seester stitching

d1 came over to finally machine attach her binding in preparation for handbinding it. i was helping with babies in the other room when i walked back in to check on her and found d5 seated on the floor next to oldest seester, conversing. my mama heart loved this little scene.

she's mastering that fine balance of keeping the stitch in the right spot while moving the weight of an entire quilt around. it's not easy.
 

i asked d5 if she could finish the two blocks she started the day before. they both needed one more seam to be complete. she agreed to do it while talking to her seester. i told her if she can do one block a day, we'd have all her blocks done within the month. she said, "maybe."

at this point cute little A walked into the room and climbed into her auntie's lap to assist with the pinning of blocks. i love all of my little women of various ages working on projects in my quilt room together! 

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the blue "june's meadow" i chose to back "groovy liberty"

i really knocked myself out getting those three tops finished and the four quilts backed & basted last week. since then, i haven't done much quilting at all other than help my girls with some of their projects and a little handquilting while at soccer games.

for my part, i began the handwork for "groovy liberty." i grabbed it as i was running out the door for a game, knowing the white aurifil thread i usually handquilt with was in my little on-the-go sewing case, but with no plan as to how i was going to execute the quilt design just yet. when i got myself and the grandbabies situated in the soccer stands, i pulled the quilt out to assess my design options.

it's a pinwheel quilt, with sashing. there's no obvious continuous pattern i can quilt other than down the center of all the sashing. but i want to quilt in the chambray and liberty parts, so i had to come up with a design for that. i did the somewhat obvious thing by quilting straight down the center of each piece. the only problem was i didn't have any marking tools with me. i decided to eyeball it and did okay, but came up with an even better innovation once i thought about it.

i folded the piece i wanted to quilt in half, creasing it with my fingers, which left a nice mark that was easy to follow, so it worked pretty well. i have 3 of the 42 blocks done now.

i did pull out the quilts for february/valentine's day and add them to the family room quilt baskets - might as well get some extra use out of them now as the holiday is around the corner. the blue and pink quilts and a couple soft, low-volume quilts fit this category.

i got to thinking about when i should wash the quilts in rotation: when i pull them out to freshen them up or when i'm putting them away to clean them before storing? both options make sense and are probably a good idea except i don't want to wash them too often. is twice a year too often for quilts in light use? i don't have any idea how quickly that will age and wear them down. for now, since i can't remember when these quilts were last washed, i went ahead and washed them as i pulled them out before putting them in the baskets.

i cleaned up the blog a little, updating my wip page and the quilt gallery finishes. i added two older quilt finishes to the gallery: "dorothy's girls'', a 2018 finish i somehow never added, and "cheery (easter)", which is still getting some handquilting added every spring break but has already had it's finish photo shoot and is in use. so things are more up to date and tidied in my virtual sewing space as well as in person. i'm working on a few posts about my recent batch experience, too, so you'll get an update on what i got done there.

i'm doing really well at sticking to finishes and haven't even had the desire to buy any fabric. putting away my december purchases and organizing some of the stash shelves cured me of any desire for that! and i haven't even wanted to start anything new, either. i'm still excited about finishes. i'll have another chunk of time to do some more intense work in the next week or so, which will allow me to move projecs further along. for now, i anticipate using that time to quilt the last batch of basted "samiches."

as for house design: i have a floorplan all sketched out i'm quite happy with and have started specifying each room. this involves closely examining how it functions and what it will store so i can make detailed plans to accommodate all the needs. so far, i've got the mudroom squared away.

fairytale meadow

i began this orange and green heather ross log cabin quilt in april 2021, nearly four years ago. i was working with a random pile of fabrics i decided to use together and made a few changes to my plans as i went along. i don't know exactly when i got the 12 blocks all to the state of completion i found them in, but when i pulled them out at the beginning of the year, i was pleasantly surprised to find them all in the same condition. they each had three round of fabrics around the hearth pieces completed: two wider low-volume, one thin orange-and-green. 

i now had to decided if i wanted to add more rounds to the blocks or not, and how to set them together as a quilt top (sashing, cornerstones, etc). i looked over the contents of the project box at all the fabrics collected there, including some already cut strips of more green and orange fabrics.

i'd made no notes for myself as to my original intentions for this top, which frustrated me because it meant i couldn't just get to work and finish the thing. i had to do some thinking, measuring, and planning. as i'm not hugely invested in this quilt (probably giving it to a daughter that's expressed interest), i made some quick decisions to get it to a decent size (the current blocks were a bit too small) and finished.

