Slow Sunday Stitching

I worked on this crib quilt during my lunch at school this week.  Three corners complete.  It's a disappearing 9-patch quilt.

I'm linking up at Quilting is more fun than Housework for Oh Scrap!

Also linking up to Life in Pieces.

Red/White House in Center Baby Quilt Complete

This week I finished this little Red/White House in the Center Baby Quilt.  It measures 43" square.

I whipped this quilt together during the RSC red month to use up red orphan blocks.

The backing is a school-themed novelty print.

I am still cleaning up my desk and working on pink tulip blocks.

This is a new project.  I have a few more tulip blocks to make for a table topper quilt along before I put my pink scraps away.  It is a free quilt along designed by Amy Chappell.  You can find the info at Ameroonie Designs.

I also finished my Zip It Quilt Along that I started in January when we used blue scraps.  You can read all about it in my blog post here.

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

2 finishes this quarter

Here's my Spring 2026 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 -- back made, needs to be quilted

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

6.  Hourglass Mini -- Needs a quilt back and then quilted

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.  Red/White basket crib quilt -- on the longarm frame

11.  D9P Red/White -- binding is more than half way done

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

13.  Red/White House in Center baby quilt -- finished 5.2.26 -- 2nd finish

14.  Fish -- a 12-block RSC26 project

15. Scarborough Fair -- Needs more blocks made

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

17.  Acorn Harvest -- Quilt top needs assembled

18.  Horsen Around Crib Quilt -- needs a back and then quilted

19.  Horsen Around Scrap Quilt -- needs blocks cut and sewn

20.  Pink Houses crib quilt -- Needs blocks made

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

22.  Christmas Memories 4-patches sewn, need more

23.  Dinner Party (school print blocks) blocks cut, needs blocks sewn

24.   Layer Cake Lattice -- pink blocks cut -- needs blocks sewn

25.  True Blue Sew Along (started 1/15/26) -- needs corners sewn to blocks

26.  Zip It Sew Along -- finished 5.1.26, 1st finish this quarter

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

28.  King Rosebud embroidery quilt binding is ALMOST done -- expect a finish soon!

29.  Kathleen Tracy Mini #1 (pinwheels)

30.  Kathleen Tracy Mini #2 (squares)

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

32.  Cheddar Jack crib quilt -- cat blocks are sewn, some 2.5" squares are sewn

You can find the Spring Ravelry UFO club here.

Zip It Finish

I started the Zip It quilt in Janauary, 2026, during the blue month of the RSC (Rainbow Scrap Challenge.)  I finally finished it this week.  It measures 79" x 81".  That's a great size for ME and my living room chair.

My mission was just to make a blue/white cream quilt.  I thought this pattern was too simple for me.  I just LOVE it.  It's going to be mine on my living room chair.  Zip It is a sew along with Emma Jean Jansen on facebook here.

I backed it with big chunks of blues and the leftover Zip It pieces.

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

1 finish this quarter

Here's my Spring 2026 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 -- back made, needs to be quilted

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

6.  Hourglass Mini -- Needs a quilt back and then quilted

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.  Red/White basket crib quilt -- on the longarm frame

11.  D9P Red/White -- binding is more than half way done

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

13.  Red/White House in Center baby quilt -- quilted, binding attached, needs binding stitched

14.  Fish -- a 12-block RSC26 project

15. Scarborough Fair -- Needs more blocks made

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

17.  Acorn Harvest -- Quilt top needs assembled

18.  Horsen Around Crib Quilt -- needs a back and then quilted

19.  Horsen Around Scrap Quilt -- needs blocks cut and sewn

20.  Pink Houses crib quilt -- Needs blocks made

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

22.  Christmas Memories 4-patches sewn, need more

23.  Dinner Party (school print blocks) blocks cut, needs blocks sewn

24.   Layer Cake Lattice -- pink blocks cut -- needs blocks sewn

25.  True Blue Sew Along (started 1/15/26) -- needs corners sewn to blocks

26.  Zip It Sew Along -- finished 5.1.26, 1st finish this quarter

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

28.  King Rosebud embroidery quilt binding is ALMOST done -- expect a finish soon!

29.  Kathleen Tracy Mini #1 (pinwheels)

30.  Kathleen Tracy Mini #2 (squares)

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

32.  Cheddar Jack crib quilt -- cat blocks are sewn, some 2.5" squares are sewn

You can find the Spring Ravelry UFO club here.

Different Gardening Strategy for Me

This is the year I need to replenish my canned tomatoes and tomato juice.  Instead of tearing up the garden area which I have replanted with grass, I asked my husband for raised beds.

My husband and I are sooooo hard to buy for when it is a gift giving event.  Last Christmas I asked for 55 gallon drums cut in half. I didn't really request the legs on them.  That was his idea.  They also have nice slices on the bottoms for drainage.  There is straw, gravel, and rotten logs (humus material) under this nice top soil.

Right now there are six raised beds like this.  I will most likely add a few more things to this area to grow cucumbers and zucchini.  I don't know where I put my melons yet.

This giant birthday cake structure is where my strawberries will be planted.  I better get planting some this week.  I had strawberries growing in this on another part of the property.  Poison ivy took over it in the off season.  I couldn't get to it because poison ivy really effects me.  My husband took it down and saved it.  This seems like a good place for it now.

Here's a pic of them together.  The garden hose will reach across the driveway to this area.

Last night we drove to Mt. Eaton Greenhouse.  It's a really nice Amish, family owned business.  My mom used to shop there for all of her plants.  They are quality plants and are reasonably priced.  The staff is super helpful.  I bought two different types of strawberries to plant in my strawberry "birthday cake".  I bought things like catnip, different parsley plants, lavender plants, and cilantro.  This year I bought three different kinds of blueberry bushes.  It will be a new experiment for me to plant blueberries.  I picked three different varieties to try to get more fruit.

Instead of putting the leftover topsoil back on the pile, I had him dump it in the chicken yard area so that I could build up the spot where the little turtle sandbox sits.  I use the little sandbox as a duck pond for my runner ducks.  They are getting a little older and can't as easily step into the "pond".  Now that I built it up around there with dirt they can easily get in and out of it again.  The pond is small enough that I can dump out the water and rinse it out to keep it clean for them.

Last weekend I also found some morels on the hill.  Two years ago I found a few dried up morels on another property that weren't fit to eat.  I brought them home and broke them up and scattered them in this area with hopes and dreams that some would eventually grow in this area.  The area is perfect for them.  Hunting mushrooms was a big deal with my family when I was a kid.  I finally have some on our property.  Woohoo!

It's always fun to hear what people call these types of mushrooms.  The darker one on the left we call a "woodsy".  They are usually tall with a small head on them.  The other two (both have the tops missing) we call spongies.  I'm thinking these were hit by the mower before being found because I was mowing in the area earlier that day.

Just Binding

I like to use binding pieces as leader/enders.  It makes me feel like I'm being organized productive to getting another item closer to a finish--even if the quilt it is for isn't quilted yet.

Prom 2026

Senior prom.  Where has the time gone?  We are so proud of the young man our son is becoming.

At the end of the night there were super tired.  They may even have started getting cranky.  But a sweet hug ended the night.

Very Slow Sunday Stitching

I'm not getting much stitching time at school as I thought I would.  Lunches get busy with lesson planning, making copies, and grading math papers.  I found 15 minutes to stitch this week.  My goal was to make it to the corner.  Mission accomplished.

I'm linking up at Quilting is more fun than Housework for Oh Scrap!

Also linking up to Life in Pieces.