My Quilt Diary

 Last winter, a church friend gifted me a small device with a heating fan. It is very quiet, and does not take up as much power as the AC. A...

 It has been quite a while since I had anything to post about. The Unity quilt is still waiting with a scout group, for an opportunity to be...

 A tradition is an accident that is allowed to happen more than once, and in the last 14 years it has just been assumed that I would produce...

 A few years ago I was "gifted" a large amount of fabric from a friend who was clearing out her sewing room. Among those fabrics w...

Here is an alphabet quilt I made for a church friend's second child coming soon. The first one got an "I-Spy" quilt and I ofte...

 Saturday morning I put the final stitches in the border. I had already added the binding, so was able to quilt the border without using the...

Well, all the blocks are finally quilted and today added the four-leaf clovers ... all the while the song, "I'm looking over a four...

Saturday, the 23rd was Leia's birthday, and we had a nice visit but the quilt is still not ready to be gifted. As of now, 32 of the 58 b...

  Last week I finished the banner for this year's Stewardship campaign.  I only purchased the thread and the binding. All the rest came ...

 Well, I arrived home to a dead AC and lots of dead plants. Luckily the first week back was filled with Vacation Bible School. The church wa...

 At the end of June, I took off on an adventure to visit my kiddos in the states. First stop was in Oregon, though I took a short trip up to...

Monday morning, after onigiri delivery, and during the morning zoom meeting,  I finished turning the binding on this quilt. I had thought on...

My zoom quilt is still on the inner border with about halfway left to go. What is needed to finish is more time on my sofa. It is not someth...

Well, that is the way the saying goes... In my case, fun or work, time seems to take off on its own. I keep thinking, that one of these days...

This year started with a lot of zooming. On the first, I hurried home from church for a zoom gathering with my kids ... spread from the east...

My Ohio Star Log Cabin was finished November 13th and went directly to my futon. Though this time of year, I am usually sleeping in a milita...

October began with the celebration of our church's 150th anniversary. Ten years ago, I had collected signatures from those attending tha...

Today I added the hanging sleeve and took this banner to the park for a photo opp. Not too easy getting a good picture in the wind blowing t...

 Finished after a long day yesterday, and posed for a picture this morning... My friend from church brought me printouts of the kanji. I dec...

My daughter, Marie in Boston, is involved in distributing food to those of her community in need. Unlike my Tokyo daily onigiri delivery, th...