And you thought i wuz not sewing

BUT i fooled you...i have started piecing a quilt...I quilted most of my girl in the rocker...she still needs some more geegaws and maybe a wild pieced border....

I am quilting this dragaround quilt for my Major dad a retired Marine who is 85 with all of his duty stations and his quote from fox hill at Toktong Pass in Choinsin Reservoir that is on the wall of the new Marine Corp Museum in Quantico...a kind of memory quilt that he wont mind using and that he can read as he takes a nap or two under...he went to lots of interesting places Honolulu(shipping out just before Pearl Harbor) the Great wall of China, Okinawa, Singapore and as far as we are concerned Notre Dame in South Bend Indiana where he met my mom:>

These two sections say Choisin Reservoir Korea 1950

I quilted his name and rank as well as his wife and family...my name and my friends names that pinned it not once but twice!..fun stuff but taking a while...

This quilt...i think its my friend kays quilt...is the only quilt i got a decent picture of at our quilt retreat at in Jan...I kept either NOT having a battery or having it notcharged or no camera...it was one thing or another the whole weekend and i finally just QUIT...

BUT I did read this fascinating book that my friend Judy had One Block Wonders...and had to make one...i dug thru the closet looking for something to whack up...its made similar to a stack and whack BUT none of the background pieces are added to it...you just use the one fabric for a totally really neat look..this is my start on mine...ALOT Of sewing...about 2/3 of the way done...had company the last two weekends or it would have....THE BOOK -all of these pinwheels are from one fabric...and no other is added The fabric Kaffe Fassett Kimono Print

Some of the pinwheels-piles of them everywhere..last i counted there were close to one hundred of them

one of the things keeping me busy

was finishing up this african print turning twenty quilt!

I was finishing it as a get well present for our principal who was out with surgery...OUCH!!! did i say she loved it???

It actually has a small story. I used to work for our principals sister and they are both elephant crazy. When she hired me i was busy sewing up fabric into turning twenty agains for presents so i thought WHY not use up some of the african fabrics and make her one...I EVEN had a lovely elephant print...the bright green one in the lower left side...poor elephant is standing on its head:...

ANYWAY so the top was done in a jiffy but it laid around for a while( a year or so)...on the very large foot stool in the living room....till a friend Marsha Boasso saw it and asked what it was and i told her...she thought i ought to finish it...and then Dr. E got sick and the rest was history....Did I say she loved it?