Quilting and Stuff by Knitnoid

A Week of Quilting Updates

September 21, 2026 2:52 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

I finished quilting 3 blocks, the sashing and extended the borders last week. Then I started prepping for my guilds retreat.  Wait — I need to go back further. The weekend before the guild had Annette Ornelas as a guest instructor. Later in the week I’ll see if I can get a picture of what I’ve done.

OK — back to the retreat. I made these keyfobs for the gift bags. I’ve peeked into my bag, but have not totally processed what was included.  I’ll do that in another post. Now for the projects I worked on.

First up – the music jelly roll quilt.  Back in 2014 I cut a 2 1/2″ wide strip of fabric off every music them fabric I had to make a backing for the Eeyore quilt.  This was left over and needed to finished, I just didn’t know what I wanted to do.  As I was packing, I spotted the orange fabric on my table and found the black in my cabinet. I like it.  Now to find a backing and get it quilted.

 

The next day I made 4 more string blocks, a small inner border and combined 2 different UFOs into one top.  The center is from 7/22/13 – they are left over pieces from a quilt I made one of my great nieces.  The blue strings I started 6/16/12 – then I  discovered I had made them in 2 different directions and I don’t like piecing strings, so they languished.

Somewhere along the way I made the binding for the 99-strip quilt, then I started working on Riviana.  I need to do one more seam on about 20 blocks then I can start assembling the quilt.

I took a break from sewing and did a little shopping. I just wanted a ‘good black’ all those other fabrics jumped into my cart and said take me home.

 

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Day 2 – Nine Patch 7.0 Quilt Along

September 9, 2026 4:02 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

Day 2 I finished the bonus blocks and quilted the top border and the first sashing strip.  These feathers remind me of the first feathers I quilted years ago. No improvement.  But that’s what happens if you don’t practice.

This is a section of my first feathers from 16 years ago.

 

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Nine Patch-Along 7.0

September 8, 2026 9:27 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

I am participating in an on-line longarming quilt along – Nine Patch-Along 7.0 taught by Natalia Bonner of Piece N Quilt. In the ideal world, I would have finished this top and had it loaded sometime last week.  Instead, I was scrambling to finish the top Monday morning.  But all in fine. The class runs 9 day – one 9-patch a day starting yesterday.

All fabric is from my stash.  I found a piece of backing 44″ x 88″.  The quilt is 50″ x 60″ – So John Flynn’s Diagonal Pieced backing to the rescue.  I had exactly enough backing fabric for this quilt.  In a lucky happenstance, I set the second piece of fabric down so I could measure and it turned out to be exactly where I needed it to be.

I love a wide back without seams, but the diagonal seam works well and doesn’t create bulk. The hard part is cutting the diagonal.

I’ve recently had a couple of quilts which were 68″ wide. A couple of those cutoffs allowed me to make a frankenbatt.  I zig-zaged with a 7.0 stitch width and I think 1.4 length. When making frankenbatts, be sure the ‘grain’ is aligned.

I finally got the quilt loaded and basted, so it was time to stitch.

There is supposed to be a feather border.  I got the vine in OK.  After about 2 loops which were supposed to be feathers, I stopped and ripped them out. I’ll circle back the border in a the next day or two.

These are the first 4 bonus blocks. My free-motion needs practice  – although the flowers in the green square aren’t too bad. I need to find my dry erase marker and doodle some feathers before I do the next couple of squares.

Posted in: Nine Patch Along 7.0

Weekend Quilting

September 6, 2026 1:14 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

First up is the 1st of 4 strip quilts that I’ll be using in Piece N Quilts Strip by Strip long arm design class.  This is not the class I’m starting tomorrow. That quilt still needs to be finished!  But have 2 more quilts in the queue I want to get done and back to their owner.

This quilt was just picked up. I show it here, because she gave me all the HST  cut off from the piecing.  I am making tiny blocks.

Even though I had the HST stitched, pressed and trimmed, as well as the blocks laid out, I only got through these 2 blocks! The E2E design picked stitched out very quickly.

 

 

Posted in: 99 Strip #1

More Plans?

September 2, 2026 9:00 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

First, this is not my quilt.  This is the cover photo of Urban Owls, a quilt by Wendy Williams, an Australian designer.  A friend wants to make this quilt and would like me to make it with her. It’s got paper piecing and wool applique, and who knows what else.  It’s not my cup of tea, but I would like to work on project, preferably in person, with a few others, so I’ve asked her to order the book for me.  Will I make it? I’ll get back to you.

But it got me to thinking. I wonder if there are others in my guilds who would like to work on a project, so I posted Urban Owls as well as Star Light Star Bright.  It is a free BOM program by Andover. Here is the link to the PDF. Anyway, I posted to our FB page and at least one person is interested it this quilt after the first of the year.

I wouldn’t be surprised if next year I’m doing 3 intense quilts – these 2 plus my 65th Birthday quilt.

But back to the present.

A few key fobs were made.  I think I need 27 or 28, I’ll need to get the final number.

I also sewed the top half of 99 Strip # 1 together.

Tonight without fail I need to get a customer quilt on the frame and finish up the NinePatch 7.0 top.

Posted in: 99 Strip #1, key fobs

New Month, New Goal List

September 1, 2026 10:14 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

I wrote out my list earlier this week and thought it needed to be shortened.  Somehow it’s longer.  But I will be going to a quilt retreat this month, so there is that. The items are in the order in which I’d like to finish them.

