My Quilt Diary

I returned from the gathering of teachers, having attended a baby shower for a fellow worker who was taking maternity leave shortly, her bab...

"Golden Week"? Now, that is a holiday I know. It happens in May and includes the former emperor's birthday and what used to...

Well, I spent some time chopping up bits and pieces of left-overs that were really too small to put back into the color bins. I have a ...

Here is my living room window on the west (street or ally or front side) of our house. In front is our set-back garden, my 1st daughter...

Last night the cushion  went with me to choir practice. It passed the sit test. Yes, I could actually sit during the practice and conc...

I guess with all the problems others are having with the typhoons swirling over Japan, I have no right to complain. Tokyo is on the Kan...

This may sound like a funny story, but recently the church decided to replace all the old chairs with new ones. Yes, the old ones were ...

Last night I put the final stitches in the rainbow quilt. That was the good thing about a day of rain ... in the end, you get the rainbow. O...

 I seem to be spending a lot of time fixing things that shouldn't be broken in the first place. When I finished quilting the border...

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...