By: Vicki Oldfather



            MURPHY'S LAW FOR QUILTERS   By Lisa A. King

1.  If an error in block construction or placement has been made, it will
    not be discovered until at least half of the quilt has been quilted.

2.  If your children and spouse are away for an entire evening, leaving you
    five hours of uninterrupted peace in which to quilt, there will be a
    power failure (ever tried to quilt by candlelight???).

3.  If you order by mail some quilting supply that you *desperately* need
    NOW, the UPS and/or the US Postal Workers will go on strike.

4.  a.  If you run out of a certain fabric, you will need only enough to
        finish one more block.

    b.  If you rush out to the store (presuming it isn't 2 am) to get that
        little bit of fabric, you will be informed that the fabric is
        no longer in stock and that it will not be reordered because it is
        not being manufactured anymore.

    c.  If you should happen to run across a remnant of that fabric in
        some out-of-the-way place, you will have neither money, nor check-
        book, nor charge card on your person.

5.  If you plan to attend an all-day Jinny Beyer workshop (for which you
    have waited 4-6 months), the entire family besides yourself will
    start vomiting and running a 104 degree fever that morning.

6.  If you drive sixty miles one-way to the best quilt shop in the state,
    it will be closed for the day due to unforseen circumstances. (in Texas,
    this is more like 100+ miles...)

7.  If you receive an advertisement in the mail for a fantastic fabric
    sale, the sale will have ended the previous day.

8.  If you work for two years on a matching quilt, dustruffle, and shams for
    your bed, the day you finish it, your spouse will announce his or her
    longing for a California King waterbed.

9.  If your quilt wins a Judge's Choice ribbon in the big quilt show, it
    will mistakenly have someone else's name on it.