My Quilt Diary

This week I finished reading our book for April. My final task was to come up with a block to represent that book. Sometimes finding ...

Not much quilting done. One could look at the picture on the last post and imagine three or four new rows.  A member of the Friday grou...

My last post included a mystery flower that came up among some Hostas I saved from the bulldozer in my neighbor's garden. Today, a ...

Friday was the meeting of a sewing group I have recently joined. The women are very friendly and doing a variety of different crafts. They a...

Earlier in the week, I received a call from Yasuko Kuraishi, one of my long time quilting friends. She is a quilt "sensei" or teac...

Well, I discovered a lot of things on this test piece. 1. It has to be all arranged before beginning to sew it together. 2. once it ...

Sometimes, while hopping around to my friend's blogs, I spot a pattern or layout or block that calls out to me to give it a try. Even wh...

The February book club read was "Mrs, Lincoln's Dressmaker" by Jennifer Chiaverini. This is my favorite way to learn h...

January's Book Club read was "The Healing Quilt" by Lauraine Snelling. In the story, four very different women get together to...

As it was beginning to get dark, I took the quilt to the park for a photo, then I came home and finished the quilting Now it is washed...

Three cheers for long train rides and even longer meetings. This is what I finished last week. It is now protecting my coffee table fro...

Well. after lots of noisy digging and stamping and grinding, the new street is in. There was a plan to raise the manhole but that seem...

Well, the Gala is tonight and I hope the quilt makes a good showing. There have to be a few people out there that will bid on it. My blog ...