OKAY, YOU ASKED FOR IT

The DGKs were here from last Friday until yesterday morning and guess what they wanted to do? The boys (15 in June) are on the cross country team at their high school and had their daily extended run as well as lots of target shooting in the yard into a very high bank to satisfy their Y chromosome urges. The only thing they wanted to do in addition to that was sew. The girl, (12 last month) was already started on her project. I thought I'd start them out with a simple 9 patch, but nooo, the boys had to go poking around in my perpetual calendar with 365 blocks and pick the ones with triangles. Greg's pot holder not only had a bunch of half and quarter square triangles but stripes as well. Yikes. All three sewing machines were set up between the quilt studio and the dining room table for two and a half days and Grandma spent those two solid days and part of a third on her feet going from sewing station to sewing station. Pete's pillow was an odd size so we had to make the pillow and the top couldn't just be made like an envelope the way Laura's was sensibly made. He's going to have a tough time sewing the top closed. They were really wired but got anxious toward the end trying to finish before departure and we all know what happens when we rush. They learned how to use the unsewer with great alacrity.

Jane in quiet city, NC