A Friendly Foot of Snow

I'm linking up over at Amylouwho for Sew and Tell today!  Go over and check it out!

 While the monster and I were in Michigan my friend Bri was watching my place for me.  She watered my plants, made sure the place wasn't flooded, and if it were to snow she would come over and shovel for me.   I kept my fingers crossed that it wouldn't snow while I was gone.  But it did.  And not a little bit.  A LOT!  Like a foot of snow.  Her husband is deployed along with the hubs, and she has a two year old.  I really really didn't want her to have to come shovel.  But she did.  And I was very grateful.

( I won't bring up the ridiculous fine if you fail to have your driveway cleared within 24 hours after a snowfall, imposed by the new rental people that took over base housing.  However if you read our family blog I'm sure you already know how I feel about them, and bringing up the FIFTY dollar fine would only  get my Irish up, and that isn't pretty, so I won't)

So while shopping with my sister in law, I saw a bunch of cute Christmas fabrics that I decided to get and make into a thank you quilt for my friend Bri.  Shovel a foot of snow for me, I will make you a quilt! (this doesn't apply to the Hubs, that's his job!)

Honestly, I have never made a quilt with quite as many catastrophic issues.  Muddy paw prints on the white sashing, super wonky plaid, a directional backing that had to go in the wrong direction, a glob of stitches in the quilting that had to be redone, and a red binding that has turned 4 color catchers pink(so far).  I finally bought some of Grandma's Spot Remover, and the mud is gone, PTL!  The backing still looks okay, and I'll gift her a color catcher with this quilt to be safe.  I'm glad it turned out okay, because   it meant a lot to me to show my gratitude, and I wouldn't want to show it with a crappy quilt.  

The backing is pretty, its just horizontal instead of vertical.  Not the end of the world.  

I'm happy to have finished another quilt this year. It may be my last.  But I have a few fun things coming up, so I'm sure you'll be hearing from me :)