This is Nine Patch 7.0.  It’s a practice quilt for an on-line class starting Monday. It’s slightly further along than this. I need to have it loaded by Monday, but before I can do that I have 2 client quilts which need to be quilted.

This stack of fabric needs to become key fobs by the 16th. I either need to sort the fabric by color or find a good color which blends well on all the fabric since I’ll be top stitching them. I’m pretty sure it will go fast as I’ll be able to do them in an assembly line.

This skirt now has a waist band, but I ran into 2 issues.  #1 the elastic I’m using is softer/stretchier than I expected, so I’m having issues pulling it through the waistband, and #2 a little disappointed in the amount of gathers around the waist.  I need to just sit down and finish it. Again, it’s not that hard, so just do it!

I’m taking the Waves of Glory class by Annette Ornelas next week.  I have experience with her dimensional curves, so I do not expect this to take long to complete.

Roll the Dice 1 – this needs quilted and bound. It’s not a very big quilt, but I do need to add leaders to the backing fabric I want to use.  It would make my life simpler if I picked something else, but ‘I don’t wanna’.  I’ll load this after I finish the on-line class and possibly after I get Waves of Glory quilted.

I really want to finish the Riviana quilt top. I plan to take this to the retreat.  I have over half the 9-patches made already.

These red, white, and blue napkins have been in the works for over a year. It’s time to finish them.  I’m taking them to the reteat.

Roll the Dice #2.  I was digging in my UFOs looking for something and I found the blue string blocks. I think they go well with my HST top which is also a UFO waiting for a border.  I think they’ll look smashing together.  I do however need to make 4 more string blocks.  Taking this to the retreat.

Kid’s Roman Holiday is really a PIG, as I’ve not cut into the fabric.  This has been a project on my list all year. I’m taking this to the reteat.

99 Strips #1. This is for another on-line longarming class.  I need 4 total, but I’m starting with this one. If I don’t have the rows stitched together before I leave for the retreat, I’ll take it with me. I’ll start the class after the retreat.

Now if I can just not start anything not on my list.

 

Posted in: 99 Strip #1, key fobs, Napkins, Nine Patch Along 7.0, Rivanna, Roll the Dice, Roman Holiday, skirt, UFO Busting, Waves of Glory

August Recap

August 31, 2026 10:18 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

I started this month off with a list of 8 items on my to-do-list.  I’m happy to say all but 2 have been completed, and most of the tops ended up quilted and bound.  Additionally, there are 2 quilts not on the list which were completed.

Will September be as productive? Who knows. I’m taking a class offered by my guild next week, the following week is our retreat, and I’m taking 2 different on-line longarm classes.  There are at least 3 customer quilts in the queue.

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A Little Retail Shopping

August 29, 2026 11:53 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

Today, instead of finishing the quilt for the longarm class I’m taking, my skirt, or even making progress on Riviana, I decided to visit a couple of quilt shops – not that I needed anything.  In the back of my mind I was looking for a pretty red tone-on-tone and a good black tone-on-tone.  I didn’t find what I was looking for, but I did find these two pieces.

The top piece is an Amanda Murphy panel.  It’s designed for ruler work.

The second piece is Echo Braid.  I’m not sure how it’s supposed to be used, but my thought was to use it to practice long arm quilting.

Both pieces will go into my stash until later.

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Yes, I Did Start a New Quilt

August 28, 2026 8:46 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

Labor Day the NinePatch-Along 7.0 starts.  This is an online long-arm quilting class taught by Natalia Bonner.  The class is free, but I did need to buy the rulers and patterns. Although she does have a panel you can buy, I’m making mine.  Black is a questionable choice for the background, but I’m working from my stash. I plan to use Glide in the color Storm so I can see to pick it out if necessary. I considered Cool Grey 7 as well.  Of course, I’m not past going for something wild like a neon green. Nothing like seeing ALL my stitches. The finished quilt will be 50 x 60.

There are 3 more rulers/tools that I need and I just got notice that they are out for delivery.  The took a 3 day weekend in Indianapolis before arriving in Jackson three days ago.

This is my lunar eclipse pic taken last night at 11 PM CDT.

Posted in: Nine Patch Along 7.0, Ruler work

Disappearing Hourglass is Finished!

August 27, 2026 9:08 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

This is the Missouri Star Disappearing Hourglass. It has been a challenge.  I thought I had a package of 24 10-inch squares, and it turned out I only had either 16 or 20.  OK, smaller quilt it is.  Then I miscut a block. I regrouped, searched for fabric, found 1 piece decided to make 4 replacement blocks.  I miscut one of the replacement blocks.  OK 12 blocks it is.

It’s called a disappearing hour glass because you start with this block, the cut it into 9 pieces and sew it back together to make the star block.  As I was working with a layer cake, I ended up with bias edges.

The white fabric came from my stash and I found the backing in my cutoffs. The only new fabric I had to purchase was the purple.

  • Started 2/24/26
  • Finished 8/7/26
  • E2E Design – Espalier increased to 16″vertically with a -4.25 offset
  • Glide 40wt in Celery
  • 11 SPI
  • Finished size 40″ x 50″

 

 

Posted in: Disappearing Blocks, Disappearing Hourglass