My Quilt Diary

The year started and ended with table runners. I had a tin of blocks made with holiday fabrics that I had used to make a small runner for my...

 With more "down time", my Coronaville quilt is progressing toward the outer borders. Now that many trees are down to their last l...

  Link: 69 Woody Plants of the Kanto Area, Descriptions and Illustrations by Julie Fukuda After taking a course in Scouting's College of...

  Monday was my second date with the driver's license bureau. Of course, that is the day I leave home at 4:00 am for onigiri delivery I ...

  Having grown up in a home with a large garden, being surrounded by flowers was a given. It was one thing I missed most when coming to Toky...

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 ...