Pinwheels on the Frame -- Wanders -- Circle Lord Giant Template Board

 I'm excited to use my new-to-me Circle Lord giant template board on this pinwheels UFO.  

Putting little quilts together quickly like this one is a great place to practice new skills for me.

I thought for sure I could figure out the pattern without reading instructions.  LOL.  But no.  Luckily instructions can still be found somewhere online.  After I read the instructions to just keep quilting through the intersections until you come to a "stop" (corner), it was a quick design to quilt.

I'm not sure if this was the right design for this quilt.  I don't expect to finish the binding on this quilt any time soon.  It will be a nice size to take with me to school once I finish some other hand-quilting projects.  I'm glad I did it.  I think this pattern will be great on two up-coming quilts to hopefully be quilted this season--Card Trick and Kite Girl (once it is put together.)

It's always fun to play with new quilt toys!

Info I found on the web:

I'm thankful the Circle Lord site is still available.  

New Longarm Quilt Toys

 I recently found a few more Circle Lord things to add to my collection.  I'm a little intimidated by this first group of tools:

I am super excited about this giant template board called Wanders.  It arrived yesterday.  I'll take this photo with me today so that I can get the pattern trained into my brain memory.  I think once I get on to it that it will be a quick pattern to quilt.  I have several quilts on my to-do list that I will use this.  I'll be testing it out this week.  Stay tuned.

Random Blue Block Hand Stitching

 I can't believe how much I got done on my hand stitching this week!

All center block stitching is now complete except for the blue border.  I need to hit it with the iron to get rid of the markings.

The border will have an "e" squiggle design, and then I'm going to try to fill it in more with straight lines around the "e's" if that makes sense.  I have a few high school subbing jobs coming up this week.  I plan to get a lot stitched.

I'm sewing the binding to the vintage embroidery quilt.  I only have a few more stitches on the binding on Home Town (Bonnie Hunter 2025 mystery).  Stay tuned for a finish!

I'm linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching here.

 

RSC25 -- Darks -- Darting Birds Mini Flimsy Is Complete

I put my Darting Birds project together with black sashings and a cheddar border.

I started this project 9/28/25.  These are 4.5" (finished) blocks for a Kathleen Tracy Mini QA on facebook.

I'm linking up at Angela's blog, SoScrappy, for the RSC25 here.

 

Pineapple Table Runner Complete

 I'm happy to have finished the pineapple table runner.

It measures 16" x 36" and was gifted to a special person that works in the office at our son's school.

 I'm linking up at the Fall 2025 UFO Club on Ravelry.

Our son proudly took it to her office at school.

Then he demanded a selfie with her and the table runner.

Then it made it way home with her for her dining room table.

But my favorite part is that the cat that is NOT ALLOWED on the table sits here EVERY DAY now.  This is my friend's daughter's cat.  I don't know it's name, but it is very photogenic.

I might have to save this photo to enter it in the Pets on Quilts posts when that happens.

This is my fourth Ravelry UFO Fall 2025 Finish.  See what the group is doing 

Here's my Fall 2025 Ravelry UFO Club Projects:

1.  Old Town -- binding almost finished

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

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

4.  Kite Girl -- Need one more block and sashing

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

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

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

11.  Blue Embroidery Quilt -- Needs binding 

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 -- Needs a quilt back made

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 -- Need sashing and sewn together

23.  Pinwheels -- Needs a frankenbattening pieced together and quilted

24.  Bright 9-patches -- Need an alternative block cut

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

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

27.  Rainbow Ribbons -- need blocks completed and sewn together

28.  Kathleen Tracey Fall SAL -- Needs longarm quilted

29.  Blue Orphan Block Table Topper -- Needs a quilt back

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

Random Blue Block Mini

 I started working on the hand stitching on this Random Blue Block Mini.

I was supposed to sub for and intervention specialist at an area high school.  The US History teacher reported off unexpectedly. I was switched to her classroom.  It turns out that it was pretty much study hall/make-up work all day for all of her classes.  I got a lot of stitching done.  Glad I brought this project.

