Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival, Fabric Shopping, and Quilt Top Finishes

Doll quilt top finished for my 'grand muffin', 5" blocks.

My 'summer improv' top finished with final border, 30" x 38".

Panera Bread, this is where I ate lunch, I like their hazelnut coffee.

Jo Ann Fabric store, I stopped in here, I had some good coupons.

 Big selection inside.

Always great books and magazines at Jo Ann's.

Sharon Boggons' beautiful book.


Happy Tuesday! From the Renton, Washington highlands.
Where we enjoyed a cool sunny day.

My blog friend, Carin, aka Queenie Patch went to the 17th Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival 2018 with friends and has shared her photos here! . What a fabulous quilt show, stop in to see the beautiful quilts!

And to celebrate sunshine after about a week of clouds and rain,
I had to go out and enjoy the sun and do some shopping on the side.
While at Jo Ann Fabrics  I bought enough flannel to use as a design wall.
The floor is very hard on my knees.

This week I pieced together a doll quilt for my grand daughter, her birthday is soon. I was watching an episode of 'Man Sewing'  and saw Rob and his daughter, Ruby, so sweet, doing a tutorial for a doll quilt and it was so cute I had to sew one up.
I also sewed on the final border of my 'summer improv' small quilt top.

I got a few things done this week and some play time in.
Because if I don't get out of the house once in a while everything gets dark and grim.

I hope you're having a productive week and taking time out to play.
Where do you go to play?

I'll be by to visit.

7 comments:

Mystic Quilter said...

So nice to see your Summer Improv quilt all finished up!! Beautiful.

Queeniepatch said...

Some doll will be very happy to sleep under that quilt!
Thank you for adding the link to the quilt show in Tokyo!
Apart from that show I haven't been able to go out 'to play' - always housebound. It is now snowing in Tokyo so home is a good place to be.

Janie said...

Thank you Queenie.
I'm inspired by your blog.
And I'm interested in Japan, the culture, their dedication to craftsmanship.
Years ago I had a kind friend, Japanese, she was visiting the states and I thought to myself that
I would like to visit Japan someday. I don't know if I ever will get that chance, so I 'visit'
through you.
Thanks again.

Janie said...

Thanks Mauree,
I'm looking forward to seeing what you'll do with your four log cabin blocks.

Magpie's Mumblings said...

I'm with you in thinking the floor is hard on knees! I used to be able to crawl around down there and not have any problems, now there's always an element of doubt whether I'll ever get up again. Wish we had a JoAnn's here - we have Michaels but it's not the same.

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