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December Quilting

December 30, 2025 2:38 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

This month has been crazy between work, quilting and a trip to Kansas City.  Needless to say, blogging fell to the bottom of the list.  Here are my last 3 finishes.

 

Clara – a gift for my SIL Penny.  Started 11/30, I finished the piecing and quilting on 12/18 – the night before I left for Kansas City.  I packed up the sewing machine and a table to put the binding on when I got there.  It was under the tree 12/23.  The quilting is Espalier with a -4.25 offset.  I used just over 2 bobbins of Glide in Strawberry Blond.

This quilt was my by my nephew for his nephew. In theory the top was to arrive on Saturday 12/13, but instead of being delivered after it arrived in Jackson, it went to McComb, Baton Rouge, Saint Rose, and Memphis before being delivered to me on 12/17.  I quilted it in Military Gold thread and the E2E design is Blast Off. My sister put the binding on the quilt Christmas Day.

This is a t-shirt quilt for my my niece.  My sister sent it home with me back in October. I quilted it in November and “gifted” to our niece unbound on 12/21 when I saw her.  I got it bound 12/24.  After our nephew saw it, he decided he needed a t-shirt quilt, so gathered up his cross country t-shirts and “gifted” them to my sister for Christmas.  They spent Christmas day working on the layout. Kalli got her quilt on the 26th.

I’m throwing one more in here. This Stack-n-Whack was started a a quilt retreat in 2006.  A friend asked to buy a queen size quilt. This one is 75 x 100.  So, I pulled it out and used Espalier and 3 bobbins of Grape thread to quilt it back on 10/4.  Then I got caught up with finishing my SILs sister quilts to take to Kansas City in October and it sat until 11/29 when I finished binding it.

 

Posted in: Clara, finish

Cascades

October 10, 2025 9:10 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

Cascades is finished!  I purchased this top as a quilt kit from another quilter at the Shipshewana quilt retreat in November 2019.  The backing I purchased earlier this year — 9 yards of it because it’s that wonderful.

 

Posted in: Cascade, finish

Sheryl

October 8, 2025 11:29 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

This is Sheryl.  It is a Villa Rosa Design. I picked up the pattern this summer specifically because of the way “Sheryl” was spelled.  I got the layer cake “Lagoon” from my friend Sheryl, so I’m giving this quilt to her.

  • Started 7/21/25
  • Finished 8/4/25
  • 67 1/2″ x 86 1/2″ before washing
  • Glide 40wt in Peacock
  • Dragonfly Dance
  • Legacy 80/20 batting
Posted in: finish, Sheryl

Monterrey Medallions

October 8, 2025 11:11 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

Monterrey Medallions is finished and ready to be delivered this weekend.

This is an Atkinson Designs pattern from 2005.  I’m sure I bought the book shortly after it came out and I’ve always wanted to make this quilt. At one point I started kitting the stars for a multi-color quilt before scrapping that idea.

Posted in: finish, Monterry Medallion

Two Finishes!

September 16, 2025 9:25 am ⋅

Ritzy Quilting Company received in the Wild Orchid line of fabric earlier this month. I made a quick shop sample.  Very quick.  In just 2 hours I had the center of the quilt pieced. The pattern is “The Easiest 3 Yard Quilt Pattern Ever!” by sewcanshe.

I tweaked the borders, cutting the inner border 2 1/2″ and the outer border 4 1/2″. When purchasing the fabric I opted to get an extra 1/4 yard of each fabric.

After binding the quilt I took it up to the shop where it hangs on the wall behind the display of the fabric.

Wild Orchid

  • 56 1/2″ x 67 1/2″
  • Glide 40 wt in Strawberry Blond, 11 spi
  • Pretty Paisley w/ -1.25 offset
  • Pellon 80/20 Batting
  • Started 9/13/2025
  • Finished 9/14/2025

The second finish is A Vintage Christmas Sampler

I made this quilt as part of the Kansas Troubles Quilter Quilt A Long.  I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a holiday quilting finished timely.  Currently it is hanging on the quilt rack in my bedroom waiting to be put on the bed.

A Vintage Quilt Sampler

  • 80 1/2″ x 92 1/2″
  • Glide 40 wt in Vegas Gold, 11 spi
  • Jolly Holly – E2E stretched to 15″ -1.25 offset
  • Pellon 80/20 Batting
  • Started 6/24/2025
  • Finished 9/14/2025

Progress has been made on Monterrey Medallions. The rest of the stars are cut out, I just need to sit and sew.

Posted in: A Vintage Christmas Sampler, finish, Monterry Medallion, Wild Orchid

A New Finish

June 24, 2014 12:30 pm ⋅

PurpleThanglesBOM

 

Monday afternoon I rented time on the long arm and quilted this little quilt.  After washing it measures about 39″ square.  The pieced blocks were part of a Thangles BOM that I started in 2008. I only used 5 of the 12 blocks because I didn’t think all 12 of them went together well.  Another 5 are in another quilt and there are two which I suspect will end up in the orphan block box.

