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RSC2026-green Feb week 3

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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.

RSC2026-Feb week 2

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My WIP goal for February is done! This quilt by The Pattern Basket was begun with my quilt group in 2018 & then abandoned by me with two birds left. My partners finished theirs immediately. I should say that the bird house was my own addition, replacing two bird blocks. It’s now with one of my quilting partners for quilting. She’s thinking clouds & aqua thread because the background has aqua polka dots.

This week, I also got started on the Quilter’s Cove QAL. My pattern choice has houses & trees, so I cut out all the pieces for 19 green tree blocks & chose fabric for January’s blue houses. Hoping to get all caught up on that in the next two weeks, plus green Starlets & Nine-Patch/Snowball. Happy Valentine’s Day!

2026 What’s in a Name?

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I’ve done this reading challenge for several years & was sad that it seemed to have disappeared, but hooray! It’s back on!

-The challenge runs from January 1 to December 31, 2026. You can sign up any time, but only count books that you read between those dates.
-Read a book in any format (hard copy, ebook, audio) with a title that fits into each category.
-Don’t use the same book for more than one category.
-Creativity for matching the categories is not only allowed, it’s encouraged!
-You can choose your books as you go or make a list ahead of time.
-In 2026, choose 6 books that have titles that contain:
Six/6: Titles for this category need to include the word “six” or number “6” somewhere in the title, even if they are part of another word or number.
Cold weather: Your title for this category should include a word that describes cold weather such as “snow,” “ice,” blizzard,” “frozen,” etc.
Peace: Titles for this category need to include a word that describes peace: “peace,” “serenity,” “still,” “calm,” etc, even if it doesn’t directly mean “peace.”
Pathways: Titles for this category need to include words that are types of paths: “trail,” “road,” “avenue,” “sidewalk,” etc.
Terrain: Titles for this category need to include a word for a type of topographic terrain or the name of a particular part of terrain. Types of terrain: Mountains, Hills, Plains, Plateaus, Valleys, Deserts, Forests/Jungles, Wetlands, Coastal, Glacial/Polar
Flower: Titles for this category need to include a type of flower or the word “flower.”

RSC2026-week 3 of January blues

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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 still need to sew my blue Starlets blocks, which are cut out. I’ve chosen my pattern for the Quilter’s Cove QAL, but no fabrics have been cut or sewn. It’s the My Town Quilt by Material Girl Quilts. I feel like blue may bleed into February!

RSC2026-blue January week 2

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First, this Christmas present from the hubby got hung up in my studio. Yay! 2008 is the year I first started quilting so that’s the date on the sign.

I cut little “kits” for the blue Starlets blocks. A necessary step before they can be sewed, so still in the blue mode & I hope to get the stitched up before January ends.

All blocks completed for Rocky Road to Grayson! During some 2025 months, I made string blocks to save up for future donation quilts, so 2 got made this week as L&E’s.

Cutting sashing for RR has begun & will continue next week. These will be strip sewn sets of blue-white-blue with scrappy 9-patch cornerstones. So still lots of scrap cutting & sewing to get this one to the finish line. But I’m happy about the current progress & there’s still lots of month left.

With the release of Bonnie Hunter’s new pattern, Stardust, & the strings all over the sewing table, I may have started a new quilt. Yikes! I know, you’re saying to yourself that it’s January & she’s already fallen off the wagon. But this is an entirely string quilt so it will take FOREVER, & I’m just going to stitch on it when I need relaxing sewing & want to have piles of strings all over the place. No deadline for this one, but it’s blue & white so what better month to begin???