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The Last 2024 Brandon Quilters BOM

May 29, 2025 10:09 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅ Pam

I made 6 versions of the 2024 Block of the Month. Each one has different fabric and layouts. At the last minute – Sept 2nd and I needed the quilt by Sept 9th – I decided to do one more simply with sashing and cornerstones. I was on track until it came time for the sashing. Nothing was working and I didn’t want to buy more fabric. The blocks were put back in the project box and I went on my way.

This week I pulled out the blocks with the intention of finishing the quilt. The deep teal was purchased for another quilt and I didn’t use it. I threw it upon the design wall and put the blocks up on it. It was perfect. The border cornerstones are a design element born of necessity – I couldn’t figure out how to turn the corner with the print.

Butterfly Flight

56 1/2″ x 70 1/2″
Glide 40 wt in Persian
11 spi
Butterfly Kisses E2E
Pellon 80/20 Batting
Started 9/2/2024
Finished 5/28/2025

This quilt is on my 2025 Brandon Quilters UFO list and the MQA list.

Posted in: 2024 Brandon Quilter, 2025 Brandon Quilters UFO, Butterfly Flight

What I’m Working on 5/28/2025

May 28, 2025 8:26 am ⋅ 1 Comment ⋅ Pam

Last night I finished quilting the Grunge version of the 2024 Brandon Quilters BOM, so now it’s time to bind. When I bought the fabric, the plan was to do a flange binding — black with bright turquoise. However, there’s so much color happening in the border I think the pop of color would get lost.

I tried both black grunge and the dark teal in the sashing. Black is just too harsh, so dark teal is what I’m going with.

Now to get the label made so I can attach it when I put the binding on.

Posted in: 2024 Brandon Quilter, designwall

Goals for the Week of May 26, 2025

May 26, 2025 11:18 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅ Pam

Last week I had three goals:

Label & Bind Compass Lone Star – Done!
Quilt, Label & Bind Dragonfly Dance – Done!
Move into the Kitchen! – In progress!

The 2 quilts are done – they can can be seen HERE. The kitchen is still a work in progress, but I’ve cooked multiple times. Friday night was pork chops, green beans, rice & gravy. Saturday night my SIL and nephew came over and we had pork loin, green beans, mashed potatoes & gravy. Then I had leftovers the next day.

So what are my goals for this week?

Quilt, bind & label my the Gunge 2025 Brandon Quilters BOM.

This got put away back in September as I was struggling to figure out the layout. Actually it was more of a case of I didn’t like my fabric choices and I was stubborn and wanted to find a way to finish the quilt without buying any additional fabric. The sashing fabric was purchased to go with the Dragonfly Dance panel. I didn’t use it in that quilt, but it was just what was needed here.

Process & put away the scraps from the Grunge quilt.
Continue moving stuff back into the kitchen.

Posted in: 2024 Brandon Quilter, 2025 Brandon Quilters UFO, goals, House

Two Finishes

May 25, 2025 6:04 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅ Pam

Or 3 if you count the kitchen.

I think it was Thursday that the vent hood was finally installed. There are a few touch ups that need to be done, but essentially, the kitchen if finished. I love the backsplash behind the range.

My washer and dryer have been moved back into the laundry room.

And the plastic has been removed from the doorway. Now I just need to get all the kitchen stuff back into the kitchen and give this place a deep clean to clean up the construction dust.

The first quilt finish is Compass Star. This quilt is 19 1/2 years in the making. The plan was to use Quilt As You Go, but it is not my favorite was of quilting, I finally decided to get it done this year for my sister’s 60th birthday. It was quilted by then, but it took a few more days to get it bound. I’ll deliver it to her in a few weeks.

This took 7 bobbins of Glide. I used Mercury thread. Nearly 187,907 stitches. 4 different patterns. Betty’s Border / Corner MI-120 in the outer border. The Corner in the corner of the Lemoyne Stars. ST-025-8-pointed-star-w-frame. This I split using the center for the Lemoyne Stars and the Compass Star. I used the the frame in the center, then added a few stems to fill up the space. The sashing is “lola sash”, the yellow inner border had a flat curve. I can’t remember what I used in the triangles of the stars.

The quilt measures 81 1/2 x 81 1/2 before washing. Legacy 80/20 batting. The binding was stitched to the back and flipped to the front.

This project is completely wrapped up. I’ve dealt with the scraps and have an empty bin. It’s the 6th quilt on my 2025 Brandon Quilters UFO list and my MQA list.

The empty zipper bag is from my 2nd quilt finish this weekend.

Dancing Dragonflies. It is now bound with both a hanging sleeve and label.

