Red Basket Blocks

I decided set my red basket blocks on point and make them a 6-block quilt.  It measures 42" x 59.5".

These blocks were made before I was an Accuquilt girl.  In fact, because I won an Accuquilt Baby Go! and I was making this quilt is the reason that I became an Accuquilt girl.  I quickly realized the importance of the 1/4" seam around that time as well.  Those two reasons are why this project came to an abrupt halt.

I'm sooooo glad I kept all the WOW background fabric with the blocks.  It's one of my favorite white-on-white prints from Keepsake Calico.  Oh how I do miss going into Joanne Fabrics every once in a while.

Thankfully Kim Jolly has an On Point Setting Cheat Sheet at the Fat Quarter Shop (currently free PDF download when I wrote this post).  I'm not really an on-point kind of quilter most days unless the pattern is seriously spelled out for me like a Bonnie Hunter quilt.  I just don't like cutting big blocks into diagonal pieces.  But I did it!  Woohoo!  Add a new skill to my "okay" list.

This is my last set of red blocks that I have to make into a project.  I feel that I accomplished my goal.  Now off to the longarm room.  It's a nice 70 degrees outside today.  I didn't miss a beat during the winter quilting months this year because my husband was working on a project in the other house and had to keep it at a warmer temp.  Next year (hopefully) I'll be in the NEW quilting room that can easily be heated by throwing a few logs in the wood burner.  Actually, it got a little hot up in that room!  Woohoo.  Right now my husband is working in the attached FULL bathroom next to the sewing room.  I'll eventually get pics.  Stay tuned.

TWO New Crib Quilts

With the 13 finishes I had the first quarter, it's time to start a couple of new projects that have been on my list in my brain.  The quilt pattern is called Dinner Party.  You can see it here  at the Fat Quarter Shop.

This will definitely be a non-directional quilt.  I thought I had all the horses going the way I wanted until I realized that I did not have the blocks turned correctly on one of the prints which will be four of the twelve blocks.  I had enough of the purple paisley in my scraps to use as the background fabric.  I think it's perfect for it.  Thank you, Linda, for the beautiful, quality scraps.  They are so much fun to fluff through.

Linda also sent me her bonus triangles and little scraps.  There will be another quilt of some sort made with these fabrics.  I had to wait to find this pattern so that I could showcase the bigger prints.

In July of 2022, Linda--who blogs at Art in Search asked me if I wanted the scraps left over from her Purple, Black & Horses quilt.  During the last three years I have been patiently waiting for the right pattern to come along to show off some of the horse prints she sent to me.  Finally!

This week I used a school themed novelty print for the back of a red/white/blue quilt with a house in the center.  You can see it on my blog post here.  I had the school themed print for a while.  Someone gave it to me.  I really couldn't find a good place to use it and figured it would land on the back of a quilt that I would give to someone at school.  After I trimmed the quilt I thought WOW! this might be the right print to use on the Dinner Party pattern.

You can see a pic of the quilt pattern with these fabrics in the pic.  I'm not sure what background it will have yet.  I might try to mix it up a bit, but I'm not sure how I'll do it just yet.  This novelty print came from VIP Fabrics.  Remember that chain in the late 80's or early 90's?

So there you have it, two new projects to go on the 2nd Quarter UFO list when I make it.

D9P (Disappearing 9-Patch) Crib Quilt Is Quilted

Spring break week had another productive day.  I quilted the D9P crib quilt.  It measures 40" square.  Red, polka dot binding is already made.  Let's bind!

Quilt holder/helper came into the room right when I was done trimming.  It was a great opportunity to put him to work.  He also swept all of the loose strings under the longarm.  Woohoo!

 

Quilted! -- Upside Down!

I wanted to make use of my spring break time.  I quickly loaded this little red orphan block quilt onto the longarm frame yesterday.  I didn't pay attention to how the Baptist fans were going to land on the house...  So I guess I quilted it upside down.  I doubt if the baby that receives it will notice.

It's something I can live with, so I didn't rip it out.  My husband said it looks like it's windy at the house.  I don't remember what the block is called in the corners.  In this instance they look like boats on a sea of red.  I can't remember what project they were a leftover from.  It may have been a Pat Sloan block of the month piece that I didn't use?  Regardless, I still think it turned out cute.

The red dot binding left over from another project is ready to go.  I'll get it put on this week so that it can land in my school bag for when I got back to school on Tuesday, 4/7.

This quilt measures 43.5" square.

Bindings -- Slow Sunday Stitching

 I'm still working on multiple projects that are in the binding stage.  Tall Fly was in my sew-to-go bag:

I finished it on Friday!

Grandma's Embroidery quilt sits on my chair waiting for me to watch Survivor or a movie.

Zip It hangs out in the back seat of my truck for when I'm just waiting somewhere.  

In theory, three quilts are closer to the finish!

I did finish this little hand-stitched memory this week:

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

 

RSC26 -- A Finish with RED

Tall Fly was finished during my planning period at school yesterday.  I won a set of these blocks in the Block Lotto several years ago.  

It measures 42.5" x 46".  I used a gingham fabric for the binding.  I really like the stripe effect that it appears.  I have tons of gingham in my scraps.  I see more gingham bindings in my future.  I longarm quilted it using the Circle Lord Baptist Fan Giant Template board.

I was also busy this week rounding up other red blocks that needed to be put to good use.  I made these two flimsies:

I'm not quite sure how to arrange these six basket blocks yet.  They are an odd size. I don't wish to make more of them to make a bigger quilt because I made these in 2011 or so.  I didn't not have the grasp of the importance of the 1/4" seam allowance back then.  But I would like to use them.  I'm thinking I will arrange them so that the sashing will be 3.5" and make stars for the cornerstones.  You can see the blocks need trimmed.  Stay tuned.

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

Tall Fly is my 13th finish this quarter.

2026 finishes -- 13

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 -- finished 3/27/26, 13th finish

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 -- finished 3/25/26 -- 12th finish

Another Red Block Quilt Enters the Scene

I really liked the Disappearing 9-Patch blocks that I found in my red block collection that were made into a flimsy earlier this week.  I used some of the same fabrics and created this quilt with more red blocks that I had in the stack:

I didn't measure it, but I believe the blocks were 9" finished.  So this is probably a little less than 45" square.  Hopefully I'll get this little diddy and the D9P counterpart quilted over spring break (next week).  Then I'll be able to take them with me to my end-of-the-year long-term sub job that will last from 4/6 until 5/30.  I'm covering for a maternity leave of a 4th grade math teacher.  These will be nice to work on during my lunch and planning periods--hopefully.

Red is the RSC26 (Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2026) color of the month.  I decided to just work on the red blocks that I had that could be made into baby quilts and work with them to get some finishes.  I have some red basket blocks that need to be made into something.  Stay tuned...