Gift week

 Walking through our mega grocery /stuff store one day I saw a really cute dish towel that featured an embroidered Michigan on it.  Immediately I thought it would make a cute pillow.  Never could I use it for an actual dish towel because I am very not nice to dish towels. It would be stained and burned very soon.  But a pillow, now that was another story.  So, I bought one.  When I got home I thought daughter and daughter-in-law might like one, too and sent PH back to the store to get two more.

After days and days and days procrastinating because I just knew I'd ruin it with my mismeasuring skill less math I finally tip toed up to them during one of these hot, hot, hot indoor air conditioning days. I have a hard time seeing math.  Once I can SEE it, I can do it but until then I'm a wreck.  Finally, after much, much, much measuring (you know that adage for carpenters: measure twice, cut once?  Well, for me it's measure for DAYS, cut once and still ruin it)  and a final consultation with PH and even then not getting it into my head finally, finally the lightbulb went on.  After that it took about 45 minutes to make the backs of the three pillows.   You laugh but it's all true.

This one is front and back of daughter-in-law's.  They have a nice summer porch and it will be cute there.

This is daughter's.  They have a sweet little cottage up north very near Lake Michigan where light houses and boats are on the horizon. It will be cute up there.

This one is ours where picking summer fruits is my summer.  A much better use of a cute dish towel.

 Friend Paul called and asked if I would like his mother's quilt rack.  I said yes!