Busy day today.....I meet with my former co-workers for their coffee break each week which is usually on Wednesday mornings. There are usually 5 of us but today there was just Brenda and myself..which was nice to have some one-on-one time. Josie is down in Florida with her family for March break, Elaine was working from home today and Janice had a meeting. Hopefully we will all be there next week.

When I got home I sandwiched my sister's table runner....I pieced the back last night. I did't have enough of one of the fabrics I used in the blocks so that is why I decided to piece it....that was the first time I have ever done that so I think it looks pretty cool.

I want to make another table runner for my friend Diane as she is having the girls over for one of our "Good Idea" get-togethers next Wednesday night. The pattern I am following is from Quilters World, April 2012 called Urban Rainbow. I purchased some black and white fabric from a Quilt Store that was going out of business a couple of years ago so I'm using that for the block strips. The pattern used lime green for the appliqué but I using rose colours for Diane....hope she likes it. I cut out all the strips and will start sewing it tomorrow.

My BFF is in Florida right now with her hubby....we have been friends almost 50 years.....yikes! She has a daughter who is a slow learner but lives on her own with her boyfriend Shawn.....anyways, while Marilyn is gone I look out for them, take them for groceries, keep their bank cards and extra spending money, drive them here and there or whatever needs to be done. Shawn is in a hockey tournament this weekend with Special Olympics and I had been holding onto his spending money for this trip until today. He is being picked up early tomorrow morning at one of the other players and is spending the night over there so I picked him up with all his hockey gear and drove him over to his friends. I told him to put his money in a safe place because I don't want him to lose it....he can sometimes be a bit careless.

After I dropped Shawn off I drove to my local quilt shop and purchased some rose coloured fabric for Diane's table runner and I also picked up some coordinating fabrics to go with the fabric my youngest daughter brought me back from Indonesia last summer. I am planning to make her a table runner and take it out to her in BC when I visit in May. On my way home I stopped at another friend's house to pick up their income tax....I always buy the computer tax program so I do a few returns for friends and family.

Finally got home around 3:30 so I traced the circle shapes onto the wonder under and then pressed them onto the back of the rose fabrics.....plan to work on that table runner tomorrow so hopefully I will be able to post a picture or two.

I'm off to make myself a Greek salad for dinner. I'm going over to my friend Mary's to play euchre tonight for 7......I really don't like to go out at night but I like to play cards and see my friends so it's off I go........toodles....

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