Noah's Cargo

 Dear Readers,

Apparently this is the year of finishes.  A couple of weeks ago I finished Noah's Cargo.  

I made this quilt for Ryan and Alaina Parkerson.  I taught Ryan my first two years at Winona High and I taught Alaina two years too,  When I moved here my principal, Charlie Parkerson, said Ryan (his son) was available to do odd jobs if I needed help.  He painted the interior of my shed, helped remove wallpaper, and some other tasks at my house.  He was a wonderful worker and student.   More importantly I was so impressed with how willing he was to invite people to church and tell about the programs that they were running.  He would also tell me whenever there was a home ball game, so if I didn't have duty I could plan to come.  Even tho we are given a calendar, I often just get into the academic calendar that I needed the reminder and I was glad he did that.  Alaina was a student that had to work at it to do well in math, but I was impressed about how hard she worked and ended up pulling one of the top grades.  Anyway I texted Charlie when I heard they were expecting.  Charlie texted me that they were doing a zoo animal theme and light blue for the nursery.  So when I was in San Diego celebrating my retirement, Celeste and I decided to ride out to El Cajon and go to a quilt shop there.  We picked up a few more cute fabrics and found a perfect blue for the border and triangles and a great blue piece for the back and even tho it was dinosaurs it was so cute we picked it.   I had a lot of fun curating the different animal prints on this quilt and I put a row at the bottom to represent the things the parents and grands were interested in.  

 Hope they love giving little Jaxon Cole tummy time on the quilt.  

Sew on,

Terry