Annie kicked my butt!

10 am :

Vague idea (really very vague) that making a quilt for Mr Ric-Rac's Granny's impending 100th birthday might be a nice thing to do and I cannot think of another thing that a one-hundred year old woman might possible need or want- or that we haven't already given her.

That's a lot of birthdays and Christmases folks!

11am:

Ring Grandma for helpful suggestions and then decide if I have to make anything like she suggested I would rather give granny a gift certificate for colonic irrigation or skydiving. Trust me , it was wrong...................very wrong.

12

Send some emails. Email a quilty friend with technical questions, email Annie ! Confuse myself with lots of questions so ring Annie instead. Blither vaguely to

Mr Ric-Rac about other present ideas for Granny - a nice teapot?

1pm

Decide that maybe a gift voucher would be a good idea as I give myself a good talking to about my inability to finish anything, my lack of quilting knowledge , my growing disinterest in the project and complete lack of inspiration. I'll have to make something all boring and "nanna".

2pm

Annie says she'll visit and bring one of her quilts over to show me how easy it is. I tell her I only have till October to do it.

3pm

Annie arrives and we begin the fabric auditions. We choose from the stash and I am impressed - Time for a cuppa?

Annie says "get out that cutting board- we need 27 eight inch squares." "I'll iron , you cut"

Wow I think, chosen and cut. Maybe this is do-able.

"OK," says Annie "chuck 'em on the floor we need to make 3 blocks of nine squares each. "

4pm

"You sew " says Annie as she passes me each square until the rows are sewn together. Annie runs in and out of the sewing room , ironing the rows while I sew.

She is a hard taskmaster - pointing at the machine every time I stop for a chat.

Then we cut up the big blocks and I have the 12 blocks needed for the quilt.

5pm

We have a beer and a giggle- I give Annie her "blog finished" present. (That means I had meant to sew up the turning hole while she was here but she had me so busy on the quilt that she went home with a pin still in it !)

Annie knows that what we have done so far does not commit me to the project by any means so she has booked me in to go shopping for sashing and backing on Tuesday lunchtime during our craft-at-work time.

5:30

Bye Annie......

Stay tuned folks - this could get interesting..............or it might all end in tears.