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Wonky Christmas Trees

June 28, 2025 8:37 am ⋅

A few months ago I was asked to teach Wonky Christmas Trees at Ritzy Quilting for Christmas in July. As I did not make the sample quilt, I thought it best that I make a few blocks before I taught the class.  I pulled fabrics from my stash to make this small top.  It goes together really quickly.  I hope to get it quilted today.

This past week I also got caught up with the A Vintage Christmas Sampler QAL by Kansas Troubles Quilters.  I was slow to get started as I didn’t get the fabric kit until this past Monday. The HST on the far right are NOT part of the quilt – they were made with the cut off corners from the Square in a Square blocks and the Flying Geese.  I don’t often participate in a BOM or QAL where the fabrics are kitted as I don’t want a quilt that looks like hundreds if not thousands of other quilts.  This week Lynne “gave us permission” to use other fabrics outside of the kit for our blocks, suggesting we pull from our KTQ stashes.  This is something I planned to do if I had too many ‘oops’ and needed more fabric, but decided not to wait.  I have a whole bin of KTQ fabrics waiting to be used.  It’s hard to tell, but I used 3 different fabrics in the pinwheel blocks.

Posted in: A Vintage Christmas Sampler, Quilts, Wonky Christmas Trees

Three Finishes

April 29, 2025 4:32 pm ⋅

It’s only Tuesday and I have 3 finishes!

First up is Blue Waters.  It’s one of the of  my 2024 Brandon Quilters Block of the Month quilts.  It’s been waiting to be bound since either August or September.  I have 2 different dates in my notes.

  • Started 12/9/23
  • Finished 4/27/25
  • Size: 66″ x 83″
  • Used 2+ bobbins of Glide 40wt in Mercury
  • B2B (border to border) Bubbles

Next is one the Brandon Quilters President’s Challenge quilts.

I brought the blocks home after the April meeting. I just assembled, quilted and bound the quilt.

  • Started from blocks 4/26/25
  • Finished 4/27/25
  • Size: 40″ x 56″
  • 1 bobbin of Glide in Passion
  • E2E design – Espallier increased in height to 19″.

Finally, my Blooming 9-Patch that I’m calling Dragonfly Garden.  

This was a sew along with the Gulf States Quilt Association. I didn’t get the top done before the meeting, but I finished it in less than a month.  All the fabric, including the backing came from stash.

  • Started 4/3/25
  • Finished 4/28/25
  • Size: 75″ x 92″
  • 4 bobbins of Glide in Magic Mint
  • E2E design – Dragonfly Dance, enlarged to 15″ tall

Posted in: 2025 Brandon Quilters UFO, Blooming 9-patch, Blue Waters, Dragonfly Garden, QBHD President Challenge

The Rest of the 2024 Finishes

January 26, 2025 6:00 am ⋅

The finishes continued in August, starting with the 2023 Quilters by Hearts Desire President’s Challenge.

  • Started 2023  Finished 2024
  • 18″ x 24″
  • Glide 40wt in Strawberry Blond
  • Overlapping Crop Circles
  • Legacy 80/20 batting
  • Mine, hanging in my Quilt Studio

I made another Double 4-Patch table runner as a shop display.  This one from Wild Wander and Grunge.

  • Started 8/24/24 – Finished 8/26/24
  • 12-1/2″ x 48″
  • Thread – unknown
  • Straight line on the domestic machine
  • Legacy 80/20 batting
  • Mine, currently hanging in the shop

I bought the leaf blocks and background fabric at the Guild auction.  The blocks are set inspired by Bonnie Hunter’s Dancing Nine-Patch. I call this quilt Falling Leaves.

  • Finished 9/4/2024
  • 55″ x 69″
  • Glide 40wt in Strawberry Blond
  • Edge to Edge – Ground Cover
  • Legacy 80/20 batting
  • Mine

This Field and Furrows layout of the Brandon Quilters 2024 Block of the Month was the first of 6 layouts that I finished for a presentation on block layouts.

  • Started 12/9/2023 Finished 9/5/2024
  • 74″ x 74″
  • Glide 40wt in Magic Mint
  • a variety of computerized motifs, ruler work and free-motion
  • Legacy 80/20 batting
  • Mine

The 2nd BOM I finished is So Sweet.  When I took it off the machine I kept saying this is “So sweet”. It was inspired by Scott A. Flanagan’s “Sail Away Sampler”  in Annie’s Quilting Mix & Match Sampler Settings.

  • Started 12/9/2023 Finished 9/7/2024
  • 72″ x 93″
  • Glide 40wt in Cotton Candy
  • Edge to Edge – Fresco Feathers
  • Legacy 80/20 batting
  • Mine

This is “A Modern Twist”. I spotted as similar layout on the blog PolkaDotChair. I found a great E2E design from Urban Elementz.

  • Started 12/9/2023 Finished 9/8/2024
  • 74″ x 74″
  • Glide 40wt in either Linen or Cream
  • Edge to Edge – Square Cut
  • Legacy 80/20 batting
  • Mine

I had a a dead-line of September 9th for the Block of the Month quilts. 2 more are quilted, but did not get bound and I had a 3rd which still needs to be assembled. So, it was a relief to work on something new a the quilt retreat.

The pattern for these little bags are the  Helpful Heifer Tinker Bags from The Quilted Cow.  My kit made 4, but after making 2 of them, I decided I’d rather use the fabric for a Laura’s Little Notebook cover.  These were made September 21, 2024.

This is Laura’s Little Notebook Cover, another Helpful Heifer pattern. They work up quickly you can easily get 4 from 2 fat quarters and if you are careful you can get 5.  I also made this September 21, 2024.

The morning of October 14th one of the quilt shops in Kansas City posted a picture of the Quilted Sneakers. By noon, I had located a class “near me” – 350 miles away — and was signed up. I took the class on October 26th where I finished the first shoe.  I finished the 2nd shoe after I got home the next day – October 27, 2024.  Naturally I showed them at the Mississippi Quilters Association’s Fall Gathering and both guild meetings where there was a lot of interest in them.

So I made a second pair and will be teaching two classes at Ritzy Quilting Company on March 28th a& 29th. I started this pair on December 15th and finished them on December 26th.

That’s 18 finishes for the year 2024.

Also during 2024 I did 2 presentations to the quilt guild – one on Orphan Blocks and another on Block Sets (thus the multiple BOM quilts). I finished making all the HST for Riviana, but misplaces 60 of them! I started another BOM, but got hung up on how to set it so that’s on this years UFO list. And I finally figured out how to set the snowmen blocks. I didn’t quite get the top finished, but it was close. It was my first finish of 2025.

 

 

 

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