Thank you for using red for the ship; I find my palatte always ends up running to browns lol...I have to battle the impulse and it just sort of sneaks up on me. I have a lot of really ugly brown and red material in my stash right now that I'm trying to figure out what to do with and wondering WHY THE HECK DID I BUY THAT? Who wants brown quilts or blankets? Besides me, I mean.
I came very close to using brown in this one, but decided Spoonman's quilt should be RW&B since the sky was a storm, it needed perking up anyway. Sunshine's red sails is in the planning stage, and your daughter's pink and blue quilt is neatly folded with the 2 other quilts. You love boating so much, I was wanting to do a ship with rainbow sails after that, which was my first choice anyway because I was so fascinated with Ezekiel's scripture that said "The Lord God's presence is as the colors of the bow in the sky." Mariners have always had a fondness for rainbows in their world, and I think that's pretty much why when you see sailing ships, many of their sails are rainbow-striped, and so pretty teamed with Caribbean waters. So since that one follows Sunshine's, let me know if you want a repeat red color. If I dedicate them to a person here in their moniker name, they know that quilt is designated for a child at the shelter and won't sell it to the public for scholarships and batting. So the more I can dedicate in people's names, the more that people who need a little something pretty in their life who wouldn't otherwise have it get it through the hard work of quilting that Charity Bees do after I complete the tops. I'm so grateful for them. Someday, they will likely be good and tired of me and my little doings, though. It won't be the first time. My dear friend at the Handicapped Day Care Center finally told me (after 6 years of donating 60 quilts a year for their naptime program) that OSHA moved in and forced them to bleach the quilts once a week. We're talking chlorine bleach here, and that it truly made her feel bad to mistreat the quilts when Orvus neutral-pH soap and water is all other people use to clean their quilts.
So after that, I started making squad car quilts for the cops to carry around in their cruisers for when they needed to wrap a shock victim in a blanket. The secretary of the police chief really loved them and started making her own quilts from getting a good sewing machine to make them with and then a professional quilting machine to quilt them with. In return, I got so much experience making log cabin quilts, I know every little trick in the book for making the work go fast. Back then, I could make a queen-sized quilt top in 1" log cabins in 3 days and quilt it on my quilter in 1 day, we're talking 10 and 8 hour days, of course. But when you're working to complete a charity quilt show, you have like zero social life, so my husband and I learned to fit our schedules around him doing church business and business books at night and me working in front of the sewing machine for quite a few years after the kids grew up and taking on school and careers.
I went online after Clinton was re-elected to find out why the American people voted that way. Since our lives were church-centered, we weren't prepared for all that Washington stuff on television 24-7 and the war that's now being leveled on church folk like us whose lives were devoted to community. I well know I spent many hours doing all I could for homeless shelters, supporting the art guild and symphony, sewing for the community college daycare and handicapped center, squad car quilts, and for victims of fire through our city's fire marshall, hospice, etc. That's been my whole life, and online, people call you names you may never have ever spoken to anyone else because your opinion challenges theirs. It takes a few years to develop thick skin and fire back with
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Oh, yes, koshergrl: tell me what color scheme the quilt in your honor is to be. It has to follow the rainbow sails, quilt, though, before I lose my verve, keeping in mind it's probably 4 or 5 quilts away. Once in a while, I have to clear the table and make a quilt from a melee hill of scraps, just to get rid of them. My tall pile is now around 10" where it was about 4 months ago. I did some sorting on days I did nothing else.
I'll be lucky to get the sails' strips cut out and ready to go by tomorrow. I could sew the 3 horizontal rows together before doing that. I'm glad they showed up well here. I managed to space completion of the two rows over 2 days between other household duties. For 2 nights I had screaming out loud leg cramps, but today, I feel like a new person. I reread my Centrum vitamin instructions and found that I should have been taking one in the morning and one at night. It seems to bring the extra B vitamins that people like me need, plus magnesium that squares a lot of my pain away. That may have been why the leg cramps ceased. I'm glad, because they drain you of your blood's vitality, it seems. 
The next airing will be in two years.
