My Sewing Room
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Binding Twinkle & more
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Setting some new project goals
It's the beginning of a new month already. That means I typically look back at my goal list and think about what goes onto the next goal list. I'm a list maker!!
Voila! Here are the finished placemats and mug rugs that used up most of the leftover Kaffe jelly roll. It is satisfying to see something useful made of leftovers so they don't end up increasing the quantity of scraps living in my sewing room. The binding of 2 red/white/blue placemats and some fun mug rugs should be done today. And there are a few others in the works as well.

** Circle of Friends block for March - DONE
** Riley Blake challenge blocks - DONE
** Easter bench pillow kit - DONE
** progress on SAHRR - NOTHING!
** add borders onto batik Hunter's Star quilt - DONE & delivered to a long armer
** March door hanger kit - holding for a green RSC month
** Tiger Lily wall hanging kit - holding for a green or orange RSC month
** RSC blocks with yellow - YES
** bind 1 UFO - DONE (Tranquility & Twinkle)
** quilt and bind 1 doll quilt - DONE
** assemble QOV Buckeye Beauties into flimsy - DONE
Monday, March 31, 2025
Design Wall Monday - March 31
The 10th block (of 12) for Circle of Friends has been posted by Carol Doak. This is a beauty, and I hope to choose well when deciding on color placement. This is a paper pieced block, but we're only doing 1 block per month.
My desire to reduce the quilting clutter (UFOs and WIPs and PIGs) is continuing this week with the clearing out of a little more "stuff".
I'm linking up today with:
Saturday, March 29, 2025
RSC25 - Week #13
It's nearly time to wave goodbye to yellow, and say hello to . . . whatever fresh new color is announced next. Will it be purple, green, red? March was one of the most productive months I've had recently. I'm hoping to keep a steady pace into April.
It began at the beginning of the month with a flimsy that blended the blue from February with the yellow for March. I love how this one turned out. I hope to choose a backing for it soon, and get it quilted. It has been on my UFO list for 2 years.
Lots of yellow in this quilt top - Make Your Point. Every bit of this came from leftovers - HSTs, pinwheels, 16-patch units, and lots of strips, strings, and bits.
Two child-size quilt tops were assembled from finished blocks, including plenty of yellow in those churn dash blocks. There also was an Easter bench pillow with yellow chicks.
Plenty of blocks have been added to the on-going RSC block sets in March, both new and old.
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Friday, March 28, 2025
Reducing the piles
Graphic "borrowed" from Bonnie Hunter on Facebook |
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Making use of distractions
I've worked diligently the past week or so to meet some short term goals that I've set, and I'm pleased at the progress on those goals. But I've also strayed a bit to play with some things totally unrelated to those goals. Those darn squirrels are fun to follow!
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Midweek check-in
Do you ever wonder how and why packages get delayed? Last week on Monday I mailed 2 identical boxes holding quilts. Both were estimated to arrive at their destinations on Thursday, the same week. I've been tracking both online. One was headed to Atlanta with a baby quilt. It arrived right on time. The other was headed to Texas with a graduation quilt - from South Dakota, via Fargo, North Dakota on Tuesday - and then who knows where for the next 6 days. The tracking kept showing "In Transit to Next Facility" for 6 days but never showed WHERE. Was it sitting in a mail truck somewhere stuck in a snowbank? It was finally delivered on Tuesday afternoon. I think . . .
There were 5 of those 6" blocks remaining, and those went into a doll quilt in a 9-patch layout with some yellow ombre that was in the stash. Those outer borders are leftover binding pieces. There was a batting chunk the right size, and I'll be looking at the leftover backing pieces for something that works for the back.
I've been working on the #3 UFO quilt top this week too. It involves a Kaffe jelly roll that I was planning to use in a Jelly Roll Race quilt a couple of years ago. When I abandoned it, the whole jelly roll was sewn end to end into the first step - one long, long, long strip. That was the hard work in this project. Good news - it's now 8 strips wide. And I'm not hating it.
No sewing at all is likely today as I'm joining in on the monthly coffee/lunch group of retired staff from the school district I spent 2 decades in. And in the afternoon I'm meeting a couple of friends for cards and catching up.