It was a great week with the fam - Baby Max was happy to see me and wasn't the least bit stingy with his hugs. His Great-Grammy taught him some new tricks this past week, too, like showing him how to get water out of her refrigerator...
Take my advice - this is NOT something you want to teach your two year old! Max had a GREAT time helping himself to HUGE glasses of water - and Grammy got her floor washed!
I've shown you mom's quilts before, but these two caught my eye and I thought they were worth a second look. Mom has this little wall-hanging/table topper, over the back of a bench by her back door - even though Christmas is over it brightens up the hallway. I made this for her a long time ago and I'd forgotten just how simple it's construction is - just squares and half-square triangles! I MIGHT have to make a bunch of these for Christmas gifts this year!
Mom's Hawaiian quilt hangs in her back hallway - it's been there a while as you can tell from the folds in the quilt. Time to refold it I think! I made this for my mom in 1997, I think, as a thank you to her for taking me to Hawaii - we had a such a great time. My mom was a big-wig at the time with her work and the Hyatt Waikaloa (now a Hilton) on the Big Island rolled out the red carpet for her - complimentary spa day, complimentary dinners, complimentary helicopter ride over the STILL erupting volcano! Screaming at the top of my lungs in a little rat-trap-chopper while flying over the crater as the molten lava swirled and spit at us - Godfrey! When I think back on that day my heart begins to race - it was, by far, the MOST skeeeeered I have ever done!!
Hand-appliqued and machine quilted - I probably should have done a bit of stitching on the applique to keep it from puckering - or a bit of trapunto. I suppose I can do that on my next trip to Utah while we're sitting around at night watching TV!
