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Best Date Ever: Fiction Friday
The Friday Fictioneer Challenge: Write a 100-word story based on the photo.
Photo copyright Jan Wayne Fields
Best Date Ever
Tonight Alex was taking Elaine somewhere new for dinner. An out-of-the-way place, not yet overcrowded. It didn’t look like much, he admitted when they arrived, but it was too late to change plans.
They waited. For a long time, nothing happened. Just when he decided it might have been a mistake to come here, a human arrived, entering the campsite. Alex breathed a sigh of relief: Just as advertised.
The two pumas, Alex and Elaine, twitched their tails and tensed their muscles, preparing to pounce on the camper. Elaine crept forward, intent on her prey. Best date ever, Alex thought.
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To read other Friday Fictioneer stories based on this photo, select the smiley blue frog.
An Old Barn Door
At Commons Ford Ranch Metropolitan Park
Thursday is for doors over at Norm 2.0.
Even More Quilts
I made a few more quilt tops this year, in addition to finishing up my UFOs. I’m currently in a half-square triangle phase.
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A half-square triangle quilt using one white layer cake and one batik layer cake; 71 x 76 inches.
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This is another half-square triangle quilt; no specific pattern for the arrangement; 67 x 75 inches.
When I started to sew on the binding, I noticed a big glob of mud on one block. All I can guess about how it got there was that one of the dogs got to it while I had my in-progress quilts on the couch. (No, they don’t get on the couch, but they sometimes look for toys on it.) I treated the stain, scrubbed it, washed it multiple times but I couldn’t get all of it out. I was heartbroken. It was supposed to be a gift but I can’t bear to give someone a new quilt with a stain.
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This is the Hunter’s Star pattern using the half-square triangle method from the Missouri Star Quilt Company tutorial; 73 x 83 inches.
Five of Six
One goal I had for this year was to finish the six quilt tops I found hanging in my sewing room closet. I looked at the photo I posted in January and checked on my progress. I managed to finish five of the six quilt tops. I don’t seem to know where I put one of the quilt tops (hanger #5). I’m not worried; I’ll find it eventually. Maybe I should look in my closet again?
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Here’s the starting line up.
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I made this quilt top in 1991; my first quilt top ever. Twenty-five years later (2016) I took it to be professionally quilted and then I added the binding. It’s on hanger #4 in the first photo.
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Shelly and I made our Carpenter’s Star quilt tops together a few years ago; hanger #3. Size = 48 x 48 inches.
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I took a Jelly Roll class at Sew Much More and made several of them; hanger #2. Size = 56 x 71 inches.
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Jelly Roll quilt #2; hanger #1. Size = 54 x 65 inches.
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Jelly Roll quilt #3; hanger #6. Size = 64 x 79 inches.
I have made several other items this year, so completing five of six of my UFOs was definite progress.
