My friend Carol died suddenly last month. I'd known her for 45 years! She was a co-worker for Artcraft Concepts, and she started our Cookie Swap group. We'd get together to swap cookies every December, thus the name. It started out with a bunch of us, and many dropped out as the years went on. We meet every few months to have dinner together, and several years ago added husbands to the group. We're now multi-generational!
Her memorial service will be in early June. I'd had an idea cooking in my brain for several months, to make table runners for everyone, with matching backing. I found fabric with cookies and baking utensils on equilter, and got 4 yards of it. I was going to do the runners for around Christmas.
Then Carol died, and I decided to make each of the group a different runner, with the cookie backing, in Carol's memory. I had a bunch of charm packs, so of course, zig zag runners. I have a bunch of the tops done.
For Kamee, a teacher, and Sarah, a librarian. They are second generation Cookie Swappers, and Kamee is Carol's daughter, and Sarah is her niece.
For Mary Beth, a retired principal who lives down the shore near the beach.
For Sandie, who is Carol's sister in law, Sarah's mom, and needs some brightness in her world.
For Franny, a retired banker who loves purple, and Janet, who may come up from Georgia for the memorial.
For Gordanna, a lawyer and Mary Beth's daughter, and her wife Mary Ann, who works for the government.
Talk about a labor of love!
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