Mulitpling noodles and an almost finished quilt top.

I survived a Boy Scout filled weekend. Saturday our troop had their big crossover ceremony. The younger boys moving up from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts are treated to an impressive ceremony Saturday night. During the day the boys do work around the scout camp. This year it involved picking up downed branches from all the snow this winter. Three of us cook dinner for the troop and any families who want to come. This year there were 30 people. We knew we'd have about 30 people so we bought a big package of noodles that said 40 servings. Well they must have meant for 40 people who were only eating noodles and who hadn't eaten in a day or two. Everyone had their fill of chicken, green beans and noodles, we even offered food to a stray scouter who stopped by to pick up something up, yet we still had almost 2 large crock pots full of noodles to take home. Sunday afternoon two brothers (congratulations to Taylor and Heath)were having their Eagle presentation, so we offered their dad the noodles. Even after that there was still probably 1/4 crock pot full of noodles! Fortunately they were mostly in the other woman's crock pot and she took them home.

This is what I've been working on for the past two weeks. The shop hop quilt from 2008 is almost finished. I've been appliqueing the fish around on the blue border. Since the fish are on both the border and the setting blocks I had to maneuver the whole top around while appliqueing on the machine. Not hard just annoying. All that's left is a green border and figuring out how to get it quilted. Rowan's already tried to call dibs on this quilt, but I told him I hadn't decided what I'm going to do with it yet. (after all that maneuvering the top needs pressed)





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