Nashville Stitch N Bitch

where knitting meets hee haw

Isn't this the purtiest quilt? I saw this today when I was at a mamaparty. A mamafriend was visiting from out of town and all of the other local mamafriends got together for a picnic and all around fun day of food and water sprinkler fun. paige swears that the quilt was something that someone bought off of QVC for them and that it has matching shams, but I could swear it's feedsack. I don't think it's an old quilt, but I do think at least the prints are old fabric and the binding if not the quilting totally looks hand done. I'm in love with the gradient around the outside of it. I didn't spread it out completely as you can see in the pic because I couldn't. No room. Behind me, this is what was going on -babies, tits, and general chaos. I really really really want to make something similar to this quilt but you know what? I can't. I can't because I have to finish the monstrosity I started and the monstrosity I started is such a monstrosity that I can only quilt about 1 square a day. And if my math is correct, at this rate it will take me 2 months more to finish. But one day! One day this QVC quilt and I will tangle.

So on Monday nights, the husband and I have a date night. Generally we go to see a movie, and then go sit at some restaurant's bar and eat and have a drink and talk about adult type things. Sometimes we even use curse words because we can. Mostly I don't drag my husband to knitting events on date night, but last night ann and kay were in town and being a nice guy, he obliged with a little hanging out at the book signing! There was talking, there was laughing, there were books flying off of the shelves right and left. Afterwards, I was chatting with a few people (and I hate to say it Ann, but one of your friends recognized us as those people from her neighborhood which is actually our old neighborhood and your current neighborhood. Those people who had the baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph on the Harley that one Christmas followed in subsequent years by baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph in the horse trailer and baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph in the Cadillac (if only we could've found a carseat). Anyway, we've been found out as your those people friends.) Right in the middle of the heat of book signing mania, I spotted none other than the hager twins! And it hit me that Ann and Kay must know about it! After I shoved some potential book buyers aside, Kay agreed - blog potential was high - pictures had to be made. Husband and I chased the poor Hager Twins around the bookstore but they disappeared as if into a secret panel Hager Twins wall of books. We questioned the DVD section guy who didn't know who the Hager Twins were, but said that two guys had been asking where the Hee Haw DVDs were. Hee Haw indeed!

Then, in true jet setting knitting book tour lifestyle fashion, we all went and ate hamburgers and drank champagne. I think Kay might've trashed her hotel room later.

Big, fat, fun girls! Thank you for having us! See you again this week!

xo