As you, my Gentle Readers and Fans know, Rainy Day writes.
It's currently a hobby she hopes to turn into a full time business. She writes
novels because she has stories to tell, and really wants to sell them (so, feel
free to buy them, read them, give them as presents – support the arts – shucks,
support Rainy Day;-)
However, like all jobs, no matter how fun, there comes a
time when Rainy Day wants a vacation, so she is currently on a writing vacation
and partaking of her other hobby, quilting.
Several months ago, she saw a pattern in a magazine for a
scrap quilt (one made with leftovers) and set about getting all her scraps and
leftovers out, and the pieces cut, neatly stacked, and placed in some clean
salad boxes (a quilter's goodest friend, those clear salad boxes!) and she
waited for her vacation. The vacation arrived. She placed the boxes in order on
her sewing table, and pieced the pieces. Then she ironed them, cut them per
directions, and repieced them. And, she admits, she now and then unstitched and
restitched more than a few. But, finally, she had all the blocks done.
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| Quilt Top from scraps, Happy Jazz |
The next step was to lay them out in proper order, and sew
the blocks together into rows, then the rows together until she had the top
finished. The sum of the total is considerably brighter than the individual
pieces. Rainy Day suggests you view it while wearing sun glasses.
The next vacation project is to learn to use her quilting
machine.
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| HQ Sixteen Quilting Machine and earlier scrap quilt in Rainy Day's Quilt Room |
And, while busily quilting, she's also plotting out another
novel. A writer's work is never done;-)
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