Monday Meanderings -- 6 - 16 - 2025

52

You might ask what 52 is all about... that's how long Pat and I have been married! Yep celebrating our 52nd anniversary 6/16.  Not sure we're doing anything special -- maybe going out to an early dinner.  Tuesday is a primary election and Pat works at the polls so he'll be leaving the house around 4:30 am or so.  No late night here! 

Now on to my regular blog post. Here's last week's goals list. WOW - look at all those green boxes. 

6/9/25

✅Make dignity bibs with Craft group

✅Finish current hat and start next one

✅Quilt one of my tops

✅Make more string blocks 

✅Sew Whirl blocks together

✅Plan another quilt for future retreat

Last week I brought a couple of flannel shirts home to finish on my Bernina. We learned that a lot of our travel sewing machines didn't have the motor power to sew through a lot of layers. The Bernina handle them well.  I've cut out a few more bibs from cotton like the one I showed last week.  They'll get finished in the next week or so.  

One hat was finished; two hats got pompoms made and applied; and another hat (pink yarn) was started.  I'l be working on the pink hat this week. 

Check out the top I was quilting last week on Friday's post. It's  Button Box a 3 yard quilt from Fabric Cafe.  It's trimmed and waiting for binding this week. 

I got the Whirl blocks sashed and sewn together. 

My next job is to figure out a border.  Do you want to help?  Here are two photos of possible borders for my Whirl top.  Both the pink/purple and light purple are leftover pieces.  I really want to use something from my stash.  If you have other color idea feel free to share them. I'll check the stash! The blocks are pinks, purples, and blues. 

What do you think. Let me know in the comments. I'm leaning towards the light purple... but it isn't fabulous. It isn't bad. Eh, undecided is the best I am right now. 

Yes, I did get everything on the list done this week. In fact I was pretty well finished by Saturday.  I decided I needed to figure out the next quilt I want to kit up. I have a retreat coming at the end of July and I'll need at least 4, probably 5 projects to work on.  I need to see if I have a batch of blocks I can sew together too. That's a great project to bring as I only need to lay them out and then sew. 

So this pattern was next to my sewing machine. It was from Quiltmaker March/April 2001. Yep, I had ripped out the pages, punched holes in them and stuck them in a notebook.  24 years later I'm ready to make it. Here's Cornerpost.   

Here are the major fabrics I'm using. If you note the directions above there are some large rectangles -- the space fabric. The navy, grey and orange will be the rails. I have some charm squares of some of the other fabrics in the line. I'll pick 8 for the center of the quilt and 4 more for the corner stones. The space fabric will also be the borders.  Should be a great quilt and use some fabric I've had for a while. Remember Craftsy? The space fabrics were a kit from there.

This week I've new goals and hopefully I'll be as successful as I've been the last couple of weeks. 

6/16/25

Quilt another quilt

Make binding and bind my quilt

Add borders to Whirl

Cut Cornerpost top 

Attend Gathering of the Guilds 

As you might guess I also did really well on my 15 minutes to sew. Here's the details. 

W/ending 6/15/25. 166 days of 2025

• 15 minute days/June = 15/30 
• 15 minute days/2024 = 166/166 days
• Success rate = 100%

Several quilt guilds in central Virginia are gathering for a day of fun and friendship.  I'm looking forward to it next Sunday afternoon. 

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Happy Quilting All!  Bonnie