You have truly been a paragon of long suffering while waiting for me to complete you. The other night I was sitting here at the computer listening to lectures and doing some hand applique on a BTCT block and happened to look up, and, there you were, hanging on the design wall, watching me from behind and from in front. I cannot get away from you.
I picked up my camera and tried to take your picture through the window. Thought I, what a wonderful photo that would make, if my camera would only work in the dim evening light. And lo and behold, it did! I had to look around to see what other stuff scattered around the room would show up. There is my granddaughter Ava. She loves to spend time here in the quilt room. Well, she spends more time on the computer now than on her antique toy sewing machine. Then there is my Sweet Farmer Ken swinging a golf club. Funny. He golfs about once every 2-3 years, but the picture is framed and was a gift. Then there are my two blessed children. Dan at 3 1/2 and Melanie at 9 months. Dan now has 3 girls of his own, Ava, Elly and Devan.
OH!! And Melanie just had her own baby, Jonathan, after waiting 16 years. He is 5 weeks old today. He will meet his Grampa here in another 2 weeks. I can hardly wait to see him again. You, Jane, will get to see him also. That is the reason I have not completed you as I had hoped this past spring. I was there when Jonathan was born. Holding him. Helping settle him so mom could get a bit of sleep. He experienced his first hurricane last week and no power for 5 days. Not that he noticed since he is breast fed and it is warm.
And now, only 16 more triangles and you will be complete and ready to quilt. Did I tell you? I tried a long arm quilting machine the other day. I actually hovered over it for 4 hours as it did its own thing quilting a simple swirly design on a quilt Melanie made when I visited her in the spring. I cannot show pictures of it yet. She made me promise not to post any pictures until after they give it as a wedding gift 3 weeks from today. Hey, if you can wait so patiently, then so can I. I am thinking I might take you over to that shop to get you quilted. Maybe. Just maybe.
blessings,
Chris
I love your DJ Chris!! Even with a sneak peek through the window! Great job! Which longarm did you try??
ReplyDeleteHi CHris...thanks for rejuvinating this sweet post at TUesday Archives this week. (I love the creative picture of your design wall through the window) So glad you found us. Sooooo did ya get this one finished? And where is it now??
ReplyDeleteYes. I did complete the top Sept 2014 and it is waiting to be quilted when I am not so scared of messing it up. I plan to machine quilt it on my domestic machine.
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