I recently went to our local quilt shop to pick out some fabric and had taken DD#2 with me.  We were having fun just choosing fabric, with no current plans for making anything with the fabric…but, to have it in my stash for when the quilt therapy bug hit me and I wanted to make something with some of the fabric we found.

One of the fabrics DD#2 picked up was filled with clocks and watches.  It was pretty close to the shades of another fabric she had already chosen so I told her it was one or the other – and she chose the first one.

I asked her if she knew who invented the first clock – nope, she had no idea.  I explained that a man named John Harrison did so.  The owner of the shop laughed and said it probably wasn’t DD#2’s dad…but, DD#2 wasn’t convinced.  She said that it probably was her dad as she believed her dad killed the last dinosaur that roamed the earth many years ago.  The shop owner looked at me for confirmation and I just laughed and said that the kids really DO think their dad has lived many lives and has the wisdom of those in the dark ages.

If you’d like to read more about the elder John Harrison and his clock adventures, you can do so here.

But, that clock fabric stayed in the back of my mind…thinking it would be a wonderful quilt for my hubby and he would enjoy the significance of the clocks and watches.  So, I went to pick up some fabric for a commissioned quilt last week and could not resist the temptation to get two yards of that beautiful clock & watch fabric:

“On Time” designed by Whistler Studios for Windham Fabrics

A pattern hasn’t struck me yet but if I keep thinking about this fabric, I am sure I will come up with a great design worthy of both John Harrison’s!