Sunday, February 9, 2025

Monday Meanderings 2 - 10 - 2025

All of our snow from the first week of January has finally melted. Guess what! We have another big storm coming in Tuesday through Wednesday! Right now 4 to 6" of snow is predicted but it may change between now and then.  And, there will be rain the rest of the week.  It's a great reason to stay in the studio and play!  That's what I did most of this past week.  I got quite a bit done this week. Here's a look at my goals last week. 

2/3/25

✅Sew ‘22 McConnell mystery blocks together with sashing — well started.

✔️Make more Potato Chip blocks — just 1 finished 

✅Quilt flannel baby quilt — top is now quilted.

✅Cut out and sew together a new quilt using only stash fabrics — Bears and Pinwheels now a top! 

Find a backing or two for some tops I have ready to quilt — nothing done.


Again this year Sharon and I are working on UFOs.  My February project was making a top from the 2022 Mystery blocks designed by Sherri McConnell.  I made all the blocks but never put it together. So I decided to start the month getting these blocks into a quilt top.  Here's what's been done so far. Whoops -- This is my entire design wall... blocks all over the place. The bottom left red, white and blue blocks are from Sherri's mystery. (Notice the 4th row pinned to the right....I ran out of design wall!)  



I was originally thinking I'd use a white for the sashing. But rifling through my stash I found a blue that has cream stars on it.  I realized it would look much better than the white.  Except I'd already made the cornerstones based on the white sashing.  So I made two more red and white 4 patches. The row below where the red and white are there are two cornerstones made with red and a blue from the blocks.  The red and white definitely looks better than those. So I'll be making 4 more of them this week and sewing the rows together and hopefully the two borders also.


A quick trip around my design board --  top left are my potato chip blocks using the rectangle die from my 9" Accuquilt Cube. The right hand top are the Rainbow Scrap Challenge potato chip blocks cut 2.5" x 4.5".  This month's color is blue. So, I went ahead and got my 2 blocks done right away. 


Underneath is the block the FCQ Equilters are making. (That's the one I made to check the instructions.) The bowtie block is a random leftover block. The light, bright star is the first block in Cali - Co block of the month. Hum, I do keep a lot of miscellaneous stuff on the board.  I need to look at all the stuff on the right to see if I can clear it off so I have more room for blocks. 


I figured this streak of lightening quilt out quite a few years ago but didn't cut it out and put it together until last month. Today, I put it on Ruthie and used a basic stippling on it. I was happy that it didn't take all that long. On the other hand, it is under 40" square. 


And the last item checked off on my goals list last week was to cut out and make a new top.  I did a bit of snooping in my fabric stash and found an old but cute bear print on white with red hearts.  Looked like a perfect baby quilt fabric. I paired it with red and blue -- both left overs from backing fabric. It's hard to see but there is a narrow inner border that is beige/brown check. I didn't realize how directional the bear fabric was until I was cutting the borders.  Luckily there was enough fabric so I could seam the last border. Now I need to find a backing for it. 



Hopefully this week I get as much done. Here are my goals for this coming week. (Hey, remember the snow storm...I bet I can get a lot of these goals accomplished during it all the rain were suppose to get.)

2/10/25

Bind baby Quilt 

Quilt another top 

Finish '22 McConnell mystery top 

Make 2 napkins and a placemat

Make more Potato Chip blocks

Find a backing or two for some tops I have ready to quilt


I have kept up with my 15 Minutes to Stitch record. Here are the details.


W/ending 2/9/25. 40 days of 2025

  • 15 minute days/Feb = 9/9
  • 15 minute days/2024 = 40/40 days
  • Success rate = 100%
I'm linking up with these Linky Parties.


Thanks for all the answers regarding binding on flannel quilts. It seemed that both ways were popular.  At this point I'll probably use whatever I can find that will go with the quilt's colors. 

I've had the Super Bowl on in the background while I was writing this post. I wasn't impressed with the ads this year although I did miss some of them.  Was there one you particularly liked?  One I did like was the Jeep ad with Harrison Ford. I laughed out loud when he mentioned he liked his Jeep even though his name was Ford. 

Happy Quilting All! Bonnie   

9 comments:

  1. We always get more sewing done when the weather isn't so nice don't we! Your mystery quilt is fantastic!

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  2. I like the exuberant possibilities on your design wall! Sunshine here today but a storm comes in Wednesday with up to 6".

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  3. Those R, W, and B blocks are really pretty! I like the blue you chose for sashing, too. Looks like you have lots of fun projects in the works. I didn't listen to the Harrison Ford Super Bowl commercial - now I wish I had!

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  4. my sister had mentioned snow I wonder if it is expected in Williamsburg? I won't say have fun with it as I know we are all probably tired of winter - but maybe you can get some sewing done

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  5. That quilt is so sweet, Bonnie. I love little pinwheel blocks in kiddo quilts.

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  6. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one whose design wall looks a bit like my scattered thoughts!!

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  7. I liked the glimpse of your design board! The r/w/b quilt blocks look great!

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  8. Love all of your works in progress, especially the Potato Chip blocks.

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  9. Yeah, I thought most of them were lame, but really loved the Jeep ad.

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