Quilting

Progress on my blue WIP for my monthly goal. Can I finish this week?? Rocky Road to Grayson is a Bonnie Hunter pattern so the sashing is a ton of sewing: 3 strips with all 4 corners snowballed, then 1.5″ 9-patches for the cornerstones. So lots of time sending stuff under the needle. But the first two rows are together, the third is ready to have its top sashing attached, leaving two more rows for this week. Bonnie loves borders & I do not, so my lap-size version of her pattern is looking big enough for me. (Peeking out on the right are the first of the 4.5″ string blocks for Bonnie’s Stardust. Lots more are started on my table but these made it to the finish line.)

Cozy evening binding got this quilt group project all bound up. It’s a Brightly pattern, made after we did our Christmas version. This uses up all the leftover Songbook kit fabrics, with some stash thrown in, for a fully scrappy stash quilt. The night after I finished it, my son & daughter-in-law were over & I showed it to her. She loved it & asked if she could inherit it. I said, no, she could just have it now. So she chose the name, “Autumn Bloom”, I wrote on the tag, sewed it down & she left with a new quilt.

In other blue news, our current quilt group project is a flag quilt, each in our own fabrics. We’ve been working on these sawtooth stars since November. There are 60 total so lots of tiny flying geese. For Christmas, one of the group gave us each a Wing Clipper I, by Studio 180 Design, so the last set went much faster. They got sewed together with sashing this week & the blocks are now done. Next week we start sewing red & white stripe blocks.

I am making progress on Rocky Road to Grayson by Bonnie Hunter, begun in January 2022. It’s my blue WIP for the month. 10 of the blocks were in my box, so only 3 are new this week. They were made with pieces already in the project box. There was lots of unpicking & re-sewing before I remembered the tricks I learned the first time around. So now I’m on a roll.

I pulled out the string bins & made all the string triangles to do the 7 additional blocks I need for the size I’m making. They need the blue sides, then I need to cut & sew sashing. I have light blue Sparkler fabric for the sashing to match the darker blue Sparkler for the side triangles. I’m excited to move this along.

And this got the binding hand-sewed down. It’s my RSC2024 Split 9-Patch top & was made completely with scraps & stash, except for the backing. And the backing cut-offs provided the sashing for the County Fair quilt from last year that I just picked up from the quilter today! Round & round we go. I started binding my Brightly #2 last night, so County Fair will be next in the evening sewing queue. Squee!

Happy New Year! It’s January & blue is the color. I finished this January tabletopper last night with a blue backing & binding. I purchased the kit last winter so I’d have plenty of time to make it before this January. And I made it in the last week. Sigh. But it’s done & ready for the table once we get Christmas put away & snowmen out.

I made some more Black & White framed blocks for the new block drive at Many Hands Many Hearts. These are opposite from the ones I made last month, as these are white on black frames. If you want to make some, too, get all the details here.

The Nine Patches in blue are for my new project: Nine Patch and Snowball Quilt. I didn’t write down who just made one, so if it’s you, leave me a comment! But you sent me to this post & that’s what I’m using.

You may recognize this RSC2024 project of mine. It’s FPP with Lori Holt’s Wonky Hearts papers. I used a rainbow layer cake I had, then finally used the hoarded layer cake of Tula Pink Fairy Dust that I was saving for “the perfect project”. The flimsy hung around in the closet & finally got quilted earlier this year using the matching Fairy Dust wide backing which is the same pattern blown up. So cute! Then it hung around in the closet for a few more months when I pulled it out this month & sewed down the binding.

I finally eked out a little time with my sewing machine yesterday, so I cut & started sewing the snowman tabletopper I bought supplies for in the summer. You know, so it would be done in plenty of time for January. (eye roll) Maybe you will see it finished soon. Between Christmas & New Year’s I’m going to finalize my RSC2026 plan. I’ve been noodling around some ideas & need to make decisions for the new year!