Hawaii

It's a beautiful sunny day here in Eastern Ontario so I'm going to pretend that I'm writing this from Hawaii, which is where I was yesterday...sort of. I did have a banana and fresh pineapple with yogurt for lunch, but there were no waving palm trees or azure seas, so my reveries didn't last too long. What I did do that fits the theme was complete the appliqueing of my Hawaiian quilt and that's the closest I'll probably ever get to Hawaii in this lifetime. One can dream, right?


I took this class back in November from Janine Merrill who is a member of our guild. She is an expert in Hawaiian applique and I always admire her quilts when she brings them for "Show & Tell." One of her quilts won best in show at the Vermont Quilt Festival last year and I believe there is a picture of it in the last issue of the Quilter's Newsletter magazine. She hand quilts everything and her work is exquisite. Janine is not only a wonderful person but a great teacher as well and I learned so much from her.

Hawaiian quilts do not really fit in with my style of decorating but I will definitely do more as I love to applique and the quilts make wonderful gifts. Appliqueing this top certainly honed my needleturn skills. I'm going to hand quilt mine and it will probably hang in my sewing studio for a while when it's done.

Happy stitching!