It's a Finish! Orphan Justine

It's a finish!

Orphan Justine

36 x 48

The top was assembled last November from orphan blocks with mostly purple with touches of yellow and orange. I put some smaller blocks together into larger blocks and framed some blocks so all of my blocks finished at 12 inches. All of the blocks were given to me by different folks.

I quilted it with swirls on my sewing machine. 

The back and binding. 

And sew on...

Monday Musings at Brenda's Songbird Designs

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A little quilting marathon is going on here in March . Soon I will have boxes of comfort quilts to send off to two of my favorite charities that provide quilts for kids  - Wrap-A-Smile  (WAS)  and      Quilts Beyond Borders.  (QBB).

Wrap-A-Smile (WAS) partners with Rotaplast International.

 Rotaplast International, Inc. is committed to helping children and families worldwide by eliminating the burden of cleft lip and/or palate, burn scarring, and other deformities.

Quilts Beyond Border (QBB) quilts go to many different initiatives both foreign and domestic...foster care, refugees, Indian reservations, orphanages, women's recovery centers...you will just have to go read the QBB blog because I can't remember them all.

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A few things are starting to pop up in the gardens. And a few things like my tulips are being eaten by rabbits and deer. We could use some rain because the ground is very dry. I see some predicted for the week starting on Tuesday. 

Species tulips

Rhubarb

One sedum that hasn't been nibbled yet. Deer and rabbits must have not seen it while on their rounds. 

You can't see them very well but his is my new bed of black and white Tulips in my Perky Goth/Moonlight garden. They have been eaten down by deer or rabbits. I hope to get out to spray with Bobbex today before the rains come. 

Iris Reticulata (Dwarf Iris)

Scilla has popped up all over the place. 

Another type of species Tulip. The critters missed eating this one!

Crocus around one of the little Gazing Balls the fairies put there. 

And sow on...

 

It's A Finish! Orphan Ignatius

It's a finish!

Orphan Ignatius

36 x 41

This orphan block quilt is a row quilt. For this one I picked out orphan blocks with some black in them. All of these orphan blocks were given to me by others. 

I made rows of blocks of the same block size.  I finished the top in November 2025.

I quilted it with loops of gray on my sewing machine. 

Kind of blurry because it was windy when I took the photo but here's the back and binding. 

And sew on...

Oh Scrap! at Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework

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A little quilting marathon is going on here in March . Soon I will have boxes of comfort quilts to send off to two of my favorite charities that provide quilts for kids  - Wrap-A-Smile  (WAS)  and      Quilts Beyond Borders.  (QBB).

Wrap-A-Smile (WAS) partners with Rotaplast International.

 Rotaplast International, Inc. is committed to helping children and families worldwide by eliminating the burden of cleft lip and/or palate, burn scarring, and other deformities.

Quilts Beyond Border (QBB) quilts go to many different initiatives both foreign and domestic...foster care, refugees, Indian reservations, orphanages, women's recovery centers...you will just have to go read the QBB blog because I can't remember them all.

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FYI - Yesterday's blog post was about some quilts I made with some patients of the Feb. 2026 Rotaplast mission in Chattogram, Bangladesh. 

 

It's a Finish! Orphan Layla

Orphan Layla

36 x 48

For this one I used orphan blocks with red, blue and yellow. All blocks came to me from other folks

I combined four six inch Snowball blocks to make a 12 inch block. The Stars on yellow background started out as 6 inch Happy Blocks (framed squares). I used them as centers for Sawtooth Stars. 

The top was assembled in November 2025.

I quilted it with swirls of yellow on my sewing machine. 

The back and binding.

And sew on...

A little quilting marathon is going on here in March . Soon I will have boxes of comfort quilts to send off to two of my favorite charities that provide quilts for kids  - Wrap-A-Smile  (WAS)  and      Quilts Beyond Borders.  (QBB).

Wrap-A-Smile (WAS) partners with Rotaplast International.

 Rotaplast International, Inc. is committed to helping children and families worldwide by eliminating the burden of cleft lip and/or palate, burn scarring, and other deformities.

Quilts Beyond Border (QBB) quilts go to many different initiatives both foreign and domestic...foster care, refugees, Indian reservations, orphanages, women's recovery centers...you will just have to go read the QBB blog because I can't remember them all.

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FYI - Yesterday's blog post was about some quilts I made with some patients of the Feb. 2026 Rotaplast mission in Chattogram, Bangladesh. 

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Finished a book! Mary: Mrs. A. Lincoln by Janis Cooke Newman. Historical fiction about First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. I found it interesting reading and did some follow up research  Googling of Mary. As one Goodreads reviewer wrote: "To sum it up, the woman had a healthy sexual appetite, loved to shop, travel with her husband, and speak her mind. If that means insanity, majority of women in United States today belong in the looney bin." 😊

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Oh joy! I received a box of scraps and orphans from Nann and a box of scraps and fabric pieces from Barbara yesterday. You know I use my little ruler to measure width of each scrap so I can use them to their best advantage. Oh, what a good time I had going through everything. Oh, the makes I can make! I am thankful for scraps that keep me sewing.

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Species tulips. 

