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RSC2026-March goals accomplished

March 21, 2026 by Sue 4 Comments

For those of you who read last week my moaning about no bright reds, guess what? I remembered that I had pulled a ton of reds into a box to make “Winter Cardinal” by Bonnie Hunter last year. But I never got around to starting it & there they sat. So some of these Nine-Patches got brights! See why I need to get projects done? And in some cases, started & done? Yes, that’s why this is the year of the finishes.

My March goals are accomplished:

1 WIP-Flag Day

8 Starlets

5 Nine Patch/Snowballs

10 Houses for My Town

I’ve had a bit more time for sewing this week, so I feel good about that, plus now I have a week to work on another WIP. Yay!

RSC2026-March wk. 2 sees red

March 14, 2026 by Sue 4 Comments

I got to dig into my red scraps & made ten red houses for the Quilter’s Cove QAL. I also discovered that I need to go shopping for some bright red FQ’s! I have a bin full of rust & maroon chunks inherited from an older quilter who had to give up her stash. I promised to use it up & I’m slowly doing that, but I’m low on bright reds. Apparently I decimated them last year! I have what I need to finish up March, but next year…… 🙂

My red-centric WIP for the month is done & ready for the quilter. This was a previous quilt group project & used up lots of red strips. My partners made theirs with 5 matching reds, but I had so many random red strips leftover from rolls that I figured scrappy was the way to go. I used them all & only cut a little yardage, then made the 3 stars from the same fabrics for consistency.

RSC2026-March begins

March 7, 2026 by Sue 4 Comments

March began & not a red block in sight! Ah, well. I finished my green projects with the Starlets blocks. So all goals accomplished with an extra WIP in green.

This little personal project got me sidetracked. I bought the FPP pattern last March & planned to do it before this March, so started it in February, but it took a while. I got it together this week.

And my desk & machine look like this. I’m making a scrappy keyboard border. The plan for today is to finish it, quilt it, & get the binding on for hand-sewing. Then some red cutting can begin. Are you behind like me or busy with red??

RSC2026-last green Feb week

February 28, 2026 by Sue 3 Comments

This is what I’ve spent most of my sewing time on this week. I started the Riley Blake QAL From Our House last year by cutting all the strips for the 20 log cabin blocks in January. I made the first 4 alternate designer 6.5″ center blocks & put together 1 whole block. That’s in the upper left. I became disenchanted with the alternate blocks & it got left behind as a WIP. I really like the pattern & want to finish. Inspired by my continual harping about getting WIP’s done, my quilting partners have been sewing up their purchased kits during their personal sewing time.

We are almost done with our current project of a flag quilt & last week we were discussing our next project. For the first time in all our years of sewing together, we are NOT going to make our own versions of the same pattern. Instead, we are all going to do a previously started kit or project of our own. I thought about what I wanted to do & picked this. I’ve spent the week substituting some other 6.5″ blocks so that there aren’t any duplicates from the original pattern, cutting the center blocks, adding them to bags with the previously cut logs & labeling them so I know what I’m doing. Each week, I can grab a bag, work on a block & get ‘er done!

I got all the pieces cut for my Starlets blocks & they will have to be sewed up today, the last day of green February. At the top you can see the FPP I started last week. I made the 4 A quadrants & still need to make B, C, & D then sew them into 4 shamrocks & turn them into a mini quilt for March.

I remembered I had another kinda green WIP that’s been hanging around for a while. The blocks were all sewed together & I had started hand quilting it months ago but the embroidered blocks are so heavy that the sashing doesn’t hold them. I unpicked & left it. On Saturday, I bought some green thread & did some FMQ with my machine in the sashing in one sitting, made & sewed on the binding, then three TV evenings got it tacked down. So this project begun in 2021 is done & hanging on the wall. I ordered a hanger as soon as I finished quilting & it got here at the same time as I finished binding. Win!

The colors are more vibrant IRL, but you may recall this “County Fair” quilt by Amy Smart from the book, “Scrap School”. It was an RSC2025 project, so you saw the blocks come together. Well, it’s done & I may have a hard time gifting it because I really love it. My quilting partners say I have a big enough house to have quilts everywhere! Hmm. Maybe so……

RSC2026-green Feb week 3

February 21, 2026 by Sue 8 Comments

This has been a successful green month so far. With my monthly WIP finished, I concentrated on some of the other projects. I’m doing Our Town by Material Girl Quilts for the Quilter’s Cove QAL. It’s a free pattern from Covid days when everyone was making little house quilts. I didn’t get the January blue houses done, so made 9 this week. I’m going with scrappy gray roofs & black doors for all the houses & using up charm squares, as this is a charm square friendly pattern. Ditto for the 19 trees required, which is my green for the month. There will be no green houses, because…….green trees.

I worked on the Nine-Patch & Snowball quilt by cutting all the squares & corners for the snowball blocks & making some of them. I made 5 green nine-patches & attached a snowball to all the blocks currently sewed. I also started an FPP shamrock thing that has been a fun diversion.