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December 29, 2025
Design Wall Monday - Dec 29 from My Sewing Room

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. 


The color BLUE has been announced for January in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, and that fits right into my plans perfectly.  I have this kit already planned for the next NEW project.  It's a small runner or banner.  I plan to do it vertically, and it ...

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The visual to-do list from Crazy Quilter on a Bike!

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 ...

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Design Wall Monday - December 29, 2025 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

 Good 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:


So I can see progress ...

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Looking forward to 2026 from Just Sew Sue

I have just forwarded a list of twelve projects to Jersey Modern Quilt Group to participate in the 2026 UFO challenge. I finished ten out of twelve projects in 2025.



Part 1 of the Barbara Ana sew along and this is as far as I got in 2025.

Numbers 2 to 4 are the other three seasons. No doubt winter will be chosen before any of the others.


I planned to work on number 5 - Frosty Tiny Town over Xmas but not a stitch was placed in the piece.


Newly purchased fabric purchased last week at Guthrie and Ghani. It ...

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Finish #7 for December 2025............... from Exuberant Color


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 ...

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Uitje in de Kerstvakantie ❤️ from Supergoof Quilts

 


Alleen in de winkel.
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Breng een grote tas mee want er wordt niet ingepakt

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What I’m Working On… from Jo's Country Junction

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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Quiet Day from Quilting My Way

This 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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A Quick Sewing Room Reset (Step-by-Step) from Patchwork Posse

Learn how to reset your sewing room in just a few minutes so you can spend more time sewing and less time searching for tools, rethreading your machine, or trying to remember what comes next.

A sewing room reset isn’t about deep cleaning or reorganizing everything—it’s about creating a calm, ready-to-use space that supports your next sewing session.

Whether you sew every day or squeeze in time when you can, a simple reset at the end of a sewing session helps you come back with clarity and momentum.

When your space is ready, getting started feels easier ...

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Bloomers and Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays from Quilting & Learning

Hi and welcome!

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Week 52 of 2025! from Thread Head

This week I sewed a pair of slippers -

The pattern is the Wayfarer Shoes by Twig +Tale. It is such a good pattern (this is the fourth pair I have made), with clear instructions. I used leftover fabric (from a camel hair coat I made a few years ago) for the outer upper and sole lining, some leftover quilting cotton for the upper lining, and some scraps of moose hide leather for the outer sole.
For the first time I added an extra layer of felted wool padding to the sole (in between the outer leather and sole lining). This ...

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“Boyfriend Material” from All Pressing Matters

The 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.

“Boyfriend Material”

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 ...

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Stash Report 12/28/2025 from Mel's quilting blog

     Quilt 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


Prairie Moon is not doing a 350-block challenge anymore, but I'm ...

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UFO collection day from Quilts and More - Home Made Creations

 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 ...

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December 28, 2025
Community Quilts from Joey from Jo's Country Junction

Joey 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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better late than never.... Christmas creativity from Not Afraid of Color

 

I 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 with 
BRATTY mylar thread for top stitching 
time for a cup of tea first...


came out pretty

time to quilt and finish Pat's gift now that the ...

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Christmas 2025: End-of-the-year Wrap Up from Quilting Studio Adventures

This news is the biggest!  What do you notice about the  picture? Yes - that is my right hand, and I am totally left handed.  But my left thumb has been very ouchy, arthritic and overused. This inflammation means no quilting.  But it’s what I do every night. So 8 weeks ago I started my journey to ambidexterity. The first few nights were awful - I couldn’t even hold the needle.  I kept referring to my left hand so that my right hand could see what it was supposed to be doing.  And , my right-hand quilting is now pretty good ...

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Eksplorasi Dunia Live Sgp: Aneka Keseruan dalam Setiap Undian from Tink Squared

Dunia lotere selalu memiliki daya tarik tersendiri bagi para penggemarnya. Live Draw Sgp Salah satu yang paling populer adalah Live Draw Sgp, yang menampilkan undian langsung dari Singapore Pools. Setiap undian tidak hanya memberikan kesempatan bagi peserta untuk meraih kemenangan, tetapi juga menghadirkan suasana tegang dan penuh harapan. Banyak orang yang menantikan momen tersebut, di mana angka-angka diundi dan mimpi-mimpi akan segera terwujud.

Keberadaan Live Sgp dan Live Draw Singapore telah menjadikan pengalaman bermain togel semakin menarik. Para pemain dapat menyaksikan secara langsung hasil undian, memungkinkan mereka untuk merasakan keseruan dan emosi saat angka-angka ditarik. Dengan berbagai pilihan dan format ...

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Scrappy Xmas Trees from Applique 'n Patch Quilting

It 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.

Quilt Details

Pattern Source:  corianderquilts.com

Block size:  12” finished

Quilt size:  62” x 74-1/2” (size before quilting and washed and dried:  65” x 77-1/4”)

Quilt started:  November ...

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End of 2025 To-Do-List from Mel's quilting blog

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) 

First Top is done.
I might add borders, but I want to ensure enough fabric for the other quilts.
Three more to go.

2. Lillian's Memory Bears (10)

I have one started. I ...

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