Quite the Day
Last night I got an unexpected text.
Linda is the gal in charge of the mission quilting in the First Lutheran Church. Linda picked up the bolts of cotton/poly just about a week and a half ago. She reported that the gal in charge of making up the backing of their quilts had 42 backs ready for the pieced tops and batting from the bolts of cotton/poly. Wow. Linda is in charge of cutting all of their donated fabric into 10.5″ squares. Linda has a set number of those cuttings that she bags up and the troops that are working on the quilts take home a bag or two and get them sewn together ready as the tops of the quilt. What an operation.
Any how . . . the text was telling me that they would use the DMC floss that I had offered to tie their quilts. They had been using yarn and some of the ladies had commented on the difficulty getting the knots tight. The troop under Linda does not qualify for spring chickens. Linda herself is a 70 year young retired teacher.
This morning armed with breakfast coffee and my box of gallon Ziploc bags, I began bagging up floss by colors. Each of the DMC drawers have a divider for 12 different colors. I think when Dennis came down and checked on me, I had 11 gallon bags stuffed to the brink. When I shared with him the color chart of DMC floss colors, he could not believe the slightest variant in color that would spur a use for one of the twelve dividers in the drawer. I put hues of each color together in the various bags.
Dennis got the remaining of the acre mowed today. It sure looks manicured. He has the touch! When he came in for the Dawn to put in his scrub pail, I was curious. The city puts down a layer of calcium chloride for dust control on Stauffer Avenue. It is the nastiest stuff to drag into the garage. It literally will make a liquid puddle on the garage floor. The city did this about two weeks ago and it had begun to be packed down on the avenue with the traffic. Today Dennis scrubbed down his garage floor and then hosed it off, hoping for less muck that will find its way into the garage.
We do seem to keep busy for two old duffers. I am excited to be parring down the inventory in the studio. As I had the baggies of floss lined up on the ironing board, I decided to get out several garbage bags. I went through totes that held fabric from family of friends that had donated fabric to me. I have decided not to be a depository. This group of church ladies making quilts for charity will have some additional yardage to use. As I checked things over in the studio, what I now have for choices in my stashes is what I had chosen to purchase. Sweet!