Mrs. Furui

I had a fun day yesterday with my patchwork friends. We showed the few blocks we'd made for the bazaar quilt and delegated the next blocks to those of us who had finished the first blocks. Mrs. Furui spent the whole day making cardboard templates for anyone who had an inkling of what they wanted to do next. This always happens. She's the only one of us who is exact enough to make accurate templates and honestly doesn't seem to mind so I'll say,

"Mrs. Furui. I want to make an 8" tree block. Can you make me a template?"

And she gets her ruler, her pencil, her stack of saved cardboard and starts figuring. Mrs. Furui rarely gets any sewing done though our patchwork meeting is always held at her house. She is also very organized and so she is one of those people who can say

"Hmm. I think we made that block six years ago..."

and she'll go to a box and find the templates all labeled and marked with a paper pattern, sizes, and sometimes even fabric that was cut but not sewn. That's how it was yesterday. I made a request, she found her templates and I quickly made a block with fabric that had already been cut and was waiting. Ahh... To have such organizational skills!

Here is Mrs. Furui making a template for someone else. Great picture of her isn't it? We had so much stuff spread out on the table that she had to resort to using the floor! She's always got her head bowed over some project, so actually this is a fairly accurate image of her!

And this is one of Mrs. Furui's most recent creations. You can see why she doesn't get that much patchwork sewing done. She is always making something lovely and intricate like this! I think she is planning to frame this and she is hoping to make two or three more of the same little girl in different scenes! This is a combination of crosstitch and petit point and we all drooled over it!

Thank you Mrs. Furui!

(last picture taken of the two of us about 3 years ago!)