Started 5/11/25 – Finished 5/25/25
used just over 1 bobbin of Glide in Mint
E2E – Dancing Dragonflies
Measures approximately 37″ x 55″
Stitch count 61165 at 11 spi

Although not on a UFO list, ‘a panel project’ was on my 2025 goals. All of the fabric I purchased when I purchased the panel has now been put away and the scraps dealt with.

This brings me to the W

The Stash Report.

Fabric Added Since Last Report: 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 82.58 yards

Fabric Used Since Last Report: 1.46 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 77.7105 yards

Net Fabric Stash: 4.869 yards

I’m itching to just push fabric through the machine. I just looked at my 2025 goals, and I think I’m going to attempt to finish the last 2024 Brandon Quilters BOM. It, and and Auction Quilt are the only 2 project left on that list. I can quilt the top when I get back from Kansas City and it would be great to have another BOM done before I go and speak to the Candlelight Quilters.

Posted in: 2024 Brandon Quilter, 2025 Brandon Quilters UFO, Compass Star, DragonflyDanceWallhanging, House, Stash Busting Report, UFOs

A Busy Weekend – Stash Report, a Finish, and This Week’s Goals

February 11, 2025 3:22 pm ⋅ Pam

This past weekend was jam packed. Friday I was waiting on a package and finishing the binding on a quilt before driving to Hattiesburg to the MQA meeting. Saturday after the meeting, I headed home and stopped at Ritzy Quilting. Sunday I went back to Hattiesburg as I left something at the hotel. When I got home I watched “my team” get soundly defeated in the big game. Monday, I cleaned and cooked as I hosted Bunco. So, let’s start with the Stash Report which I planned to post on Friday.

Stash Report

I cut out more of the Little Laura Notebooks and as of Friday, no new fabric added to my stash.

Fabric Added Since Last Report: 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 1 yards

Fabric Used Since Last Report: 1.25 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 7.875 yards

Net Fabric Stash: -6.875 yard

A Finish!

This is another variation of the 2024 Brandon Quilters Block of the Month. I call this one Framed. All I needed to do was bind and label it. It’s on my Brandon Quilters UFO list, MQA UFO List, and 2 other online UFO lists.

Started 2/4/24
Finished 2/7/25
74″ x 92″
Glide 40wt in Magic Mint
Fresco Feathers
Legacy 80/20 batting
Made for the program “Got Blocks? Now What?”

Weekly Goals

Last week there were 3 goals

Get Framed bound – DONE
I have 10 more notebook covers prepped.
Living on Cornbread — I need to go pick up another layer cake on Friday. – Picked it up Saturday.

As expected all I got done on the Living on Cornbread was picking up the layer cake on my way home from the MQA meeting. The extra trip to Hattiesburg kept me from the sewing machine Sunday before the game.

Goals for the Week of 2/10/2025

Finish the notebook covers.
Bind the BQ 2024 BOM Blue Waters
Quilt Cindy’s Pizza Box Quilt
Prep Clues 4 & 5 of the BQ 2025 Mystery Quilt
Make 10 sets of corners for Living on Cornbread
Bind Illusions

Looking at this it seems like a lot – tonight I have to finish the newsletter for Quilters By Hearts Desire, so I can’t really get started until tomorrow. But there’s nothing on my calendar for this weekend. I want to get as much done as I can, as I’m not certain when my brother will be here.

Posted in: 2024 Brandon Quilter, 2025 Brandon Quilters UFO, Framed, Illusions, Lauras Little Notebook, Living on Cornbread, Longarm, mystery quilts, Stash Busting Report

2024 Starts

February 2, 2025 11:56 am ⋅ Pam

I’m happy to report that most of the projects I started in 2024 were completed last year or in January 2025. These are the ones which are still unfinished.

First up is Multiplicity. Diane Knott spoke at a guild event and taught this class the next day back in April. I was late to the class — it seems like I was working that morning, then after we got going I didn’t like my fabric selection — I didn’t have enough lighter colors. When I got home I pulled additional fabric from my batik stash, but didn’t get anything done since I shortly left for my trip to Scotland and came back work on multiple quilts for a couple of programs I was giving later in the year. This project finally was boxed up and put on the shelf. It’s not on this year’s list but maybe I’ll have to pull it out for next year.

The top 2 quilts are from my program “Got Blocks? Now What?” where I discussed different settings to use when you have a stack of blocks — in these case blocks from a Block of the Month. The bottom one is Illusions from a 3-yard book, made bigger. The BOM quilts were quilted in August and the Illusions quilted in November. They are all waiting to be bound and are on my 2025 UFO Goals list.

At the Brandon Quilters Auction in November, I picked up this top. I have the backing and want to get it quilted this year.

Also started were 2 versions of the Brandon Quilters 2025 Mystery Quilt. For obvious reasons I’m not posting any photos.

