Design Wall

 

Thanks to all who have given everything for our freedoms. May we remember them today and always.

Dog Blocks are on the design wall. I still have quite a few more to go. They will get stitching around the applique in black thread to help them stand out a bit. I am not sure about the dark blue at the top. His black eye and nose don't show up to well. I think I will wait until all the blocks are done before I decide what to do.

Have a wonderful week!

Stash Report

 I missed a couple of posts last week, May is just flying by and I don't know where the time has gone. Not much progress in my sewing room, but I did finish the lunch bag above. It was a kit that included the insul bright batting, webbing and zipper. I just added fabric. Let's just say this is a one and done, and will not be making another one of these. All those layers were a bit tough to sew. But it is finished and I will be using it as a lunch bag for our sew days. No Adds to the stash.

Used this week: 1 yards.

Used YTD: 55 yards.

Purchased this week: 0 yards.

Purchased YTD: 20 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 35 yards.

Have a great week!

Design Wall

 

Happy Belated Mothers day to all the mothers out there. I had a wonderful long weekend in SD visiting family and enjoyed out time together.

Spoolin Around is on the design wall. But I realized I have a long way to go. Many more spool blocks will need to be made before I can start putting this together. I may make it a bit smaller, as the finished size is 90x98. I would just have to figure out how to adjust the borders.

Enjoy the rest of your week!

Design Wall

Happy May Day! April flew past and now we are into May. We have had beautiful weather here in the desert, but it won't be long before things heat up.

QOV blocks are on my design wall this week. These are for my Longarm group and will go into one of our QOV quilts that we make each season. 

More blocks underway for Spoolin Around. Next week I am off to San Diego for Mother's day so not much sewing will get accomplished.

Stash Report

Fish School is now in the finished column! Another UFO for 2026 is complete. Four months into the year and four UFO's complete! Not too bad. Next up I will be working on the dog quilt for my Granddaughter and making more blocks for Spoolin Around.

Loveable Mutts should be a fast fun quilt to make. All blocks are machine applique on this one. I will be making 30 blocks total for a throw quilt. These dogs are sooo cute. No Adds to the stash this week!

Used this week: 8 yards.

Used YTD: 54 yards.

Purchased this week: 0 yards.

Purchased YTD: 20 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 36 yards.

Happy Sewing!

Design Wall

 

Fish School is still on my design wall this week, but it is ready to sew into rows with sashing and cornerstones. I am also working on another Bonnie Hunter, Spoolin Around quilt, which was a leader and ender project from 2012.

This one has been in the works for awhile, as it takes over 650 spool blocks that finish at 3". I am about halfway there.

Have a great week!

Stash Report

After a fun couple of days in Prescott, I am back and ready to get cooking to my projects this week. Above is one of the beautiful cactus flowers that are in bloom. Soon the Saguaros will get started, usually late may early June.

Aren't these blocks cute? These are two small-3" blocks that I paper pieced using Carol Doak book and CD. I have had the book for awhile and wanted to make some small blocks to use for cards or maybe pin cushions? Not sure yet.

More charcoal fabrics were found on my mini shop hop to 3 quilt shops in the Prescott area. I think I may have enough now for my next Bonnie Hunter, Moon Flower quilt. Sandi, do you need any of these?? My Bernina is now at the shop for a check up, so not sure how much sewing will happen this week. It may just be cutting, prepping and planning. I guess I can set up my Janome if I get desperate!

Stash Report this week:

Used this week: 0 yards.

Used YTD: 46 yards.

Purchased this week: 3 yards.

Purchased YTD: 20 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 26 yards.

Have a wonderful week!

 

Stash Report

Here is a small project that I have prepped and is ready for hand sewing. I will use a blanket stitch around all the wool pieces and there is a needle and some buttons to add. This was a kit I purchased sometime ago and is a design by Lori Smith. I am off later this week on a birthday trip to Prescott. We hope to get in some hiking, shopping- there are a couple of quilt shops in the area, and relaxing. No design wall this week and not much sewing will be happening. Catch up with you all next week!

