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,

October Doings

October is behind us.  Does that put us in the Winter months?  I think it does. The skies have been foggy in the mornings - a thick fog that doesn't go away until near noon. So strange for us here in SoCal.  I've gotten the backing for Project H which was October's UFO. Designed by Shelly Pagliai of  Prairie Moon Quilts for a special retreat. She made it into mostly 12" blocks, but I didn't want such a big quilt, so I made my blocks to be 6" finished blocks instead. Now to find batting that fits it.  It's sad that there is only one quilt store in our city, and Riverside has over 325K citizens. We use to have 4 at one time. Makes shopping harder for us quilters who want to see the fabric we are buying. Here's  the quilt flimsy:

Also, I'm back working on another baby quilt for St. Anne's. Piecing the 9 1/2" blocks now, and putting them up on my design wall as I make some progress.

What's up on your design wall? Leave me a comment and I'll come and take a look at your work.  I'm adding this to Design Wall Monday  and Alicia's Quilty Girl. See you there. 

Blessings,

A Finish

I have a finish that comes 19 years after its start. My dear 13 year-old niece came for a week visit and we decided to make a quilt. I made the blocks and let her design the quilt.  It was mostly blue and yellow as they were her favorite colors then.  We finished the quilt and she left it with me to quilt. Nineteen years ago I was a very beginner quilter and I didn't have money to have it long armed. So it sat.

Spurred on by my joining Dive into UFOs in 2025 (on Facebook) and sponsored by( crazymoosefabrics.com on web and Facebook), I finally got back to it. 

And some of the quilting:

I'm giving it to her for her birthday which is coming up soon.

What are you up to? Leave me a comment and I'll visit your blog and have a look at your doings. I'm leaving this post at Monday Musings. Have a look at others fine work. Blessings,

Sum of September

 Summing up September I did finish that baby quilt where I was making wreaths, started on another quilt and finished 2 flimsies.

1) Here's the baby quilt I finished:

and the back:

Cute flannel .

2) I finished my sew-along flimsy:

This is my use of scraps for now.

Here's the baby quilt I've started. I added another row:

 And lastly a flimsy for a raffle opportunity we're going to launch:

Measures 54" x54". Was a Cloth World/JoAnn Block of the Month kit.  We did a part of it.

That's it for me. What have you been up to?  Leave me a comment and I'll visit your blog and catch up. I'm sharing with Cynthia on her Oh Scraps' linky party.  And Design Wall Monday, Check it out. Blessings,

Report for August

Had a bit of success - bit of quilting that is.

   

Finally finished the quilting on this baby quilt. Used straight line, circles, outlining and more. 

Here's the back where you can see more of the quilting.

Then I did my project for my UFO Challenge for Diving into our UFOs.

My challenge was to take an old box of 3 1/2" blocks and make something out of them. Way too many to use but I came up with this 100 block flimsy  which I quilted and bound as a St. Anne's baby quilt.

I used a sweet little elephant flannel for the back.

That's it for me this month. Lots going on here with care giving my mom, looking after hubby - i.e. making dinners, and water aerobics, etc, etc.

I'm linking to Design Wall Mondays. See you there. Blessings,

Report for July

 Well, what did I do for July? Welll, not much in the finishing department.

But I worked on a few things.

Firstly, I worked on my baby quilt that I seem to have forever been at it. I'm quilting it now.  Got all the grid work done, and now adding wreaths to the center blocks.

I'm using freezer paper to quilt them.  I cut out the wreath and cut between the blades to make it easier to remove the paper. You can't see the cuts but they are there. I go over the top edge of the first blade then go down towards the circle then back up and continue this way until I'm back at the first one I've done. Then I go down the last blade and do the circle.

Next,  I saw a different friendship star (I think it was on Facebook) and wanted to try it. This is what I came up with using partial seams to construct it.

And here's the first row of my next St. Anne's baby quilt. They're 9 1/2" stars and four rows will make a 36" quilt.

Thirdly,  I made the next round of our groups sew along. They just had to make 4 blocks with their scrappy fabrics and their background. Each one is 6 1/2" square.

I'll close with a Facebook photo of a wonderful quilt. It was shared by the Mystery 50 group which I've joined to do their first mystery. It was fun.

What have you been up to?  Leave a comment and I'll go see your post and say hi.  I'm linking to Design Wall Monday since most of these are on my wall. Visit and see all the lovely quilts being posted. Blessings,

June's Report

Late with this report. But here goes:

Finished up my mystery quilt and made it into a flimsy for a baby quilt.

Above it is a finished mystery, and below it is as a finished flimsy (36" square) :

Got the first of the flowers on the fourth section of the center of Love Entwined done:

And worked on the demo kit for the next step in the sew along - here step finished for the ladies to see what they are working toward:

How are you doing? Leave me a comment and I'll get back to you. I'm linking to Design Wall Monday,  and Melva loves Scraps..., 

Blessings!

Report for May

Hello, getting a monthly report in. I'm trying to do better at posting in a more timely manner. Here is my May endeavors - some finishes and some progress.

Argh! Hubby was holding this upside down. Oh well. This a tube baby quilt which I made for my Grand niece born two month's early due to eclampsia. Named Liliana Rosalie. Welcome sweet baby girl!

