After a hard weekend push, I finished hand sewing the binding. Yea! The front: The back: Overall, I’m quite pleased with the quilt. At first, I wanted a darker gray solid, like Kona Charcoal. I couldn’t find any at a local store. So I went with my second choice, Kona Coal. I think my second choice turned out to be the best choice. As I mentioned, I quilted it with an all over loop design. [...]

(Note: I just realized that the post was never published. I decided to go ahead and publish it. So forgive me for presenting content out of order. RM) OK. Some how I missed blogging the whole month of June. I thought about it, but some how my blog and I didn’t connected. Tonight, I’d like to  make amends and summarize the last 4-5 weeks of my life. Much of our time was spent in out [...]

Lately, I’ve been in straight-quilt-line mood, which is easy and doesn’t require the same commitment as free-motion quilting. Well I decided it was time to get out of the rut and do a bit of free-motion quilting. To keep things simple, I decided to do an all over loop pattern. It is a forgiving pattern that doesn’t require marking or too much pre-planning. The quilting process did take more time than quilting straight lines, but [...]

Our garden has made it to week nine. Since we don’t know what we’re doing, I’m fairly happy. So far, the radishes are the only real loss. I didn’t thin them out soon enough. In a couple of weeks, I’ll plant a second batch. Hopefully, I’ll do better the second time. Today, we reined back the tomatoes. They out grew their cages. Now they lived in a tomato prison which is formed with stakes and [...]

Last week, Ross and I took a quick trip to Denver. He spent his mornings and some afternoons at a conference for law librarians, yes more excitement than one should ever have, and I spent my days seeing the sights of Denver. While I want to recap the experience, I want to avoid a long boring post with pictures that only I’ll enjoy. So here’s a look at the highlights. Art Museum of Contemporary Art [...]