Wednesday's Words on a Friday

 

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.

The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.

If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.

This month the words/prompts are supplied by Elephant's Child and can be found here

This week's words/prompts are: 

1. Grandmama 2. holiday 3. ruthless 4. gallery 5. purchase 

and/or: 

1. machine 2. stitched 3. motion 4. art 5. brain

Here is my story:

Grandmama Elsie was ruthless in her scrubbing of the old cottage. Her grand daughter Diana would be visiting for the holiday period and Elsie wanted everything to be perfect. She had finished the quilt for Diana’s bed and had spent time yesterday at Julie’s quilt shop in town, watching as the huge machine stitched a hearts and flowers design over the colourful triangles. “That machine is just poetry in motion,” she’d exclaimed as Julie snipped the threads and prepared to do the binding. Many years ago, Elsie had made quilts entirely by hand sitting in a circle with other women who were stitching their pieces and gossiping.

“Whoever had the brain to design something like this was a pure genius,” she told Julie. They chatted while the binding was done, then the carefully wrapped quilt was carried back to the cottage and spread onto Diana’s bed. A moment was spent admiring it, then Elsie hustled back to the kitchen where the big old table needed one more scrubbing in her opinion, then a flowered tablecloth was placed over it and Elsie sank into the easy chair by the fire with a mug of hot chocolate. Tomorrow she would go back to town, to the Mock-Art Gallery and purchase a couple of prints to hang in Diana’s room. A small vase of roses on the dresser and the room would be perfect.