Saturday, December 26, 2009
The Day After
I hope everyone had a happy Christmas. We did; quiet and a little unusual, but very pleasant. We slept late, had a good brunch, and then went to the noon showing of Invictus. I'd highly recommend this feel-good movie. We came home, opened the few presents, had dinner, and relaxed. Great! Monday my husband and I are off for five days in New York City, and I can't wait. This is our gift, and a good one it is!
Today and tomorrow I hope to make progress on the alternate blocks for the basket quilt. My current plan is shown above. I took Nellie's advice and put the border fabric in the center. Instead of a march of dark blue squares throughout the quilt, this arrangement gives a bracket of blue around the baskets. It also pulls the border fabric into the center of the quilt, which I think is an improvement. I will need to draft the pieced setting triangles so there are no bias edges, but I don't think that should be hard. That won't happen until after the new year however.
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I like your gift trip, we are going to Tampa as our gift, too. and your basket quilt is looking really good.
This is great thinking. Nellie's contribution here is very cool. And hey, how about this NYC trip. That's about as exciting as I ever could imagine. I'm thrilled, thrilled and thrilled again for you. That's 3 in a row. Thrilling! heh.
I like this arrangement of your baskets; very soft looking.
Have fun in NYC, and have a happy New Year!
Love your baskets!
Enjoy NY!
There is nothing like New York at the Christmas. Magical.
The baskets are terrific!
Your new setting looks great. The baskets really look pretty next to these blocks.
It sounds like you had a nice Christmas. Enjoy your trip.
The new combination looks as good as I suspected it would. I suspect you would've come up that solution on your own eventually.
I hope you're having a wonderful time in NYC. What a fantastic gift.
The baskets are coming along beautifully! Have a wonderful trip!
These baskets are so beautiful!
I love it Kay!!
I wish you and yours the very best in 2010!!
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