A Big Day

BOY, some days can have a roller coaster of emotions, I'll explain, let's go back a few weeks when I got an invitation to a my dear friend Alice's 50th birthday party and as always that part of my brain that goes into action before the logical part does and I think - she needs a quilt for a significant birthday.
I had blocks from a project that didn't go ahead a few years ago that were already in rows so I spoke with my friend Lorraine Webster who specialises in my last minute quilting projects and decided it could be done, so off the top and backing were sent to Lorraine who worked her quilting magic on it in next to no time and I rendezvoused with her Friday afternoon to collect it over a coffee, so Friday night was spent trimming and machining on the binding and after dinner I proceeded to start the hand sewing, half way around I went to bed knowing I had the morning to finish it off.
Up early and proceeded to spend the next few hours finishing off the binding and doing the label.
Off I went (late from the finishing) for an afternoon of enjoyment at her party and also to catch up with a few friends over an afternoon of bare foot bowls and frivolity, came home ready for and evening of excitement, first off we watched a very intense episode of DR WHO (any fans out there?) then to settle down and watch my Swans play for a place in the finals but even thought we came back to within 4 points in the middle of the game we were done well and truly by the end............
so you can see why I had a big roller coasted day of emotions, went to bed not happy.

so here is a photo of the quilt I gave to Alice, hopefully she will send me a photo of her and the quilt that I can post at a later date.



so - today is a new day and I WILL cope without my footy team in the grand final - but on the bright side THERE'S CRICKET STARTING ON THE TELLY THIS WEEK YEAAHHHH