Today's BLOG isn't about quilting.
It's about sewing on a patch for a friend.
For as long as I've known him, our friend Mark has been making annual trips up to Lake Champlain, Vermont, to ice fish. He tells me it's "catch and release" Pike fishing. (ice fishing images here)
I think he has as much fun planning the trip, the meals, and the sleeping arrangements as he does drilling the ice holes. (No wonder, have you ever seen how thick the ice becomes up that way?)
The Pikers dress in style. This is the back of the jacket. The Flag patch is on the left sleeve.
Which brings us to the patches on the right sleeve.
I sewed the round blue "40th Annual" patch on this morning. It took 10 minutes. (Taking pictures and writing this BLOG is taking me longer!)
40 years! Seriously? Mark CAN'T have been making the trek for THAT long? Could he have? I'll have to ask him about their math. Seems a bit "fuzzy."
And finally, here's their group motto - emblazoned on the front. Maybe for their 50th Annual, they'll add a line. How about something like " If you can't take winter you don't deserve summer ... or you'll just have to move to Florida!"
That's all from the Simply Colorful Fiber Studio for today.
I'm off to work on my Valentine's Day quilt! 5 days left. Happy Sunday!
Lynn
P.S. Did I ever tell you my UVM ice fishing story? A bunch of us college students drove out on the lake. I found what I thought was a frozen dead fish. I put it in my pocket, thinking I could play a trick with it back at the dorm. The problem with that plan was that half-way home, while I was still packed in a care with10 of my closest friends (half of whom I'm sure I'd only met that day), the fish started to move in my pocket?! It completely freaked me out. It was all I could do to roll down and fling that thing out the window. Joke was on me. :)
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