When you first enter the door a table with quilt top displays biographies of five island quilters. 
Quilts displayed in main living room.
Poinsettia quilt displayed on punee (sleeping bench) that circles the living room. This quilt is quilted using geometric squares instead of the traditional echo quilting like most Hawaiian quilts. 
Many unfinished quilt tops were also displayed.
May 9th this quilt with be part of the special workshop seminar on washing delicate quilts. 
My favorite quilt is this Pua Nana La (sunflower quilt). 
Close up of stipple quilting inside flower. 
A close up of echo or wave quilting on sunflower quilt. 
A beautiful green and white Mokihana quilt. Mokihana is the traditional lei material of Kauai. I would like to thank the Grove Farm Museum for organizing this lovely & educational exhibit of the Wilcox quilts so sad it lasts only one week. I very much enjoyed sitting on the lanai (porch) at the Mahamoku House with the ocean breezes dancing on the hand stitched waves of the Hawaiian quilts. The Grove Farm Museum & Wailoi Mission House are open year around for tours. Aloha from the Mahamoku House Quilt exhibit.
First stop the Waioli Mission House built in 1836 by Abner & Lucy Wilcox.
Take off your shoes, you are in Hawaii after all and step in the front door.
You are tempted to sit a spell in the parlor and have a cup of tea, but there are quilts to see. 
This Sunday started out with an early walk in the woods below my house. The morning sun was filtering through the Norfolk pines. Down the path the bees were feasting on the sap of a tree. 
It's amazing to see where honey comes from. The shell ginger in the meadow was blooming. 
This was a funny coincidence because I had just finished a charity quilt using Kauaiana shell ginger fabric from the 80's in a quilt. 
Here's a close up of the quilt and the fabric. 
It is a great Sunday today.
The starfruit are ripe, but I did find time this weekend to sew some fabric bags and practiced my long lost zipper application techniques. 
This one is very easy to sew.
The box bag was a challenge but well worth it. The tutorial for this bag is at 
This week between peeling mangoes, I was busy sewing a baby quilt using 
I can't read Japanese so I'm guessing the title of this book is Really Cute Baby Quilts. The great thing is you can trace a pattern to use without knowing any Japanese. 
Outline embroidery like this is so easy. It's just like coloring with crayons.
I found these Winnie the Pooh quilt blocks thrifting and I tried to fit them together best I can (as Pooh would say) and this is the result. The Eeyore block I couldn't fit on the front went on the back. 
I felt bad there was a leftover piece, but my special sort of friend was glad for the something to take to the beach to lay on. 
The quilt show this last weekend was full of fun and educational too. Thursday night, Carolyn Gregory gave a lecture about the Prince Albert Quilt Collection that comprises the antique quilts purchased for decorating the Princeville hotel when it originally opened. The hotel has now given them to the Prince Albert Foundation to care for them. It was great to see such a wonderful quilt collection up close.
This quilt is two-color quilt is from the early 1800's. 
A traditional Hawaiian quilt unknown pattern with exquisite quilting. 
Show & tell and buying door prize tickets were both popular activities at the show. 
This is a group quilt the No Nene Quilters made for one of our quilt sisters.
My favorite night was fabric bingo night. We played for prizes donated by local sponsors using Hawaiian themed quilt bingo cards. For example, grandmother's flower garden was tutu's garden and friendship star was ohana (family) star. Each square marker was a hand pieced origami fabric square with a bead in the center. So fancy!