the decision that took the longest was where to put the unicorns. four of the 12 blocks have unicorns in the centers. i only had half a yard of the fabric to fussy cut the unicorns from, so i didn't do very many. looking at the leftover piece of fabric, there are still two intact unicorns and i wish i'd used them. i don't know what i thought i was saving the fabric for? it's cute, but it's a bright orange i don't use often and this was the perfect place to use a whole unicorn without cutting parts of it off. i should have done it. i thought about unpicking two of the blocks and inserting unicorns so the ratio was 1:1 and placing them in the quilt would be easier for me, but that was too much work.

i have a tendency to take my fabric sudoku a little too seriously - i get rather ocd about it. i want my fabrics spread out evenly and just right according to too many factors. here it was the unicorns. placing four unicorns evenly spaced in a 3 x 4 grid was next to impossible, especially because i was looking at which way they were facing/which unicorn i was using where. for crying out loud! i finally got over my silly personal hangups, just put them in imperfectly placed, and got on with finishing the top.

i added one more skinny round of color to the blocks before joining everything with sashing and cornerstone pieces. i didn't precut the strips to size; i cut them with my scissors after attaching them to the block. this is a little scandalous in the world of precision quilting but it's something i've become comfortable with after watching kate at "the last homely house" do it a lot. i discovered kate last year and have enjoyed putting her youtube videos on for company and listening while i quilt.

something else that kate taught me which is pertinent to this quilt: how to know where to put your next strip when constructing log cabin blocks. i've been really good at losing my place and getting disoriented when constructing blocks. it's a continual problem for me. kate says after you attach the first two rounds, you look for the side that already has three seams on it and that's your next side. i'll do a visual of this next time i make a log cabin quilt. it's a handy tip!

i recently got some new pins as my supply seems to have dwindled. i couldn't find the same ones i bought at joann crafts years ago, so i chose these cute pink stars from bohin and am so happy with them. (i got mine on etsy from a shop that no longer has them in stock, but they are also currently on amazon.) they are even finer than my other pins, which makes them easier to sew over when i feel like it, and they seem to be that much less-bulky by a smidge, which i like.

having soft pink stars sprinkled everywhere is an aesthetic i can appreciate!

 i used them a bunch when pinning all the backings together as i batch basted four quilts over the same weekend. the magnetic wristlet d5 gifted me for christmas a few years ago works nicely with them. i sent her a photo of the pins with the wristlet and she commented that it looked like a little bouquet of stars. yes, it does.

as for the quilt, i sashed it with two more low-volume heather ross prints in the right colors from my stash. i had several options i was considering, but when i thought about the quilt, i decided it was rather fairytale themed already with the unicorns and frogs, so i chose the toadstool print and another floral.

i made a few cutting mistakes, which resulted in some patched-together sashing strips. i was peeved at myself for doing that as i could have had pristine strips with no extra seams in them if i hadn't let myself trip up like that. but it just is now and the little seams won't be so visible as i think they are now once the quilt is in use.

i thought about making the cornerstones pink, a secondary color in several of the prints that would have altered the strong orange and green palette already present, but in the end decided to up the green quotient instead. and now it's done!

thinking about the fairytale vibe, i decided to give the quilt a name other than "heather ross orange and green log cabin quilt" not only for brevity's sake, but because it was too utilitarian. there are frogs and toadstools (semi-magical or could-be magical companions for the unicorns) and lots and lots of florals in this quilt. it seems like a setting for unicorns to rest in - not a forest for hiding in, but a beautiful meadow full of flowers and friends. 

henceforth, it shall be known as "fairytale meadow."

soccer stitches

 

my oldest daughter brought my grandkids to her younger sister's soccer game last week. we're homeschoolers but some of my kids have played for the local high school team. d4 plays club soccer and is currently playing for the high school her oldest sister, d1, played for a decade ago. it's a little weird for me to remember being at this field 10 years ago with d5 running around and belting out an off-key version of "stitches" while her oldest sister played and now here we are with d1 in the stands and her three children, one who is the same age her littlest sister was when she played her.

i'm not a sports fan, but i show up to support my kids periodically. and i always bring handwork with me. my best friend and former college roommate, whose daughter is also on the team, caught a photo of me making faces at the baby during halftime. you can see what i was binding at the time: christmas liberty log cabin. 

having binding clips handy came in useful beyond the quilt when my grandaughter needed to get her hair out of her face and we couldn't find her hair clip anywhere. 

me binding my first quilt with the hair-style clips i used to use

ironically, my very first binding clips, by dritz, resembled those silver barrettes worn when i was a kid. it seems like some mother must have decided they'd help with her quilt binding once apon a time and they were marketed that way for a while.

now the clover clips are what i use as they're more compact, easier to get off with one hand, and hold the binding flat whereas the hair clip-style version curved it. but it turns out you can use clover clips for hair, too, in a pinch. who knew quilt binding and hair-styling had so much in common?

