CWQ BOW4

I am still working on BOW3 which is an applique block. I love applique but my problem is not technique but color selection. I can't decide which fabric I should choose. Green or white on background and red or orange or other color on stars.

So, I skipped the block and sew next one.




I like red one much more than the other one. I couldn't use the fabric design in center of multicolor one as effective as I supposed to. It's difficult to use such a modern design fabric. I should to be more careful, but definitely fun to think.

Back to quilting and blogging

Last week, I did nothing but taking care of family after a terrible shock of Tsunami. I couldn't sleep well. I felt hunger but didn't want to eat. Headache. Strong anxious. I was really tired but couldn't stop checking news. Then I found myself being suffering from light depression.

Then I saw a message.
"Don't count what you lost. Count what you have in your hand."
This is from a surviver of another terrible earthquake in Hanshin about 15 years ago. Kobe city was rebuilt within two years though everybody believed to take 10 years. How Strong mother nature is. But HOW TOUGH human beings are.

Now I stopped watching news and heal myself. These days I feel much better. Time to back to normal. Wherever I live, I do anything I can do.

In this three days I sewed some blocks of Civil war quilt. Just assemble piece that I already cut before I cracked down.

Look slanted. Hope ironing makes it better,
and


Though three more photos are uploaded on Frickr, I will show them later.

They are safe

I could call to my mother this evening.

I can't contact to my parents

This morning, a horrible news hit my sleepy head. Massive earth quake and Tsunami in east-northeast area in Japan. My parents and brothers live in Tokyo and parents in law supposed to visit their relatives for funeral ceremony of my uncle in law. I have not heard anything from them until now. We know that Level 5+ intensity is not a gentle rock. I hope they stay in safe this night.

Civil war quilts

Since my son had learned the underground railroad quilts in school, we often talk about his new sampler quilt. He wants me to make up blocks which means secret signal. I told him to pick up 12 blocks from my quilt book and to learn about its meaning. Drunkard path and shoo-fly are his favorite. He can't miss cartwheel (or dresden plate),bear paw and crossroad. He seems to enjoy this study very much.

On the way to search the sampler quilts on the Internet, I found a great blog, about civil war quilts. It contains block of the week and short story around the block.
I like to see the blocks that somebody makes with civil war fabric, but they are not my category. I can feel them beautiful, but can't revive them by myself. So, I wonder if I make them with my taste.

Here they come.

I want make a rainbow quilt using white polka dot and single solid color fabric, as possible.

and

Soft color variation. I made up the first one, but I need to collect fabric I want to use, yet.
I went to Jo-Ann today, but without plan, it made me confused and retreated.