Frayed Edges, February 2006
this was our last meeting with Deborah, at least with her living here in Maine, who is moving to Dallas on Feb. 17th. Sigh. Sob. Oh dear. Well……..it is in the same state as Houston, so here’s to Houston in October!!!! We will miss having Deborah SO much!
As a farewell, we had a wonderful lunch and Deborah treated us to a prototype of a workshop, working in a series on postcard-sized art pieces. We started the day almost as usual. Hannah Beattie, whom Deborah met recently, was able to come and join us…yeah! Kathy Daniels, alas, had to work—her co-worker had the audacity to have a baby and have to have a c-section on our last day (ahem!). So we were up one and down one….but in spirit we are all together. Morning was coffee and yapping (of course) and sharing (ditto). Then we had a wonderful lunch–Deborah’s a whiz with that George Foreman grill, and actually has me mulling the idea of buying one, salad and fresh pineapple from Kate and Hannah.
And, drum roll, I went waaaaayyyyy off my diet and made my mom’s “Christmas Rum Cake”—the only reason for Christmas is that is what we always made for the holiday. Otherwise it is cake soaked in a coffee rum syrup, with a rum-laced custard between the three layers, frosted with whipped cream topped with apricot halves. DELECTABLE!
The afternoon, believe it or not, was even better. We made art cards! Here we all are:
Kate is contemplating her flowers,
while Deborah and Hannah are consulting about Hannah’s wonderful houses.
I love the roof lines, which for some reason (bizarre way that my brain works) remind me of gnome hats (this is a good, whimsical association by the way).
Deborah worked on these scenics, but since she was the teacher this time, she didn’t get as far along as we three did.
Then, in the middle of it, the phone rings–the floral delivery guy arrived with this vase of flowers:
From KATHY! Gulp….the one time I almost started to cry…we’re gonna miss Deborah so much! But Kathy was there with us in spirit, and we’ll just e-mail, blog, photos-on-the-web, and call when Deborah is in Texas.
And last of all, here are my turtles. Two are a size that will make it to Virginia Spiegel’s fundraiser to fight cancer (sold at the quilt show in Chicago), so I’d better finish them up soon!