The Bubble Gum Pink/Blue quilt is complete. It measures 77" x 104". I did not piece this quilt. I just made the back, longarm quilted it, and did the binding. I focused this week on my quilt closest to a finish in the RSC (Rainbow Scrap Challenge) color of the month (blue).
I started using panels for pieces of quilt backs. I have two large boxes of donated panels. There are door panels, pillows, vests, toddler vests with matching hats, cheater fabrics (look like quilt blocks but it's just fabric), book panels, toys and decorations to stuff... Many of them came from Amish country. Instead of passing them on to Goodwill, I decided that since it's good, quality cotton and in large chunks, it's going on the back for an interesting quilt back. The faceless dolls with clothes are super cute. They deserved to be put to good use.
Here's a closer look at that bunny door panel. I like the fact that the instructions are part of the quilt. I always get excited when someone throws that part away and I get it in my bag. I LOVE to use that part as an interesting neutral in a scrap quilt.
I can see why this old quilt never got to leave the "to be long armed" basket at the quilt guild club house. I haven't been an active member in our local guild for over 10 years. Our son's schedule just doesn't all that time that I needed to go to meetings and work on group projects.
The winter homecoming here on Saturday, 1/24, has already been postponed. Possible polar vortex making its way to Ohio. Ha Ha. I survived and LOVED the blizzard of '78. Kids today have no idea what that kind of one week of fun home from school is. My mom worked at the high school. She packed my brother (a senior) in the car with as many of his friends that he could round up. She picked me up a the middle school. We had so much fun that week digging tunnels in snow drifts and sled riding behind the Willy's jeep in the fields using an old hood of a car and a long, yellow nylon rope. We never thought of if the kids would run out of clothes. My mom just managed it all with what we had. I remember her making huge vats of spaghetti and sloppy joes. Since she worked in the kitchen at the school she was allowed to bring home trays of school pizza. When the school announced that kids were released to go home any way they could she grabbed what was already made for lunch that day. There were no special signing out lists or calls made until all of us got to our home. It was a BLAST! Wonderful memories...
2026 finishes -- 6
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 -- Blocks need sewn
12. Aqua/Brown HST -- binding in process during my lunch periods this upcoming
13. Aqua/Brown arrow crib quilt -- quilted, binding attached -- needs binding sewn by hand
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 1/22/26, 6th finish
19. Green king-sized quilt -- quilted, binding attached -- needs binding sewn by hand
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 (started sewing blocks together)25. True Blue Sew Along (starts 1/15/26) -- 9 blocks made
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 (flimsy completed by my grandma around 1973) on the frame
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
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