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my design wall has empty space on it! (most recent photo included in this post.) do you know what came off finally? i've been a busy bee, steadily house planning during business hours and sewing in the evenings (which makes for crummy photos, so i haven't bothered taking any). i've moved several ancient wips forward. a weekend of quilting for two days straight gave me four basted quilt "samiches." i'm on a roll for the moment.

here's someone else's wips: d1's 3.5 yr old son and her "puppy park" bricks quilt, started when she was a high school freshman some 13 years ago. wow. she made the quilt as part of an english project, but once she put the needed hours in for the project, she never got around to finishing the quilt. last spring, d5 and i were going to surprise her by binding it for her and we made up the binding, but never got it attached. d1 has been interested in doing it herself, but we can never hit on a time for me to teach her. earlier this month we had a moment when we thought we could do that, but it turns out it wasn't even machine attached to the quilt. so my grandson, r, and i pinned the binding on together while little mother looked on and nursed the baby. she kept saying, "i can't believe i started that quilt as a freshman and now my son is laying on it but it's still not finished." well, we're one small step closer now! r was a wild man with the pins. he flung a few and did not want to just hand me one at a time when i requested them. his mom kept an eye on where they were landing so i could collect them.

looking back over my rentry to blogging last year, i think maybe i post too often. for now, my intention for this year is to post maybe twice a week. i can get very detailed in my recording of the process of quilting, but i think i've overdone that a bit. my goal is to be more concise - keeping my posts shorter and less frequent. i'm going to resurrect "wip wednesday" posts to report weekly on progress and if i have additional items to talk about, will post those on a different day of the week, maybe friday or saturday?

i'll title these "wip wednesday" posts with the year and week, so this post is from the 3rd week of 2026. since this is the first one i've done this year, i'll compile the weeks for my report stats. what have i accomplished so far this year?

the pile from my productive weekend

piecing: i worked on the tops below

completed tops: gypsy child hst, bright forest, fairytale meadow

backed/basted/samiched: gypsy child hst, bright forest, frosted forest star, fairytale meadow log cabin

finishes: farmer oak's flocks, liberty courthouse steps, liberty christmas log cabins

i've also cleaned and purged in my room a lot, organized some fabric shelves that were in sad shape. i don't have an easy way to classify what all i did, so i'll just leave it at that. i cleaned!

long term scrap projects

as i was going over my wips and taking stock of my to-do's, i thought about some projects i've been collecting certain types of scraps for but don't consider active wips because i'm mostly collecting for them rather than working on them. this is why they don't appear on my wip page. in order to fully disclose what i have around to work on (except those fabric pulls with plans not yet cut into), i'm reporting these scrap projects here and adding a page about them to the blog header. 

i love fabric. it's one of the main reasons i quilt. i want to hold onto and make use of every little piece i can. from the beginning i've kept all the tiny pieces hoping to find a use for them. some quilters don't keep anything smaller than 2" or even larger. but i will keep anything at least an inch square. over time, i've found a few projects that make use of the littlest crumbs of fabric and some other regularly discarded cut-offs common to quilting. this page is a look at my longterm scrap projects, those i collect scraps for and will work on over time as the pieces accumulate.

binding triangles

i save all my little triangle cut-offs from my bindings. the idea is to create a scrapbook sort of quilt with them, a scrapbook of my bindings. i plan to add them to corners of charm squares, either one per square or on each corner for a "tiny tiles" look. after nearly 70 quilts complete, i should have enough for a quilt or two by now.

selvages

i cut my selvages with 1/2" to 3/4" of the fabric print included and set them aside to someday make an epic selvage strings quilt. by now i probably have enough for two or more of those quilts. maybe when i get some wips knocked off the list i'll get around to starting some selvage blocks. i love the idea of having these as a record of my fabrics over the years. selvages are often very stylish in their own right these days as designers make them to appeal to people interested in selvage projects. a quilt that showcases these fun bits is very appealing to me.

