I’ve
completed nine more flowers this week for a total of 155.
In
order to continue making flowers I have to join flowers to free up more paper
hexagons. When all six sides of a hexagon are attached to other hexagons, you
can pop out the center. As you join more and more together, you can pop out all
of the centers (keeping just the outermost in place) and reuse those paper templates.
I’m
trying to be random in how I join the flowers, while at the same time not put
two flowers with the same fabrics together. Time will tell how successful I am
at being random and not putting the same fabric together. I highly recommend
this paper piecing and Jessica’s Quilting
on the Go book.
Gift
Giving
Japanese
and American cultures have different traditions on gift giving. I’ve written before on giving omiyage when
you return from a trip and how the new neighbors bring you a gift when they
move in. We found out another new one
this week. One of Ted’s Aikido friends
and his wife had a baby six weeks ago. They brought the baby to show at the Aikido
practice and gave each person a cute little chocolate brownie treat. (The
squirrel on the package is the Hokkaido version of the squirrel with long hair
on the ears).
Good for you to keep working on the hexagon quilt, it must be such a pleasure to see it grow.
ReplyDeleteI have found that gift giving in Japan is a way of showing gratitude for something done, sharing your adventures from a trip or for asking for acceptance for something new, new neighbours and babies are wishing to be accepted. Then you have the routine gifts and the return gifts... There is always a reason to give a gift! If not a physical one, at least a bow and a kind word.