The final Monday of 2025! Wow this year flew by! And it's the long anticipated day for our family Christmas. Actually 4 of the 5 grandkids arrived yesterday, and everyone else will come today. Let the fun begin, right? I'll probably not do a blog post again until Wednesday or Thursday.
Tick tock -- the end of the year is creeping closer and closer. Am I ready? Yep - pretty much. I have my schedule more or less organized for the first 6 months. WAIT --- that's at least as far as the things that I can control go. I have a couple of lectures to add and am just waiting on a response from someone before I schedule them. That's the sessions on scrap quilts. There will be one in February and one in March, so that's not an overly onerous addition to the schedule, and the prep time should ...
read moreGood Morning Quilters! It’s our last Linky party of 2025. This year has just flown by for me. Has it for you?
This week I got a project out from time out and added two rounds to it. The project is a combination of two of my UFOs - #1—-Collection for a Cause - Faith, a kit I bought of Moda fabrics. And #2——-blocks from an internet 365 free blocks project from a few years ago.
Here is the project right now:
And here was the last picture I showed you of this project:
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This quilt was made from a couple trays of plaid squares that were cut several years ago. I made 16 patch blocks and then went to the design wall for the layout. It is 39" x 47". It has Hobbs 80/20 batting in it and was quilted on my Pfaff.
I had this cute farm print fabric that is on the back in my stash. The binding is a yarn dyed woven stripe.
I think the binding looks good with the fabrics on both sides of the quilt.
I had a dishcloth near a finish so I worked on ... read more
I didn’t get a lot of sewing done this week. I really only worked on it one evening. If not for the weather, I might not have had any sewing at all. Sunday, Arnie and I woke up, and the weather forecast had gotten a little angrier, and my county, which was previously in no …
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read moreThis morning, we cleaned a few things. Then we went to the casino.
While at the casino we got our "free gift" that was a makeshift Roomba vacuum cleaner. It was made by someone else. It was very light. We stayed and played for about 2 hours and came home. Then Patrick took the vacuum out of the box. He tried it on the carpet, then tried it on the floor. IT DIDN'T WORK! I got nothing! I'm shocked that the casino would get such a cheap gift! Bet they only paid $2 because it wasn't even ...
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read moreThe play on words for the name of this quilt just cracks me up!
This is my most recent project, which was a Christmas gift for my niece’s boyfriend, Mak. For many years he has watched me gift quilts to family members always being very complimentary. The couple years he started asking how to get a quilt.

My sister told him, “Ya gotta be family.” Which is true in the sense that I have to feel like making a quilt for a person. In the last year or so he’s been hinting at wanting a quilt ...
read moreQuilt Paint Create stash report for 12/28/2025.
I've not reported much because I'm in recovery mode and only a little finishing going on.
Used this Week: | 0.00 yards | |
Total Used Year to Date: Donated fabric | 204.59 yards 5.83 yards | |
Net Stash used in November Net Stash used in December | -0.04 yards 1.71 yards | |
Added this Week: | 0.00 yards | |
Added Year to Date: | 43.75 yards | |
2025 Goal: | 200.00 yards | |
Yards to the goal: | 33.33 yards | |
Ah, December. It's that time of year when I depress myself by tracking down all of my UFOs and cataloging them. I do this with more or less focus every year -sometimes I make progress, other years I just make more UFOs :) This year, I am making 3 versions of Bonnie Hunter's mystery, so that already adds to the works in progress list. Here's where they stand as of today:
So, this year, here is where things stand as of December 29. 55 quilts, oh boy. Maybe I can make a dent and avoid starting too many ...
read moreJoey has been busy. She recently sent several emails all filled with finished quilts. Here is the latest. She writes: Here are another 2 panels tied & bound. Donated complete by HM Adams. The Jelly Roll Race was a top donated by her as well. I added batting backing quilted & bound it. I’ve never …
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read moreI finished my scrappy Christmas strings piece, as a table runner, maybe to be hung vertically who knows, I have a year to decide LOL!
Pieced the back of the 24.5" XX 14.5" top, and got it ready for machine binding. A gold on green stripe all sewn by machine this time
sewn to the back, brought to the front, tucking in the raw edge for machine straight stitch finish withtime for a cup of tea first...
came out pretty
time to quilt and finish Pat's gift now that the ...
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read moreIt is time to show you this finished quilt. It didn’t get displayed for the holidays. It was brought to my night guild at beginning of December for Show & Tell and it stayed in the bag since then. I simply forgot about it until today. Jeez Louise.
It was fun going through my Xmas scraps and pulling anything that would work and I’m very happy with the results.I have not had a great year of finishes, but anything is better than nothing.
I doubt I finish anything else this year that is on this list, so I'm reporting a bit early the end of 2025.
My stashbuster numbers are 6/24, or 25%.
I'm still working on paperwork, but the big things are almost done.
1. Donna's Memory Quilts (4)
I have one started. I ...
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