 

mimi log cabin heart blocks

pattern from jen kingwell's "quilt lovely" book

i first played with this cute little block in may 2015. i was so excited to find something that made use of 1.5" wide scraps. value contrast is key to seeing the pattern: high volume pieces for the heart portion and low volume pieces for the background.

ticker tape

a mosaic- style pattern of small scraps seen at stiched in color by rachel la bour. this is a pattern i found early on for use of small pieces. since it looks a little labor-intensive (as any tiny piecing will be, actually), i think i might have options i like more now to use these for. i'll keep it in mind if i get tired of some of the other projects.

"birch"

scrap pattern by crazy mom quilts

uses small scrap pieces

i think i'd go for a more neutral background that what amanda used, but i do like the simplicity of this pattern.

it has always seemed to me a good idea to know where the pieces will go and have a project in mind for what i'm saving. having them recorded just might help me move them into the active stage.

looking forward in 2026

on the pressing table

this is the ultimate wip wednesday post! i’m going to take a look at all my wips and make some plans. warning - it’s going to take a while. there are a lot of them. which just means I have a whole lot of fun ahead of me and there's a long read ahead for you if you choose to stay.

i ended up just doing a recap post and not really setting my quilting intentions for the year as i intended on january 1st. so now i'm going to look at my extensive wip list and talk about what i'll be working on. this is a deep dive as i have about 25 projects currently in the works, or at least that many that i'm counting/claiming at the moment. there are a few more piles of fabric that haven't been cut into that i have plans for. i'm not counting these fabric pulls with intentions as wips yet.

my handwork project - just around the corner from completing this one

but let me say first what my year is anticipated to look like as of now. in 2022 we bought a home on a street where we had been house-hunting for five years. three of my 7 siblings live on that street and i really wanted my kids to spend the latter half of their at-home years on the same street as their cousins. it didn't work out that way. and even though we finally found a property to purchase, it has been nothing but changing plans ever since we bought it. our family dynamics are continually in flux right now and our housing "needs" are evolving constantly. this has kept us from nailing down a remodel design and plan to this point. however, we feel ready to proceed now. so my number one job until construction begins is to get our design plans finalized and in motion. one upside is that the parts remodeled by the previous owners have some super cool quilt-like tiles. i just need to get the add-ons and extensions planned out. it's going to be a full-time project for me and has to take priority over everything else in my life, quilting included. i may not have any quilting time at all for the foreseeable future. or if i do, i may not have time to post about it. but everything i do to move the project forward benefits my quilt life in the end because the new build portion of this house will have a beautiful new quilt studio for me, full of natural daylight, storage, design wall space galore, and increased circulation room. so i really need to get it done! working on the house will only enhance my future quilting even if it delays it for a while.

my design wall at the moment - several projects and some orphan blocks

right now, i am trying to spend my mornings working on house design and giving myself quilt time in the afternoon for one hour when d5 is at her math tutoring service. once she gets home, i start making dinner. so far this year - all 7 days of it - this is working. we'll see if it continues.

assuming i do get to quilt, what am i going to do? my main interest and intention at the moment is to finish up many of the wips i have in various stages. to take stock, i cut-and-paste from my wip page and will add notes below. projects are grouped in categories according to what phase of construction they're in.

piecing queue

robin nests

pattern: quarter log cabin blocks

fabrics: solids scraps, mostly kona cotton solids

collaborator:  my grandson r

companion quilt: 

started: nov 2025

this recent start is a project with my grandson. we have 6 of 16 blocks made. this will be worked on randomly when he's visiting and feels like sewing. that will determine the pace of its piecing. i need to find a light blue sashing for it. not a high-priority finish.

wensleydale

fpp pattern by jen kingwell

started: september 2025

oh, i love this one. i was on a roll with it in the fall doing a block a day until i joined the single girl sewalong. i think i can still stomach the color palette right now. the last few years, i really like working with in-season colors. but this one is so fun i might be able to keep at it for a while. there are a couple other projects above it on the list, so it might end up waiting until fall rolls around again.

yellow hst star quilt

started: july 2025

pattern from "scrap quilt diary" book by jolene klasen

this was an experiment; i just wanted a taste of making these blocks. i intend to add in more deep golds and some browns, too. not a high priority at the moment, basically at the bottom of the list.

