Binding Time

 I sewed the binding onto this little hand stitching piece so that it was ready for my sew-to-go bag today.  Happy stitches!

Kawandi -- The Finish

 This week my first ever Kawandi project was finished.  It measures 16.5" x 20".

I like the colors.  It will be on our kitchen table for the month of March.  I love how the stitches look so organic and crooked.  I'm happy that I basted the pieces on as I went so that I could put it in my bag to take with me.  I didn't have to worry about losing pins in the bag.  It was so relaxing to stitch on this project using leftover pieces of embroidery floss (2 strands).  I changed the direction of my stitches as I saw fit.  The floss glided nicely through the good cotton and the Warm & Natural batting.

I'm happy that another finish gets crossed off the list.  Daylight savings time is coming this weekend... I'm starting to see less sewing time but more outside-in-the-flowerbed time coming.  

I'm linking up with Angela at SoScrappy for the RSC26.

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

 

I'm linking up for Oh Scrap! at Quiting is more fun than housework.

2026 finishes -- 11

Here's my Fall 2025 Ravelry UFO Club Projects:

1.  Bit Con quilt -- Needs more rows of strips sewn together -- size yet to be determined

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.  Hourglass Mini -- Needs sashing

7.  Maroon Sampler -- Needs two more blocks

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

9.  Fireflies Wall Hanging -- Blocks need appliqued

10.  Tall Shoofly Block Lotto Win -- blocks need sewn together

11.  Sail Away crib quilt -- finished 2/26/26, 10th finish

12.  Aqua/Brown HST -- finished 1/30/26, 7th finish this quarter

13.  Aqua/Brown arrow crib quilt -- finished 2/12/26, 9th finish

14.  Fish -- a 12-block RSC26 project -- 2 fish sewn

15.  Scarborough Fair -- Needs more blocks made

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

17.  Acorn Harvest -- Quilt top needs assembled

18.  Bubble Gum Pink/Blue Quilt -- finished 1/23/26, 6th finish

19.  Green king-sized quilt -- finished 2/6/26, 8th finish

20.  Green king-sized quilt #2 (problem child won't lay flat) -- finished 1/10/26, 3rd finish

21.  Lupine and Laughter (Bonnie Hunter 2025 mystery quilt) -- in the piecing process

22.  Christmas Memories 4-patches sewn, need more

23.  Noel -- finished 1/15/26, 4th finish

24.   Zip It Sew Along -- on the longarm frame

25.  True Blue Sew Along (starts 1/15/26) -- all blocks made; starting the strip-pieced corners

26.  Kawandi 16.5" x 20" -- finished 3/6/26, 11th finish

27.  Cameo Rose embroidery quilt -- finished 1/18/26, fifth finish

28.  King Rosebud embroidery quilt -- hand stitching the binding in the evenings during tv

29.  Kathleen Tracy Mini #1 (pinwheels)

30.  Kathleen Tracy Mini #2 (squares)

31.  Kathleen Tracy Mini #2 (HST and a Square)

32.  Classic Meets Modern QA from 2014 -- block complete, need sashing

33.  RSC UFO (six blocks for a crib-sized quilt)--finished 1/8/26, 2nd finish

34.  Betty House #1 -- finished 1/7/26 -- 1st finish

35.  Betty House #2 -- some stitches done

Binding in Que

 I'm still slow stitching the binding on the Rosebud embroidery quilt that my grandma stitched a little over 50 years ago.  I'm about half way around it.  Yes, I did say SLOWLY stiching...

I did put a binding around the Zip It quilt this week.  It will be next in que to have the binding slowly stitched.  It is nice to sit under a quilt and watch tv in the evenings when there is snow on the ground (or basically any time of year is good for binding stitching.)

Below is the Zip It quilt top before quilting.  Oh how I love the navy blue scraps!

Zip It is a sew along with Emma Jean Jansen on facebook here.

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

 

Rainbow Scrap Challenge RSC26 -- Last Green of the Month

I was motivated to work on this quilt last month because of the blue blocks.  It turned out to be such a fun block to make that it is now finished.  Thanks, RSC group for the motivation.This week I finished the crib quilt called Andrew & Patrick Sail Away.  It measures 29.5" x 41".