No changes to the Stash!

Used this week: 0 yards.

Used YTD: 46 yards.

Purchased this week: 0 yards.

Purchased YTD: 17 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 29 yards.

 

Design Wall

Fish School is coming along. Just a few more blocks to make to get it to the size that I want. I will be using a black polka dot for the setting strips.  I am also prepping a small hand work project which I will share on my next post. Enjoy your week!

Stash Report

   

Hope you are all having a beautiful Easter with family and friends!

The cute strawberry charm and fabric, along with these patriotic fabrics arrived this week from Sandi as an early birthday present. (yes, April is my birthday month) Loved the panel, which is celebrates America 250. I will enjoy putting this one together and quilting it up.

I did have a finish this week! Mystic Garden was done and will go into the quilting que. I really love how this turned out and enjoyed all the hand applique. 

Mystic Garden

Stash report for this week below.

Used this week: 3 yards.

Used YTD: 46 yards.

Purchased this week: 0 yards.

Purchased YTD: 17 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 29 yards.

Enjoy your week!

Design Wall

This week I have binding to work on! I finally quilted this quilt, which was finished in 2024. I will also be working on more of the Fish School Blocks. Need a few more to get to the size that I want.

Have a great week!

 

Sunday Stash Report

 

March is flying by. Progress is being made on Mystic Garden. Only 4 more blocks to go! This applique quilt is by Lori Smith and I am enjoying working on this one. Hope to get it into the finished column very soon. Nothing added to the stash this week.

Used this week: 0 yards.

Used YTD: 43 yards.

Purchased this week: 0 yards.

Purchased YTD: 17 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 26 yards.

Design Wall

This week I will be working on more of the Fish School blocks along with the hand stitching on Mystic Garden. Hope to have some finishes soon!

Stash Report

Spring as definetly sprung here in the desert! My favorite Palo Verde were all blooming when I returned from my California trip.

We all had a great time celebrating Mom's Birthday in Sacramento. We took mom out to dinner my first  night there, and then shopping and lunch on her birthday. We also had a family dinner one night with a wonderful cake. I also had some great time just hanging out with Mom. It was a really great trip!

Happy 88 Mom!

Not much sewing this week, but did get to do some hand stitching on my applique blocks. Nothing added to the stash.

Used this week: 0 yards.

Used YTD: 43 yards.

Purchased this week: 0 yards.

Purchased YTD: 17 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 26 yards.

Enjoy the beautiful Spring weather!

Design Wall

 

I hope you are all wearing your green today!

This week I will be working on the Fish School blocks. Not sure how far I will get as I leave tomorrow for California to visit family. It is my Mom's 88 birthday and we are all getting together. I will bring along more applique to work on while we are visiting.

Stash Report

Finished this week are more bags for our Boutique at the AQG quilt show next week. This is our major fundraiser for the year for our Chapter- Sunrise Stitchers. 

Nothing added to the stash this week.

Used this week: 4 yards.

Used YTD: 43 yards.

Purchased this week: 0 yards.

Purchased YTD: 17 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 26 yards.

Have a great week!

Design Wall

 

On the design wall this week, more applique blocks are prepped and ready for hand sewing. These will go with me on my trip next week to California. 

Enjoy the rest of your week!

Stash Report

Finishes this week!! More Tablerunners. All are made from my stash. The one above is for me, a fun shamrock for March. Below are two more finished for the Boutique. I think my DH will probably buy the second one. He loved it.

Nice to have some finishes. No adds this week.

Used this week: 6 yards.

Used YTD: 39 yards.

Purchased this week: 0 yards.

Purchased YTD: 17 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 22 yards.

Have a wonderful week!

 

Design Wall

This week I am prepping more blocks for my Mystic Garden UFO. Preppin applique is always a slow process. I will also be finishing up a couple more tablerunners for the Quilt show Boutique that is coming up in just a couple of weeks. Nothing like waiting until the last minute. 

