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.
