Thursday evening. There were times today it snowed quite hard, real big flakes. We obtained about 5 inches that required relocating. I had to work a little to get the driveway back to the tar, but I made it clear over much of the area by the house.
I think they are saying another storm the middle of next week, I guess time will tell.
The other day I was preparing to take care of the folding chair that we get out when Annie comes to sew with us. I was looking at the label on the bottom of the chair dating back to when it was purchased. It says Samsonite luggage ”strongest….. lasts longest!”.
I must say it is doing pretty dang well. This chair has been around about as long as I have. Trust me that’s been quite a while. The G W Perkins initials are my mothers, Gertrude Whiting Perkins. The K W, are the initials of my grandmother, my mother’s mother, Katherine Whiting. The price is marked as $7.95 and I do believe my grandfather has obtained his money’s worth. I’m sure he would have been happy.
I have vague memories of loading and unloading several of those chairs before the G W Perkins showed up on the label. Taking them from my grandmother’s into the meeting area downstairs of the stone Lutheran Church we attended in Lewiston. As I remember it, there were several families that brought in chairs for suppers. The church was beside the hospital on Main St. in Lewiston. The hospital in later years absorbed it and tore it down.
We used to have a pew from there, we salvaged before the church was torn down. Last I saw it, it was still sitting on the back porch at our old Quilt Inn in Rangeley. Who knows where it is now. Can you imagine the stories the bench could tell from all those years attending church? Sadly, wherever it is now, it’s just a bench with no stories left to tell.
In the studio I finished #7 for 2025 another lap quilt.
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#7 started with some rather uninteresting 4”x 6” pastel potato chip like blocks. These were made up of four blocks sewn together to get a 4”x 6” finished block. I think I used several sewn together as 12” blocks on an earlier quilt.
I used these in the center of some 10” F blocks. Added some 3"x 6” Flying geese, Diamond Rects and some odd V-block like units I had. I have no idea where they came from, they are gone now. To this I added some 2”x 4” Flying geese I had laying around, threw in 4 rectangles and voila my 10” blocks.
To these I added a sashing consisting of a Square II block in the center and a V-block like star on the ends using my Corner Pop II. Mission accomplished, I got rid of those blocks, along with lots of other pieces I have had kicking around quite a while. A win - win, and I think the quilt actually looks pretty good.
#8 is well on the way, I mean well on the way. The body and first border are together. I am currently working on the 2nd border which is a pieced border. Those take a little longer, I might finish it tonight. You got it, time will tell. Most of you can see it next week when I ramble.
So enjoy your weekend and deal with whatever the weather brings, hopefully it will bring more warm springlike weather, but alas, I don’t think so.
Until next time stay safe.
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