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.

Accuquilt Cut Binding Strips

These days, my Accuquilt 2.25" strip piece die is one of the dies I need to keep close to the top of the pile if I want to finish a quilt.  It seriously helps me get through the binding process.  Here's a great example of how I use it.

I find a scrap in my stash that I want to use as binding on one of my upcoming finishes (Tall Shoo Fly in tomato colors).  Will this be enough fabric to make a binding for it?

It's an odd shape.  Who knows who was hacking in to it and what fun thing did they make?  But this is what was left of what the person didn't want that was thrown in to a scrap bag and given to me.  This is very typical.  I receive stuff like this.  That's where Accuquilt dies come in.  I take something no so perfect, give it a press and a run through my die.  

And just like that it gets sewn together, pressed into binding, and ready for use.  And yes, there is enough binding for the Tall Shoo Fly in tomato colors that will hopefully be quilted this weekend.  There won't be a lot to spare of this fabric.  The remainder of the binding will most likely be run through the 1.5" strip cutter to become a 1.5" strip that will be used somewhere else.  I LOVE 1.5" strips!

I am happy to finally be finished with the last sets of the half rectangles for Lupine & Laughter.  I have been taking them to school with me to cut on my lunch periods since I don't have any small quilts to take to bind.  Here they are in the intervention specialist's small group room:

True Blue Progress

I'm at the point of the quilt that I don't want to do.  This is usually what stalls a quilt and puts it into UFO mode.  Well, I'm going to try to complete at least two blocks per week to keep True Blue moving forward.

FAIL:

I don't like matching strip sets.  Then I don't like attaching them to corners.  Blocks do not lay flat for me!

I ripped the two apart while my son was at the dentist office.  Starch, starch, starch the center block. There, it is mostly flat.

Then attach again making sure I do not stretch the strip set unit.  That's better this round.

Oh ok.  That's getting better.  

Second block is now ok with just a little ripple I can live with in it.  Whew.  Next I'll slightly dread trimming the block and sewing it to the next.  But let's get the blocks done first.

And now I'm just showing off when I let you see my fancy, smancy, custom row placement markers -- and no, I didn't buy them on Amazon or Etsy.  Ha ha.  Oops, sorry for the blurry photo.  You get the idea.

True Blue Sew Along--American Patchwork and Quilting put out a pretty tempting quilt along that starts 1/15/2026.  It's called True Blue.  You can get the details here.