Thanks

It's lovely to have these wonderful comments. Thank you Emilie and Cheryl and Vicki. This makes me want to make more quilts.

Thanks Emilie, I never expected the designer to weigh in, it means a lot; and Leisure Arts too, thank you Cheryl for taking the time to leave your compliment. Vicki, I love bright quilts too. This one spoke to me and said happy. One other thing about making this quilt that makes it even more special is that I'm giving it away, this one to my grandson. That makes it even better.

no one but me is responsible

This is what happens when you get someone with ADD to self-design a quilt. See that little froggy border and the leopard yellow innerborder stripe. See how some of the yellows are from different planets and the froggies don't belong at all. Well, they do if I say they do. So there. This started out as a perfectly respectable and predictable quilt from a lovely book by Emilie Richards. Don't blame her.

All I can say is --- exuberance.

Inner borders with star corner blocks

Aahhhhh. Working towards completion. Here you can see the inner borders. A little small to see the froggies, but I love the stars.

Looks a lot busier on the other side of the Atlantic

Hee's the other side. This is all I'm going to do on the site for a little while. Computer time is biting into time for making the quilt.

However, I'm happy that the primary colors used for the map match much better the crayon colors in the blocks. the green inner border is a little off, but when you count in the bonus of having frogs in the quilt, I could hardly say no.

The world, no less

Here is the replacement border print. I looked through my viewfinder. I'll just cut strips 6 inches wide. the most useable parts of the map are 24" from top to bottom. That'll give me 4 strips at about 55" wide to cut the required 2 @ 6 x 52 3/4 and 2 @ 6 x 63 3/4.

Kian's quilt makes design changes

This is a part of the original six inch outer border. It's a series of cowboys, roping, sitting on fences, etc. You cowpokes have been sent out to pasture to perhaps appear in later productions. thanks for the enthusiasm and all your hard work.

Kian John Clarke

Kian is 39 hours old. His profile is very much like his mother's. They were silhouetted against the window at dusk, beautiful as she held him wrapped up in front of her, their faces close. I took a pic with their camera. It will take a little Photoshop to get it right.

Daddy is asleep on the pull out recliner as this is going on. His missing socks are found in a drawer in the bassinet. they are about the size of postage stamps.

I took a few hours off to visit the Chinese House at the Peabody Essex. There are 16 rooms around an open courtyard. The rooms are the size of a walk-in closet. If even a minimum of 8 families lived in the rooms ( one room to a family) that would make about 32 people at a time living in the house. I do like Chinese New Year, blessings all around, plenty of firecrackers and those great snaky dragons. what a hoot.

The family will likely be going home tomorrow. They will all be happy. They have been living like those Chinese families, except with just a little bit more space and take out from Chili's. The baby is so cute. So cute. Ian mused about how human babies are the most vulnerable babies on the planet. I bet he's thinking about that a lot lately. He's sure-handed, fully at ease. He's a great dad; just the right combination of fun and delicacy. Janine is happy to hold Kian with her boppy. Why didn't they have cool stuff like that when I was a new mom?