After finishing piecing a row of quilt blocks I checked the stitch count on the BERNINA 560 and it’s just over 1.5 million stitches since the last service. That was just over five years ago. That’s not a lot of stitches when 3 million per year is average expected. I clearly have not been doing… Continue reading Welcome to 2026
read moreI've been blogging recently about the quilts I managed to finish during the last nearly two years while isolating because of the Covid pandemic. I was in a funk for about the first six months of isolation and not sewing at all, but then I started making up for lost time. Now I'm playing catch-up on my blog.
After I made the quilt for Shirley A using orphan blocks (read about that here) I had a few teal crumb blocks left and set them aside to do something else with.
I shopped my stash and found these 2 ...
read moreEvery girl needs a new quilt when she leaves home to go off to college. Especially when her Aunt Sandy thinks she does! And even more so when her sisters have recently received new quilts. (You can read about Karlie's here and Kourtnie's here.) It was Kacie's turn.
Jennie Doan's "Summer Camp" pattern looked like fun, and I was in the mood to work with teals and grays. I dug into my stash and found something to work with, but I ended up adding a few fat-quarters to round out the mix. We have to do ...
read moreWay back in July of 2019, I attended a quilt retreat in Baton Rouge with other members of the BRMQG. After I got home, I finished up the top and added it to the bin. A couple of weeks ago I dug through the bin and chose this top to quilt.
This week I worked on the rainbow irish chain blocks for the rainbow scrap challenge. I have been able to stay current with this quilt.
So glad to have a little bit of teal to brighten things up a bit. I worked on the rainbow row by row this week making a zigzag. the HSTs are 3 1/2 inches. And the first two I sewed together were wrong LOL. There is one more Saturday in March for the rainbow scrap challenge, and I am nearly done with what I want to get finished in teal.
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The color for March and the rainbow scrap challenge is teal. I chose a more aqua color for my shine quilt.
I think these blocks are cute and fun. There is a link at the bottom of the post for the pattern. The rainbow scrap challenge color for the month of March is teal. I really like having a new color each month to help me weed out the useable scraps, and make something useful. These use 1 1/2 inch strips and squares.
I’ve completed piecing the top, measuring 72×108. The bottom two rows are tucked under – too long for my design wall!
Next step is using all the leftover fabric strips to piece the back. I’m hoping it will look like a giant square bulls-eye. Stay tuned for more!
