My Quilt Diary

This morning I added the last row of houses to the border. I still have a lot of leftovers and am thinking a table runner might be a better ...

 When I came to Japan in the early 60s, hardly anyone had ever heard of Halloween. For the first time I can remember, I could sit at the tab...

  After using the word "making", I got some messages stating the verse they are using is "doing". This afternoon I un-se...

All the blocks are together, and the inner sashing has been added. Now I will be lining up the row houses for the border. And though this is...

       Today the last bit of sashing was added to the crazy blocks. I laid them out on the floor to arrange them, trying for a good balance ...

      I guess the only way to overcome these obstacles is to start jumping.     First things to jump over are the puddles, at we are having ...

Not much of interest going on around here. As usual, I sweep the street every day from one end of our block to the corner and back. That is ...

    In a little over a week, Japan will celebrate "Respect for the Aged Day". Well into my 80s, I have been contemplating the chal...

Just a little over three weeks from start to finish, this must be one of the quickest quilts in the collection.  It was on August second tha...

The first Sunday this month, after our livestreamed church service, a congregational meeting was held on zoom to vote on the pastoral search...

Thursday mornings are my "park" day. Last week was missed because of rain, though I have gone to the park when rain is rather ...

With no idea of what I am doing, I have been playing with log cabin blocks. Hmm... random scraps might make a pattern hard to see. ...

Friday, the 17th of July, I put the final stitches in the feedsack quilt. From then on it was sitting patiently on my sofa, waiting for a p...

Well, these are not the ones that swing around on strings... I got a plastic yoyo maker (sold by clover) that makes the process fairly ...

When most of the church family knows you can make things, beware! Last Monday a request came ... one family is leaving and will be at chu...

Little by little things are getting checked off my list, The feedsack quilt is all quilted in the border. I still have to add something in...

Since my last post, the houses have been sitting in a tin, waiting for the silkworms to finish their feeding and free up the coffee table to...

For weeks now, I have been seeing a notice saying "Try the new blogger". It has taken me forever to keep up with the changes blogg...