Friday, Nov. 25th..stuffed, but happy. Snowing in WI..I'm staying home..*S* Something you probably don't know about me...and to be honest I haven't met anyone else with this particular affliction...is that I love to be tempted, lured..dared....and within reason, challenged..*S*

Now I don't mean "make a New York Beauty" challenged..I'd just laugh all the way to my 9 patches. I think it's just a quirk in my personality...I have a "boxcar children" mentality. Most of you probably aren't old enough to have read the BoxCar Children books. I'm only the "first book". I delight in making something out of nothing or almost nothing. I have oodles of fabric, piles and baskets and bins of fabric..but does it thrill me, challenge me? Nope.

Several years ago, my former guild had their annual "house walk"..3 or 4 homes of quilters in the quild within a given area of our members. At one house, the gal had made each of us fabric lei to wear, and hung them around our necks as we got off the bus. Neat idea...loved it.

But back home again..my odd little mind was wondering...since I had collected about 3 or 4 lei that were discarded on the bus by that time...now what can I do all these narrow strips??? So I sat and untied all of them from the jute, shared the idea of making something(i.e. now it's a challenge) with a friend. Gave her half the strips and went to work. Very, very few were wider than 1.5" and really quite an assortment of fabrics. I finished with just a small handful of odds and ends. The quilt shown above is the quilt that resulted. I added the funky wonky witch fabric for border, and the tom turkey slipped in uninvited from my scraps....LOL. All the rest is from the lei...and I love it !! Not colors or fabrics I would have chosen..but I love it. I did a good job. It's machine pieced and handquilted, crosshatched at 1". Silly ole bear....*G*