My Quilt Diary

This has been a very strange fall. We went directly from hot humid sauna weather to early winter. Trees began dropping their leaves wit...

A week ago Friday, I said goodbye to Nikko who has been part of our life for the last sixteen and a half years. As a puppy she had been...

Friday night I put the last coat of varnish on the advent ornaments and Saturday morning I packed them in bubble wrap and took them to the m...

Monday was my usual 4:am onigiri delivery ... going out to the parking lot in some light rain. By the time I returned to the parking lo...

Taking advantage of some rainy days, three borders have now been added to the feed sack quilt. Once it is ready for quilting, I plan to...

A week of rain means progress on the feed sack quilt border. I wanted to use some of the smaller feed sack scraps in the quilt and I th...

Between train rides into town and down time at home, the feedsack stars got joined together. I was a bit worried I would not be able to ge...

When typhoons bring wind and rain, sometimes it works for the best. In preparation for the typhoon, I checked up on my outdoor plants. ...

Well, the border linked hearts don't really show up very well, but it is now done and bound and labeled and ready to pass to the nex...

The big stitch is all done and next on the list is quilting the border. I pulled out the stencil I made for the last baby quilt, but i...

Yesterday I stopped at the local shop and bought white and navy sashiko thread. Today I finished all the small area quilting and decided...

The in-the-ditch quilting has been finished and now the focus is on quilting within the blocks. This quilt will be a gift to the mother...

This morning the mouse watched the last stitch go into the border of the mandela. Next I will have to decide on the binding. I really...

The last critter has now joined the medicine wheel and I am currently adding Celtic knots. I think these will work well with my mandela....

I finally went to the local store and could not find any thread I thought would work, so I went back through my pearl cotton collection and ...

The color for the underworld is green. I dug through a number of greens to use on the backing. I ended up using the one on top of the leaf-p...

Staying at home for a day ... except dog walking and street sweeping ... provides time for other things. My mandela now had a background, th...

Last week was Vacation Bible School and I survived as leader of the games. Though the booklet gives a choice of three games each day to fit ...