2005 Yokohama Quilt Show

As Seen with the Listening Heart, 38" x 27", by Karen Colburne Martin of St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador.


The pictures above are from Quilter's Newsletter Magazine

Today I went to a quilting group website called "芃的拼布配色筆記書" as normal. I found these Japan Yokohama Quilt Show pictures from Jessyca's Blog there. The projects in the show are really amazing !! Especially knew that Japanese like to have their projects hand quilted so I can see they must have made a lot of efforts in preparing those wonderful quilts ! If you want to know how amazing the quilts are, please just click the link and have a look. Thanks to Jessyca in sharing those pictures (she took some of the detail pictures as well) which let me, a person leaving so far away, can have a chance to see those beautiful beautiful quilts.

Litte house key holder

A little earlier I've signed up to make this little house key holder in Fan's Quilting Group in Taiwan. This key holder is all done by hand sewing. The string is from the paper bag that came with moon cake (rather than throwing it away, right ! recycling).

In the past, I used a necklace key holder to hold all the keys because when my kids were so young they were naughty and liked to play and run in the parking lot. I used that kind of key holder so that I could have my one hand holding the kid and free my other hand in order to press the car alarm button. Nowadays, my kid grew older and can manage himself to stay calm then I started to put my keys into my handbag which has scratched my leather wallet inside. I really love this litte house key holder that can cover all the keys. Ha ha ! no more scratches.

Reason for my younger son to be an adult

I helped my younger son to take bath yesterday (he actually can do it himself but I worried about he would get sick while he played water during his bathing time), the following is the conversation between us:

My younger son asked: "Ma Ma, if I want you to be a grandma, is that mean I should be an adult ?"

I said: "right, but not just that you have to get marry with a lady so that your wife can deliver a baby then I can be a grandma."

My younger son said: "But Ma Ma you already xx (I don't how he can find out how old I am), I have to be adult and get marry then by that time you will be died already ?!"

I said: "No, you can get marry sooner so that you can have a baby sooner then I can be a grandma a little longer, right ?"

My younger son didn't reply but he started to cry instead !!!