Ravelry Summer 2026 UFO List

Last quarter was pretty productive with 8 finishes.  A few new things were added to the list so that I can have a productive quarter of finishing UFOs.  Some of these projects have been on the list for a bit.  I honestly say that I have been motivated to finish project with a UFO group on Ravelry.  Joy that blogs at The Joyful Quilter, updates the finish board beautifully.  You need to have five UFO projects have been started that need finished.

You can find the group on Ravelry here.

1. Bitcoin (Bonnie Hunter pattern) Double Sized Quilt-- I have 1/3 of the columns sewn.  I will continue working on this project.  Fabric scraps are in a bag awaiting to be run through the Accuquilt strip die.

2. Rail Fence 3.5" blocks-- need 900 blocks for this quilt.  I was a little overwhelmed with the layout area I needed to make this quilt.  I decided to do four sections of 15 x 15 and then sew them together.  This is the first set.  All of the blocks are sewn. 

3. Piccadilly Circle -- Very stale project due to lack of interest. I started making this quilt in 2014 for the RSC.  In 2021 I made only three of the border pieces (yellow, light green, and dark green).  I made one yellow and one dark green Piccadilly Circle blocks in 2022.  I still need to make circle blocks in dark purple and lime green.  I also need the other border parts.

4.  Folk Art Birds -- very stale project due to lack of interest.  This was a 2016 RSC project start.

5.  Maroon Sampler -- Stale project due to lack of interest right now now. This quilt is a combination of different sampler quilts.  I want to say this was around 2013ish for some of the first blocks.  I need to count to see how many I have and go from there.

6.   Dicey--I made these blocks so that I could do a few things -- learn how to applique circles using my Applipops, use miscellaneous neutrals, use the Accuquilt chisel die that I seldom use.  Mission accomplished.  The next step is to iron out all of the Frixion pen applique placement marks, cut 1.5" sashing strips.  This will be a 6x8 layout.  I'm waiting for longarm season to be done due to cold weather in the room so that I can settle down to my winter piecing.

7.  Fireflys wall hanging -- I started this 9/22/25.  It is a simple applique project that will be in my sew-to-go kit for school.  Background fabrics have been selected and cut to size.  Other fabrics have been selected.  Stem pieces have been cut and sewn into long strips but not sewn onto the background yet.  Scrappy blues have been selected for the rail fence blocks but not cut yet.  HST's will be a constant gold that matches the flower center and flower bud.

Prepped these pieces for my sew-to-go bag. 

8.  HST Quilt, Three Six Nine RSC22 -- (needs more HST made and rows completed)  -- This project is a hot mess because I sewed some of the colors together as leader/enders and now I'mlosing interest due to the fact that some of the rows are together and I don't know where I am exactly on the pattern.  

9.  Fish -- only two blocks are sewn -- need 12 fish total

10.  Scarborough Fair -- more blocks need to be made.  Hope to continue as an RSC26 project.

11.  Random Blue Blocks -- in the hoop, but a long ways to go.  Three blocks quilted.  It's in a duffle bag ready to grab and go on a road trip if one happens.

12.  Acorn Harvest -- Stalled because I'm afraid to cut the pieces apart.  Embroidery is done.

Photo from the front of the package:

13.  Horsen Around scraps from Linda -- some snowball blocks have been made.

 

I have this little pile of scraps from Linda to work with:

14.  Using my Accuquilt BOB schoolhouse die, I hope to work on pink schoolhouse blocks during the pink RSC month.  I need another girly quilt.  I made a blue one of these a while back.  It turned out cute.  I need 12 blocks for a 35" x 42" quilt.

15.  Lupine and Laughter -- blocks still need to be made.

16.  Christmas Memories

The plan is to make this in red/green, but the color arrangement will be reversed and the blocks will be much smaller.

some of the four patches are made:

17.  Dinner Party Crib Quilt in novelty school fabric-- big pieces are cut.

18.  Layer Cake Lattice in pink -- This is a new project.  I started it this week 4/4/26.  I wanted to use some pink scraps to play along with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge at SoScrappy.  Eight blocks are made.  This quilt will be as big as the white dot fabric runs out.

