Astrid Completes Her Hachi Quilt

Astrid worked very hard on her Hachi quilt.  She used mostly Japanese fabrics and her favorite fabric from South Korea (the big flower print with green background).  

She included unexpected visitors, and she did not back-stitch on her stitch-in-the-ditch, but left long threads at the beginnings and ends, so she could tie knots in each thread and pull it inside the quilt.  She said, "it took forever!"  She really wants it to be perfect.  

She also read about the tailor's clapper, and how to make the Japanese binding, which is called "end-cap facings."  That is why it appears to have no binding.  The joining of the front and back is on the exact edge of the quilt.  She did not have a clapper, so she used the handle of one of our hardwood cooking spatulas.  Astrid thinks that did the job, but when she gets her clapper, in the mail, she is going to press the edges again.

Kirsten Enjoys "The Fair"

Greetings!  We just got back from The Fair.  It was so exciting!  I won a first-place ribbon on my "Escape to the Country" quilt.

I posed, while C took my photograph.  Then we looked at all the other quilts and sat and talked with a lady that was spinning wool into yarn.  

This quilt by Ms. Griffin, is one of my favorites.

This is another of my favorites. It is by Ms. Mosley and has hand-quilting and a beaver-rabbit!

Just chillin' in the Home Arts Department, on a Thursday night.

Kuna Days Parade 2023

This is the third time we have been in the Kuna Days Parade.  We get invited by the Piecemakers of Idaho to join them, when they do the parade.  It is so much fun waving at everyone.  We were between Idaho Central Credit Union and the Challenger Chicks, this year.  

The theme, this year, is "Out of This World", so there were lots of space aliens about today.  We just had out-of-this-world quilts!

It was so much fun to see all the people involved in the parade and how they decorated, and to see all the people who came to watch the parade.  Everybody had a fun time.  What a great way to spend a Saturday morning in August.