Tuesday, February 21, 2012

I guess I left my packing until too late last night because when I got to the bee this morning I had forgotten a few necessities for the thread catcher. I wasn’t alone as we were busy trading supplies back and forth across most of the sewing tables. I had the shelf liner to keep the bag from slipping, Kathy had the fusible batting, Reenie had the aquarium sand we used to fill the pincushion, Barb had the buttons, and Marlene had the long needle we needed to sew the button with. This was truly a group effort.

I am far from the fastest stitcher and, because they were steps ahead of me, several ladies were able to help me out along the way. And often one of our best quilters would stop us all and say, “Now the pattern says to glue this, but you know we aren’t going to glue it, right? This is what we’re going to do.” The bad thing about being slow though is that I didn’t complete mine at the bee. I had to come home and finish it off on my own and I’m not sure I did it correctly. If it holds together though I’ll be happy.

I wish I had added this project to “the list” so I could wipe it off the board!