Bigger!

My son was visiting last night, and we were sitting at the dinner table eating when suddenly he dropped his fork.

"MOM! I -love- what you're doing with that quilt. I think a giant FUN will be just perfect."

I had to turn around to see what he was looking at. "Honey, that's nothing. I just put that piece of pink fabric there because Sweetbean told me FUN should be pink."
We went into the sewing studio after dinner to talk about it. "Mom, look at the way you have the letters arranged. THE RULES are blocky, and they are the shortest words in the quilt. The words get bigger and bigger as you move away from them, both above and below. The YOU MISS gets a bit bigger, then ALL THE gets bigger still. I want THE FUN to take up one-third of the quilt."

I looked at him, not quite sure if I really wanted to make the word FUN sixteen inches tall.

He had a broad grin on his face. "Say it Mom," he teased. "Say it."

This is the kid with the terrific "eye." He had told me he didn't like the cursive F, or the multi colored ALL THEs. His design advice is always on target.

"Say it Mom, you know it, now say it." I kept looking back and forth from the design wall to his shining face. He was right, he knew it, and he wanted me to admit it.

I said it.

"You're right. FUN has to be bigger."

"A lot bigger."

"Ok, a lot bigger."

"REALLY BIGGER," he said, gesturing with his hands, a broad grin on his face.

"REALLY BIGGER, ok!" I gave him a hug. He left for his Karate class (I swear his feet never touched the ground) and I got to work.

Hours later, I knew the kid was absolutely 100% right. The word FUN -did- need to be BIG!

These letters may be too thick, and they won't necessarily be lined up so neatly, but those are easy fixes, and it was approaching midnight.

Woo hoo! Gosh, I love that kid!