Quilting and Stuff by Knitnoid

Quilted!

August 14, 2026 8:29 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

Yesterday I quilted Quartered Square. It still needs the binding, but I need to finally get my Scrappy Bargello bound. I just need to finish pressing the binding then put it on the quilt.

But Wednesday I got distracted.  I ordered a set of long-arm rulers from Piece N Quilt for a Stitch-Along starting September 7th and need to get the top ready. It’s simple enough, mostly 9-patches.

While I was on the site, I found a class on 99 Strip designs and pulled fabric for a couple of small quilts.

I was so ready to start cutting into these fabrics when I remembered my August UFO list. After all it is the middle of August.

After staring at the list wondering what Shenandoah was, I cut into my panel for the quilt.

I don’t recommend square panels. 

Leaving off the outer panel strip and lengthening the strips sewn to the center cut I think will fix the proportions.

As for the Stitch Along quilts, I’ll put them back in my pile to work, but after I get a couple more things off my list.

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Quartered Square Top is Complete!

August 12, 2026 9:15 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

If you need a fast quilt and have a striped fabric, Quartered Square by Missouri Star Quilts is your pattern. I picked up the fabric Sunday afternoon and finished the top and still got to watch most of the baseball game. Admittedly the game didn’t start until after 9 PM my time, but I was done by 10:15 PM.

 

My first choice of backing from my stash wasn’t long enough — even with a diagonal seam. The second piece I pulled would work, but I wasn’t in love. This morning I looked in the cabinet and found this piece. It will only be 4″ wider than my top, but I’ll make it work.  I’ll get it pieced tonight, then make a decision on the thread color – Cotton Candy, Magic Mint, or Strawberry Blonde. All of them work.

Posted in: Quartered Squared

New Quilt – Pink Quartered Squares

August 10, 2026 9:17 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

The good news is that I have finally sewn the binding together for Scrappy Bargello.  It still needs to be pressed, but is at least in one piece. Most people would go ahead and finish the quilt. I mean it has been waiting for the binding for 5 months.  Is that what I did? No.

 

Yesterday I delivered the two shop samples and I got to pick 4 yards of fabric to replace what I used on the back of Southern Charm from my stash.  Quartered Square by Missouri Star Quilts has been on my list since that trip to Kansas City when we had to buy luggage to get all the fabric home.  In fact Ruby made her quilt and we quilted it yesterday. Anyway, I picked fabrics to make the quilt.  I simply couldn’t resist cutting into it last night.  All my blocks are cut and I have the first 4 made. This is really a quick quilt to make I got to this point in less than 2 hours. I’ve not sewn the row yet.

 

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A Couple of Finishes

August 9, 2026 11:16 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

This past couple of weeks I’ve been working on a shop samples.  Up first is Southern Charm.  This is from a Riley Black fabric bundle.  6 yards of fabric plus the panel.  No pattern, just me trying to figure out how to put all 6 fabrics in the quilt. Ultimately the the 6th fabric ended up as the binding.

We forgot the backing and was told to pick something from my stash.  I found this vintage fabric in my stash.  It’s dogwood on peach- on theme and color.  i used the E2E Magnolia from Urban Elementz to quilt it.  The thread is Yellow Whisper.

This is also from Riley Blake. It’s Crayola Colorful Creatures.  This is a shop sample panel for the kit.  Just load and quilt.  I been talking about needing to up my free-motion/ruler work game and was given this a top to practice on.  Now that I’m looking at the picture, I see that I should have outlined the path.  Oh well.  Quilted with Bone thread, I used leftover backing fabric for the binding.

Both of these quilts are on my August UFO list.  Now to finish making the binding for Scrappy Bargello.

 

 

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New Month, New List

August 2, 2026 8:27 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

I joined the August UFO Challenge in Stitch On’s Quilt & Stitch Along with Sally on Facebook.    Some of these projects have been lingering with no excuses — I’m looking at you, Scrappy Bargello. There’s one project that technically isn’t a UFO — Shenandoah!  Others in theory shouldn’t take long to complete — or so I keep telling myself.  We’ll see how far I get this month.

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Shenandoah

July 28, 2026 12:05 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

Apparently I don’t have enough on my quilting plate – Rivanna, Roll the Dice, 2 shop samples, a quilt which just needs to be bound, my assorted hand work projects and block of the month quilts, plus a few 3-yard quilts I’d like to finish this year.  I want to make Shenandoah – from stash.

I pulled this chrysanthemum print.  I found these two blenders.

I have this gorgeous orchid print which I think the fuchsia blender is on theme.

These peach roses and peach blender might look good as well.

But I think I’m going to use this magnolia panel and pink to make the quilt.  There is not enough fabric in the panel to do the inner border, but I found this white dot on navy and I think it will be perfect.

