It's a book I just finished reading. It's amazing how many references to quilting there are when you really pay attention to what you're reading. I see more and more in tv shows and movies and now I'm reading about them in books. This reference surprised me because she mostly did seamstress work so a passage about patchwork took me by surprise. It’s a story of a Korean girls life from a childhood in Korea and then how she moved to Hawaii in the early 1900’s. She goes back to visit her family many years later and is talking to her mom about her seamstress work. As a child her and her mother would have thimble time, an hour a day where she and her mom sewed together. She was telling her mom about her life in Hawaii and her regrets about leaving some of her friends and family here and what would have happened to everyone is she had stayed. Her mom said that her patchwork life was “fine and far richer and more colorful than anything you wou...
Because there isn't enough time to always make a point.