Yay! My quilt is finished !!
(with a special thanks to Dana and all the Old Red Barn Co peeps who went through all the trials and tribulations with me!!)

My quilt is finally finished and after I had sewn on the label and washed and dried it (yes... that WAS scary.... but it came out ok!!), I took it for a little outing to the beach..


As I was hopping along merrily, taking photo's here and there, a lady who was sitting on the beach with her friend spoke to me. She said: "What are you doing?" so I answered "I am photographing my quilt". She then asks me "Is it ART?"... I thought about that for a bit... then decided to say "Yes!". After all, what we are doing here ladies (and quiltdad) is an artform, is it not? The lady turned to her companion and said "See, I told you so, I was right!" and then explains to me... "You see, we had a bet going on. I said that lady is an artist. She looks like an artist, and I was right!" and she looked triumphantly at her companion.

Who was I to disappoint her? So I took some 'arty' shots .....

and did the expected thing artists do... they don't just 'snap' pictures.... they pose the object and instead of standing up etc, they lie in the sand... Suddenly I felt not so selfconscious but quite celebrated! As I was going about my work, I heard people passing the news along in low voices...' artist at work.... murmur murmur murmur.... art project you see' and when I came by on the way back, they all were suddenly very engrossed with their bags, towels and books.. I wonder what it is with being an artist... If you really were one, would you be seen to be strange, funny, special, or ... not to be approached? mmm... it was a very interesting experience.....

Did like my last photo with the ferry though.. and no... the quilt is not on the sand, neither is it in the water! It is safely on the stone, happily watching the ferry. I look after her, we are thick like that, my quilt and I...