Grandma's King Rosebud Embroidery Quilt Is Finished

 This week I finished my grandma's King Rosebud Embroidery Quilt.  It's a treasure.

I was lucky to get it outside for some photos earlier this week before all the rain started.

I love the soft look of the Marmalade edge-to-edge quilting design by Urban Elementz.

I backed it with this blue on blue dot fabric that I found in my stash.  I originally bought this fabric at JoAnne Fabrics years ago for another project that was only in my brain and never started.  I felt it went nicely with the blue bows on the flower wreaths on the quilt.  I had the original white back that my grandmother bought to go with this quilt.  It is still in the package and envelope that was shipped to her.

The binding is a light blue stripe that was also in my scrap stash.  There was just enough for this quilt.

The quilt still needs gently washed to remove the blue suggested hand quilting marks from the factory.  I didn't take a photo of the label for the blog.  It does have her name and my name on it.  I'm sure she would be super proud of me for finishing it and happy that it will be a family treasure.

The quality department came to check it out while the sun was out.

Only Inspector Candy made it onto the quilt.  The others just watched.  I'm surprised Goldie didn't join in.

It appears it met her approval.

King Rosebud embroidery quilt top -- In a box of things I quickly picked up at my mom's house before my mom passed away (in 2012) was this quilt top with the stitching completed by my grandma in about 1973ish. It looked like this when I got it out of the bag that it has been stored for over 50 years.  For years I didn't want to finish it because I wasn't sure how I would quilt it.  Hand quilting as the marks on the quilt suggest has been out of the question.  I'm super happy with the longarm quilting edge-to-edge design (Marmalade by Urban Elementz) that I chose for it.

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 --finished 5.5.26, 3rd finish this quarter

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.

Binding Sewn onto the Red/White Basket Crib Quilt

With my two red/white/blue quilts being both finished soon, I needed to whip something together to put in my sew-to-go bag.  This red/white basket crib quilt will do nicely.  Binding is sewn onto it.

Tears were flowing this week between my sister-in-law and I as we attended my kid's bowling banquet.  This is his senior year.  He LETTERED IN BOWLING!!!  The family is so proud of him.

Appears he is pretty proud of his accomplishment as well.  He also received a trophy for having a 143 average.  High average on the JV team received another special award.  That went to another bowler with a 143.3 average.  Dang... so close.  But still proud!  Don't know what happened to his hair.  LOL...

Striped Binding Time

 Found this sweet stripe in my scraps.  I cut ALL of it into 2.25" strips for binding.

I'll be using it on my red/white flower basket crib quilt.  There will be plenty left for a large quilt.

Finally... "Tension" Issue Resolved -- Stitch Regulator Switch Glitch

Finally... my longarm is up and running nicely again.  Turns out it wasn't really a tension issue.  It was a stitch regulator switch glitch.  I finished this basket quilt last night.

I noticed that when I came to a stop for any reason the stitch regulator would shut off before the time allowed.  (I have so many seconds that I can stop and then continue.  If I stop moving too long, the machine is supposed to shut off.) But, it was shutting off much earlier than I expected.  The stitch regulator was shutting off and I was still thinking it should be going.  That is what was causing the thread breakage.  I toggled the switch several times between constantly on and only on while the head is moving and the problem was fixed.  Whew.  That was frustrating, but I learned something.

Thank you so much for all of your comments to help me fix the tension issue.  I now know more things to look for when I have thread breakage.  I am even going to order more pigtails to have them on hand for when the time arrises.

Thank you to Carole from My Carolina Home.  I ordered a Towa from your link on Amazon.  I'm sure this will be a great tool for me to use as well.

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.

Update on my tension issue on my longarm.  I am STILL working on it!  I was so frustrated yesterday that I just had to walk away.  It's a combination of the winding of the bobbin tension and the bobbin case tension.  I'll keep at it.  I can only stitch about 24" and the top thread breaks, still.  I need to baby it along today to finish the red/white basket quilt so that I can possibly take it to work with me Tuesday.

I finished two quilts this week:  Zip It

...and red/white disappearing 9-patch.  Read about both in Friday & Saturday post...

Here's a picture of my ducks and their duck "pond" area.  They are runner ducks.  They do not need a lot of water.  They just like to get clean.

This one is just showing off...

The chickens like it too.  They really should be drinking the clean water I just gave them so that they don't get vent gleet...  But NOOOOO...

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

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.