Bill on my Bed!

My dear sister started it by giving me the new William Morris FQ collection as a birthday gift this past weekend. It wasn't a surprise -- she knows me all too well and asked early in the week if she could get it for me. She was afraid I'd hurry and do it myself. I hadn't, though it did get me to thinking: If one collection of FQs is good, wouldn't two be better? We were all at Sherry's for a joint Sam and Grandmom birthday celebration. (He got a Horton the Elephant book and a small Big Wheels among other things and seemed just as pleased with his gifts as I was with mine.)

Quite a bit of fondling ensued. Then on Tuesday, the evening hand sewing group gathered at my house to bind, baste, and banter, so I put my FQs out on the table to make everyone feel jealous. Boy, did they feel jealous! Especially Marsha.

Honna arrived late, as usual, and bearing a pink gift bag. And just look what it contained! A couple of yards of this wonderful print from the same line! Did she do good or did she do good?

So I've been thinking about a project for Bill's prints. My first instinct is always baskets, but I have a William Morris basket quilt on my living room couch (you can see it here) and am sort of thinking that these Morris fabrics should become a quilt for our bed since the one on there now is about twenty years old and starting to look tired. I was thinking about Bear Tracks and how beautiful these quilts are, especially if four different prints are used instead of two. And then I was thinking that April is my month to send out fabrics to my friends on the Fat Quarters list, and I could have them each make one of the blocks for me. And the more I thought, the more I believed I'd made a plan!

Some background will be needed, and I think this will be just right. I'll be out in Lancaster County this weekend (that's right -- the semi-annual White Oak getaway!) and perhaps I'll see some at the Old Country Store or at Sauder's. If not, then I happen to know exactly where my Hancock's catalog is!

If things should happen to go according to plan, I'll have my top finished it time to hand it over to Kat to quilt when I see her this July at Chautauqua, and -- viola! I'll be sleeping with Bill by October!