Renewing Old Friendships

This week has been a good week for renewing old friendships.  In years past, Marji and I would go to a quilting retreat in Bird-In-Hand, PA in either October or November.  It was planned and presented by Delaware Quilts and Marge Gordon.  Over the years, we have made friends with a number of quilters from all over the east coast.

As I was driving to see the surgeon, I remembered that the first spring retreat was happening at the AmishView Inn and I had to drive by it going to and from the surgeon's office.  So, on my return home, I zipped in and was welcomed with open arms by Marge, Dawn, Candy, Cindy and Rose.  They are fall retreaters who also do the spring retreat.  It was nice to see them and they were very pleased to see how well I was getting around as last fall I was in a lot of pain and walking like a lame pirate.

That evening, I spoke to Marji who indicated that she had also thought about going to visit.  So Friday morning Marji came up to my house and we headed back to the AmishView for another visit with our friends.  Marji seemed to enjoy it a great deal and we got to know a few of the quilters that we had never met.

One had designed a new quilting tool and shared it with Marji and then with me.  It is a small and large version of a cross ruler that allows one to mark on a square (two squares, right-sides together) lines to use for stitching and then cutting to form perfect (and very easy) quarter square triangles.  It is a lovely tool and I am excited to use it.  I will be re-evaluating my projects for Fancy Gap so I can play with the new tool.

It was a very nice day.  It has been a while since Marji and I spent a day together just doing fun stuff.  I am looking forward to our time in Fancy Gap.

This morning I was picked up by my BFF Debby Patton.  We had a late breakfast at Dutchway and then did some fabric shopping at the little Amish store in Georgetown, Fishers.  It was crowded with all manner of shoppers.  It was the first nice weekend (although still a tad chilly for this time of year) without rain or snow.

I am now back in packing mode.  I have a busy week with a dinner out, another doctor's appointment to remove a couple of spots of skin cancer and then the final GriefShare session of the season and a Lion's Club meeting before heading to Fancy Gap for a month of R and R and being with good friends.