Sister’s Choice and Homeward Bound!

Meet our fabulous nine-year-old Marley, the youngest quilter in my last quilting class of 2017!

She was stitching along next to her grandmother, whom she affectionately calls “G.G.”

When my own grandmother became a great-grandmother, she also became G.G. to my kids – it just warmed my heart to see these two stitching side by side!

As I talked to Marley about her quilting experience, I came to realize that she has been around quilting and making her own quilts for most of her little life.

At one point through my questions, she looked at me as if to say “This isn’t my FIRST rodeo, you know!”  LOL!!

Oh, Marley, we were so blessed to have you as part of our workshop!  You added so much to our day!

She even got the day off of school to take this class.  Bonus!

Watching those seams – You SEW, Girl!

Beautiful block!

My thanks to Marley, and to her G. G. for encouraging us ALL to let our inner 9-year-old selves out to play this holiday season.

Our room at the community center in Winston, Oregon was large and brightly lit with a wall of windows – there were Christmas decorations for the season everywhere, including 2 lit trees on stage.  It felt like a Christmas party!

And what do most parties have in common??

Good food!

But I think this one takes the record.  18 crockpots and 34 sewing machines plus irons, and the power didn’t blip at all!

Oh my goodness!!

A crock-pot parade of epic proportions! 

And we sewed until we couldn’t sew anymore!

(In between loads of snacking at the treat table!)

You’ll find the rest of our fun day in the video below.  Click to play:

What a way to send off 2017 into the archives!

Flying my way home.

Flying out of Portland is always a wondrous treat.  Yes.  I said Portland. We worried about weather when making these arrangements for the make-up dates of this trip.

It’s not always easy to get OUT of a small airport in the winter. There are likely only a couple of flights a day.  And if flights are cancelled you can be stuck a good long time.  Myrt and her hubby have kids and grandkids in the Portland area, and it was agreed that I would arrange my flights home from Portland, which meant a 3 1/2 hour drive from Roseburg after the workshop was over.

It made for a long day, but the drive was full of great conversation (and maybe a wee nap from the back seat) and dinner out. 

They had kids and grand-kids to see, and I had a shuttle to the airport in the morning for my flight out. It worked!

Click to play:

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Oh this view!!  And it’s a good thing my flights went from Portland, Oregon to Detroit, Michigan – Atlanta had cancelled hundreds of flights yesterday due to the storm.  As it was, while waiting in Detroit for our flight to board to Greensboro, the gate across the way had just cancelled their flight to Richmond, Virginia due to the same storm system.  I was on pins and needles for a while wondering if I would indeed get home last night!

HOME!!!

Let me tell you, after 11 days on the road – incredibly full and busy days – I am not fully functional today.  There will be a nap.  I hope there will be time to sew.

I’m giving myself the weekend to spend with my family.  I’ll hit the ground running on Monday.

But today, and tomorrow, I am taking designated snow days off!

Quiltville Quote of the Day!

Wonky Wishes quilt shared during our Oregon workshops this week.

All you need to do to learn something new is change your perspective!

And it’s true – there is NO PLACE like HOME!