With
Christmas coming up it was time for grand gestures and romantic
endgame. I was getting the feeling that I was getting close on this
deal because I was spending three or four nights a week with my long
project girl and a lot of that time was spent cuddling and sitting
close but there was no movement on the kissing front yet. I cannot
remember what I got her for Christmas that year but she went all out
and was making me a denim scrap quilt. That kind of quilt is made by
cutting out six inch squares of old jeans and then taking the two
hundred or so pieces and sewing them together into a blanket and then
backing it with another blanket and then tying them both together. It
is an immense amount of work and may have been the product of
overambitious inexperience.
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| This is not the one but it looked just like this. |
What I know for sure is what started as a
solo project and a secret surprise developed into a full blown
cluster mess. After a week or so it went from a secret to an open
secret. In ten days it went from her making it for me to me helping
and in three weeks there was a whole team on the job including her
friends and mother. When it was finished it was a magnificent and
warm thing that would last for years. Maybe it has lasted for years,
I don't know because a few years later when she was collecting her
belongings when she was getting ready to marry someone else it went
missing and I heard she had taken it back. Probably a good idea I
didn't really deserve its stewardship anymore.
