Crab cakes....

I don't know about you, but I LOVE fresh crab! Jan's family likes to go crabbing and she's shared some of their bounty with me before - yum! So....this is the block from the gals at Tangled Threads in Lynden. Well, the crab, the kelp and the spool are the block. I asked Diane to shrink the crab as much as possible so he'd fit the design, and she did a magnificent job! I shrunk the spool and kelp and he was awaiting his placement on the quilt. This was the very last block we did, and something about where we were going to put it just wasn't sitting right with Team Fab-Etc. Then, the Friday before we had to have it ready Harriet called and said she knew what to do with Crabby - he needed to be in a crab pot! What a stroke of genius!! Now, how to accomplish it? Jan and Alicia were up to the challenge. (Me, I wasn't even sure what a modern crab pot looked like.) In the matter of a few hours, they had found the materials and built a crab pot for him using the spool as bait! The purple starfish was Alicia's addition to the pot. Isn't it just the best?!?

Yesterday was kind of quiet at the shop. I managed to do a revision on my grandson Cody's curtains I made for his room at Christmas. And then his parents (our son Dave and his wife Nikki) are going to bring him by this afternoon to see if he approves! Yippee!!

We're on the home stretch now for finishing what we can before The Tour starts. Put the borders on the daisy quilt this morning and stitched the binding on the blue/yellow topper last night. Going to try and get some petals up on the design wall for Wednesday. So, the next couple of days will be spruce the place up time!

Hope your Sunday is lovely!