A Finish To Start Off 2026

 Hello! Happy New Year and God's blessings throughout 2026. I have a finish to report, and I'm so happy to have it done. There's a young family that I've been watching coming to the crying room at our church. She waddled in the Sunday after Thanksgiving and I knew she didn't have much time left before a new, precious baby would come into the world.

So here it is January, and they came back to church the weekend after Christmas. It's another girl for them. I've let St. Anne's know that this quilt that I finished is going to a particular family.  They're excited to be able to have one of our quilts go to our parish family.

Here it is:

I was pleased that there are Tinkerbells (just right for a girl) in this quilt which measures 36.5" square. Good size for newborns, car seats and strollers. There is a cute elephant flannel for the back.  All I need to do now is label and wash. It will be ready for Sunday.

I'm linking up with Monday's Musings, Stories from the Sewing Room, and Design Wall Monday. Check them out. Lots of love and hugs to you all.

Before the New Year

As this is the next to the last day of 2025, I thought I'd report on the month of December now.

Not to do with quilting, but still a milestone, hubby and I celebrated our 57th wedding anniversary. How did we celebrate it? Hubby asked me a question that required me to look at the calendar to answer. And there it was: Happy Anniversary! 57

We looked at each other with shock. Then he got up from the dinner table and gave me a kiss which led to our wishing a H A  to each other. Then we got on with dinner. That was our celebration.  Here's a photo of the two of us a long while ago. Look the same, but grayer.

On to the quilty stuff: 

   Spent much of the little time I had for non-"Christmasy" things working on a UFO from 11 years ago.  I finally got all the applique done by finishing the upper right bouquet. There was nothing there to begin with.  Now to embroider the berries on three of the bouquets. This is the center of Love Entwined by Esther Aliu.

I also quilted one of the baby flimsies I had around for a while. I finally bought myself a Janome Even Feed foot (aka as a walking foot) for my Juki. I'd had it with the trouble I had with the Juki walking foot not being able to see my stitch in the ditch on the left side. The Janome worked beautifully. Here is the baby quilt sans binding. Plus some shots of my FMQ (although not very exciting besides my walking foot passes).

I'm linking to Monday's Musings, a fine linky party, see you there. And Happy New Year!!

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Progrees is Made

Progress is made, at least some.  More blocks were added to the baby quilt I was working on (see previous post). More scraps were used. I'd like to finish it (at least the flimsy) before St Anne's meeting Thursday. Three blocks to go.

What have you been up to?  Leave me a comment and I'll stop by and see what you're doing, and leave a comment, too. I'm linking to Design Wall Monday and Monday's Musings. Stop by to see some darling quilts and flimsies.  Blessings,