I purchased this pattern for the unlimited scrappy combinations and possibilities.  The blocks are supposed to be cut from 10" pieces.  My fabrics are just "chunks of stuff".  I altered the block size just a smidge to make it more Accuquilt friendly.  In the future I might cut some of my scraps into 10" pieces so that I can use the actual pattern measurements.  Once cut, the blocks go tother lickety split because there are no seams to match on the blocks!  Woohoo.  I'm not used to working with pieces this large.

19.  True Blue -- all base blocks are sewn.  I'm adding the strip-pieced corners to them.  Three rows are sewn together.  I will also be adding borders to this quilt.

20.  Classic Meets Modern QA from 2014.  This quilt along was at https://www.sewathomemummy.com/

21, 22, & 23. Kathleen Tracy Sampler Block Minis (Table Toppers 1, 2, & 3)  The blocks are made.  I don't think I like them all in one little quilt.  These blocks will make three little table toppers.

24. Cheddar Jack -- cat blocks are sewn, some of the 2.5" scrappy squares are sewn together but not in rows.  I need more 2.5" scrappy blocks cut.

25.  Tulip Table Topper -- binding needs sewn by hand

26.  Hamilton Gardens (Bonnie Hunter pattern) Every summer I buy a Bonnie Hunter pattern to add to my collection.  Squares are cut.  Some are sewn in twosies and threesies.  I'm planning a crib quilt at this time 40" wide by ?.  I need to figure out which background fabric I will be using.  Most likely it will be plain, scrappy whites or white on whites.

27.  Blue Baskets -- A Block Lotto win

When I was getting out my 3.5 rail fence blocks I realized that this set of 40 blocks won at The Block Lotto were in the same hat box.  I need to figure out a sashing for it and make it a quilt.  I was thinking one of my reds in the scrap bins would work for the sashing.  We shall see.

Here's my Summer 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.  Folk Art Birds -- Need more birds and alternate blocks

5.  Maroon Sampler -- Needs two more blocks

6.  Dicey -- Blocks need sewn together with sashing and cornerstones

7.  Fireflies Wall Hanging -- Blocks need appliqued

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

9.  Fish -- a 12-block RSC26 project

10. Scarborough Fair -- Needs more blocks made

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

12.  Acorn Harvest -- Quilt top needs assembled

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

14.  Pink Houses crib quilt -- Needs blocks made

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

16.  Christmas Memories 4-patches sewn, need more

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

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

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

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

21.  Kathleen Tracy Mini #1 (pinwheels)

22.  Kathleen Tracy Mini #2 (squares)

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

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

25.  Tulip Table Topper -- binding needs finished by hand

26.  Hamilton Gardens (Bonnie Hunter pattern started 2026)

27.  Blue Baskets (Block Lotto win)

Slow Sunday Stitching -- Tulip Table Topper

The binding is being stitched on the Tulip Table Topper:

I do like the look and feel of this tulip table topper!  I really like the stiffness of this table topper due to the iron-on batting that someone gave to me.  I did not iron it onto the fabric.  I just loaded it onto the longarm as normal.  It's fun to run my fingers over the ridges of the straight line quilting.

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

 

Rail Fence -- RSC26

 I pulled out another RSC set of blocks that is ready to be put together.  I have 900 rail fence blocks.  They measure 3.5" (3" finished).  

I was a little overwhelmed how much area I needed to layout this quilt.  I didn't wait to take up the living room floor for days.  I decided to do one section of a time.  Each section will be 15 x 15 blocks vs. the 30 x 30 layout plan.

I made another row of progress on my January (2026) RSC project with blues.  It's called True Blue. One more row and some borders to go before the flimsy is complete.

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

Hamilton Gardens

 One of my little scrap bins is overflowing.  I made a Hamilton Gardens block (Bonnie Hunter design.)

I haven't checked my block size to make sure I have the right 1/4" seam setting.  It doesn't look like the white strips are matching up exactly how I want them.  Better check the setting measurements.

I finished eight projects this (spring) quarter.  This is a new project.  I also have a lot of twosies already sewn together because they were cutoff ends from making strips for Bitcoin (another Bonnie Hunter quilt.)

I'm grabbing pieces of miscellaneous white scraps such as above to iron and run through my strip dies.  Better pull out those beige pieces.  I have plenty of those to use on another project someday.

There... that's better.  I now have a stack of solid whites that I can work with.  This summer while sewing I am watching ALL of the seasons of Grey's Anatomy.  That should take me some time.  I am only on season 8.  I have not see the most recent season.  I'm realizing how many episodes I have missed over the years.  It's keeping my interest.

