It's been years, but I tin give the sack recollect standing inwards a employment somewhere when the gentleman standing side past times side to me told me nigh a machine he'd seen...I think it powerfulness accept been a Triumph. It's the sort of machine Mike refers to equally a "Sunday shooter" because anyone who owns i has to pass their Sundays working on it to proceed it running. In whatsoever case, it had a personalized license plate:
AGNYXTC
Do y'all larn it? Agony-Ecstasy. It pretty good describes my solar daytime yesterday. "Agony" powerfulness last a fleck of an overstatement, but I did experience pretty crummy for most of the day. It would accept been a practiced solar daytime for sewing, but all I actually wanted to create was prevarication on the couch.
During this time, I received a text from my friend Sally at The Objects of Design. Sally was at the Northwest Quilting Expo as well as she wrote to congratulate me on my winning quilt...with a hot pinkish ribbon, presumably inwards Smitty's honor, she quipped. Thus, offset the ecstasy business office of the day. I had no sentiment nor whatsoever expectation that either of my quilts would win anything. There are some fabulous quilts at the Northwest Quilting Expo, as well as mine simply aren't of that caliber. Just having quilts inwards the exhibit feels similar a win to me.
So I asked her to shipping me a picture...
Whoa...sure equally shootin' there's a ribbon hanging side past times side to it. As it turns out, I'd won the Shellie O'Donnell award, as well as I had no sentiment what it meant. As it turns out (Sally knew this, but I didn't), Shellie was a adult woman instrumental inwards the organizing of the Northwest Quilting Expo, as well as she passed away inwards 2016. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Google search volition plough upwardly many articles nigh Shellie as well as her contribution to quilting, but goose egg nigh the award.
Finally, close the destination of the day, I saw this postal service on Facebook explaining the whole thing. It was ix hours former past times the fourth dimension I saw it, as well as I'd missed it before inwards the day.
As for the "agony" business office of the day, some 3:00, I felt practiced plenty to larn off the couch, as well as hence I sewed the binding on the Starry Night quilt, as well as and hence spent the balance of the afternoon hand-stitching it to a piffling finish.
Here's how it looks from the back.
We'll hang it inwards the novel RV amongst some Command strips. They function actually good for pocket-sized quilts, as well as nosotros don't fifty-fifty accept to brand holes inwards the wall.
So I wouldn't say I'm feeling tip-top this morning, but I am feeling significantly better. Certainly I experience practiced plenty to caput out to the quilt expo a piffling subsequently on. First...some tedious stitching on my Sundress block. I'm hoping to complete it off this weekend.