Hollow Nine Patch Finish

It's a finish!

Hollow Nine Patch

42 x 52.4

I thought this was a UFO; however, when I looked at past blog posts I see that I made blocks and top this year when I worked on emptying my 4 inch width scrap bin.  I have made Hollow Nine Patch quilts from all sizes of squares. 

I quilted it on my sewing machine with horizontal and diagonal lines. 

It has a purple back and tie dyed binding. 

And it is one of the twelve quilts already winging their way to Oglala Sioux Head Start at Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, SD

And sew on...

Monday Musings at Brenda's Songbird Designs

 

What's In The Hoop?

What's in the hoop?

Fan Flowers

It was a free pattern called Fan Flower Quilt from Tilda's World. 

I started it in 2023.

I assembled the top in 2025.

And now I'm big stitch hand quilting it so maybe 2026 may be the year of the finish.

And sew on...

Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts

 

Sunshine Almost Always Makes Me High

It's a top!

99 Charms

40.5 x 49.5

Yellow and orange charms/squares. I think most have been given to me over the years. 

It has been raining, raining, raining here all week and little Cathy wants to go out and play.  Sunshine almost always makes me high and I haven't gotten high in a week and the itsy bitsy spider wants to go up the spout again. 

Yellow is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color of the month. 

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

And sew on...

 

Happy Scribbles

It's a finish!

Happy Scribbles

42.5 x 59.5

I made the top in March 2025 after I received some Happy Block frame pieces. 

I had a few different crayon fabrics to use as Happy Block centers.

I quilted it on my sewing machine with some scribbles...

...in a variegated thread...

...on a gray backing. 

And sew on...

Finished Or Not Finished Friday at Alycia Quilts

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I finished a book! I've Got A New Complaint: Essays on Aging Disgracefully and Other Small Disasters by Laurie Notaro.  I was looking for some light reading that might make me smile. It wasn't a laugh out loud book but it did make me smile some. 

Other things that made me smile the last couple of weeks...

- I am the historian, record keeper, genealogist for John's family. John's brother wanted to know if I had his dad's recipe for Tomato Jelly. Yes, I do.

- I always have to laugh when someone says "that's a nice quilt for a man".  What? Men don't like flowers? Maybe watch a few episodes of Gardner's World.  And that reminds me...one time when we were at Walmart (I think) John saw a fabric I just had to buy for a quilt for him. He said it reminded him of his grandmother. Well, it was what I would consider a pretty darned ugly old lady type floral but to each his own. I did buy it and I did make him a quilt. I used it as the center string in a string quilt where it fit right in. He used his "grandma comfort" for years.

- I always have to laugh when someone thinks it is work to do a few loads of laundry. I have a wringer washer - two tubs with a wringer in between. And my dryer is a clothesline outside or drying rack and clothesline in the basement. (I gave up on washers and dryers because my basement is too damp for the electronic components they put in them nowadays.)

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Oh joy! I received a surprise package of goodies from Karen Z. with batting pieces for Frankenbatts as well as some scraps. It was indeed a surprise...her sister Sandi told her about me, the collector of comfort quilt fodder. And Sherron who is a blog reader started it all when she sent me some beautiful appliqued blocks and then told her friend Sandi about me.  How nice.   Karen wondered if what she sent might have some pieces that are too small. Nope...I use anything down to 1.5 inch squares and go down to one inch if it is a strip. Every little bit counts!

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Happy Scribbles and 11 other quilts are now boxed up and I will drop off at UPS Friday morning.  They are going to Oglala Sioux Head Start at Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, SD.  According to the Sew For Kids website Headstart is looking for 300 Blankets – For naptime, Children were given their blankets to take home at the end of last year. (Blankets aren't their only needs). 

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It has been raining every day for about a week now so I've been unable to get out to the gardens. I know there will be bucket and wheelbarrows full of weeds to pull! More rain in the forecast through Sunday. Guess I'll go sew.

 

It's A Finish!

It's a finish!

Snowballs and Rails

36 x 42

Someone gave me a lot of 6 inch finished Snowball blocks with red corners. Last year I made three different tops with them.  This one has a toy theme and I combined the Snowballs with Rail blocks.

I quilted it on my sewing machine on the diagonals. 

The back. I had just enough fabric for it! 

And sew on...

 

Charm Tuesdays

Two Charm Tuesday quilt tops 58.5 x 84.

A free Moda pattern called Charm Tuesday.

The one on the left has the dark/light layout in the pattern. 

The one on the right has light and darks reversed. 

I did some scrap processing last December and kitted up all the parts for the two quilts back then. 

I used 2.5 inch scraps for the rectangles instead of cutting charm squares in half.  I had a box of charms/5 inch squares received from others over the years that I sorted into piles for a few differen quilts including these two.  

I had so many scraps I decided to make a version reversing lights and darks. 

I pulled out and sewed up the kits for some mindless sewing.  I think it took longer to cut all the pieces back in December than it did to sew parts together. 

I think I like the reversed version better although both make for nice comfort quilts.

And sew on...

 

No Longer Under Construction. It's a Finish!

It's a finish!

42 x 60

This is one of five row quilts I made for Stay At Home Round Robin 2025 (SAHRR 2025). 

This one started with a large print of construction vehicles. 

Following the SAHRR prompts I added in more construction print novelties. 

I quilted it on my sewing machine with swirls. I bound it in "concrete" (gray). 

And there's a construction print on back that I had to fill in with a little "concrete". 

And sew on...

Monday Musings at Brenda's Songbird Designs

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This quilt and others I have on hand will soon be heading to Oglala Sioux Head Start at Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, SD. I saw on the SewForKids recent blog post that they are asking for 300 blankets for naptime. The kids were given their blankets to take home at the end of last year. 

My favorite place to donate kiddo quilts, Wrap-A-Smile,  is on pause for a bit so I was looking for new places to donate quilts so I can keep on making scrappy comfort quilts!