My Quilt Diary

Finished Friday night and the label added this morning. I was hoping for a bit of sun for a more colourful picture but since rain is pre...

Can you hear it ? My middle finger has a hole in the nail and is crying loudly "PLEASE GET THE INTERNET CONNECTIONS BACK!!!!"...

No internet connection for nearly a week means more quilting. The lighting wasn't very good on the fence when I went out to get a ...

Well, the I-Spy quilt is slowly moving along. Yesterday I sewed the five rows together. Now I have to resolve the odd edges. They wi...

Here we are in May, and in Japan, the middle of "Golden Week". With a number of holidays falling here and there, mixed with w...

Well, that is a silly question. Quilters collect fabric ... even though that stash is multiplying in dark places. And, we seem to be collect...

This is the fabric I selected for the nine-patch border. It is darker than the small sashing but has some of the same blue ... kind of ...

Here is a picture of the progress so far, taken on Nikko's morning walk through the park on a cloudy morning. This morning I finished st...

I could not figure out the math to go with the borders. I just thought some of those smaller 9-patches set on point would look interesting. ...

The baby quilt is now ready and waiting for its new owner. Taking the advice from Rose Marie, I asked my daughter to bring me some Oxiclean ...

Spring is arriving slowly ... two steps forward and one step back. These Nanohana (rape flowers) are one of the traditional signs of sp...

The days are just flying by to the point I dread looking at my date book. Of course some of those days were lots of fun. On the 16th, ...

Finally the backing was assembled and the quilting has begun. I did have one big snafu though. I have a container with fabric marking...

The tenugui fabric got the most votes and it was my favorite too, but the width was only 14 inches and it would have been hard to cut in a w...

Long ago, when I first began cub scouting with my first son, I only had 16 years of girl scout experience to compare it with. Suddenly ...