madamekelly

I have a new story for you- same dear sister as above, asks me to help her make a small quilt for her grandson who is the older brother of the baby mentioned above. I said sure and let her shop my stash to find fabrics, got her set up and schooled on reading the pattern, and how to use the rotary cutter. We spent about four hours the first day practicing cutting on some scraps, then cutting the strips for her quilt. She had it about 1/3 of cutting done when she had to go home to make her family dinner. I did not see or hear from her for several days, and when she does come back over, she has a large basket of clothes with her. (?) I asked her how long she could work that day, and she thrust the basket into my hands and says "This is the mending I need done, and I am sure you won't mind finishing the quilt for since it is too hard and too much work for me." She has been my sister for 48 years, has never seen me take in mending, has watched me over the course of months work very hard on other quilts, and still acts clueless? I told her my expensive quilters sewing machine will not do mending, and she would have to settle for a store bought (with her money) quilt for little William. {For Easter, I did make little William a double sided fleece snuggly with the satin edging he seems to love petting. She actually looked at his gift and said "No, I mean a real quilt!".} Just so you know, she asked to use my quilters sewing machine to do her mending since the other machine I Gave her does not do all the nice things automatically like mine (the one I said would not do mending) does. Um.....No.