If I don’t get too distracted, one of these will rollover onto the 2026 UFO list.

Posted in: 2024 Brandon Quilter, Blue Waters, Framed, goals, Illusions, Multiplicity, mystery quilts

Weekly Goals for the Week of 2/3/25

February 2, 2025 6:00 am ⋅ Pam

How did I do on last week’s goals:

Quilt 2 quilts for deliver on Monday. – DONE
Bind Framed – In Progress. The binding is made.
Finish at least another 4 Laura’s Little Notebooks – DONE — I have 20 finished.
At least 10 sets of corners for Living on Cornbread – Did not touch
Don’t work on Compass Lonestar – I’ve put it away.

This week’s goals are limited, as Brandon Quilters meets tonight, and I’m going to the Spring Gathering of the Mississippi Quilt Association Friday & Saturday night. I’ll also have the big football game on Sunday as “my team” is playing and I’m prepping to host the Bunco ladies next Monday.

Get Framed bound — This is my show-n-tell at the MQA meeting, so it has to be a priority.
I have 10 more notebook covers prepped. Technically I won’t need them until December, but I’ll be able to cross them off my list.
I haven’t forgotten about Living on Cornbread — I need to go pick up another layer cake on Friday. But I’m not sure I’ll get any piecing done on it this week.

It’s only the 3rd of the month and I’m looking at my packed calendar. I’m not sure how much I’ll get done this month, but that is why I’m setting goals – to keep me on track.

Posted in: 2024 Brandon Quilter, goals, Lauras Little Notebook, Longarm

Weekly Goals for the Week of 1/27/25

January 28, 2025 6:14 am ⋅ Pam

First did I meet last week’s goals?

Quilt 2 quilts – I only got one done.

Bind the retreat Jelly Roll Quilt – DONE
At least 4 of the 12 Laura’s Little Notebooks. – DONE I have 6 finished, 1 just needs a snap, 2 more need topstitching and a snap and I have another 11 cutout and interfaced.

This week the goals are:

Quilt 2 quilts (I need to deliver them on Monday)
Bind Framed – this is on my UFO list and I’m showing it at the MQA Spring Gathering
Finish at least another 4 Laura’s Little Notebooks
At least 10 sets of corners for Living on Cornbread – I need all the units done before I can really start to assemble the blocks.
And now an odd goal — Don’t work on Compass Lonestar This quilt has been on numerous UFO lists since 2007. It started as a Quilt-As-You-Go project, but the reality is for a large project I don’t like this method — especially since I now have a longarm. Really just need to take it off the design wall so it doesn’t tempt me. I don’t need this quilt until mid-May and I’d like to get Living on Cornbread done by the end of next month.I wonder how much I can get done? There is a new quilt group forming that meets on Saturday morning, I’m going dancing either Friday or Saturday maybe both nights, and Brandon Quilters meets next Monday night.

Posted in: 2024 Brandon Quilter, binding, goals, Lauras Little Notebook, quilting

The Rest of the 2024 Finishes

January 26, 2025 6:00 am ⋅ Pam

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.

Posted in: 2024 Brandon Quilter, Double 4-Patch Table Runner, Falling Leaves, Lauras Little Notebook, QBHD President Challenge, Quilted Sneakers, Quilts ⋅ Tagged: Field and Furrows

Nora’s Notebooks

February 14, 2023 6:00 am ⋅ Pam

The Nora’s Notebook pattern is a padded cover which fits those inexpensive black and white composition notebooks. The pattern is exclusive to The Quilted Cow in West Branson, Missouri.

Three Fat Quarters are needed, a little bit of lightweight interfacing, Soft & Stable (I used Pellon Flex-Foam FF78F2), and an 1/2″ magnetic closer, but a piece of hook & loop tape could also be used.

There are 4 pockets, one on the outside, 2 on the inside left cover,

and one on the back cover.

I simply quilted around the circles using pink thread.

My number 1 recommendation is to label the pieces. 2nd, when putting in the snap, orient the tabs top to bottom so you can stitch around the tab and top stitch the cover when done. I had to remake my tab so I could to the topstitching.

For my second cover I actually used 5 fabrics. I wanted a way to easily see this is my Quilters By Hearts’ Desire notebook, so I made it to match my Pizza Box Quilt we made.

To quilt it, I did a 2″ crosshatch, with 1/2″ vertical lines behind the pencil pouch.

The tab is shorter as I oriented the fabric the other way.

The Quilt Studio is a bit neater as well. As I was working on the cover, I cut up my scraps which have been sitting in the pizza box and put them away.

I have one more I want to make for my Brandon Quilters notebook cover, and I think I’ll use the fabric I used in the mystery quilt we did last year.

Posted in: Nora's Notebook, Pizza Box

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