judyquilt Once a Beaver, always a Beaver - Once a year we have a golf tournament and auction for my high school. It is sponsored by the Ballard High School Foundation of which I am President. l decided to make a quilt in our school colors and present it for auction. Since Red and Black are my school colors I decided the day and night block was perfect. The school motto is the Beaver, since it was a common creature in the early days of Ballard prior to it's becoming annexed to Seattle. I went into the archives and found copies of drawings of the Beaver as it was during my school days. I scanned the items, and digitized them using my embroidery software. I also wrote out the traditional chant or yell, as we were a very Scandinavian community. It went like this; Lutefisk, Lutefisk, Lefse, Lefse, We all love Ballard, Ja sure, yu betcha !! That became my border. Up until the 70's Ballard was essentially Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Danish and at the auction many of those alumni attended and recognized their old cheer and beavers. Bidding was heavy and in the end one alumnus had herself a beautiful quilt. I wish I could remember her name.