Cool September

 Not that I believe to last of the hot days are over, but it's been cool all the days of September so far.  Thanks be to God! And I've gotte some things done. I'm working on a Guild challenge for this month's meeting.  The theme is hearts, and I've used the three hearts that I made for out 2025 BOM. A win win. 

Not very creative, but I need another table runner for my buffet and thought this one would work for February. It's 16" by 42".  I've sandwiched it and now ready to quilt.  

In my daughter's Angie bag - yes, named after me - I found a flimsy that I hope to finish for my BFF. What is an Angie bag?  Well, a few years back I cleaned out my sewing room and found lots of stuff I didn't want, and decided to give them to my guild. So I packaged them up and took them to a meeting. They were a hit.  Took a couple of others and they were popular also.  So then I had to stop attending guild because I began care-giving my mom who has dementia and needed help. She lives in a town 45 miles away. So I stay two days, overnight after the first to avoid the horrid traffic, and give my brother relief at least one night a week. Unbeknownst to me, the guild decided to keep up the Angie bags because there were others who had stuff they wanted to get rid of.  The plan is one takes a bag, takes out what is wanted and adds things they want to get rid of, and bring back the bag for someone else.

Inside the bag along with that flimsy was a yard of fabric just right as a border to add to the flimsy. Here she be:

I think it's prefect for two 80 years old something friends. We've be friends since our early 20s. I hope she likes it. Measure 44" square and should make a  cozy lap quilt. My friend is having balance and walking issues, so it will come in handy for her.

Working on quilting the panel "The Last Supper". Not much to show on it. I try to do some little bit every day. Lots of different color threads to use.  

I've had the most success with the color blue. You can see the outline stitches I did for each of the figures dressed in blue. Doesn't the figure on the right of this photo look like a woman? Also did the hair in a very light orange. Blended in well.

I was going to use a gold/silver metallic thread to outline Jesus, but then thought better of it. He came to be like us. Why would I make him different?

Well, that's all for now. The weather has been cooperating and I haven't fell woozy or nauseous at all. Praise the Lord.  I'm linking to Design Wall Monday and Wednesday Wait Loss  - see you there! Blessing to you all,

 

August (as Usual ) is HOT!

 August is Hot. I'm talking of 100 + degrees of hotness. Yesterday it was 110! That said I don't do well in hot weather and my output on the quilting side of things has suffered. So here goes what little I did: 

That BOM block that needed side borders - done, but not quilted.

Then I started on another BOM block inspired 36" baby quilt by making a sample block.

This is an 18" block of which I"m not sure I'll be using these fabrics. One for the orphan block pile.

And then I made a sample block for our next St. Anne's project which is 8.5". 

Lastly, I've sandwiched a quilt that's going to be raffled at our church festival.  I have to have it finished by Oct. 1st as it will be raffled Oct 4th.

Thanks for stopping by. I'm linking to Design Wall Monday and Oh, Scrap! at Quilting is More Fun than Housekeeping for now.

Another Month Mostly Gone

Well, July is mostly gone now. It has been hot most of the time, and I mean Hot (hottest - 106 just last Wednesday). I don't do well in the heat. I had a deep brain stroke that wiped out a part of my pituitary gland that regulates body temperature. Now if it goes hotter than 86 or lower than 60, man I feel it. For heat I get dizzy and nauseous. I have to go to a cool room and and just lay down. For cold, I get the shivers and my body temp drops. So I stay near a heater then.  Sigh. It is what it is. 

So what have I been quilting?

I almost finished the Carpenter's Star flimsy. Just have to add 2" border around it to be a 36" quilt.

Begun another BOM block expansion. This is June's.

Need to add the right and left sides and will be at flimsy stage. For this one I made the BOM block 12 1/2" by 12 1/2" and used it for the center, then built around it. This will be the fifth flimsy I have. Got to start quilting them!

The July BOM block are two 9 1/2" blocks.  I'm going to make them 18" and make four for the 36" baby blanket needed. 

In between lay downs, house work and other stuff, I'll be cleaning my cutting table and taking all the small scraps and making mug rugs, I think.  I'll be linking to a couple of linky parties. They are: Design Wall Mondays and Monday's Musings, Hope to see you there.

What are you up to?  Most of the country is hot, too. So stay cool and, sit down and read a book or work on a hand sewing project. God protect our friends and neighbors who have it worse with tornadoes, flooding and wildfires!

Blessings,

June's Blog Post

 I didn't mean for a quarter to pass by before I posted again, but that's what happened! Let see if I can summarize all that I been doing as far as quilting - NOT the falls (Mom's and mine) nor the demands of home, care-giving, and life in general. Sooo, here goes:

In March I made my third BOM block into a baby quilt (See Feb post for why I did this). Took a 12" block and made it into a 36" block, big enough for the baby quilts St. Anne wants for newborns.

Waiting to be sandwiched, quilted and bound. Also completed the sew along I created for the St. Anne's ladies. Wish I could show you all the cute versions they made.  Here is mine:

Finally finished all the applique on this Esther Aliu pattern. Phew! Now to  add the next border.

 I also finished my contribution to SAHRR (Stay at Home Round Robin:

Then, in April made a pillowcase for my granddaughter's 16th birthday which was on the 16th!

