It's A Finish! Peaceful Pineapple

It's a finish!

Peaceful Pineapple

68 x 68

The pattern is Shiloh from the book The Best of Fons and Porter Scrap Quilts and was inspired by a civil war era quilt in the Smithsonian. 

In 2023 when hubby was in and out of the hospital and I had to stay close to him while he was recouperating I looked through a bunch of quilting books and bookmarked and then started several quilts.   This one was started in December 2023. 

This was one of the quilts that I thought would work well with some patriotic print scraps. After I used up most of those I added in other red, white and blue scraps. I finished the top in June 2024.  I didn't think the name "Shiloh" fit my quilt so I first started calling it "Patriotic Pineapple" since it is a Pineapple Log Cabin quilt in the patriotic colors of red, white and blue. Later I looked up the word Shiloh and saw it was a "Hebrew name meaning peaceful or tranquil" so liked "Peaceful Pineapple" for the name of my quilt. 

I big stitch hand quilted it with blue and white perle cotton #8.  I started the hand quilting back in February when the theme in my sewing space to move UFOs forward was "Log Cabins and variations". 

And I've been working on it while once again hubby is experiencing health issues and pain. I've been trying to get help for him and coordinate care between dental, medical and oral surgeons and am growing increasingly frustrated. The words "osteomyelitis, osteoradionecrosis of jaw (ORNJ), bone fragments" describe what he is currently dealing with. 

Binding the zigzag sides was not fun but I finally got it finished too.  

The back.

And sew on...

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I mentioned that my husband is once again experiencing health issues. He can't talk because of his jaw problem so I've been doing all the talking for him and a lot of talking I have been doing! I mentioned my frustration and I have to say one way I deal with that so I'm not angry (which is not good for my health) all the time at the sad state of healthcare(less) today is to sew or read or garden. 

I'll give one example of what I deal with...

Hubby can't swallow and has a G-tube. Whenever doc prescribes something new I always say "do you remember he has a G-tube so it needs to be in liquid form or able to be crushed?".  Then when I pick up a new prescription I always ask the pharmacist "can this be crushed and put in a G-tube?".  "Yes" is always the reply and I get a look like I'm crazy to ask.   Then I get home and read the drug insert and see "do not crush", "do not put in G-tube".  Oh, the frustration! 

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On another note Kathy S. sent me a surprise box of goodies. Going through scraps is another good way to soothe the soul!