"pinky stinky edna" 

started: may 2025

pattern: edna by jennifer jones of penelope handmade

collaborator: d5 (she's doing the 16 patch blocks)

this one is mainly waiting on d5 getting the 16 patches done. she has very little time to sew these days, so progress is sporadic. we have one full column of 6 pieced and she has about 10 of 30 16 patches done. i have no control over her availability but would call it high priority if i wasn't waiting on her.

lemonade at sixes

started: may 2025

pattern - petite crossroads, my variation of the treehouse crossroads pattern

fabrics - ruby + bee “lemonade” and “pink petal” with green denyse schmidt prints

high priority! top 5. i've been working on sets of three or four fabric combos at a time because that's what i can cut together. when i get one set pieced, i cut the next. i'm maybe a 1/4 done with piecing.

most of my stats for how far i've gotten with a project mentioned here are my best guesses. if i were to stop and actually count each one, i'd be doing this forever! 

liberty courthouse steps #2 (twin quilts)

started: march 2024

liberty + chambray church lap quilt

i have a lot of church lap quilts completed and in use. this one is not high on my priority list - middling. i do love it and look forward to finishing, but i need to complete some of my other handquilting projects first.

liberty christmas stars 

liberty + crossweave “star hollow” blocks by jolene klassen of blue elephant stitches

started: Dec 2024

this one will wait until christmas comes again. low priority.

cute liberty betsy hearts

inspired by mary warren

started: feburary 10, 2024

fabrics: liberty tana lawn "betsy" print in pink and blue colorways with low-volume from stash

very cute but low priority right now. come february i might want to make a few more. 

spinning elizabeths

started: january 2023

pattern: modified "spinning around" from quilt lovely book by jen kingwell

fabrics: anna maria horner and other from stash

i'm either going to pull this one out soon or leave it til fall. once i get my highest priority makes done, i'll see what this still needs and think about when to do it.

bright forest

pattern: patchwork forest by amy smart of diary of a quilter

started: dec 2022

fabrics: kona cottons, leftovers from shelter in place quilt

argh! i got pretty far on this one this holiday season. two rows are joined of seven. this might be my next priority after the one i'm piecing at the moment just so i can remember what i'm doing with it. but i might not like it now that christmas is over.

heather ross log cabin

started 4.27.2021

fabrics: orange, green, and low-volume heather ross from various collections

this one is sitting on my cutting table at the moment. it could be a quick finish. i think it's priority no. 3 (behind "bright forest"). if i remember correctly, there are 10 blocks done. i need to finish the other 2 and complete the top with sashing.

shelter in place

pattern: stay home by allison harris of cluck cluck sew

started: march 2021

instagram: #shelterinplacequilt

fabrics: kona solids from my last fabric order placed before the pandemic shutdowns began

i just want this one done already. kind of like how we felt about the pandemic and lockdown. but i'm not excited about it. middling priority.

olmstead’s geese

flying geese, own layout

origins collection by basic grey for moda and coordinating stash

companion quilt: grellow garden geese

started jan 2020

top 5 priority? pretty high, but just below items on my design wall and cutting table. i like this one better than it's recently finished companion. i think at least half the geese are done. i looked in the box recently but don't remember for sure. would want to be doing this one in march maybe if not sooner. and the there are all the leftover hsts from both quilts that will be worked up together, but let's not think too hard about that right now.

giant swoon

pattern: upsized single "swoon" block by camille roskelly

meadowdot by sandi henderson, picnic bouquet by heather bailey, and essex linen

started: january 2017

this has been decorating my design wall for far too long. as much as I like looking at it up there, I also want it done. it should be quite an easy finish so it’s pretty high priority. 

"gypsy child"

3" hst patchwork quilt

started march 2016

ah, this one is nearly a flimsy! i've been working on it this week. if i hadn't spent so long blogging tonight i could have put it all together. i'm very excited about this one. and i have some loose plans for the 290+ remaining hsts that didn't go into it! but i'm not sure i'll use those up until after some older projects are completed first.

gypsy wife

started jan 2014

participating in quilt along schedule

pattern: "gypsy wife" by jen kingwell

recipient: self

this is either my no. 2 priority project or i'm saving it til next year. my reasoning?  i have two other gypsy wife quilts i want to make. this one hase 3 or 4 sections of 10 complete. i could just keep going at it OR i could plan to work on it along with the other two versions starting next january. i would do a quilt along if i decide to do it that way. i'm undecided!

