It's Official....

I'm 70 years old.  That's right.  If you were to listen of a description of my current life you would probably think I was a 70 year old woman.  I go to "coffee mornings", play cards, cook, walk my dog, and now I can add quilting to the list.  Yep, quilting.  In general, I have no desire to be a quilter.  However I do have the desire to learn how to use my sewing machine and just generally know how to sew.  There is a Saudi lady, Nora, that lives here in Jubail and is an excellent quilter.  She occasionally teaches beginner quilting classes and some of the other ladies here were nice enough to invite me along for the class.  I was the only one in the class who was a true beginner.  I couldn't even get my machine out of the case the first day.  The class was 2 days a week for 3 weeks.  We would work from 9:00am- 1:00pm.   In the class we learned how to pick fabric, cut fabric accurately (hopefully), and sew things together.
I was lucky and had a fun group of ladies to take the class with.  There were 7 ladies in the class, 5 of whom are Chevron wives like me.  Of course I was the youngest in the class.  I am the youngest with most things that I do during the day.  All of these ladies are so much fun to be around and the helped make my frustrations with sewing more enjoyable.  Here are some pictures of our class.

Judy and Lori

Cindy and Lonna

Me pretending to sew 

Lonna

 One evening I received a "Flat Stanley" from a relative in the States.  I decided he needed to go to quilting class with me and get a picture with a real Saudi lady.  Nora was so nice to agree to put her full covering on and take a picture with "Flat Stanley".

3.5 weeks later and many hours of cutting and sewing I had my first quilt (almost) finished.  I really liked the end result.  Since we had worked so hard in class Nora decided our last class would just be a party time.  Cindy hired Lindsey to bake us a really cute cake and other ladies brought some snacks.  We were also able to show off our finished projects. 

Lindsey's cake

My 1st quilt

Our class: Lori, Nora, Christianne (?), Lonna, Cindy, Else (?), Me, Judy

Happy Quilting!