Mom's quilts-simple and fun

  My mother made this quilt for me when I was a toddler, using animal patterns from Woolworth or Kress.  My friend in Japan loved the cute figures so much she traced them and made her own applique quilt.

With the mostly unwanted help from Penny and her new toy, I aired a few of my mother's quilts that she had made in her later years.  Everyone who knew her was surprised that such an energetic and impatient person as she was would sew.  Yet cooking, which she loved,  and gardening were her main hobbies, so why not quilting.

One of her Hawaiian quilts.
She said she was so impatient,
she used wide stitches instead
of the refined tiny ones of
a real Hawaiian quilt. 

Flora and Fauna applique
quilt

Japanese sashiko chidori
(plovers) and even a
Koala in her menagerie.

Hawaiian Flora