Friends

Is there anything more special?

I don’t know who coined the phrase but there’s certainly a lot of truth to the saying, “You can pick your friends but you can’t pick your family”. Well I think I’m lucky on both counts because I’ve got a great family and some truly awesome friends.

Many of you have ‘met’ Darlene through blogging, as I did. From the first day I started reading Darlene’s blog, I felt a strong kinship. Later I found out that we have shared many similar life experiences…some good and some not so good.

Some time ago when I posted about my love affair with wool and the penny rugs I had made, Darlene indicated that she too loved things made from wool but that she couldn’t work with it because of an allergy to the lanoline. As a result of some clever sleuthing on my part, I was able to obtain Darlene’s snail mail address and I sent her one of my penny rugs as a surprise, and surprise her I did!

I think perhaps the same person who came up with the phrase about friends and family might also have said…

“Turn about is fair play” because yesterday, look what was waiting for me at the post office!

A package from Darlene!

I knew a package was on it’s way because I had won a giveaway on Darlene’s blog a few weeks back…but I didn’t know what I had won.

Darlene and I both ♥ stitching and she sent me a packet of feed sack dish towels and some iron-on embroidery transfers. How cool is that?

Also in the package was a totally unexpected RAK gift that really touched my ♥.

A table topper size quilt made and machine quilted by Darlene in my favorite…Civil War fabrics! Be still my ♥!

I knew exactly where it was going to go. Yesterday morning, I did some reorganizing and rearranging in my studio and I moved a pine shaker table into the space where my desk used to be.

Perfect! Wouldn’t you agree?

Click on the card to see the message more clearly because it says it all.

Blogging has certainly opened the doors to friendships in many different parts of the world and for this I am truly blessed. Thank you, Darlene for extending your hand in friendship because I most certainly have accepted it in that spirit. You too have touched my ♥.

Happy stitching!

Kaaren ♥