Hourglass Crib Quilt Complete -- Female Zucchini Blossoms!!!

 The hourglass crib quilt it complete.  It measures 40" x 45".

The fabrics in the hourglass pieces were left over from another project.  I didn't want to waste the pieces left over that were from a bundle gifted to me.  I went out of my comfort zone to use them in a baby quilt.  I don't think the colors are soft enough for a quilt for a baby.  I'm sure someone will like it.  It will most likely end up on the charity quilt pile.

I backed it with this weird fabric that I don't think I would use anywhere else but had enough of it.  The binding was three different left-over binding fabric sewn together.

It doesn't lay completely flat.  I wasn't a big fan of the quilt flimsy.  I used a piece of fleece as the batting to use it up.  There are bright green frog faces on a blue background inside this quilt that I figured I wouldn't use anywhere else.  I made our son a sleep sack out of the fleece years ago.  This was the scraps.  It will be nice and warm but not heavy.

I learned today that there are male and female blossoms on a zucchini plant (and many other plants!). The female blossoms are where the zucchini are.  There are four little zucchini on this plant (and many more blossoms forming).  Of course they are on the side of where they could grow too big and make the plant uproot and fall to its death...  Don't worry.  I'll keep a close eye on them and pick them as soon as they are usable.

I'm fascinated how fast zucchini plants grow.  This was two weeks ago:

This was yesterday:

8 finishes this (Spring) 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 --finished 5.28.26 -- 6th finish

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

6.  Hourglass Mini -- Changed mind to crib size -- finished 6.25.26, 8th finish

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 --finished 5.15.26 -- 5th finish

11.  D9P Red/White -- finished 5.11.26 -- 4th finish

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 (Dinner Party pattern)-- finished 6.17.26 -- 7th finish

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 2026 Spring Ravelry UFO club here.

Rainy Day Sewing!!!

Finally, a soft, gentle rain came down yesterday.  My plants look so lush and refreshed.  I had time to look out the window and watch the rain for a few hours.  I worked on sewing Bitcoin pieces together.  Bitcoin is a Bonnie Hunter pattern.

I thought I would work on this UFO because I need to get something on the longarm so that I have a quilted project to finish a hand-stitched binding.  I sewed and sewed.  I even put columns together using the leftovers when I made Baby Bitcoin.  After all that sewing I realized that I am about one third of the way done.  Sew... the sewing continues.  

I posted about my topsoil pile plants yesterday.  My husband likes a medium-hot yellow pepper on his cheeseburger once in a while.  He has successfully been growing peppers in buckets on the porch for years.  He and our son are responsible for this area.  LOL.

They seem to be very happy there.  Our son likes to water them.  It's okay for him to weed them because he can easily distinguish the plant from the weed.  BUT when he helps me weed he tends to pull EVERYTHING.  Looks like he has some weeding to do...

There are only about three medium-hot pepper plants on the porch.  The rest are bell peppers, those cute, crinkly red  sweet peppers, snacking peppers, and what I call my science project peppers that I don't really know what they are.  I buy a lot of my plants off of a trailer at the end of a local guy's driveway.  He has a green house that he plays with as a hobby.  He sells them for a donation at the end of his driveway.  It seems that he likes to experiment with different things each year too.  The fun thing I got this year is pumpkin on a stick.  (It's an orange eggplant variety that looks like a bouquet of pumpkins.). I'll get a picture of those when I weed that flowerbed hopefully this week.

Here's a little bed in front of the house.  It got a late start.  The marigolds in there are from the local guy with the greenhouse hobby.  There's a grape tomato plant there because visitors like my sister-in-law love to grab a handful when they visit.

Another fun thing my sister-in-law and I do is rescue plants from the almost dead rack at local stores.  Below is a miscellaneous potted plant, three yellow blanket flowers, and the sad tomato plant is the tomato in the above photo already snapped back to life.  I bought these all dried up on 5/30.

The mixed potted plant above bloomed on Sunday.  It's this pretty, coral flower.  I'm hoping the petunias that are also dry that I got last week cascade over it.  We shall see.  There's a marigold in the top.

As I drove the four-wheeler around I discovered our kid digging in the yard.  He loves to search for treasures with his metal detector.  He just happens to be hunting in a place where my husband's grandpa used to have a dump and then covered it with dirt to make it smooth.  Smooth no more.  LOL.