This happened yesterday -- Regional Corn Hole Tournament WINNER!

Headed towards another finish, I'm binding on Old Town!  I can't wait to show off the pieced back.

It will be a little while until it is done.  I just started enjoying stitching binding by hand.  All this practice on hand quilting mini quilts has really payed off on my skill set.  I also LOVE these binding clips.  I bought them last year to keep my Bonnie Hunter mystery pieces counted and organized.  They are handy.  Looks like it's going to be another beautiful, sunny day in Ohio.  I'll be outside getting yard and chicken coop things done this week.  I might have an hour or so each evening for stitching.  No rush.  I feel that this will be finished before Bonnie starts the next mystery on Thanksgiving weekend.

I'm linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching here.

 

Darting Birds RSC25

I finished five more darting birds for the Kathleen Tracy Mini Fall QA.

Here's all nine of the 4.5" (finished) blocks.  Now to cut the black sashing. I found a scrap right size.

I'm linking up at Angela's blog, SoScrappy, for the RSC25 here.

 

Vintage Embroidery Quilt -- Half Done!... I mean DONE!!!

 The longarm quilting on my vintage embroidery quilt is still looking good.  It's half way done!

Having zero issues with the longarm catching on the embroidery.  ...and yes, a quilt that is done is better than one that is waiting to be quilted by hand.  I just think this is bubbles giant template board was a great choice for this quilt.  I was going to use the Baptist fan because it is a vintage quilt.  I'm so glad I picked this one.  

Although you can't see it in the photos, the center panel is just slightly yellowing from being a WIP so long.  I need to research what to wash this quilt in to help it.  Any suggestions?

Can't wait to see what it looks likes with the pre-printed hand quilting marking out of there.  Yes, the feathers would have been beautiful with the lines as background filler.  I'm just not there yet, and I didn't wait this quilt to have to wait forever.  There will be other quilts to hand quilt when I retire and the quilt room has been moved to its real location (upstairs) of the house.

I'm trying to work on this quilt at least an hour or two every evening after school until it is quilted.

I got a little carried away last night and just kept going.  The quilting is DONE!!

I only had time to take it off the frame and pose it for a quick photo.  The troops were hungry.

Vintage Embroidered Quilt on the Longarm Frame

 I loaded the vintage embroidered quilt onto my longarm frame.  

Even though all of the pre-printed blue marks are on the quilt, I'm not confident in my quilting skills to follow them with the longarm.  I also don't have the patience to hand-quilt this vintage quilt.  I selected my Circle Lord giant template board called Bubbles.  I think it looks beautiful with a little modern twist.

More Independence -- Area Transit

 Our son has gained more independence.  Last week he rode the area transit curb to curb service bus.  He is so proud of himself.  He said it was like being in the big limo he rode in at a special dance.

Selfie -- photo evidence to me that he was on the bus.  I was a nervous nilly.  He rode the bus from school to bowling practice.  (Yes, our school is too small to transport kids to bowling!!! -- It was "social" practice, (bowling before kids are allowed to officially start practice one month before bowling season begins.) Hopefully when bowling starts in November the school will provide some sort of transportation.  

His pick-up time window was 3:05 to 3:35.  The bus picked him up at 3:34!!!!!

He said the bus was "high tech" with a clock, date, and video surveillance camera.  This is the time he was finally loaded, learned how to use his bus pass, buckled in, and answered all the important questions.

He said he had a panoramic view.

This is just his first ride.  I haven't taught him how to arrange his own rides yet.  That will happen hopefully before the holidays season.  I'm going to have him arrange a bowling thing on one day after school.  The bus will not come in our driveway.  Our driveway is 800 feet long for where he would have to wait on the bus.  Waiting in the snow/rain for 30 minutes might not be the best.  But I'm pretty sure we'll start with me taking him to the bowling alley and then running my errands.  I will leave him there (he knows almost all of the family empoyees there).  Then he can catch the bus home and just walk up the driveway.