Slowly some things are starting to sprout up here and there. It is surprising to see any flowers with this weird Spring weather. One day it is in the 70s and the next it is in the 20s like this morning at 21 degrees. 

 

Sock Monkey Strippie Finish

It's a finish!

Sock Monkey Strippie

36 x 45

Someone gave me some strips of Sock Monkey fabric. 

Someone else gave me some crumb blocks that just happened to have a Sock Monkey in one block. 

They were meant to be together so a Strippie was born. I had enough of the green stripe fabric to add some strips to the mix. 

I assembled the top in November 2025.

I quilted it on my sewing machine with some loops and squiggles. 

There's another green stripe on back and I had enough of that for the binding too. 

And sew on...

Finished Or Not Finished Friday at Alycia Quilts

A little quilting marathon is going on here in March . Soon I will have boxes of comfort quilts to send off to two of my favorite charities that provide quilts for kids  - Wrap-A-Smile  (WAS)  and      Quilts Beyond Borders.  (QBB).

Wrap-A-Smile (WAS) partners with Rotaplast International.

 Rotaplast International, Inc. is committed to helping children and families worldwide by eliminating the burden of cleft lip and/or palate, burn scarring, and other deformities.

Quilts Beyond Border (QBB) quilts go to many different initiatives both foreign and domestic...foster care, refugees, Indian reservations, orphanages, women's recovery centers...you will just have to go read the QBB blog because I can't remember them all.

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FYI - Yesterday's blog post was about some quilts I made with some patients of the Feb. 2026 Rotaplast mission in Chattogram, Bangladesh. 

 

Quilts I Made With Patients in Chattogram, Bangladesh

I've had a little quilting marathon going on here in March. One of the places I send quilts is Wrap-A-Smile.  

Wrap-A-Smile (WAS) partners with Rotaplast International.

 Rotaplast International, Inc. is committed to helping children and families worldwide by eliminating the burden of cleft lip and/or palate, burn scarring, and other deformities.

In February I spied three of my quilts with Rotaplast patients in Chattogram, Bangladesh. That was a February 2026 mission. I am always so thrilled to see quilts in action.! 

I have added pics of the front and back of the quilts I made as well as the patient who got the quilty hug. 

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It's A Finish! Orphan Heidi

It's a finish!

Orphan Heidi

40 x 60

Heidi is full of 8 and 8.5 inch unfinished blocks I framed in blue scraps so they all became 12.5 inch unfinished blocks. 

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I arranged the blocks in columns with a blue multicolor sashing in between columns. 

The top was finished back in November 2025.

I quilted it on my sewing machine with swirls of blue. 

The back and scrappy blue binding. 

And sew on...

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I meant to post about this quilt on Monday; however, I have spent most of the last several days sleeping. I came down with some kind of illness that caused dizziness, vomiting bile, headache, sensitivity to light and extreme exhaustion. I'm rarely ill, thank goodness. I had to make myself better yesterday afternoon so I could take hubby to get a CT scan so maybe they can figure out the cause of his jaw pain now that the antibiotic caused the swelling to go down. I hate seeing him in such pain.  I think the extreme anxiety caused by several things going on in my life right now that are a cause of constant worry as well as dehydration and pushing myself too hard might have been the cause of my bout of illness.   I need to stop worrying and go sew and sow!

 

A Couple of Small Finishes

Two Small Finishes

42 x 42

Last year someone gave me some Sixteen Patch blocks made of 4 inch squares.  I decided to make them into two small comfort quilts and just added Star centers. 

I finished the two tops back in November 2025.

I quilted both on the diagonals. 

And sew on...

Oh Scrap! at Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework

A little quilting marathon is going on here in March . Soon I will have boxes of comfort quilts to send off to two of my favorite charities that provide quilts for kids  - Wrap-A-Smile  (WAS)  and      Quilts Beyond Borders.  (QBB).

Wrap-A-Smile (WAS) partners with Rotaplast International.

 Rotaplast International, Inc. is committed to helping children and families worldwide by eliminating the burden of cleft lip and/or palate, burn scarring, and other deformities.

Quilts Beyond Border (QBB) quilts go to many different initiatives both foreign and domestic...foster care, refugees, Indian reservations, orphanages, women's recovery centers...you will just have to go read the QBB blog because I can't remember them all.

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The latest Rotaplast mission has been in Cebu City, Philippines. You might like to read Reynaldo's story!

I see from the latest QBB blog post that I have a quilt going to  Comfort Cases, for children entering foster care and several quilts going to Salaam Cultural Museum, for the comfort of refugees, both in the US and abroad.

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I took a little break from my quilting marathon the last couple of days to process all the quilt back trimmings as well as some other scraps that have accumulated on my cutting mat.  I'm preparing for next month's theme in my quilting space - "strings, crumbs and fodder".  I have also been working out in the garden the last couple of days. I planted lettuce, spinach, kale, mustard greens, radishes, beets, sugar snap peas in the veg garden and noticed my rhubarb is sprouting up.  Today my granddaughter and her partner are coming for a visit and lunch. It's been awhile since I've seen them so I'm looking forward to catching up on their lives. I have a little box of odds and ends to pass on to them as well as a few quilts.