I belong to the Seasoned Makers, an online group, which acts like a online guild but with online meetings, sip and sew zoom sessions, and provides all kinds of patterns to demo the great videos it displays of different tricks to piecing blocks , and making quilts from them.  I made a baby quilt from the weathervane block from one of those videos:

Made it into a  baby quilt measuring 36" square.

In June finished a demo of a carpenter star for the St. Anne's Sewdality group. They learned to make 4 flying geese at once. As far as we've gotten:

That's it for this quarter. I'll try to do better and keep you posted on what I'm up to quilty wise. Blessings and stay safe.

Another Flimsy

I'm making the Raincross Quilt Guild's Block of the Month into baby quilts each month instead of blocks for an eventual quilt. Why?  Because I seem to get behind and never finish the BOMs. So since I want to make at least one baby quilt each month for St. Anne's, I'll have one done.  Just needs to be 36" square. We make these for newborns and for use in strollers and car seats. Each low income mother gets one when they come in for their first post partum visit at the local county clinic.  There are 12 of us that belong to St. Anne's (our local St. Francis de Sales Catholic parish). So we usually take around 12-15 quilts per month. Sadly, that provides a day's worth of visits by moms to the clinic.  We are comforted that we at least meet some of the need.

Here is my flimsy from Feb's BOM block:

Just have to sandwich, quilt, bind and label.

I'm linking to Design Wall Monday , Wednesday Wait Loss, and Oh, Scrap! See you there.

Blessings, off to start the March baby quilt.

My SAHRR is Done!

At last! My SAHRR flimsy is done.  I finished it last Wednesday, but didn't have time to post it. Here it is:

 Round 4 was to use curves, I let the curvy lines of the flowers fabric of my Kaffe Fasset pieces stand for that. And Round 5 was to use two colors. I chose to instead use two fabrics. To tie it together, I used a fabric from Round 3 to be my Round 6.  Now I just have to quilt it.

I'm linking to Oh Scrap!, and Design Wall Monday. Its fun to see what you are all up to.   Blessings,

Nearing the Finish

Nearing the finish of my SAHRR.  I've decided to  use my creative license to interpret the rounds. So here goes.  I made round 4 as suggested but then I decided that round 5 which was two colors was for me two fabrics. It now measures 36" by 38".

So here it is:

Now to round 6! I'm linking to Design Wall Monday.  See you there.

Blessings to you all,

I'm So Behind!

 I'm so behind with my SAHRR. I've finally finished Round 3 today. I opted for the cornerstones to highlight the animal block I chose - duck's foot as the State of Hawaii bird is a Nene goose. Here it is:

 Off to work on round 4. It's a good thing that we've got till March 25th for the parade of quilts.

I'm linking to Design Wall Monday.  See you there.

Blessings,

And Round #3!

The prompt was an animal block. I looked and looked but came up with nada, zilch that I wanted to make.  Then I thought of the state bird of Hawaii - the Nene - and I found one called Duck's Foot. Perfect. BUT do I want to make the full block or a partial duck foot. Got to think about that. In the mean time, I'm concerned about the round #2. It just doesn't look finished to me. So I added another border around it. Here's what it looks like now:

I'm going to make a couple of duck's foot blocks and play around with it to see what I want to do. 

Thanks for stopping by. I'm linking to Design Wall Monday. See you there! Blessings,

 

And a BOM!

My quilt guild is doing their annual Block of the Month.  January's block is posted.  While I worked on my 2025 quilt, I didn't get far as reality put a hold on my quilting as I tried to fit 7 days of activities into 5 (care give my mom 2 days).  Thus I only did 3 months of the twelve and have made myself another UFO.  So what to do about the 2026?

I'm still quilting and trying to make a baby quilt each month for our church quilting group. So thinking about the time problem, I've decided to use the clue to make a baby quilt out of the block proposed for the BOM. Here's what I've done:

These have to be sewn together, but I have all the units made. I'm working with bug fabric that my mom had in her stash. Think I'll call it Bugs Galore. That's tiny lady bugs in the yellow green fabric, and all kinds of bug jars in the quarter square triangle blocks.

I'm linking to Design Wall Monday and Carol's To-Do Tuesday link party.  See you there. Blessings to you all, and if you're in a cold place, I'll be praying for you that the power stays on.

SAHRR Round #2

 After admiring the many round#2s already posted, I came to decision on mine.  Here it is:

I don't know what the block is called, but I'm sure I've seen it before (and that's why I'm calling it a double take), and you can probably guess what the next round will be for me. 

I'm linking to Kathleen McMusing's linky party for all the other round #2s. Have a look. There are some great quilts emerging there. Also linking to Quilting is more fun than Housework - she's amazing! Leave me a comment and I'll take a look at what you are up to and reciprocate.  Blessings,

SAHRR Round # 1

 A wee bit behind but I got Round 1 done Tuesday but didn't have time to post due to my care giving duties. Here is round one:

The round called for quarter square triangle blocks.  I chose to do one in each corner.

Round 2 is a churn dash block.  I'll see what I'll come up with.

What are you up to? Leave me a comment and I'll be by to see your work.

Time for SAHRR

 That's Stay At Home Round Robin to those who aren't familiar with this acronym.  Started Jan 14th with a linky party at Quilting Gail for the center blocks we're going to use.

Here's what I'm using:

Check it out!

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,

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,