It was a lovely Christmas! Liz managed to make it here from Alaska, after having her first flight cancelled due to weather. Weather HERE, not in Alaska! Seems SeaTac was low on de-icer, so the airlines was hesitant to fly in planes that might not be able to fly out again. Christmas morning, Tom headed off to the airport to bring our girl home for her way-too-short-visit. She still had to leave the 27th. Ohh well. Any Lizzie-time is better than NO Lizzie time. Jim and Sheena came over for breakfast and stayed for Christmas dinner...with present-opening time in between.
Jim and Sheena got a new quilt for Christmas. The pattern is from "Quilt In A Day" (deceptive name, like it REALLY would only take a day? HA!) It's called Tennessee Waltz. I really liked the fabric in the border. The rest of the quilt evolved from that. Jim confessed earlier that Sheena...sweet petite Sheena, is a quilt pig and takes all the covers at night! That's why they got another one for Christmas. It is 90 inches wide and 120 inches long. The BIGGEST quilt I've done yet (although...I think I can go bigger, what with the HQ Sixteen having leaders 106 inches wide. Hmm!) It wasn't until they pulled the quilt out of the bag and laid it out on them, that it struck me how pretty it turned out. I think it just looks good on them!
It would have been a perfect Christmas if Jeff, Frieda and Aurora had been able to make it here (it was Frieda's side of the family's turn...oooh well! NEXT year we get 'em! Aurora will be 14 months old then. What fun that will be!) Both Frieda and Sheena are gluten-intolerant. Frieda worked very hard, complying containers of rice flour, baking mix, and other goodies for Sheena. The package was so heavy, I had to drag it across the floor to get it to her. Jeff gave Jim a bit of nostalgia, with Transformer toys--the best of all was a vintage one (don't ask me WHICH one!) It turns into a gun and kept Jim amused while he tried to remember how to transform it.
Liz was thrilled with her new video camera. She's going to South Africa in March so I'm expecting to see some movies of lions and elephants--and the Dutch Verbaan cousins!
Santa gave me the traditional box of 50 fat quarters of fabric (at least I hope this is a tradition!) Think of this as the "before" photo. I hope to turn them into a quilt before Christmas 2009!
Poor tired Lizzie! Taz was glad to have her here too.
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