What Else Is New? Quilts

I spent the afternoon trying to get a quilt layed out - have I ever told anyone how badly I want a design wall???? I even have a place for it - just haven't gotten it done yet! Anyway - the only place I have to lay it out is on the floor and it really isn't the best way to see it...some quilts don't need this process but this one DOES!

As I have been working with this one I thought about life in general - there are connecting blocks of our lives and we tend to look at things in a linear or continuum because our lives are lived on this plane - but in reality these blocks can be put together in many different combinations - and with the Lord as the quilter it will be fun to see what our quilt will have become as he moves our blocks around to suit his and our purposes - that is if we will let him. LOL I think that is one of the things that I so admire about people who join the church - I am sure that most have their lives all planned out according the the pleasing pattern that they like - but then they hear the gospel and in many instances they give all that up to become something different - the blocks that were there are still there but they take a chance and dare to become great - to become perfect by adding the blocks that the Lord desires and allowing him to arrange them until it becomes a masterpiece....

Speaking of quilts - yesterday I received permission from David Bowman, author and illustrator of the "Who's Your Hero?" series of childrens books published by Deseret Book, to use his rendition of Moroni for Moroni's quilt. I am way excited about that. Except - now I have to attempt it! LOL I kind of chuckled at the end of the e-mail. It said, "Good luck with it." How appropriate! LOL

We went to dinner with Rich's brother, Bob. We went to Red Robin - thought we'd find something there that we could eat on our diets - both Rich and I had their Cobb Salad - but I think Rich would rather have gone someplace else - even Ryan's - ugh!

After we got home I watched a little of the Olympics...really should have done some work...just didn't.