You know you have the right job when you do it while you are on vacation. I did a lot of sewing in Hawaii. First, I made the Uncooperative Skirt cooperate.  I added pictures of my mom in it to the post.  She looks really cute! Second, I mended a huge pile of stuff that my parents set aside for me.  They know me well! Then I went to a friends house and did a quick ‘rescue the over-cleaned chairs/add some pizazz job’.  I got to work with beautiful South American textiles. I also worked on a quilt.  I do it every time I’m home – turn my fabric scrap boxes into quilts, with old blankets as the batting.  I don’t finish one every time, but it doesn’t matter – I can always do the last bits next time.  This time I got everything but the edge bindings done on my quilt. I like the quilts I make for the farm in Hawaii.  They are real quilts, made of leftover bits and fashioned out of …