Donna Young

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There are several ways to miter quilt borders. Getting the miter right is important. A miter that is off will result in either a tight corner that cups or a corner that is wavy. For this big wall quilt, I will need to be picky about the corners. I’m using an angle to help me […]

This border layout is close to the first one that I tried last year. I could write about why I chose this border layout over the second one, but I really don’t want to. I will just show a photograph of it and say that the border strips are pinned and this is about how […]

For me, it is time to work on a quilt again. I have a 7 day opening to work on it. Last year on June 21, I wrote a blog entry with photos showing where I was at with the quilt. The blog entry is here: As the Petals Unfurl. Shortly after that, I put […]

I’ve playing the “Is it red yet?” game since the first tomato started taking shape under its green spiky cap.

These are grape tomatoes and the ones that will ripen first. They are really putting out a lot of potential fruit. I am waiting…

The lettuce has grown quite a bit since the last time I wrote about growing it under a floating row cover. [http://www.donnayoung.org/blog/2008/05/30/lettuce-floating-row-cover/]. From the outside, the green of the lettuce shows through the cover.

I lifted up the back where the excess cover was rolled up and I gave the lettuce more growing space. While it […]