My amazing friend.

See this covert? This is in Spain. While driving thru the countryside, all of a sudden my husband who is in the car in front, pulls over.

Concerned something is wrong my Father gets out and inquires what the problem is.

I already know.

Ken has spotted a cool covert to help with drainage.

Now Ken is a civil engineer. He designs roads, with drainage. This covert is a work of art, or so he says.




A year or so later our friend Shelly, who is a civil engineer too, and has worked with Ken, went to school with Ken and pretty much is Ken in female form (well, not really, but it sounds good.)

Shelly is a sewing goddess.

She and I have a love of fabric and the things we can do with it. When she bought her last house it was me she took to Ikea to help design her perfect sewing room.

I am still jealous.

Anywho, Shelly was looking to enlarge her repertoire of quilting masterpieces and has taken some classes in architecture quilting and was looking for some pictures to turn into quilts. After a fruitless search through books and such she came to me knowing we went to Spain. She told me she wanted to see ALL the pictures.

I told her there were 1439 pictures.

She looked at ALL of them. And picked a few she thought would work.

Then for Christmas she made us this.

Really the perfect present.

It combines Ken's engineering interests with my love of sewing and fabric.







The quilting around the top tell you this was in the Puebla's Blanca's (White Villages) and the year we went. I could not get a good picture of the quilting to show up.

At Thanksgiving Shelly toured my house and decided exactly where it should be hung. Good thing I agree completely!!

Isn't this stunning?