My Friend, Becky

Ever notice how we always seem to pick up the bad habits of those around us. I think I've ruined my friend, Becky. Owensboro is the kind of little town that if your great, great grandparents didn't come here as settlers, you're not part of this town and you never will be. Having a name like Laquidara, there's no doubt in any of the locals' minds that we don't belong here! Somehow, Becky is different! She's from here and she likes me so that automatically means there's probably something not quite right. When I first started teaching quilting for community ed here, Becky took one of my beginning quilting classes and that's where we met. After a few years, I noticed that she and a couple others were taking every class, and I think Becky was taking some of them twice! We talked about it and decided to start a quilting group so they could stop paying $40 to spend time together. We did some research, tried a couple of places, then we met Shirley who works at Kentucky Wesleyan College. Shirley offered one of the meeting rooms at KWC for us and we meet there on the 1st and 3rd Mondays and it's a great group. Back to Becky . . I've ruined her! She will go anywhere with me. One year we even talked about driving to Houston to go to the quilt show. She goes to Paducah with me, she goes to the quilt shop with me. I think if I called her and said "pack your bags, we're leaving!", she'd start packing and never ask where we're going. Just to prove that I have ruined her, she's making lime green quilts now! I'm not showing a whole picture because she hasn't seen her quilt yet and she reads my blog. She'll get the quilt tomorrow night and then I can show a picture of the whole quilt. This is the quilt I was going to do fans on and then decided it needed something different. See . . I can think beyond fans! It doesn't get a whole lot better in my book than lime green feathers! :) Judy L.