For the past several years, Squiddle has been going to vision therapy to help with his amblyopia. It's about half an hour away from us in University Place, across the toll bridge, and pretty early on I made him a deal that he could have a McDonald's milkshake on his way home. So mostly it's been okay.
But his vision therapist (Miss Leann) is retiring at the end of this month, and her successor has to pick up her child from daycare by 5pm so she can't do the 5pm appointments that have worked for us. (Squiddle gets out of school at 3:30, so maybe we could get there by 4pm if I wanted to commit to leaving the house at 2:30 so I could be among the first 10 cars in the pick-up line. But the cost of vision therapy also jumped by 50% at the beginning of this year, and our HSA is drained. So between that and diminishing returns, we're calling it quits.) So his last appointment is this evening.
But a retirement, as well as her many years of friendly help with us, surely warrants a retirement gift, right? So I pulled out the stack of blocks I've slowly been making from the guild's scrap bins, and put them together into this:
Each block is 8" finished, so the whole quilt is 64" x 80", which I thought would be good for watching TV under, or building forts with her granddaughter under, or something. And on the back is this fabric:
Because over the years, Miss Leann has been given a collection of flamingos that decorate a corner of her workspace. So when I saw this Tula Pink fabric at the guild's sale last year, I knew it somehow needed to be for her.
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