My Quilt Diary

This is what happens when making lots of pieces of blocks so that you can pick and choose. On the first runner, the goal ... other than to ...

Or, ARE they thinking? My walk to the train station takes me down a quiet street lined with magnolias. All winter I watch the buds ...

I feel like I have arrived at my second childhood ... playing with blocks. I have finished sewing 121 blocks so far. Today I went through...

It is a long time until the end of January but I have been working on ideas for a gift for the Women's Conference speaker. (not that I ...

I am a scrap-a-holic. I come from the generation when you never threw anything out if it could be re-used. The first quilts I made we...

The choir retreat more than met expectations. We got in lots of quality practice time and ... the part I like best ... time for fun ...

This weekend will be our annual "Choir Retreat".  Twice a year the choir presents a musical sermon, once at the beginning of Adven...

Not a very bright picture as the sun was still behind the buildings this morning. Maybe I will try again later in the week. I began this as ...

After going through all the possible marking tools in my collection, (none of them showing among the blue flower print) I decided to qui...

When we first moved back to the Nerima home, I brought with me some spider lily bulbs moved from former gardens. At that time there was ...

It has been a while since my last post. Sometimes life gets in the way. Last Friday was my first pack meeting of the school year.  Wi...

With a seemingly constant parade of typhoons coming through, the rain has managed to collect in multiple spots and has become breeding groun...

Two quilt shows in one month! the first one was at Odakyu Department Store in Machida. Being near my daughter's home, we agreed t...