Show & Tell Friday

The purpose is to share a trinket, piece of jewelry or a treasured collection from around your home. Today, I am sharing my wooden coin. It is the size of a half-dollar and on the other side reads TUIT (you know getting "a round to it"). This was given to me by the principal of South Pines Elementary in Spokane, Washington. I did my student teaching there in a 4-6 grade Resource Room. I've been packing this coin around for the last 18 years. My time with the wonderful teachers at South Pine is something I will never forget. Now and again, I get a small twinge of regret that I didn't accept the teaching position I was offered years ago. Shoot, I'd almost be to retirement! Then one of my five children does something to make me laugh and I realize that motherhood was a far more important job to have all these years. So for 16 years I've gotten "a round to it"....a round to mothering that is!

Show and Tell Friday

This week I am participating in a meme called "Show & Tell" at Kelly's House. I'm sharing a quilt made by my paternal grandmother Evangeline Catherine Reeder Simmons. She lived in Chewelah, Washington and died when my father was only five around 1933. I am not sure what year she made the quilt. My great-Aunt Anna Banks gave this to me when I went to college at Eastern Washington University in 1985. Since then this is only the third time it has been unpacked. I really don't think the quilt was ever used. It looks brand new. Someday I hope to be able to display it for everyone to enjoy. There's really no point in saving it if it's never seen.

There are 18 blocks of the girl in the bonnet.

This is the back of the quilt.


Thanks for stopping by and taking a look at a quilt that means so much to me.