A Pleasant Surprise

For both me and someone else…hint, hint.

This has been waiting to be finished for about a year.  I started it on a whim—with no real purpose in mind other than playing with a pattern and pulled a set of coordinating prints from the stash.    After sitting in the UFO pile for a year—I finally knew exactly where this was supposed to go!  No, it’s not for Mr. CFO’s office.  I don’t know if he would forgive me for that.   

I will admit to being a bit hesitant—even when I pulled it freshly quilted off the frame.  However, a quick ride thru the washer & dryer and this was suddenly not a screaming banshee of color—but a gentle blossom of happiness and springtime!  Sure to bring some sunshine to even the gloomiest of days.  That was a pleasant surprise for me.

The pleasant surprise for someone else is that I am not keeping it.   Here it is, all snuggled into it’s box.  Nitey-nite. 

Shhh…we have to whisper so not to disturb its beauty sleep…

Ok, not really.

This beauty is going to a beautiful person as a PiF (a Pay it Forward!).  Yes, it’s been approximately 800 years since I sent one off, and I have 2 left after this, but hey—my PiF's are meaningful—I think about them quite a bit.  Now if I can just get myself to the post office soon—I have a backlog of shipping* to do.

*which is quite ironic as my day-job is in the shipping department for a local business!!