Made some progress on my Love Entwined. Those pesky 1/8" stems took a long time to make. Flowers next.

Had to add a back to this sweet little quilt. Mom embroidered it some time ago, but the knots showed on the back, thus the required back. Then bound it.

Participated in a Mini Mystery Sew Along. It was fun! Came out to 21" square. Have decided to enlarge it by adding some more borders to 36" and donate it to our St. Anne's group at church.

My design wall is full of these projects.

I'm linking to Design Wall Mondays and Wednesday Wait Loss. Lots of interesting quilts there.  Oh, yes, I've added the first row to my mini flimsy. One or two more to go.

It was a busy month. Mom is doing well. She has some good days and some not so good. I think she does fine for a 99 year-old. 

That's it for the May month. What are you up to?  Leave a comment and I'll visit you to see how it's going at your house. Blessings!

What I've Been Up to These last Four Months

 Where does the time go? What with caregiving my mom, and trying to fit 7 days into 5, I find myself always on the go. And at 79, yes, 79 I find myself more stressed than normal. But I've tried to keep up with quilting even if I only do 15 minutes a day. Not that I get 15 in every day, but I do average about 4 a week.

So, what have I been up to? I'll get my photos on my cell and share.

January:

Quilted this UFO flimsy I bought at a yard sale. It was 8 blocks that were anywhere from 8 3/4" to 9 1/2".  Made them all 9 inches and constructed the center block. Made the flimsy in 2024 but didn't get it quilted until the first month of 2025. Gave to St. Anne's as a baby quilt measuring 36" square.

February:

My guild is having a block of the month quilt along. Here is February's  blocks - hearts 12" by 10".

March:

I joined a UFO completion project ( Dive into UFOs in 2025) and this is one for March to finish - a friend's old quilt needs a little love.  I had a dickens of a time finding material to match. Didn't find any but picked some 70s fabric to add to it.

Another finish - I made this from a leader-ender work with scraps. I call it The Holy Hour. My reminder of visiting the Holy Eucharist enclosed in a monstrance. The two outer rows are people in adoration and prayer.

April:

Besides a monthly UFO to work on, we have a quarterly UFO to also work on if we get done with our monthly challenge.  Mine was Love Entwined which I started in 2011!  Adding 1/8th inch wide stems here. Needless to say, I'm behind, but I do want to work on it.

April:

For April's monthly UFO, I'm working on a baby quilt that I'm calling Jewels. Got the idea from a photo I saw on the NET. 

Caught up for now. I'm linking to Wednesday Wait Loss. Give a look.

What are you working on?  Let me know and I'll come by and admire it.

Blessings,

2024 QUILT Year's End - a Review of the Quilts I made in this Year.

 Goodness!  I haven't posted since May! What a slug a bed I've been.  But I have been quilting. You may notice that finishes were several months apart. I care give my Mom two days a week and that really cuts into my time, especially with the drive I have to make getting there. I'm not a fan of freeway driving. Plus I fell twice and that cut into quilting time as I had to convalesce, but all is better now as I work on my balance. So here's a recap of the quilts I've made during 2024:

First off - I bound 3 flimsies that I finished in December 2023

That first one I didn't get a photo of it bound, but it was bound and given to St. Anne's. The second one was my SAHRR for 2023, and the third was another for St. Anne's.

I had so many leftover triangles I put together this miniature in January. Measures 16 1/2" square.

Then in March, I tested a pattern for Jen of Faith and Fabric designs. She had a pattern for a complete rosary (beautiful!), but I didn't have time, so I made a rosary circlet (one decade of a rosary).

Then in June I finished off an orphan block quilt for St. Anne's. Measured 36 1/2" square.

Found again in August, and finally finished this 2023 flimsy. Made with scrap blocks and blocks of an accent fabric. Again measures 36 1/2" for St. Anne's.

I made this table runner as a housewarming gift for a friend. These were orphan blocks. She liked it and had a perfect spot for it in her living room. 

In October, I made a Baby Star Quilt from a pattern by Caroline of  Sew Can She  . The pattern was free the day she posted it. It was a fun one to make for St. Anne's.

In November, I put together a  Seuss quilt made from some leftover fabric from another quilter's project for St. Anne's. The quilt was inspired by a Pat Sloan quilt for P & B Textiles called The Garden of Brambleberry Farm. Thank you, Pat.

December found me finishing/near finishing two WIPS! One a completed quilt and the other a flimsy.  The finished quilt was an orphan and scrap blocks quilt I put together. I was going to give it to St. Anne's, but I liked some of my orphan blocks so much that I decided to keep it for myself. The second quilt which is the flimsy was a project I picked up at our Guild's free table that someone decided not to finish. There were 8 Stack n Whack blocks already made and some extra material. Unfortunately, the blocks were not  the 9" they were suppose to be. Here's one before I rescued it.

I took them all apart and resewed them back together with scant quarter inch seams and then they matched. I made a 12" center block and added sashing to the blocks. Measures 37 1/2" square. Now to quilt it.

I look forward to seeing your end of the year reviews. Drop me a comment and I'll go by and see yours. Blessings,