Helping A Friend...

 We have a great group of ladies who gather at Paneras each week.

One of them is Margaret D., who lives in Canada, but winters in

Port Charlotte. She does incredible hand quilting for her friends 

and clients, but remarkably has never assembled a quilt herself!

Prior to leaving Canada last year, she purchased a number of kits for

this single block. "Block Six" was the surplus from a Block of the Month

 project the shop had sold, so the shopkeeper offered them to Margaret for

 $2 per kit. They even included the fabric at that price. She bought twelve!

 Margaret said she was having trouble understanding the instructions

and asked if I'd help. I said, "Sure!" and brought a kit home to assemble.

I took the finished block to her yesterday evening. I showed her how I

colored the pattern image to match the fabrics included in her kit, and 

then explained how she just had to cut each color per the instructions.

 Then I handed her one finished block to help guide her through the 

instructions. She was tickled. She'll be going back to Canada soon,

and I know she'll spend part of her summer working on this quilt.

I'll just bet she'll bring it back, hand quilted and beautiful next

year, and I can hardly wait to see how wonderful it will be!

Thanks for asking for my help, Margaret. I especially love that 

the center of this design a is a traditional "Friendship" block.

It only seems appropriate to me.