Isn't this a beautiful Bears Paw quilt? I love the addition of trees in the border. Stitch-in-the-ditch: the borders, the trees, setting triangles, sashing, perimeter of the bear paw block, and green ribbons. Half inch straight lines in the background. Motifs in all the pieced units. With the colour variation between the brown border and the brown setting triangles, I treated them separately instead of quilting as all one unit. Evergreens were added to the tree border, along with windy/cloud background fill. In between the pieced trees there is a bit of grass quilted in to fill the spaces. Beautiful back. It is pretty traditional at all guilds (I think) to celebrate Christmas at the last meeting of the calendar year with some kind of food event . Binbrook meets on the last Monday of the month, so our Christmas pot luck supper was on Monday, Nov. 28th. Picture a line of banquet tables laden with food. Platters, casseroles, crock pots, salad bowls, each with their own serving utensil. Now... picture 20 or 30 ladies all lined up, filling their plates. Are you with me so far? Many women. Each one touching every single serving utensil. Is it any surprise that I woke up Friday morning with the beginnings of a cold? 😷 I've been drowning my poor body with lemon/ginger tea. Onion soup. Comb honey on toast. On Sunday I slept until 10:15 am. I know that humour is good for what ails you, so I spent last night watching and laughing through Bridget Jones' Baby. Today I was up at 3:00 am with a headache. I will probably need a nap by 11 am. However, SO FAR this has not progressed beyond the froggy/sore throat/slightly feverish stage. I have another pot luck scheduled this week and a guild dinner next week. I do not want to be sick! I work in the basement. Alone. Generally feeling like a solitary cave-dweller. I N.E.E.D. my social events. Let's all send a rallying cry out to the Universe: "Keep Helen Healthy!!!". Thankyou. 💖