Time sure goes by when you're having fun

There was nothing on the calendar for this week. Why then did it go so fast?
I started a quilt for Josh (see his cute little face in last weeks blog below). It's just a simple nine patch with fire helmets and dalmation dogs. I decided to put a fire related embrodery on all the connecting sashing squares. Had a great time picking them out & downloading them from the web. Figuring out where each would go. Deciding how to quilt the squares etc. I am on my final three embroidery squares and the fabric flips into the embroidery design and gets stitched in. Only someone who does machine embroidery would understand. Anyway, I stop the stitching when I discover it and commence to remove that square from the quilt. I'll redo the design, cut the square and reinsert it into the sashing. One more flame and a small fire truck and I can start looking for backing.
All this work because Josh's dad has applied to become a fire fighter. He is a member of the volunteer FD/Rescue Squad. For over three years he has dutifully taken every test they require from aptitude to physical. He has come out on top every time. Last year he was in the top ten. (They weren't hireing). This year he was at the top of the list and he was sure he was a shoo in. All the right hoops. He got his rejection letter two days after Thanksgiving. My theory is that he is either too old - 40 - or too white. I hope Josh will still like the quilt even tho his dad's not a firefighter.
Hope to get the tree up tomorrow. Have a dress to sew for Jhary and probably one for Uma too. But other than that I'm only sewing with the sewing group I've started at the church.