Finish or NOT Friday on Sunday 3.1.2026

This is a combination post of SAHRR -prompt 6 and Finish or NOT Friday...yes, I'm a little behind posting. Baby Brother's feed dogs stopped feeding and THAT stopped me! :)

Prior to no feed dogs, I had worked on my SAHRR. I was going to skip prompt 6 - provided by Anja as Quilter's Choice. So my choice is...the borders I had put on my SAHRR! It was while I was sewing back the binding on Baby, that the feed dogs and tension gave up the ghost. I tried 'my tricks' to get Baby back on track but alas, into the repair shop she went last week Wednesday...

pattern:    prompt 6 - Quilter's Choice - Borders

                prompt 5 - 2 colors - sashings

                prompt 4 - top row - curves

                prompt 3 - second row - animal kingdom - monkey wrench

                prompt 2 - third row - 'double' - double arrow

                prompt 1 - fourth row - hourglass - Ohio star 

                starting point - fifth row - barn star

Sharing today with Anja at SAHRR prompt 6 and 

Alycia at Finish or NOT Friday.

Design Wall Monday 2.23.2026

Imagine my surprise/excitement when I was leafing through the newest Fabric Cafe Book - Make It Scrappy with 3 Yard Quilts - and discovered the Jumble pattern uses the Echo Block from the QOV Foundation site! Although it is a different size, 9.5 inches unfinished in Jumble and 10.5 inches unfinished in Echo. I re-worked the alternate block in Jumble to match the Echo blocks and started piecing on Thursday Sew Day last week.

Here is what I had at the end of Sew Day. Notice the leftover Echo blocks being used! ekk! so fun!

I'm going for a 5 x 7 set with borders to bring it to size. Here is where I am at: all the blocks are made and it is ready for center assembly and borders.

pattern: a combination of Echo blocks and Jumble from Fabric Cafe's

                Make it Scrappy with 3 Yard Quilts.

Sharing today with Judy at Design Wall Monday.

SAHRR - Round 5 - 2.22.2026

Quilting Gail is our hostess for Round 5 in the Stay At Home Round Robin. Her prompt is '2 color'. Should be easy, right?

Maybe, maybe not...

Since I am making a row quilt instead of a medallion quilt, I thought I would make sashing as I am nearing the desired length of my quilt.

ah...maybe not....

pattern:      top row:        'curves'

                  second row:  'animal kingdom'...monkey wretch blocks

                  third row:      'double'....double arrow

                  fourth row:    'hour glass'...Ohio stars

                  fifth row:       'my start'...barn stars

Sharing today with Quilting Gail at SAHRR.

               

SoScrappy Saturday 2.21.2026

Today is the third Saturday of February of the color dark green. Instead of 'so scrappy', maybe my blocks should be called 'so stashy'. As I am using the stash and not the scraps. :)

I made more 'funny' rail fences. Dark green - grey - dark green. I promise, I DO HAVE a plan...

pattern: rail fence - public domain

                my rails are 2.5 inch cut green - 2.5 inch cut grey - 2.5 inch cut dark 

                    green and sub cut the strata at 6.5 inches

Sharing today at SoScrappy Saturday. 

Finish or NOT Friday 2.20.2025

The fun thing about smaller quilts (less than twin (60 x 80)) is that they finish faster! Less pieceing, less quilting and less binding!

My finishes for this week are the 1/4 Log Cabin Leftovers. it feels good to complete both quilts.

This first one has a fabric insert arranged horizontally.

pattern: I just call it 'Lasagna Leftovers'

                    The fabric is a 12.5 x WOF of a novelty. 2.5 inch cut top/bottom 

                        border. I then seamed the 'leftovers' on the short end with a

                        straight join, cut to length to match the novelty and bordered

                        it all with 2.5 inch cuts. My binding is the same fabric as the

                        outer border.

panto: serpentine

The second quilt has the novelty as a vertical insert.

pattern: Lasagna Leftovers (same idea as above :))

panto: serpentine

Are these my favorite quilts? No but they will be nice donation quilts and very little of the blue and gray are leftover. The woodland print? That's another story and another quilt...<sigh>

Sharing today with Alycia at Finish or NOT Friday.

WIP Wednesday 2.18.2026

Both of the Lasagna Leftovers took a turn on the long arm.

The Lasagna Leftover twins also both took a turn at binding. It's a little easier when the fabric for the binding is the same. :)

Sharing today with the Inquiring Quilter's Wait Loss Wednesday.

SAHRR - Prompt 4 - 2.17.2026

Wendy at Pieceful Thoughts is our hostess for the SAHRR2026 Border Prompt 4. Her prompt is 'curves'. This one threw me for a loop...no pun intended! 

I kept thinking 'drunkard's path' but that just wasn't working for me. So, I thought, 'impromptu curves' (after all, I do like to do wonky!) but this didn't work for me either. I then decided to make a template and raw edge applique a curvy something...

Here is what I did...

But?!     What is it?

Swags?! I was going for this look...

image found on Google search: patriotic swag bunting.

Here are all my blocks/rows/prompts together:

patterns:      top row: curves

                    second row: animal kingdom...monkey wrench blocks

                    third row: double...double arrow blocks

                    fourth row: hourglass...Ohio star blocks

                    fifth row: this was my start...barn stars

Sharing today with Wendy at Pieceful Thoughts.

Design Wall Monday 2.16.2026

Remember this pile of leftover 3.5 inch cut strips from the 1/4 Log Cabin Quilts, blogged here and here?

Since I had duplicates, I decided to make two leftover 'lasagna' style quilts. I looked in the stash for 'something' to coordinate but didn't find anything that I liked. So off to the local Hobby Lobby, where I found a woodland animal print that I liked.

First I made the quilt with the animals horizontal.

I then made one with the animals vertical orientation.

I'm not really 'grooving' to either one but I did use up the leftover 3.5 inch strips so I am considering it a win!

Sharing today with Judy at Design Wall Monday.

SoScrappy Saturday 2.14.2026

Today is the second Saturday of February of the color dark green. I felt like an easy block, so I made a set of green and grey 4 patches.

pattern: 4 patch - public domain

                My 4patches are made with strips cut at 3.5 inches. 

                The blocks are 6.5 inches unfinished

Not very exciting but the mindless sewing my soul needs....

Sharing with SoScrappy Saturday.

Finish or NOT Friday 2.13.2026

I finished my Echoes quilt this week. I decided to make the corners the same colors and did half in reds and the other half of the blocks in blue. I used 48 blocks in this quilt. I like the simplicity of it.  :)

pattern: 2026 QOV Block of the Year : Echoes

panto: serpentine

Sharing today with Alycia at Finish or NOT Friday.