Our First Date!

Yesterday I met a blogging friend for coffee.  I had never met her before…in fact it dawned on me, driving to our rendezvous place, that I had no idea what she looked like!  The thought went through my head that if there were a lot of people around, would I have to go up to all the lone ladies and ask… “Are you Synthia??”  This was as close to a Blind Date as I had ever been on…and it was nerve wracking! 

But I didn’t have to worry long, in fact as I reached for the door to the Starbucks, Synthia was calling my name!  Whew!!  And she looked great …it was going to be a good first Date!

Synthia and I had a lot in common…WOOL for one!!  I can talk about wool for hours… then there are wool patterns…wool designers…wool shops…yes we yammered on for a long time!!  Turns out we are Kindred Spirits! And what a sweet lady she is!!  The ONLY thing that was missing was our mutual friend, Marie!

I ‘met’ Synthia about two years ago through another blogging friend, Marie.  The three of us liked the same things…like wool, Civil War fabric, the same online shops, designers and patterns.  I’m sure that if you are a blogger you can relate to this…we even did a Round Robin Wool Pin Cushion exchange…which you can read about HERE!

Anyways we had a wonderful visit over our coffees…like old friends!  Then we did what quilting buddies do best…we went shopping!!  Yup, I introduced Synthia to The Quilter’s Faire…a local quilt shop located in Palm Desert!

And like the trouper that I KNEW she was, Synthia zeroed in on their pitiful little basket of Civil War fabric!!  She SCORED two 1/8 yard bundles of CW fabrics…she practically did a happy dance to the till!

I didn’t do too shabby myself!!  I got a yard length of CW fabric plus four 1/2yd cuts, along with some white dotted fabric.  I did a little jig myself!!  That pitiful little basket of Civil War fabric was practically empty by the time we left! 

SEW all in all, we had ourselves a lovely first date, with the promise to do a repeat down the road!  It just shows you that if you connect though emails, then when you meet in real life it  will be even better.  Guess that’s why there are so many on-line dating services!

Have a wooly Wednesday and Happy Quilting!~P