Rainbow Scrap Challenge, and Anniversary

Another RSC top done, using some of the flag blocks I misplaced and then found again.  This joins two other RSC tops I made from four patch blocks, which I had completed a month or so ago.  So that’s three RSC tops ready and waiting to be quilted!  I found this picture on the internet somewhere or other, and decided it was a pretty way to assemble some of my flag blocks, in pink, pale blue, yellow and purple.  I substituted plain squares for the corner flag blocks, and framed each block.

The blocks were assembled, and I finished it off with a dark blue floral border.  Then got some scrappy pink binding ready.  Guess the next step is to layer, pin, and then get on with the machine quilting.

RSC top – done

Today is our 39th anniversary, so we decided to go out for breakfast/brunch at The George, and invited our friends Dot and Derek to join us.  We were keeping it low key while Robin is still in “recovery mode”.

We all chose the Big Breakfast special, followed by coffee.  It was a nice morning, plenty to chat about of course. 

The only problem was, once again, the young waitress didn’t manage to take a photo for us.  Yes, she went click, click, but there were no photos showing up, perhaps she didn't press the button hard enough.  Or more likely, is more used to using her phone.  Never mind, we got a couple of photos ourselves.

Happy Anniversary to us

Next year will be the Big One, our 40th.  I’ll have to put my thinking cap on and make sure we celebrate it in style.  Maybe we will go away somewhere, maybe we will have a bigger family celebration complete with a cake, who knows?  And for those readers who checked the date of this post, yes, we did get married on Guy Fawkes night, all those years ago!

Every 5 November in Britain (and the Commonwealth countries) on Guy Fawkes Day, the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 is remembered, when Guy Fawkes and fellow Catholic conspirators attempted to blow up Parliament and assassinate James I of England.  Guy Fawkes was given the job to keep watch over the barrels of gunpowder and to light the fuse. On the morning of 5^th November, soldiers discovered Guy hidden in the cellar and arrested him. The trail of gunpowder at his feet would never be lit.  He and his group suffered traitor’s deaths.  In celebration of his survival, King James ordered that the people of England should have a great bonfire on the night on 5^th November.  And so it continues……..but here in New Zealand there are calls to ban fireworks altogether.  We will have to wait and see how this progresses.