That was a lie.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED... was that my brother, the retired guy who lives in his van and spends his winters in Mexico kitesurfing... wanted me to make a quilt [as a surprise] for a woman he wanted to be his girlfriend.
He wanted me to make a quilt based on the colors of her workout clothes - hot pink, purple, teal blue and lime green. BUT! I couldn't tell that story because he told the woman about me and my blog, and she followed it for a while. I couldn't tell the real story, or she might figure it out.
So when my pal Julie sent me the picture of her grandson's Winkel toy, I knew I had a plausible substitute.
EXCEPT!
The other night I got a text message from said brother. "Ha! Well don't ask but it looks like I'll be giving that quilt to someone else."
ANYWAY....
Now he wants the quilt ASAP so he can give it the new person (who lives in Mexico) and there is a friend who will be driving down to Mexico in a particular date range (I have a week after I pick it up from Janet-Lee, who is quilting it) to get the finished quilt (somewhere) where said friend can get it in time before (she/he?) leaves the US and travels down to Mexico with quilt for the new person.
JEEZ!!
It's a damn good thing I love my brother!
What a story THIS quilt has! I wonder if he'll ever tell the person he's giving it to?
11 comments:
Like any really good story, I can imagine I am right there listening to all the conversations.!!! JEEZ is so right. This quilt has a story all of its own.
LOL
Boy he leads an interesting life. Hope this relationship works out better.
HaHa, we love our brothers. And that's also why I used to call my brother, my big BOTHER! You're a good sister and he obviously loves you and your quilts.
That is quite the story............you just can't make that stuff up!!! Yep you have a lucky brother.
MOL! What a silly brother!
"I commissioned this from a fabric artist just for you" sounds like a great line to me! Gotta love those brothers. What would we do without them?
Wow -- what a post! Hopefully whichever "special someone" receives this quilt truly appreciates it, your brother, and the quilt's maker.
I have a crazy brother and I would never make such a beautiful quilt, pay to have it quilted and let him give it to someone else who I didn’t even know!!! But I think my brother is a bit mor crazy than your brother 😂
That quilt has a real story behind it now!!
What would we do without family?
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