Old Town is on the Frame

 I'm excited that I got some longarm quilting time in this weekend. Old Town is on the longarm frame.

Old Town is the 2025 mystery quilt by Bonnie Hunter.

And just like that, the quilting was done before I knew it.  It was easy to trim and is nice and square.  I always like to add a little border around a pieced border.  The binding fabric will be the same as the outer border.  Also in the bag is the sashing fabric for my darting birds QA and some batting for that mini quilt that needs pieced together.  Moving right along.

I'm linking up to Oh Scrap!

Random Blue Blocks -- Slow Sunday Stitching

I can't believe I'm doing this.  I started hand quilting on my Random Blue Blocks crib-sized quilt.  

I'm in the parking lot waiting for the kid to finish corn hole practice.  He will be participating in a regional tournament on 10/18.  Don't worry.  I'll find other places to wait and stitch.

I'm linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching here.

 

 

RSC25 Darks

I pulled out my Darting Birds project and cut some of my Thimbleberries scraps.   I was excited to use fabric I won from  Rouge Quilter, Janet.  She blogs The Rouge Quilter. 

I started this project 9/28/25.  These are 4.5" (finished) blocks for a Kathleen Tracy Mini QA on facebook.

I'm linking up at Angela's blog, SoScrappy, for the RSC25 here.

 

Scattered Stars Is a Finish

I had these blocks sitting around in a baggie to make some sample Scattered Stars blocks.  I'm not that thrilled with the color scheme.  I think it would look really nice in red, white, and blue scraps for a quilt. 

I put them together and quilted them with the Circle Lord giant template board called Bubbles.  A nice little dot fabric left over from Random Ohio Stars was ready for the binding.  The backing fabric is the same as the border fabric.

This is finish #3 in my Ravelry Fall UFO Club 2025 here.

I love thrifting.  The little stand that we had between our chairs was wobbly and too small.  It makes a perfect stand for my plants.  I got this at a storage unit sale for $2.  Below is the table topper I had on the stand before this one.  You can see it is way too small.  The new one will serve it well.

This is my third Ravelry UFO Fall 2025 Finish.  See what the group is doing 

Here's my Fall 2025 Ravelry UFO Club Projects:

1.  Old Town -- needs longarm quilted

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

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

4.  Kite Girl -- Need one more block and sashing

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

9.  Pineapple Table Runner -- Needs blocks put together with setting triangles

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

11.  Blue Embroidery Quilt -- Needs longarm quilted

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 -- Needs a quilt back made

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 -- Need sashing and sewn together

23.  Pinwheels -- Blocks need sewn together with sashing

24.  Bright 9-patches -- Need an alternative block cut

25.  Random Blue Blocks -- Needs a quilt back

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

27.  Rainbow Ribbons -- need blocks completed and sewn together

28.  Kathleen Tracey Fall SAL -- Need more pieces cut

29.  Blue Orphan Block Table Topper -- Needs a quilt back

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

Thimbleberries Fall Mini Quilt Sew Along 2025 -- Darting Birds by Kathleen Tracy

The end of September I cut the little pieces for this mini QA.  I was excited to use fabric I won from  Rouge Quilter, Janet.  She blogs The Rouge Quilter.    The dark pieces are cut.  I still needed to cut neutrals and maroons.

I started this project 9/28/25.  It looked so neatly organized near my sewing machine... But then I sewed a few other projects.  They were a hot mess and piles no more.

I took these pieces to school with me yesterday after cutting the marroons and neutrals.  I threw everything in the bag along with my cut up picnic table cloth.

I started making blocks on this nice little table in the intervention classroom.

They look better all nice and organized.  Before I knew it, I had all the blocks arranged with the fabric combinations I liked.  Now I have nine blocks ready to sew!  I rolled up the little cut up picnic table block holders (mobile design wall) and put them neatly back in my school bag.  It's fun to move this project along.

Next I took it home and sewed this fun little 4.5" (finished) block.

...and yes, I'm playing with those dark Thimbleberry fabrics for the RSC25 to post on Saturday.