didn't want me to be a quilter, and who definitely didn't want me to inherit her fabrics. (She left them to my cousin, who took one look, and passed them on to me.) Maybe it was just one of "those" quilts. Anyway, it had issues. You don't even have to look close. Check out the cute little wave in that inner border! Then I decided to take it on vacation as a hand quilting project, and the problems continued. It got squashed in the luggage. I used orange washable marker to mark it - don't ask my why I picked orange - but it rubbed off, and on to my hands, and back onto the quilt. If you look really close, there's still some of it there. It got orange juice spilled on it. It got coffee spilled on it. Three days into the vacation, I came down with an awful cold, and spent the rest of the trip feeling horrible - and not quilting. The quilt got squished back into the luggage and brought home. At some point later on, I finished it, and packed it away. Every so often I haul it out and look at it, and what pops into my mind is not its problems, but sitting on a balcony in Florida, little quilt in my lap, celebrating my 25th wedding anniversary with Mr. P, and because of that it's one of my favorite problem child quilts.
I've been working on an order for a lap quilt this week; I keep distracting myself with vacation plans and other interesting diversions, but it will be finished by tomorrow! Really!
For today's Friday favorite, I found a fellow quilter on Etsy: http://www.serenstitches.etsy.com/ She's from West Virginia, and my favorite of her quilts is "Oriental Fans". I wonder why . . . . hmmm.
Have a great weekend, and happy quilting!
Maggie
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