Not much sewing this weekend but it was a wonderful weekend! My nephew (the one getting the music quilt) came to visit. He is going to study music in college so has to audition at each school. One is here in town so he came to stay with us for a day. He came in Friday in time to meet up with his Grandmother (my Mom) and Great Aunt for lunch and then I took Friday afternoon off to take him shopping. Have you ever had trouble getting a teenager to spend money? Me either, until Friday. It went something like this:
Me: Since you are here I want to spoil you so we are going to go spend some of my money. What do you need?
Him: Nothing
Me: OK, then, what do you want?
Him: Nothing
Me: let me explain the rules of this game again.....we are going shopping you better pick some stores to shop in!
We finally got him a couple of bags of clothes - he only buys on sale - and I think he was happy. I even had to convince him that he could buy more than one pair of jeans! We should bottle him and send him to Aunts and Grandmothers everywhere! He has just grown up to be the nicest young man and we thoroughly enjoyed his company. I really want him to go to school here but I know it's not his first choice. The whole visit just warmed my heart and you have never heard a teenager say "thank you" so many times! No, I am not on drugs,it really happened! LOL
By the time we returned from the school yesterday I was exhausted! I didn't get back to sewing until this morning. I decided to work on Anne's Snails Trail that has been on the longarm frame for over 2 weeks. I am doing "very casual" feathers in the swirls of each trail. The light trails will have the same feather design in all of them and I am using a light thread. The dark trails have different feathers in each trail and I am using a darker thread. I am still horrible at feathers but they are getting better. You can see the progress in this shot of the border. I decided that the border needed to be really funky with every kind of feather I could think of. I should have this done by the upcoming weekend.
First I have to finish some postcards for my fabric postcard club meeting this coming Friday.