My Quilt Diary

Little by little I am getting things back to my old-fashioned normal. My recent goal being to sort out the picture problem. Ta da! Ho...

I am so very grateful for my blogging friends. I have only met a few, but every single one of those was as wonderful as I had imagined. ...

Last week I made a BIG m istake! Being offered a free up-date to windows 10, I thought it might be better than the windows 7 I have been us...

Well, at least my garden is. I think we have some kind of record going for the number of days with high heat and no rain. Oh, so hot a...

Oh, but it is HOT here in Tokyo! Within the past week, 11,672 people were taken to the hospital with heat prostration. That is up from 7...

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 ...