sugar block club 2014

started jan 2014

pattern by by amy gibson of stitchery dickory dock

recipient: self

this one is problematic. it's part of block-a-month club from 12 (!!!) years ago. i checked my email a few hours ago and i still have all the emails. but . . . none of the photos or graphics are loading in the emails. amy gibson's website and blog are gone. i guess she doesn't really quilt anymore? i found her IG page, which is active, but it's all just family now. i was able to locate a photo of 9 of the 12 blocks on her older IG posts. but as some of them are fpp, i don't think i can wing them without the printout i can no longer access from the emails. i think i might use the fabric pull i have for the project and just make up my own sampler of traditional blocks from some of the books i have.

 hst diamond quilt

started: may 2013

own design

fabrics: spring house by stephanie ryan for moda

recipient: play room

this is a charm pack hst project. i was going to make radiating diamonds from and offset lower right point. it's an idea i dreamed up in my early quilt days. it never got off the ground. i still have all the charm packs and several hsts made up. it's been a long time since i used just one fabric line in a quilt. these days i prefer to mix in stash with precuts. that's an option here. middling priority. i would definitely like it off my wip page and out of stash.

class projects

sometimes i take a class to learn a new skill or technique. it's more about the class experience than actually finishing a project, although i do come out of the class with projects in mind and a few starter pieces complete. these are not high priority finishes for me at this time.

string star

from a class by tara faughnan

started february 2023

i made one small sample star and will likely make a giant star block as a quilt top. undecided.

scrappy dotty dresden plates

from a class with louise hailey

started may 2015

alternating dresden points of red polka dot and scrappy points set on pink swiss dot fabric. one set of points formed but not joined. planning for maybe 12 total with sashing and cornerstones.

leaders and enders

bonnie lass

started dec 2022

pattern: bonnie lass from "quilt lovely" by jen kingwell, upsized

fabrics: all from scrap

bonnie lass

started 2024

pattern: bonnie lass from "quilt lovely" by jen kingwell

fabrics: all from scrap

these are leaders-and-enders, so they aren't meant to be finished until they accumulate enough blocks. i'm pretty far on the larger one but need to revisit my math again before i know how far i am. middling priority for the larger one, no time scale for the small one.

epp

"london wardrobe"

an english paper piecing (epp) project, all done by hand

traditional ferris wheel pattern inspired by Katy at i'm a ginger monkey (here)

started: july 2013

i took this one out early december to have a look. it needs to be done! my original idea is not going to happen, but i have a few ideas how to make use of what i've got. however, there are no quick and easy fixes. this is middling priority, behind top 5.

frosted forest star

started: may 2021

pattern: stella grande, own design

i got backing fabrics i like (finally!) for this one in december. next batching party i have, this one is getting basted and quilted.

handquilting queue

groovy liberty

started may 2025

pattern - half square rectangle pinwheels

this one is middling priority. it's backed and has been stabilized with some basic machine quilting. but it still needs handquilting and there are other handquilting priorities.

quilting queue

twelve south

pattern: single large improv log cabin

started: march 2021

i got held up on quilting this one because i was trying to branch out in my fmq, be a little adventurous and try new things. bad idea. or at least not a sustainable one for me. if i can figure out how to simplify that idea and get it done, i will be doing this in the next batch party.

improv in an afternoon

started january 2023

pattern: improv

taking the quick and easy route here, too. i'll do some straightline quilting or some such basic design and just get it done at the next batch party.

trimming queue

binding and handquilting more queue

 binding queue

sunny crossroads quilt

started february 2023

pattern: treehouse crossroads

fabrics: various yellow and low-volume from stash

next time i'm batch making binding, this one will get it's turn. and i might add some handquilting someday. but probably not.

bound, but still handquilting queue

cheery (easter) quilt

improv frames, own design

started: feb 2019

still a lot of handquilting to add to this one. the eternal spring break project. but it's going to take priority in the handquilting department soon. like, at spring break and thereafter til done.

free-wheeling single girl

pattern by denyse schmidt

fabrics: liberty tana lawn prints in autumn colors and a brown crossweave background

started october 2025

bound and in use this fall, this one is getting put in the handquilting pile but it's not priority until fall again.

liberty christmas cabin

liberty + crossweave log cabin quilt

started dec 2024

i got the initial handquilting complete and it's now bound, so useable (although out of season). to me, it feels like it needs more handquilting. this is one of those psuedo-finishes, half-done things. i still want to add more handquilting to it after all. it's middle priority for handquilting.

that's THIRTY-ONE projects. (three are bound and in use but not fully finished with handquilting.) i have work to do, don't i! which would you do first or like to see finished most?