I just received an email from Cathy at Love Quilts. She has accepted my proposal to create a pattern for a fire truck. I will be using a fire truck from Alphabet Soup that Donna O’Briant has graciously allowed me to use.

I was having a hard time finding a fire truck for Ethan S. that was the right size and hadn’t been used. Then I started looking at fire truck pictures on the Google image search. . . then I started getting ideas. There are some wonderful, fabulous fire truck photos on the net. I picked a couple and emailed about using them for the pattern. Thank goodness I heard back from Donna at Alphabet Soup with her simple colouring book graphic first. Otherwise visions of brick arches and three-quarter views in glorious colour were dancing around my head. Please “Suze’me dear, keep your first fire truck simple!” Yes, mam,” I meekly respond, hands behind my back, head bowed.

Phew, I listened to myself for once. Why did the human race ever develop round wheels!?! I bow low to designers who can create the wheel in cross stitch, I will every be your humble servant.