Have a great week!

Stash Report

No posts last week as we were in Texas, visiting Brenda Papadakis of Dear Jane fame. She recently moved and we were able to visit her in her new home. It was great to see her and catch up on all that she has been doing. We also caught up with a couple of fellow Janiacs, Pat and Joanne. So good to see everyone.

Brenda, Joanne, me and Pat.

And of course, while in Texas we visited a wonderful quilt shop called Fiberworx Fabric Studio in McQueeney Texas. This was a wonderful shop with lots of panels, and some great fabric lines. Of course I ended up buying the pattern above and fabrics below. This will be for the 250 Birthday quilt that I want to make.

Yes a big add to the stash, but I hope to use these up soon as they are on my cutting table ready to go!

Used this week: 0 yards.

Used YTD: 33 yards.

Purchased this week: 12 yards.

Purchased YTD: 17 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 16 yards.

Busy week with family visiting and a trip to Texas next week. Not much sewing getting done, but I was able to prep these blocks for my UFO project Mystic Garden. Three blocks done and ready for the hand sewing, which I will tackle on our trip to Texas.

Enjoy the rest of the week and weekend!

 

Stash Report

Wonky Wishes

Yes, finally it is done! This is from Bonnie Hunter's pattern Wonky Wishes and uses up a lot of scraps. I pulled from my 2.5" squares and leftover strips for this one. Pretty simple, except the stripped pieced sashing takes a bit of time. I did make mine a bit smaller, it is more of a throw size than the twin size from the pattern. All fabrics were from my stash and the backing will also be a scrappy backing.

My other finish was this pillow. I had stitched the sashiko piece during out last road trip and decided to make it into a pillow.

Used this week: 16 yards.

Used YTD: 33 yards.

Purchased this week: 0 yards.

Purchased YTD: 5 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 28 yards.

Off to a much better start in using up my stash!!

Design Wall

 

These are two of the 3 tablerunners I am working on this week. These will be for our guilds boutique at the upcoming quilt show in March. I am hoping to make a few more, with a spring or southwest theme. Will have to see how far I get. I am also finishing up Wonky Wishes, another Bonnie Hunter pattern, and UFO #2 for the year. Check back on Sunday and see the results.

Stash Report

Lupine and Laughter

Finally a finish! Lupine and Laughter is done and will be in the quilting que. I still need to put together a backing, which will be out of the scrappy purples that are left. Binding will also be scrappy. All fabrics were from my stash, did not have to buy anything.👏👏👏 Even though these are not necessarily colors I would use, it did come out great. Maybe one of my Granddaughters will want this one??

Used this week: 14 yards.

Used YTD: 17 yards.

Purchased this week: 0 yards.

Purchased YTD: 5 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 15 yards.

Nice to be in the black again! Another finish will be in the works this week!

 

Design Wall

 

This week I have been finishing up Lupine and Laughter and working on some QOV blocks. Above are some of my finished blocks. 

This banner was quilted and finished this week. It will be mailed off to my DD soon.

I have just a bit more of Lupine and Laugher to complete. It should show up in my stast report on Sunday.

Stash Report

A small finish this weel- Patriot Dreams Banner. Lupine and Laughter is still in the works, but heading towards a finish this week! Pictures below are from my class at Road, When Perfect isnt the Point. I really enjoyed this class and Jemima is a great teacher. Love some of her other patterns too. You can find them here.

The other class was a Tiny Piecing class. The blocks were amazing and I learned alot about how to paper piece these tiny blocks. Giuseppe was also a fun teacher, and very entertaining. His sample quilt is below and is amazing. I ended up using the scraps from my first class for this class.

Mini Courthouse Steps.

No adds this week and just my small finish above. Still in the red, but will be out of it soon.

Used this week: 3 yards.

Used YTD: 3yards.

Purchased this week: 0 yards.

Purchased YTD: 5 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: -2 yards.