Turkey Tracks: December 15, 2010
Rosie’s Gift
Our monthly quilt meeting was Saturday, December 11th. We have a potluck and Christmas party during our December meeting.
I have, for some years now, volunteered to bring the December door prize. I collect items for the Christmas door prize all year long. And, people give me items to put into the box over the year as well.
Last February I made my annual trip to Virginia to be with my old quilting friends in Williamsburg. We’ve been making this trip together for about 15 years now. We spend a week in a timeshare that Rose Pilkerton organizes. We catch up, quilt night and day, take turns cooking, and attend the Mid-Atlantic Quilting Show. The week is full of sharing: laughter, jokes, movies watched while quilting, and the work of quilting projects. These friends help you “unsew” if you need to, sew on bindings, and lend you whatever you need.
Rose Pilkerton gave me this treasure of a notebook holder she had made for the Coastal Quilters’ December door prize:
Here’s the inside:
She also gave me one for myself that used a red fabric featuring old sewing machines. AND, a key chain made from the same fabric. I carry them both everywhere, and I think of her everytime I use either of her gifts.
Rose’s generosity-and Rose herself–are metaphors for what I love in my quilting friends, of what I aspire to be.
The Maine quilter who won the December gift box loved Rose’s contribution.
And I love Rose!
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