I'm linking up with Angela at SoScrappy for the RSC26.

Andrew & Patrick Sail Away Crib Quilt is Finished

 This week I finished the crib quilt called Andrew & Patrick Sail Away.  It measures 29.5" x 41".

The quilt is posed on top of the teacher's computer monitor.  I  stitched on it while watching Survivor this week and then finished it on my lunch break.

I quilted it with an edge-to-edge bubbles design.  I do love the polka dotted fabrics for the boats and the unusual paisley-floral with dots for the waves.  I found the anchor fabric for the border in my stash as well.  Fun use of scraps!

2026 finishes -- 10

Here's my Fall 2025 Ravelry UFO Club Projects:

1.  Bit Con quilt -- Needs more rows of strips sewn together -- size yet to be determined

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.  Hourglass Mini -- Needs sashing

7.  Maroon Sampler -- Needs two more blocks

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

9.  Fireflies Wall Hanging -- Blocks need appliqued

10.  Tall Shoofly Block Lotto Win -- blocks need sewn together

11.  Sail Away crib quilt -- finished 2/26/26, 10th finish

12.  Aqua/Brown HST -- finished 1/30/26, 7th finish this quarter

13.  Aqua/Brown arrow crib quilt -- finished 2/12/26, 9th finish

14.  Fish -- a 12-block RSC26 project -- 2 fish sewn

15.  Scarborough Fair -- Needs more blocks made

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

17.  Acorn Harvest -- Quilt top needs assembled

18.  Bubble Gum Pink/Blue Quilt -- finished 1/23/26, 6th finish

19.  Green king-sized quilt -- finished 2/6/26, 8th finish

20.  Green king-sized quilt #2 (problem child won't lay flat) -- finished 1/10/26, 3rd finish

21.  Lupine and Laughter (Bonnie Hunter 2025 mystery quilt) -- in the piecing process

22.  Christmas Memories 4-patches sewn, need more

23.  Noel -- finished 1/15/26, 4th finish

24.   Zip It Sew Along -- on the longarm frame

25.  True Blue Sew Along (starts 1/15/26) -- all blocks made; starting the strip-pieced corners

26.  Kawandi 17.5" x 22" -- backing and batting sewn together.  Rows are being stitched

27.  Cameo Rose embroidery quilt -- finished 1/18/26, fifth finish

28.  King Rosebud embroidery quilt -- hand stitching the binding in the evenings during tv

29.  Kathleen Tracy Mini #1 (pinwheels)

30.  Kathleen Tracy Mini #2 (squares)

31.  Kathleen Tracy Mini #2 (HST and a Square)

32.  Classic Meets Modern QA from 2014 -- block complete, need sashing

33.  RSC UFO (six blocks for a crib-sized quilt)--finished 1/8/26, 2nd finish

34.  Betty House #1 -- finished 1/7/26 -- 1st finish

35.  Betty House #2 -- some stitches done

Slow Sunday Stitching -- Prepping my school bag

The binding is being attached to the Andrew & Patrick Sail Away crib quilt.  It will be in my sew-to-go bag for hand stitching this week.  This is about the largest size quilt that I take in the bag. It measures 29.5" x 41".

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

 

Rainbow Scrap Challenge RSC26 -- Green

More Lupines & Laughter Bonnie Hunter 2025 Mystery blocks were made this week.  You can find out the details about the quilt along on Bonnie's blog here.  I didn't really care for the colors of pink, purple, and ice blue.  I let my husband pick the colors of black, grey, and forest green.  I can barely tell in the photos that the center cross part is forest green, but it's more obvious in real life.

As with almost all of the Bonnie Hunter blocks that I have ever made, it just seems like every time I make a scrappy block I sit back and look at it and say, "Now that's a pretty block."  Then I make another block and say, "That block is even prettier than the last."  I'm amazed how with her designs that my scraps work.

I'm linking up with Angela at SoScrappy for the RSC26.