It's been a while since I sat down to put pen to paper. My last quilt was the graduation quilt for my niece Caroline. Since that time she has gone to college, graduated, gotten engaged to a young man who owns a cattle ranch and is basically living her dream. Her little sister graduated and I put together a colorful quilt for her. This quilt I secretly named, "Trumped". You see it was during the time before the election, and the Donald was campaigning. I was busy putting together this lovely lap quilt. My son stopped by and I proudly held up the completed quilt top for him to look at. He said, "is that a swastika?". I looked down and my quilt and back at my son and uttered a 4-letter word. Several times. I don't know that it was a true swastika but it certainly resembled one. My son snapped a photo and texted it to his wife and she responded with, "is that a swastika?" He responded with, "my mom is saying a lot of really bad words" to which she replied, "it's a very nice swastika".
Again, my most used tool, the seam ripper, came out of the drawer and we went to work. The quilt was finished in record time and presented to a very happy graduate.
If I would just slow down and pay attention.
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