My Quilt Diary

The first day of the second half of the year is here. Lucciano is celebrating with a clean cage and new tail feathers. He is still working...

The party runner is finished! Not in time to reach Marie on her birthday but in time to send her a picture. This is the last in the series o...

How could I possibly select a name from among all these kind and wonderful bloggers ? That is what assistants are for. Luckily, this assista...

From time to time I get a blogging glimpse of quilter's "studios" or "rooms", their lovely design walls and shelves...

This is not the last of the runners that I am making for my daughter for her birthday, but it is the last of the seasonal ones. I'm not ...

Little did I know, or even imagine, a year ago when my son suggested scanning my paper diary and putting it on a blog, what the consequences...

I have seen on, assorted blogs , photographs taken of mosaics in Italy and tiles in Czechoslovakia and wrought iron work and barn sidings a...

The fall runner is finished and ready to mail. Although there was some advice to un -sew and add more rows of leaves, and I did seriously co...

OOPS!! I was so happy to add that last leaf to the fall runner. Tomorrow is my quilt group meeting and I will have a small piece all basted...

Scout camp turned out to be rainy and sunny, hot and cool, fun and work, and a lot was accomplished during (and before) the Scouts' att...

Today is my quilting day but yesterday I hurt my little toe and walking is rather painful. If I go to the doctor he will want an x-ray (not...

I have seen a run on cat quilts out in the blogging world and realized I have no digital pictures of my cat quilt. I may have to wait and t...

Deciding not to spend money on fabric for the back of the batik quilt, I took out the pile of tenugui showing all kinds of children's g...

Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and the early start to the "rainy season", That is what the weekend held. Because of cancellat...

This weekend I am off to Cub camp where I will be teaching crafts to Cubs, Girl Scouts, and Boy Scouts. It is always a challenge to take a ...

In earlier posts I have sometimes shown a quilt backing which has been composed of Japanese tenugui or cotton towels. Indeed, many of the ...