True Blue

I started this quilt during a quilt along in January, 2026.  It's called True Blue.  I made progress on it this week.

You can see the details for the True Blue quilt along at American Patchwork & Quilting site here.

Tulip Table Runner Flimsy Complete

Yeah!  I have something to put on the longarm.  

The pattern is Tulip Table Runner --a pattern by Amy Chappeli from Ameroonie Designs.

Can't wait to load this one.  I need a small project to test my theory on the stitch regulator issue.  I'll quilt circles on this one because it's small.  If I have stitch regulator issues like I anticipate, at least it is a smaller project and I will get through it vs. a queen-sized quilt.

Slow Sunday Stitching -- Dinner Party Binding

I'm working on the binding of my Dinner Party crib-sized quilt this week.  The majority of the fabrics were given to me from Linda at Art in Search..  The fabric line is called Horsen' Around.  

This is a fun one to bind as the quality fabrics are super soft.

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

 

This week was our son's 19th birthday.  Wow, how time flies.  We left him pick where he wanted to go and plan the road trip.  He picked a mini golf place that was one hour and 45 minutes away.

Here's a pic of my husband and I.  Man I need to start losing weight again.  It's been such a struggle.  I was a ketovore for about six years (2019-2025).  I just couldn't maintain it.  This is not he heaviest weight that I have been.  I joined Weight Watchers in February of this year.  I have GAINED 7 pounds since then!  I tried the "shots" for a year (last year).  I lost 19 pounds on that but gained it back when I joined WW.  Hopefully seeing this pic on my blog will jog my memory of what I need to do.  I'm lucky right now that my knees don't hurt like they use to and that I am still mobile.  I need to look at the positives.  I can work in my flowerbeds for hours at a time.  I'm slow, but I am way more mobile than my mom ever was.  Let's just call this my "before" picture.  I had a good hair day before this photo, but it got to hot before we took a pic.  LOL

Here's a pic of my husband and his sister.  She is such an awesome friend to me and the BEST AUNT our son could ever ask for.  She is his biggest cheerleader.

A good time was had by all.

On Friday when my husband was at work, Owen was treated to dinner and a movie with his friend.

Owen's friend's dad showed Owen how he uses AI to make a cool pic.  Yes, we saw Mandalorian (a Star Wars movie).  It was cute.

RSC26 -- Pink Tulips

I utilized my time this week to go back and catch up on a pink project I worked on earlier this year.

The pattern is Tulip Table Runner --a pattern by Amy Chappeli from Ameroonie Designs.

I pulled out the pastels from my Bit Con quilt (Bonnie Hunter pattern).  I got those sewn together.  

I cut all the rest of the pieces needed of the green stems and leaves and background fabric while at the shop with my truck last week. 

Several of you mentioned having trouble growing tulips due to the fact that animals would dig up the bulbs to eat them.  I had that problem in the past.  To resolve it I learned that when I planted the bulbs to dig out more and put a 10" square piece of wire mesh above it that had about 1" gaps in it.  The gaps let the tulip shoots grow up through it.  The rest of the mesh makes it to hard for the varmint to get to it and it moves on to eating another one of my delicious plants...

My strawberry planter is growing beautifully even with all the dry weather we have had.  Cucumbers are starting to climb around the pool ladder rungs in the back of the planter.

My tomatoes in the raised beds are not doing so great just yet.  I just got the hose out to them this week to make sure they get watered on a more regular basis.

My purple things (I think they are Bellflowers) are beautiful.  We had a very brief hard rain late last night.  They were knocked down a bit but stood back up after I took the photo.

I have been having trouble planting zucchini from seed ever since 2020.  Finally I got two plants to grow from the free seeds from the library in this old, cracked kettle.  This is the kettle that my grandparents used when we butchered and for making apple butter.  The weird cement face was part of an art pot that I bought in the gift shop in our county disabilities building.  It had a planter with it and when planted was supposed to resemble the plant being hair.  The terra cotta pot broke off the first week I had it planted.  I stuck it in this kettle for fun.  The large zucchini plant seems to be doubling by the day in the hot weather.

I finally planted my dried out marigold plants yesterday.  When I moved the graduation sign Candy the cat must have thought that would be a good way to still be in the shade.  I decided to allow the one volunteer tomato plant to continue to grow in this bed.  Usually this little bed is where I plant tomatoes.  This year the flowers growing around the edge came up again.  I didn't know that they were perennials.

I'm linking up at Angela's blog, SoScrappy, for the RSC26

Bit Con Mindless Strip Piecing

I sewed ALL the strips that was in the craft box into pieces to be cut for the Bit Con UFO that was sitting on the shelf.  I thought I would use it as a leader/ender project.  Look closely in the photo--yes, that IS an empty box!

Bit Con is a Bonnie Hunter pattern. I have no idea how many strips or yards of fabric scraps were used.  I do know that these fabrics mostly came out of the multi-colored bin.  I sort my scraps by color.  Stay tuned for tons and tons of cutting.

 

Wednesday UFO Squirrel -- Bit Con!

I was working on cutting border pieces for the tulip table runner that I was working on yesterday. 

An old squirrel jumped out in front of me this early morning.   Little pieces were appearing.

I reached for the bin to put the extra strips away... but wait... I could use this as a leader/ender project and just move it along.  It's really neat and self-contained on the shelf.  I got it out and started stitching pieces together between current project pieces:

Bitcoin Double Sized Quilt-- have cut strips in multi-colored fabrics (fabrics that are more than one color and don't fit into a specific color family bin for sorting purposes.) I have several strips sewn together in another strip bin.  This is a pattern designed by Bonnie Hunter.

Don't you just love it when you fall in love all over with a UFO?

Weather forecast here in our part of Ohio today is some rain (hopefully God will water my plants that need some steady, gentle rain.) Then I'm sure it will get quite warm and muggy in the mid-upper 80's.  Seems like a good day to clean my closet, sew, and play in the pool with the kid.  Happy Wednesday.

Arranging Tulips

 I started playing with these blocks again this week.

The pattern is Tulip Table Runner --a pattern by Amy Chappeli from Ameroonie Designs.

I cut all the rest of the pieces needed of the green stems and leaves and background fabric while at the shop with my truck last week.  Time to get it moving along.

I made it this far yesterday.