{"id":418,"date":"2011-06-18T23:09:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T05:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/50.87.217.193\/blog\/summer-solstice-home-from-hawaii"},"modified":"2021-04-04T00:18:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T06:18:43","slug":"summer-solstice-home-from-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/summer-solstice-home-from-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Solstice – Home from Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday June 21st is the Summer Solstice – the longest day and shortest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere<\/a>. We know that our friends Down Under will be happy to get through their Winter Solstice on the same day!<\/p>\n

It is hard to believe that June 21st is the first official day of Summer, and even harder to explain to our daughter who is turning 9 in a week. (Can you believe it?! – Nine years old!) School gets out in late May<\/a> here, and starts up August 15th which personally I think is a crime. At least this year the school system finally had the great wisdom to have the high schools start at 8 am instead of 7 or 7:30 am. Teenagers catching the bus at 6:20 am? What were they thinking? Anyway, I digress….<\/p>\n

I am actually writing this in the Los Angeles airport on a layover coming home from Hawaii. This year it was just Sophie and I…we tried to do all the "girlie" things that the boys never want to do. We went to Queen Emma's Summer Palace<\/a>, the Botanical Gardens<\/a>, and walked through about 25 art galleries in the last week. In particular I really enjoyed seeing the historic handmade Hawaiian applique quilts in the Summer Palace museum. We took the tour and learned about Emma's friendship with Queen Victoria of England, and the sad story of how Emma lost her young son, and then her husband.<\/p>\n

Of course I always have my eye open for any quilts that I encounter in my travels. I snapped photos on my iPhone and posted on Facebook in some cases – like the Hawaiian quilt with several big blocks (all different) at the entrance of the Maui Ocean Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We went to a luau on our last night there, and I just spent the whole time enjoying all the fabric designs! Literally everyone who came to the luau had on a printed tropical fabric<\/a>, and the variety was astonishing. Young and old, large families in matching flower prints, newlyweds in skimpy dresses and Midwest tourists in XL Aloha shirts…. it was all there. Toward the end they sang the classic Hawaiian wedding song and all the newlyweds, about-to-be-weds, and those celebrating anniversaries went up front to have a special couples dance. Very sweet.<\/p>\n

Two of our suppliers specialize in Hawaiian and tropical designs<\/a> – Kona Bay and Trans-Pacific Fabrics. (They also specialize in Asian theme fabrics) In case you didn't notice, we've put our "Island" category on sale this week so you could enjoy a little Hawaiiana while I was traveling.<\/p>\n

I'll be at the closing of the Sacred Threads exhibit<\/a> July 3, at the Long Beach Quilt Festival<\/a> on Sat July 30, and I'll be giving an award at the Quilt Festival in Birmingham UK<\/a> on August 11. Hope to see some of you at one of these shows! Aloha!<\/p>\nShare Post:<\/strong>
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