Friday, November 28, 2025

Shirting Blocks Quilt is a Finish -- Black Friday

I'm loving the old-fashioned vibe this quilt is giving me.  I started off with four shirting blocks that I was no longer interested in continuing.  I put some bubble gum pink fabric around them for sashing and borders.  I used a shirting stripe for the binding.  I LOVE it!


I backed it with an older floral in my stash.  I quilted it with rose colored thread using my Circle Lord giant template board called Wanders.  Franken batting is inside!  Win win!  I love it when I can use batting scraps.  It measures 37" square.  That's the perfect size for the charity called Jack's Basket.

It's Black Friday!!!  Are you excited?  Instead of standing in line for hours shopping for the next best thing, I will be SEWING and hopefully LONGARM QUILTING something.  Maybe I'll be in the longarm room organizing?  I'll be excited to see Bonnie Hunter's post about clue #2 to Lupine & Laughter.  Thanksgiving work is done!  Our interior decorator son is full of the holiday spirit.  He gets out all of the Christmas decorations that he's ever seen stored at our house and puts them EVERYWHERE -- anything that strikes his fancy...  Yes, it looks like Christmas puked all over the house... but he LOVES this time of year and loves doing it.  It doesn't cost us anything.  I'm not that picky how decorations get displayed.  It's so fun to see holiday spirit through his eyes.  

This is my 9th Ravelry UFO finish this quarter.

Here's my Fall 2025 Ravelry UFO Club Projects:

1.  Bit Con double sized quilt -- Needs more rows of strips sewn together

2.   Rail Fence 3.5" RSC block -- 900 blocks needed/need arranged

3.  Piccadilly Circle -- Need a few more circle blocks

4.  Kite Girl -- Needs sashing sewn and put together

5.  Folk Art Birds -- Need more birds and alternate blocks

6.  Bear Claw Mini -- Needs finished hand quilting and binding (very close to being done)

7.  Maroon Sampler -- Needs two more blocks

8.  Old Town -- finished 10/31/25

9.  Pineapple Table Runner -- Completed 10/24/25

10.  Four Patch Fun -- Bonnie Hunter leader/ender -- Continue making blocks

11.  Blue Embroidery Quilt -- sixth finish 11/7/25

12.  HST -- Needs more blocks made and sewn into rows

13.  Tree of Life -- Needs more blocks

14.  Scarborough Fair -- Needs more blocks made

15.  Unity Quilt (Bonnie Hunter 2020) -- Needs blocks for the sides to be wider

16.  Card Trick -- On the longarm frame

17.  Acorn Harvest -- Quilt top needs assembled

18.  Sail Away crib quilt -- Blocks need sewn

19.  Fall Table Topper -- Completed 10/3/25

20.  Scattered Stars -- Completed 10/10/25

21.  Fireflies Wall Hanging -- Blocks need appliqued

22.  Shirting Blocks -- finished 11/28/25

23.  Pinwheels -- finished 11/14/25. 7th finish

24.  Bright 9-patches -- using blocks as leader/enders

25.  Random Blue Blocks -- Hand Quilting -- In the hoop

26.  Dicey -- Blocks need sewn together with sashing and cornerstones

27.  Rainbow Ribbons -- is now a flimsy

28.  Kathleen Tracey Fall SAL (Darting Birds) Finished 11/21/25

29.  Blue Orphan Block Table Topper -- 75 percent hand quilted

30.  Summit Stitches 2025 Quilt Along at Humble Stitches (25" square project) stitching binding

2 comments:

Gretchen Weaver said...

I like this quilt! The plaid of the shirts work perfectly with the pink! What is the finished size? I'm not standing in lines either, soup is in the crockpot and I'm ready to go sew, happy stitching!

patty a. said...

The quilt turned out so cute! I do like the vintage vibe! One more thing crossed off the list! I need to pull the inspiration from your son's enthusiasm and put up some Christmas decorations. I usually don't do much, but a little would be nice.