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Another Festival of Quilts is already over! I first attended as a visitor with 3 small children in tow in 2006, represented APQS for a few years and Bernina UK Q-Series long-arm machines for the past 10 years. I think I missed 3 shows in all those years, possibly 2007, 2009 and 2020 (like everyone else). I do not have a complete set of pin badges for every year and this year they were sold out by Day 2. I took quite a few photos of competition quilts and their labels and decided to put them in a Flickr album ...

 I've put together four more small quilt tops. Once quilted they will go  up for donation too. 

I put a kit together for this first one about 2 years ago. Then I took it to retreat last November. I'd left at home the photo (Instructions) but thought I recalled how it went together. So simple. Now I need to remember I don't remember like I used to. I was wrong with what I had sewn so it was packed up until recently. I do  like it and likely will do another. This started with a layer cake ...

It rained all day Saturday--nice and gentle, no wind.  I puttered around indoors.

 Stash report for July:  fabric IN 41.75 yards, $70, average $1.67 per yard.  Fabric OUT 71-5/8 yards.    Year to date:   fabric IN 233-3/4 yards, $307, average $1.31 per yard. Fabric OUT 451-5/8 yards.   That's a net decrease of 218 yards -- hooray!

Hopscotch Butterscotch is a flimsy.  I think the border piano keys should have more ...

Good morning, my friends. There wasn't a lot on yesterday's to-do list, which left me plenty of time to get distracted with trip planning. We're planning a trip to South Dakota and Colorado next year (that's fall of 2027). When I noticed a destination we could add to our trip, I got completely immersed in re-routing an itinerary I'd already planned, as I am wont to do. When I looked at the clock, it was after lunch time. Oy. Oh well. Onward. (Honestly, I have as much fun planning a trip as I have when ...

Good morning, my friends. There wasn't a lot on yesterday's to-do list, which left me plenty of time to get distracted with trip planning. We're planning a trip to South Dakota and Colorado next year (that's fall of 2027). When I noticed a destination we could add to our trip, I got completely immersed in re-routing an itinerary I'd already planned, as I am wont to do. When I looked at the clock, it was after lunch time. Oy. Oh well. Onward. (Honestly, I have as much fun planning a trip as I have when ...

At retreat I was able to get the blocks for my latest X and Plus quilt made, and the center of the top assembled. Other retreaters were making X and Plus quilts and it was fun to see the variety. We had Christmas prints and Kaffe prints with dark backgrounds, and I used ditsy florals with white. Mine will be a donation quilt for Hospice. 

My original plan was to add a green inner border and a floral print outer border. I looked through my reads-as-solid green stash at home and did not find anything that would work. I also ...

I'm away from home for an extended period of time and I truly miss my sewing room.  Fortunately I also knit and knitting is quite portable.  

After finishing a pair of socks, I got to work on finishing a sweater for one of my grandsons.

The pattern is Storm Junior from PetiteKnit.  I saw this as a class sample at Pick Up Every Stitch yarn shop in Mt. Kisco, NY.  This classes didn't fit into my schedule but I was brave, bought the yarn at the shop, and decided to try making the sweater on my own.

"On ...

It was a good week on the stitching front. It's always fun to have a finish.  My goal was to finish the 2025 Guild BOM quilt before the end of July.  I put the last stitches in the binding at about 5:10 PM last Friday, the 31st.  Not up to the wire, but close.  

I'm really happy with how this quilt turned out.  This is the second time I've made an Inverted Star quilt.  Here's the original started in  2014, finished in 2019.

The newer version is more scrappy, a consistent white one white background ...

I'm focusing on a couple of things at the moment.

A fabric mount is in progress for a sample relating to my drawstring bag (which is also in progress).

There are patchwork motifs being created for that drawstring bag along with some grandmothers flower garden patchwork to use on this piece. 

I have also this morning pinned the backing on a wrapping cloth which should be finished and ready to show you very soon. 

My hands are never idle! 

       

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