I love words. This should come as no surprise. I like to talk for sure and I like to write. I like having a plethora of word choices, and I am fascinating how one phrase can have several meanings. Since this is the day before Christmas, I keep thinking about the phrase “all the trimmings” as in “turkey dinner with all the trimmings”.

I was working in my sewing room, trimming blocks to size, which is a wonderful opportunity to let your mind wander a little bit around different thoughts and when I looked down I had quite the pile of trimmings on the cutting table (see the cover photo for this blog post). I actually laughed out loud because suddenly I had a mental image of a beautiful table, all set for Christmas dinner, with a beautiful roasted turkey in the middle, and next to it a serving dish full of my fabric trimmings. I give you turkey dinner with all the trimmings. I’m sure this would not be what my guests would be expecting!

There are parallels, however. With the turkey dinner, the trimmings are all the other things that go along with it that make it awesome. My pile of fabric trimmings were the things that go along with my blocks that make them more awesome because they are squared up. Ok I’m reaching a bit, but it’s funny how in one case the trimmings add to and in the other case the trimmings take away, but in both cases the trimmings are a really good thing. They both represent a lot of effort on someone’s part to make something that was good, even better.

I hope your holiday week is filled with all the trimmings you want, either of the food variety or the fabric variety. I’m planning to have a lot of both during my holiday week!