Several years ago, I found this piece of material on Ebay. Its an underwater scene. Its about 36 X 46 inches. After I bought it, I gave it to my MIL for her to quilt it. I don’t know how to quilt and whenever I need something quilted she usually does it. It may take a few years or not; but I don’t usually put a time limit on it and if I do, its usually a year or two out. Anyways I had forgotten that I had given her this material and a year or two later she gave it back to me. I was very impressed. Well I’m always impressed when someone knows how to quilt.
About the that time I got the quilt back from my MIL; I started a “first Grandbaby box.” It just had a thing or two that I liked. My thought was at the time: What if I never get to see any grandkids? So I wanted my kids to know if they had kids & I wasn’t here; at least they know I thought of the kid. Morbid to some, but hey ya’neva know. This was several years ago, before 2003 for sure.
Fast forward to NOW and first mo’opuna - aka Grandbaby - ETA is October 19th give or take some. Next month there’s going to be a baby shower. So I’m getting stuff together. I opened up the ‘first Grandbaby box’ to see what all I had accumulated. Not much really. This quilt was in it so I took a picture.
I love the undersea scene. It reminds me of snorkling. I’m a honu kinda person. My kids are too.
For some reason I took a picture of the back of the quilt. I rarely do that. But I wanted to show some of the quilting detail. In doing so I notice my MIL had quilted a star where there was no star; and that star is next to a fish. I took this as a sign. Call me lolo but this quilt will not go to my first mo’opuna. Simply because it needs to go to my #2’s first baby. Look at the quilt. What’s on it? Yellowfishes. I rest my case. For that to make sense you have to know my ohana’s history.
Did you find Nemo?
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