{Post #74} Oops and a Good Chuckle

A pictureless post.  Woe is me!  You can look at the last post for a picture, because that's what THIS post is about.  I have 8 children; my sister has 10.  I'll let that sink in for a moment.  We (my sister and I) often chat and laugh about things that we understand a lot more than others...eternal stacks of dirty dishes and laundry...items broken or lost by "not me"...forgetting things...remembering things!

I thought I was being all stealth, secretive, cunning (you know--a real agent 007...Joan Bond), and mailed my sister a box for her birthday (the 13th) and Christmas without telling her it was coming.  I mailed the Evergreen Pinwheels and a supply of metal stamping stuff (blank circles and a steel pounding block) for making jewelry.

She WAS surprised.  She loved the quilt.  Ten times more than the exact same quilt I made her 10 years ago!!!  Yes--I made her the same pattern 10 years ago.  As she was checking it out (as only a sister and fellow-quilter would do), her 14-year-old daughter asked, "Um, mom?  Didn't Aunt Joan already make you one like that?"  She had to think for a minute (even though it hangs in her kitchen every winter).  She didn't think I had, but her daughter went and got it from her decoration box.  Busted!!  We both had a good laugh about that.  I do have a fall quilt in mind for her.  I better check with my 14-year-old niece to see if I've already made her one!

She said she liked the first one, but she loves this one.  I did a lot of custom quilting on this one.  The first was just large meandering with an invisible thread (which did the trick, but was not as fancy).  So, all's well that ends well.