The batting is Hobbs Bleached Tuscany.  I used Superior’s Omni Thread in Verbena on the top and a lavender pre-wound bobbin in the bottom. For quilting, I did a “feathery” fill in the red squares, 1/2 feathers and echo around the pieced blocks, curved outlining of the black pieces in the blocks and attempted a circular filler in the borders.

I found a printed plaid in my stash that worked well for the backing.

PurpleThanglesBOMBacking

 

This quilt is on several of my UFO goal lists for the year, including the 2014 Finish Along sponsored by The Littlest Thistle. I’ll update the link when I  link up.

Here’s the link to the 2nd Quarter Finish Party over at The Littlest Thistle and my 2nd Qtr list.

Posted in: 2014 Finish Along, finish, UFOs

Scrappy Irish Chain

May 14, 2014 1:28 am ⋅

irishadj

 

I’ve finished the Scrappy Irish Chain.  I used the pattern from Bonnie Hunter’s Adventures in Leaders and Enders.  The 4 patches were done as leaders/enders — but for two other quilts that I decided I wanted a different look to.  So, I repurposed the 4-patches, found a length of background fabric and completed the quilt top.  It had to age before it was ready to be a quilt.

irishdetailfront

irishdetailback

Details:

  • Repurposed the 4-patches 3/21/12
  • Completed the top 10/11/12
  • 1593 pieces / about 6 yards of fabric – all from stash
  • Wide backing (works out to about 5 yards of 45″ wide fabric) – the only new fabric
  • 8 – 2½” strips for binding – from stash
  • Warm & Natural batting
  • Superior Omni Thread – Light Tan in the top
  • Used just over 3 Super Bob – Cream(?) pre-wound bobbins
  • Continuous Curves in the dark part of the chain
  • Alternative blocks quilted with  G1-10 from Pam Clarke’s book Quilting Inside the Lines
  • Quilted in two sessions on May 9th  & 10th (about 4½  hours total)
  • Finished binding May 13, 2014
  • Quilt top measured 68″ x 83 before washing and 63″ x 79″ after

Edited:

  • Quilted on a rented Nolting long arm – I can’t remember which one.
  • Made a pillowcase to go with it from the backing and binding.

irishcase

 

Posted in: finish, Irish chain, UFOs

What’s On My Design Wall

May 5, 2014 8:10 am ⋅

musicbabyquilted

 

Actually, the music baby quilt is finished and delivered.  I’ve called it Lullaby for Chloe, as this was a gift for the high school orchestra director’s newborn daughter Chloe.

The center went together quite quickly as did the final borders and quilting once I got the embroidery done.

The batting is Warm and Natural. The quilting thread is cairo-quilt 100% cotton in Honey Gold. I quilted it on my DSM. Straight stitching through the chain, stitch in the ditch around the border, echoing of the top, bottom and middle staff line in the border and then an eighth-note in the background. (Click on the pictures to see the detail.)

musicbabyquiltedborder

musicbabyquilteddetail

The backing is a piece of baby animal music fabric I bought back when I made Ted’s music quilt. It wasn’t quite wide enough so I added a strip of gold to either side.

musicbabyquiltedback

musicbabybacking

  • Quilt started 3/15/14
  • Top completed 4/29/14
  • Quilt completed 5/3/14

Next up – prepping the backing for two quilts I’m quilting Friday and Saturday.

Hop over to Patchwork Times to see what others are working on.

Here’s the link to the 2nd Quarter Finish Party over at The Littlest Thistle and my 2nd Qtr list.

Posted in: baby quilt, designwall, finish

Side Tracked the Side Track

March 18, 2014 11:01 pm ⋅

toolcarrier closed

This evening I was sidetracked to make this relatively quick project. While we were out tonight, my husband bought some tools he could carry in his briefcase to tighten music stands at school. He needed something to contain them and protect the other stuff in his brief case.

With a piece of stash music fabric, scrap batting, pre-made wide bias tape, and sticky hook and loop tape, I whipped up this custom pouch.

toolcarrier open

Sticky hook and loop tape is not one of my favorite notions – but it was what I had and it made positioning the piece on the flap easy.

toolcarrier tools

Now I need to make a case for his batons and cute little 1/32 size bow he carries around for demonstrating bow holds. But that will be later. Right now I have to get back to the baby quilt. The border decision has been made and I have some embroidery to do.

carrieborder-2

 

 

 

Posted in: finish

Into the Mail

March 6, 2014 1:51 am ⋅

AugC_Cases

 

Quilted, bound, label, washed, cases made and into the mail. OK, it won’t arrive on Friday, but I gave it my best shot.

This is the weirdly titled “August C”.  The goal was to get it finished and to UPS by 8 PM Wednesday evening. About 7 o’clock I realized that wasn’t going to happen, so I ran over to Jo-Ann’s to get fabric for a couple of pillowcases.

The quilt measured 66″ x 82″ before it was washed. In my haste, I only got the width after washing 63″. The batting is Warm & Natural. The quilting is “A Little Bit of Fluff” using King Tut Cinnaberry — a red variegated thread. It took just over 2 pre-wound bobbins.

Getting this quilt done was not on my list for the year, but it is on the UFO list so all is good.

Posted in: finish