My Quilt Diary

In 1993, I made a quilt using a friendship star variation, and using a variety of plaid scraps. It was finished in August and named "Pa...

I am always impressed by my many blogging friends who love to join in to all kinds of challenges. There are block swaps and all kinds o...

Yesterday I had an early start to my day. I left before 7:am for a pre-school who had expressed some interest in interviewing me for a ...

Thursday, with a short one-day notice, my #3 daughter, Norie, set up an outing with friends to an art exhibit. One of these friends I s...

Kind of a dark picture for a dark rainy day but this is what I came up with for my "Partnership Quilt Block". The theme for t...

Well, here is the picture I couldn't share yesterday. Today my screen returned to its former configuration and I decided to give my...

Yesterday I left home at 1:pm with my bag filled with quilt top and backing, my sewing kit and big scissors, my basting thread, tape, and a ...

Well, the backing for the quilt is assembled. I took it to the park yesterday afternoon for a picture and was planning to take the supp...

This weekend I began sorting and measuring my green and purple fabrics and sewing them together in bits and pieces. There is really no ...

I was able to mark the border fabric for Ben's quilt on Tuesday evening  ... big table  and I was already there for a meeting. Sinc...

When they say, "rainy season", there is a reason. Last Monday after early morning rice delivery, I parked my van a bit closer to ...

Maybe I should name this post "Greetings from no-man's-land". If you read the TV story, (and it is still sitting on the ...

Today I finished the white strips around the edges and laid the quilt out on the bed to try fabrics for the border. This one is a bati...

The rainy season has officially begun so this seems a good time to work on the rainbow quilt. The last time I worked on this was the b...

Thursday, before setting off for choir practice, I made a pineapple upside-down cake to take to Friday's sewing group gathering. Si...