It’s been a corker of a summer so far! Now that the Fourth of July is behind us, I find I have some major obligations out of the way. We had the Onerheim Family Reunion last weekend in Ottumwa, Iowa. The Barn gathered together his offspring and made us all sit quietly together in church. We ate loose meat sandwiches from the Canteen and looked at slides, just like the old days. One offsprung family couldn’t make it, and the hole they left around the table was felt. The next generation down, the grandchildren, only yielded one brave soul. His cousins owe him bigtime, and they should acknowledge his representation from the positions of their post-college careers.
The quilters are back at it in the church basement. It is a relaxed group, and we are comfortable enough this summer to come and go as we please. We have developed a way to get the key to the room back and forth to each other, and before long we’ll start working on putting together the donated quilt blocks into one of the most unique quilts ever to leave a church basement. There’s nothing ordinary about the way we’re going about this, and the final presentation will most likely stand our impressions of what a quilt looks like on its ear. At least I hope so.
I have a few written pieces in process, and I’ll add them here within the next few weeks. I’m on a roll with the Midwestern lifestyle, and I do manage to get some quilting time in every week. I’m not moving fast enough to suit me on my current major project, but I’m inching along and not letting any free moments evaporate. At the end of that is usually a quilt.
So, check back soon. I’ll still be here, quilting and watching, watching and quilting. I’ll tell you all about it.
Copyright © Kari E.O. Burns July 2006
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