I don't know where all the day goes, but I stay busy and before I know it the day is gone. In 2008 I pieced a quilt top using pillow squares and a large panel of photos of animals, birds, and fish. Most were in colors that went well with autumn. I'd found some fabric online and was able to get fat quarters and a couple of jelly rolls of the same fabric combination. I used the jelly rolls to add to the squares to make the row of them the same width of the large panel, I then added a 2" border of solid green and an outside border made with the balance of the jelly rolls adding a little from the fat quarters in a piano key pattern. Having almost lost the quilt in a fire in my apt in Jan 2009 after only being there about 3 weeks, I found it under rubble soaking wet with absolutely no damage. Washed and dryed it. After putting everything in storage for 6 months I found another place because the owners of the apartment kept giving me completion dates and then never meeting them. After the 4th or 5th extension, I got tired of it and found another place. Unpacking seemed to take forever (and isn't totally complete) because every thing washable had to be washed and every thing else had to be cleaned before it could be put away. Every thing was covered with smoke residue.
The quilt top was given to my EX for Christmas 2008, with a promise to finish and quilt. Somehow after bringing it in the house I lost (misplaced or accidently threw away) 1 side of the piano key border I'd made. Really think it is still in the guest bedroom somewhere. I've used it to bring things into to unpack and organize. I was able to find enough of the fabric to remake the 4th side and get the quilt together. It is now at the quilters and I'll get it back about the 1st of Oct in time to get the binding on it to present to him when we celebrate his 80th birthday at my house on the 24th. Hoping that the majority of our family can be here. Should be around 30.
