UFOs

A good day sewing today - and keeping my promise to get some UFOs done.  I completed a little Christmas wallhanging "Under the Ponga Tree" which I bought in New Zealand and is based on Kingi Matutaera Ihaka's adaptation of The Twelve Days of Christmas which became A Pukeko in a Ponga Tree:

On the first day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
A pukeko in a ponga tree

On the second day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
two kumera
And a pukeko in a ponga tree

On the third day of Christmas
....
and so on, until...

On the twelfth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Twelve piupius swinging
Eleven haka lessons
Ten juicy fish heads
Nine sacks of pipis
Eight plants of puha
Seven eels a swimming
Six pois a twirling
Five - big - fat - pigs !
Four huhu grubs
Three flax kits
Two kumera
And a pukeko in a ponga tree!

I also layered and basted a Very Hungry Caterpillar quilt for my grandson - I've decided it must be ready for Christmas 2009, if you look back through my blogs you'll see I was working on it in April!