My Quilt Diary

For once this has nothing to do with my quilting unless I can count it as an interruption. Some of my blogging friends have asked me abo...

All Done! I finished up the quilting yesterday but it was raining and blowing, so a picture had to wait. I am not very good at g...

I guess I could be quilting the outer sashing by now, but I decided to go back and fill in the areas not covered with the feathers. It ...

Well, here is the pattern I drafted to fill the triangular parts of the border. It doesn't show up very well against the print but I...

All the blocks for my quilter's book club quilt are quilted and the labels are on the back of each block with the name of the book,...

The inner border is now quilted. I only chose a simple pattern I had made into a template about thirty years ago. It was just the right s...

After a frustrating week, I was beginning to think I would never be able to post new pictures again. Oh, there were new pictures in my ca...

Interesting things are happening daily and progress has been made on my projects ... that  is the good part. The frustrating part is someth...

I often get distracted and miss things. Already this month, I missed the day the vet comes to a local park and you can take your dog for...

After laying out all the border options on the floor of the fellowship hall on Sunday, I decided those colorful scraps were more of a dis...

I decided to go with the green. The blue was just too overpowering and the green contains the same blues, browns, and reds that are in ...

After auditioning all the material I had enough of, I found all the darker fabrics didn't work against the blocks with dark fabric al...

Yesterday, a record was set for rain in April, and it is still falling and expected to get worse as the day goes on. Friday evening was...

Poor Nikko suffers from "separation anxiety". Many nights papa stays up half the night. while Nikko comes up after her evenin...

Actually, spring seems to be having second thoughts. Though the cherries have bloomed and it was looking as if spring was well on its way...