Its done and installed and I LOVE IT!

This is my living room and it fits perfectly on the wall and with the couch! I cant stop looking at it. Its 160" x 40"

If you click on it you can see that its quilted in a grid pattern.

In between the big pieces I like to make these! They are quick and fun. Im not sure if I will put them together or quilt them separately I just know I will be making lots of them!

Now I need to think about my next in the This N That series!!!

This has been a difficult piece for me, I love the colors but after the last one this just seems sort of blah. It is very much like the first one in this series. Maybe it will grow on me.

A little change of pace!
I was having a hard time coming up with new colors for the next quilt in the series so, I made this! The greens had been calling to me for a while!

This was my lunch the other day, Cau Lau, its a local dish and it is very good! My house keeper made all this for $ 2.50!

Next!

Next! I just finished this, its 73" x 70" I really like working bigger, it lets me resolve things.

This is number 3 in the series, again I have an idea for the next as far as color but I need to dye a bunch of fabric for it.... I like working in a series, never thought I would but it takes out some of the guess work, I have the sets, so I just need to add the variables!

The Mouse at rest on a hot humid day.

Look, Im making more fabric for my next in the series. I told myself to use 9 colors..... but these just looked too good to resist. I have an inkling of what this will look like but then ..... who really knows what a piece will turn out like? Sometimes I feel like its magic!

TA DA!!!!

Its all sewn together!!! It went from 117" down to 80"! Im very pleased with this piece even though it is quite different than what I had in mind.... they do that dont they?

I want to do a series based on this so Im planning the next, what to keep and what to change.

It will be a while before its quilted Hong is still working on my Bulls eye piece.

You can click on the photo and see a great close up!

Well here is my lunch! I have a housekeeper that comes twice a week , when shes done cleaning she fixes me lunch. Today was fried rice with shrimp, pork veggies, also on the menu was salad with warm shrimp in a tomato sauce!!! I ate all the salad and have enough rice for two days, all this for 2.50!

HUMMMMMM! Tink just wouldnt come down from up there all day, now I know why, there is a mouse behind the cabinets! I think he took it up there in the first place and now its stuck! Great!

This is what Ive been doing with all the fabrics I made! Its over 9ft long and almost 7 ft high, Im just half way through sewing all the parts together. I love it and am already planning the next one!

My napping buddies!!!

I am making "fabric" for my next quilt! I picked out my palette and am trying really hard to stay with it so that in the end all these new fabrics will go together in the big picture!

I still want to make more, its kind of addicting!

My precious Bernina that I shipped here is having problems so the closest dealer is in Singapore!!!! I might have to take it there my self!

road trip

My friend Linda and I went on a road trip a while ago on motor bikes. We had drivers, my friend Dung and a friend of his. It was an all day trip up into the mountains outside of Hoi An. Our butts were VERY sore but it was a great time!

This is a Cao Dai temple

This is a traditional house of one of the many hill tribes with the addition of the ever present satellite dish

Here we are in all our glory!!!

Tobacco leaves drying, great texture and color!

Here are a few photos of the market where I buy my food! I love this place! The produce is so fresh and so is the fish., just off the boats!

This is what Ive been doing for the last two weeks! This is almost 200yds of fabric!

While I was at the Barn Nancy said I should use some new colors so she took me down to her dye studio and started calling out names! I have to say that there are colors here I would never have picked, but I really like! Some beautiful greys and browns!

I pulled about 15 colors for another new quilt! Now if it will just cool down!!!

I also ordered 1000 yds of Pimatex PFD, its sitting in Saigon, I just have to get it to my house!!! Crazy!

Well I sort of threw this up yesterday then did some refining today and now Im going to try to sew it together!!! This will be hard for me because I strip piece almost everything, but I must grow and I think this could be a cool piece. The title is Ricefield Sunrise.

Bulls Eye

Is this a comment of my work?

Here it is and I love it! I am going to sew them together in a horizontal row, I have the perfect place to hang it! This was so much fun to work on, I might even do another one!

Now any ideas about the quilting? Grid, spiral, spokes, what?

Here are a few more photos of my early morning sunrise outings.
I love the old men and women that bury themselves in the sand,I think the sand is supposed to help with arthritis but know knows for sure.
It has been VERY hot here, 105 the other day..... lots of showers that day!
Ive been quite busy working on my bulls eye and its almost finished, Ill post it soon!

New member of the house hold!!! She is a handful.
A friend found her huddled in the middle of the busiest street in Hoi An with motor bikes and cars barley missing her, he swooped her up and took her home, she was just 2 weeks old!!! I got her a few weeks ago and she keeps Tink in line!

View from my balcony

I heard the drums first so I knew the was a funeral procession on its way. When a person dies they stay in the house for three days and everyone wears white, many people come to pay respects.

The last photo is a woman on her way to market, this is how most things are carried here.