My Quilt Diary

 So many floral scraps to play with. I have spent a good part of the week just marking and cutting scraps, that are too small to do much wit...

  Not a whole lot going on other than zooming and skyping. For someone with limited computer skills, I seem to be spending a lot of time sit...

Now 80 inches square, I am wondering how many borders I will need to add to get the right size. I am thinking of a narrow border of bright p...

 This project is to be a kotatsu cover for my daughter Norie.... about three years late.  The center area will be covered by the table top. ...

  A few more logs were added to the cabin. I have not yet decided where I want this to end up.  It might make a nice poncho, but I have one ...

This morning I went up to the cold unused apartment to lay out my finished log cabin blocks and see what I needed to do in order to get this...

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...