No quilting was done on Tuesday, but handwork progress was made Monday night after the guild meeting. More embroidery on Winter Wonderland and 5 1/2 neutral hexies added to this section.
As for the longarm, I have 2 quilts from customers to quilt, which is exciting. I also did this small wall hanging for a friend – I think I like the back better than the front. Once I get the border on Eclipse I’ll have a 3rd quilt in the queue.
Eclipse is now ready for borders. I’m still confident I’ll get this quilt finished by the end of the month.
In addition to getting the first ‘wing’ attached to the main body of my hexi quilt, I’ve stitched a few hexies for the next section.
I’m progressing through my February goals. One of my handwork goals was go to get one hoop of stitching done on my Winter Wonderland panel. This past weekend I did 3 and am about halfway through a 4th.
I still need to work on the next block on the Just Takes Two and make a Star for Star A Day. I feel confident I’ll get it all done this month.
It’s the first of the month and time to set some goals.
Up first is Eclipse. I would like to get this quilt bounds by the end of the month. This is on my 2026 Brandon Quilters UFO list.
For my 4th Saturday BOM, I would like to get at least the top hole filled in. Bonus if I get some of the other blocks in this section done.
For Handwork Tuesday, I’ll rotate between projects, depending on what my cats will let me do. For the hexi project, I would like to get the seams closed on the bottom of the picture and maybe complete the next round of neutral hexies.
Just one hoop full of redwork on my Winterwonderland.
At least one star on my Star-A-Day project.
This is the month I’ll find out the parameters for the Quilters By Hearts Desire President’s Challenge. My only goal with that is to figure out what I’m making.
If I get through all of this, I’ll start assembling Rivanna and/or make those Red, White and Blue napkins and jelly roll rug/placemats.
Handwork Tuesday actually started on Monday evening after Bunco. I prepped these blue hexies for the next row — just as soon as I get the neutral row stitched onto the section I’m working.
Tuesday, I stitched this section of my redwork. Time to move the hoop. Since I’ve worked on these two projects, I suppose next week I need to make a star.
On the Studio cleaning front I found my flat surfaces! The box on the sewing table is a bookshelf I need to assemble for the Sunroom, but I need to get the paint cans moved so I have a place for it. But since the flat surfaces are cleared, I can now start working on the Green and Orange Chain of Blossoms. I would love to get it quilted this week.
I have a number of project which are in Works Slow Progress – simply because I’m not working on them. I also like to make lists and plans which I may or may not follow through with. It’s perfectly OK when it comes to my quilting. Life happens, I get distracted. But I really would like to start to make progress on a few of these. So I have a few ideas.
Tuesday was picked because I have quilt guild meetings and Bunco on Monday’s. Also I enjoy watching TV on Tuesday night. If CBS changes the day the NCIS franchise airs, this day may move. So what am I going to work on on Tuesday? One of 3 projects. My Redwork Winter Wonderland, the current panel I’ve been stitching on forever is shown above. I have 2 more panels to stitch after I finish this one before I can start piecing the top. I started this quilt in 2007. My goal for 2026 is to finish this panel.
Next up for Handwork Tuesday is my Star-A-Day quilt which I started back in September 2014. I just checked and I have 103 stars done (this is a old picture). I would like to get 2 stars done a month. I need to find the journal I started when I started this quilt.
My final Handwork Tuesday project is my Hexi quilt. There’s just one issue I’m not sure where the bag is that it is in. I need to find it sooner than later because I would love to significant progress on it this year and I am demonstrating this a a quilt guild meeting later this year. I started this quilt in April 2014.
I have several BOM which have way more than 12 blocks. I want to take one day a month to simply make progress on these quilts. First up is Just Takes Two. I think there are 29 more blocks, plus the border. I started this in 2012. 
With 77 blocks made I’m just over halfway done with this block a week quilt I started in January 2007. This is Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler.
I want to make every block from Bonnie Hunter’s Addicted to Scrap quilt, then combine it into a single quilt. If I have counted correctly there are 92 blocks and I only have 18 made. I started this project February 2021.
I have quilt guild or Bunco on the first 3 Monday’s a month, so when we have a 5th Monday it’s bonus time. These are some of the blocks from my Star Studded BOM started October 2019. As near as I can tell I just have the center star and maybe one more to go before I can start assembling it. Even if I only work on it the 5th Monday (March, June, August & November), I think I can finish the top by the end of the year.
I hope that Handwork Tuesday, 4th Saturday BOM and 5th Monday Bonus allows me to make progress on some of these Works in Slow Progress. With the exception of Star Studded, I do not anticipate finishing these tops this year. After all I have other quilts I want to finish this year!
You are not imagining it, this is not A Vintage Christmas Sampler. Over the weekend I flew to Philadelphia for a work trip, so there was no quilting. I was able to take my Winter Wonder Land project. I’ve been working on this project since January 2007 — not this particular scene, but the project as a whole. I got this far and moved the hoop. That was as far as I got. It looks like I’m half way through this piece, then I have 2 more sections to go.
When I got home I saw my tomato plants had grown and the lettuce needs harvesting. I had it picked back before I left town.
This is what you came for. These are all of the blocks I have completed for A Vintage Christmas Sampler by Kansas Troubles Quilters. Last night I sewed together what I could. I still need to finish the log cabin, ornaments and HST blocks. I hope to get them done this week.