Now to get a few things done so I can start this.

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Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler Shop Hop 2026

July 27, 2026 10:42 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

The Louisiana Shop Hop started last week and runs through Saturday.  It’s 7 shops in southeastern Louisiana.  Each shop is selling 3 FQ from the shop hop fabric and a finishing kit for ‘their’ quilt.  In addition Bernina Lafayette has a finishing kit using the fabrics. That is the quilt I’ve decided to make.

Of course there were a few purchases made.  Three of the FQ were in the gift bags the shops gave out.  One of the things I was looking for were cloth books. I found great selections at A&A Sewing Center in Broussard and at Emily’s Closet in New Iberia.

The thread (Celery!), Binding Miter Tool and the ruler suction cup I bought. The rest of the items in this photo were in the gift bags — with the exception of the book. There was a raffle at one of the shops and I won the book.

Here are the shops in the order I did them:

  • Summer’s Haven – Amite
  • Sew This! – Abita Springs
  • My Sewing Shoppe – Baton Rouge
  • Bernina Lafayette – Lafayette (extra stop)
  • A&A Sewing Center – Broussard
  • Emily’s closet – New Iberia
  • Cottage Creations & Quilts – St Gabriel
  • Cross Quilters – St Francisville

If I do this again, I’ll add in Chateau Sew in New Orleans after Sew This! and move cottage Creations & Quilts after My Sewing Shoppe.

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Eclipse

July 7, 2026 12:22 pm ⋅ 1 Comment ⋅

Over the weekend I finished binding Eclipse. It’s had been moved about in the quilt studio for so long, I had to repress the binding in half — only to discover it was partially attached to the quilt!

Eclipse is one of my Brandon Quilters 2026 UFO.  I showed it and and Twirling Leaves at the guild meeting last night so I only have 1 more UFO on that list to go.

  • Started 10/24/2025 – Finished it 7/5/2026
  • Measures 86-1/2″ x 71-1/2″
  • Legacy 880/20 batting
  • Glide 40 wt in Peacock – 11 stitches per inch
  • Espalier – increased to 13″ with a -3.5 offset
Posted in: 2026 Brandon Quilters UFO, Eclipse

Twirling Leaves

June 29, 2026 3:34 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

This past weekend was the Gulf States Quilt Association biennial quilt show.  I entered my Twirling Leaves quilt in the GSQA Guest Teacher category.  That does not mean I was a guest teacher but rather I made a quilts created from classes taken from GSQA guest teachers; to include seminar, quarterly meetings, and traveling teachers.  Specifically, Annette Ornelas of Southwind Designs was the guest teacher at the October 2025 GSQA quarterly meeting.

The quilt finished at 60″ x 60″.  Shelly Pagliai of Prairie Moon Quilts quilted it for me.  The quilt has Quilters Dream Wool Batting and 7 different colors of Superior Omni Thread

I won the 3rd place ribbon in my entered class.  The judge liked the dark purple and the thread color changes.  But she pointed out my binding needed work.

That’s not surprising as I was still stitching the binding and hanging sleeve on Saturday morning the day I dropped off my quilt!

The quilt was started October 24, 2025 and finished June 20, 2026.

This is one of my Brandon Quilters UFOs.

 

 

Posted in: 2026 Brandon Quilters UFO, Twirling Leaves

April Was Busy

April 27, 2026 1:00 pm ⋅ 1 Comment ⋅

April was busy.  I have not kept up on my handwork this month, nor did I do my BOM Saturday.  After I finished the pillowcases, I started in on this table runner and quilt.  They have since been bound in the same fabric as the sashing, but I didn’t get a picture of them before they left my possession.

Around the same time, I worked with a local landscaper and she put in a flower bed along my north fence line.  I can’t wait for it to fill in.

Then it was off to AQS Paducah.

My friend and I stayed in Metropolis, so naturally I have the obligatory photo of Superman and Lois Lane.

The second night we were there, we were woke up with meowing outside the door.  This is Yankee.  We took her to the walk-in Vet where she was scanned for a microchip -does not have one – and given a rabbies shot and ointment for her eye.  She was given a clean bill of heath with an estimated age of 6 months.  The front desk said she had been hanging around the motel and we were welcome to take her with us.  She was well behaved in the room and on the ride home.  She will live with my friend’s neighbor.

After the vet visit it was off to Hancock’s of Paducah where I walked in found the Steampunk Menagerie fabric I tried to order last fall.   1 yard in and out in less than 10 minutes.

At the show I found this gorgeous panel and companion piece at the Motherland Fabrics booth.

Not fabric, but quilting decor – I bought this garden stake of fused glass from Kos Artistic Design.

 

 

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