Rain Called on Account of Game

We're back to the weather prediction that today will be cloudy but the next four days will have rain. We never actually had more than a few very light showers yesterday. It is quite overcast today, though, and the temperature is a cool 64. With 88% humidity, it feels quite sticky. In fact, that's just what the BBC-TV weatherman said about last night's forecast: "It's going to be a sticky old night, I'm afraid." He was right.

Don is on the golf course playing his usual Friday morning round with the St Fillans Seniors. He spent the afternoon watching the British Open on the telly. Not a bad life. In between he did some business and afterward, he cooked us a delicious meal of marinated chicken cooked on the grill served with sweet red pepper-Haloumi cheese-and olive tapenade bundles. I contributed macaroni salad.

I spent the afternoon finishing the "exciting new piece" I wrote about a week or so ago. I called it "Moons of Madras" (accent on the -dras) simply because the thread I used to quilt around the moons was a variegated one that its manufacturer, YLI, named "Madras." I liked the alliteration of those Ms. My aim was to explore a new technique of heavily quilting a background to allow shapes to appear out of a single piece of fabric. It began as an exercise but when I had finished, I liked the result so well that I thought it really had to be turned into a quilt, so I floated it on top of the violet hand-dye background. I at first thought about keeping it rectangular, but the finished piece reminded me so much of a grandmother clock that I decided to not only fringe the bottom but to shape the fringed bottom into a V-shape. I feel the piece has now taken on the mystical property it needed.

In fact, I worked on 3 quilts yesterday: I finished the "Spittal of Glenshee" as well as "Moons of Madras" but in between, I put some white paint on the upper half of the background of the quilt I made about Cromarty's harbor (from a photograph in a magazine). I was trying to make the sky look much lighter but the paint didn't quite do the trick. So that's what I'll be working on today.

Right now, though, it's time to phone Acorn Fabrics in Perth to see when someone is coming out to measure the sitting/dining area for drapes.