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!