Monday Meanderings -- July - 27 - 2026

This week our dog Sunny celebrated her 4th birthday.  We wanted to do something special for her although she wouldn't know why she got a special treat.  We took her to the local soft serve ice cream place called Jimmy T's.  Here she is enjoying her own bowl of vanilla soft serve.  She went at it lapping up the goody. But every once in a while she stood back and licked her lips.  We decided she was experiencing ice cream brain freeze.  We enjoyed bowls of ice cream too. Yum. Feet holding her bowl helped a lot! 

I did pretty well on my goals this week. 

7/20/26

✅Knit on a new hat — a hat is ready for stitching up the seam. 

✅Work on Snowman #2 — stitched star handle. 

Finish prepping Snowman #3 for hand appliquéing — nothing done on #3. 

✅Cut blocks and sewing turquoise and green baby quilt — finished top. 

✅Load a quilt on Ruthie and quilt it — Eiffel Tower top quilted and trimmed. 

Last October I started this baby quilt at retreat.  I brought it to the recent retreat and was able to get all the blocks made. I laid it out and took pictures so I could recreate it at home. This week I was able to sew the blocks into rows and then into a top. I used my Accuquilt 9.5" Companion Set signature die along with a triangle die from the main set to cut the squares. 

Here's a close up the animals prints in this quilt. I can't remember where and when I got those prints but they sure go well in this little quilt, about 36" square.

This Eiffel Tower quilt I cut out before the retreat. During the retreat I made all except the border. I got the main fabric off of a guild free table.  The pink was purchased "used" -- someone was selling it. The yellow has been in my stash for years. I'm happy to use these fabrics. 

The quilt is trimmed but not bound yet. I used Superior Thread's King Tut in Sunstone on the top with a basic yellow So Fine for the bobbin.  The quilting pattern was Baby Blue Eyes E2E by My Creative Stitches.  Here's a closeup. But it doesn't show the quilting design well. I plan to use the yellow for the binding, hopefully this week. 

Here's what I hope to do this week.  I have a few other things going on so I hope I can get all of these things done this week.

7/27/25

Finish quilting fall appliqué quilt

Bind Jane’s table runner

Bind Eiffel Tower Quilt 

Stitch on Snowman #2 

Finish beanie hat 

I was able to sew every day this week. Here are the numbers. 

Week ending 7/26/26: 207 days of 2026.

 206 stitching days out of 207 days 99.5%

I thought I would share a couple of the quilts others finished during the retreat. First up is Michele who made this quilt using many (all?) of the Kona solids. I don't remember if she had already started it but here's the finished top! Gorgeous. 

Kay bought this sweet kit at a quilt store on the drive to the retreat. This is a cute quilt for a child or baby. 

As usual, here are the Linky parties I'll be joining. 

Stitching Time 

Oh Scrap

Quilting Patchwork Applique 

Design Wall Monday

Monday Musings

Happy Quilting All!  Bonnie