Mothers Day and Variable Star Group

Mother's Day was a good day.  I went out to Portland to help my brother fix dinner for my mother.  She had gone out to breakfast with my brothers, grandkids and great grandkids.  Then Dennis and I fixed lunch.  Then we went out and emptried out all of her planters, worked up the dirt, amended it and put it back in.  So now as soon as the weather warms up she/we can just pop in the plants.  Then, knowing it was too early for us to leave I asked if she wanted to play cards and Dennis suggested rummy.  So we played cards.  One of my nieces is in the fashion industry and recently sent some jackets to my mom.  So of course I asked her to model them for us.

Then tonight was our May Variable Star quilt meeting.  We are losing a member, Dian, who is going to be moving to Florida shortly.  The move is to be closer to family.  Dian will be greatly missed in our group.  We decided to each make at least one star block of our choice for her.  Dian is recovering from shoulder surgery so Jo volunteered to set them together so after after we looked them over and fondle them, and then we took them back.  These are the blocks of the members who were here tonight: Roxie, Barb, Jo, Beckie, Melanie, Pam and myself.  I think we did a pretty good job.

In our Variable Star group we each generally work on our own projects.  But once a year one of our members, Wendy, who is a professional long arm quilter provides us with a mystery quilt for us to work on. Each month she gives us one set of instructions.  This is the first challenge that I really went to and worked on it hard and got it done.  Now it helped that it only made a small quilt. 

We had to pick 4 fabrics: 1 dark, a background and 2 mediums.  I decided to try colors that are out of my comfort range.  And this was the outcome.