Scrap Happy

So Carolyn spends a week at home (more or less) recovering from her thyroidectomy. But no way is she going to spend the whole time lying in bed eating bon-bons and watching "As the World Turns". She'd be outside in a second plucking rose blooms past their prime and weeds that are daring to show themselves in her garden -- but it is 105 to 114 outside and that just doesn't compute. By the time we do go to bed each evening it is still over 85 so outside work is just not thinkable. What to do to while away the hours?

Carolyn goes into our garage storage room, takes one look and comes back out with a sigh. Steeling herself, she goes back in and emerges this time with two boxes of scrap cloth that she has been saving for just such an occasion. There are brightly colored scraps of old dresses, playsuits, blankets, and what not. Patterns which are vaguely reminiscent of our kids' childhood days. She has blues, reds, yellows, flowers, polka dots, stars. And not enough of anything to make more than a quilt block or two.

But with such a challenge facing her and a Book on CD to be her intellectual companion for the next week, Carolyn forges ahead.

The result, as you can see is a fun, bright, lively... HAPPY quilt top. I call it her Scrap Happy pattern. And I'm impressed.