Okay, you have to admit this is unusual — how many people get a birthday cake with a photo of their own quilt on top? The Uncommon Threads women and one man met yesterday and knocked my socks off with this surprise.

Of course, Arleta did mention that there might be a copyright issue since she used the photo from the Viking book to make the cake…but since it’s was all done with sugar, we quickly ate the evidence.

Not only was there cake, but Merrilee hand-painted and hand-stamped this beautiful gift box and it was crammed full of goodies from everyone in the group. I was overwhelmed!

Lettie Blackburn’s back in town, and she shared this fun quilt. It may look dark here, but believe me, it’s COVERED with all sort of crazy bright stitches.

Arleta Johnson, the cake master, brought this quilt to show. It’s huge and I wanted to include the impish looks on her and Merrilee’s faces as they held it up, but figured they’d see the photo and find some way to get revenge.

Donna Fairbanks has been busy making this Moon quilt, and believe me there were lots of mooning jokes, especially by Donna’s husband Clyde who is our lone male member. The moon is very three-dimensional, stuffed from the back and the little stuffing holes are cleverly covered by stars on the back side.

Cathy Jeffery brought a couple of works, one framed so beautifully I couldn’t photo it (because of the glass reflections). I wish I had shot the back of this one, because it’s black covered with lime-green quilting, each row a different pattern and quite stunning.