Remember the crackle of the morning announcements at school, the lunch menu, the lost mittens, the reminder about picture day? Every quilter runs her own version before the first cup of coffee is finished, and the message is always the same: the machine is waiting. Wake Up and Quilt is the collection for that first bright moment of the day, bold words in rainbow lettering and sunny scenes that make it very hard to go back to bed. Please rise for today's announcements.
Today's schedule
Plan For Today: quilting. That is the whole agenda, lettered in a simple script or in rainbow block letters, depending on how loudly it needs saying. Wake Up and Quilt sets a sewing machine inside a glowing medallion of sunrise and pieced waves, and Over the Meadow, Quilting Dreams Call arches its words over a rainbow machine resting in rolling patchwork hills. Both look like the view from a sewing room window at seven in the morning.
A few reminders from the front office
If Unresponsive Please Drive to Nearest Quilt Shop is the safety notice every family should have on the fridge. I Quilt Therefore I Am settles the question of identity in two big white lines. Another design politely admits that she may look like she is listening but is, in fact, thinking about quilting, which the teachers in the room will recognize at once. And the lion in sunglasses from Better Run is on hall monitor duty, with a clear message for anyone who keeps her from her machine.
Words of the day
Life is Short Buy the Fabric, in swirling rainbow script. Quilting My Best Life, rising out of a sunburst and a bouquet of pink blossoms. Life is Just Better When I'm Quilting, with tiny buttons tucked between the letters. When Life Gives You Scraps carries its own answer, a little grid of patchwork squares right above the words Make A Quilt. Quilts warm the body and comfort the soul, framed with spools and a pair of snips. Add I'd Rather be Quilting under a vintage machine, Quilt-A-Holic in a single bright line and Quilting is My Superpower, and the day has more than enough encouragement.
For the quilter who is up before the sun
These are for the early riser who threads the machine before anyone else is awake, the newly retired friend who finally has every morning to herself and knows exactly how to spend it, and the quilter who treats her sewing room like the best class she ever took. Picture her reading the day's plan with her first sip of coffee and smiling. That concludes this morning's announcements. All quilters please report to your sewing rooms. Seam rippers are to be used for emergencies only.
Written by Judy. Thanks for reading.
