Today's Project

Well, it hit me that Valentine's Day is right around the corner. To top that off, my hubby and I have an anniversary at the end of February. It's always such a problem trying to find something to get each other. His standby is jewelry. Yeah, that sounds great, but we have a friend who is a jeweler and gives hubby a great discount. It's hubby's easy "out". Still...it does work for me....I do love a nice piece of gold with a diamond or ten attached...ahahhahaaa

Spring, summer and fall, my hubby goes dirtbiking in northern Michigan with a group of guys from our church. We have a cabin and ten acres on the AuSable River up there, but they like to go to the Upper Penninsula to ride sometimes. When they do, they sleep in a closed snowmobile trailer. Not my idea of a good time, but they like it. Since they go in spring and fall, the nights can get pretty cold, so I've decided to make Vern (not his real name, just something I call him, he refers to me as Ester for no good reason, too) a dirtbiking weekend quilt. He likes blue, so blue it is. Nothing too girly since it's for his "man" weekends. Here it is....

I know...the fabric is flowers and leaves, but it is blue. I'm thinking I'll have to find some dark blue for borders. He takes a cot to sleep on and it's long and skinny so I made it longer than normal and not really wide. Remember, it is a dirty trailer that they haul dirtbikes and junk in all the time. It's not like he'll worry in the least about getting it dirty and oil on it and ... oh man, what was I thinking? Ok....it's for him...he'll like it....it's washable. The panic attack is over now.

I found the pattern here: http://www.quiltville.com/delmts.shtml . It's another of Bonnies patterns. Thank goodness for her and her website. I'd be lost without it, I'm afraid. Thanks to her mystery quilt, I'm feeling much more confident about my piecing. Amen to that!

Oh, and the duck likes it.....