MOONSTITCHES

Windows, 28

Yesterday we had a national holiday here in Japan (midori no hi - Greenery Day   Edit: Showa Day, things changed last year, as I just learned, Greenery Day is now celebrated on May 4) and spent a long day in the Yokohama area, walking a lot and riding the train, too, of course, and even a Ferris wheel.
Above photo I took on yesterday's walk.
Resembles in a way what I have begun this evening - appliqueing  little spots of Liberty on the quilt top that got sewn together this morning.
Thank you all so much for being here and over at Flickr to see how the leaves are doing. I am really back on track with the Liberty quilt now and very much looking forward seeing it finished. And it's so much fun doing this together with you!

As for the Month of Windows, I think I will just keep posting photos every once in a while because I have much more I'd like to share with you. The same goes for the numbers I have been collecting during last year's December - ever since, actually, never stopped.
If you have anything you would like to see me photographing here in Japan to show you, please let me know.

See you tomorrow!

Windows, 23

Some cat's revolt.

Windows, 16

For my Scarlett twin in Philadelphia.

Windows, 8+9

Missed to post a window yesterday and am pretty late for today already... Meanwhile there was baking, last minute sewing and lighting a few candles, a fabulous new bike, a happy child and just not the time for blogging.

Thank you all so much for your Mexican Pinwheel love!

Back tomorrow. Perhaps with the next block. Until then!

Windows, 2

Craftroom with some view... at least there is no harsh light falling on my fabrics that are stored in open shelves... also, due to the blurriness, it's not quite so obvious to me that I am living behind bars... always something good in everything.

something else

I know, I wanted to talk about quilts in this posting but a three day weekend and a week that began with a bento making day (preparing lunch in the morning) and a slightly missed deadline for a little swap I was participating in didn't leave much time to think and write. Gosh, what could I write about quilts in the first place, I don't know much about the matter.
Besides having made only one little baby quilt, playing with my Rotkaeppchen and Popstars  blocks from time to time and receiving my annual stimulus for really getting into quilt making eventually without ever actually getting to that point, I do not have any reason to think I knew anything about the topic at all. I feel like I should better not have been announcing me talking about quilts here on the blog. Maybe the next post would have been written earlier then...

Instead of writing about quilts I am showing you what my dear little daughter can do - a kind of post I would not be writing if I could not disguise it as a post about Megan's photo swap and the photos I considered to be suiting the swap's theme simplicity.

What amazes me most about these sand balls is that my daughter is growing up so differently than I did, I never made these when I was a child and I did not teach her how to make one. I guess this is what's happening when you leave the sandboxes of your childhood about 10.000 km behind.

Her shoes were chosen in the end, by the way.

Hope you are all well!

Counting, 26

Back door of a truck.

I'll be finishing the final part of my daughter's Christmas gift this night, a very simple doll quilt, nothing fancy, just a patched and quilted blanket that will keep her doll warm. Only two more sides of the binding and we're there. As I am hand sewing this binding I constantly must think of the two quilts I am kind of working on, since years...  I feel like I should at least squeeze in one tiny block for my Jane feat. Rotkaeppchen quilt before the year ends, just to say hello. I am starting to fear I won't get old enough to finish all my WIPs. If I keep up the speed I am sewing on my Rotkaeppchen blocks, I'll be needing twelve more years just to have all blocks done... sewing them all together and quilting might take me another ten years... I'll be an old lady when this thing is finished... but I guess my old bones will appreciate a fine blanket all the more.
Now I am thinking two blocks wouldn't be wrong to say hello either.

Take care!

Counting, 19

A gas tank outside a house here in my town.
In Japan gas is used for heating water and also for cooking in most homes.
I already told you about the cute 12-to-15-cookies-at-a-time-size of my oven, well, my stove has two burners, all quite manageable ;)

Counting, 12

Twelve days left.
The blogging me is enjoying all the counting, looking even forward to relatively high numbers, like 19, because I already found a nice one, whereas the real me suddenly came aware of Christmas getting actually nearer. Not that I'd panic I didn't order any Christmas Cake or certain fried chicken yet, no, but some preparations (aside from baking cookies) have to be made even in our family.

So, twelve days to go, you all!

Counting, 5

Only 19 days to go...
An ashtray in front of a grocery store here in my town. Smoking is still big here though restrictions are being introduced more and more.

Happy Wednesday (Mittwoch = middle of the week's day in German)!

PS: Have you seen this? What a fantastically cool tree and what a lovely story behind it. Heartwarmingly told about also on Alice's blog, Futuregirl.