5 quilt may 30, 2025

    last report April 28, 2025

I try to work on these 5 quilts until they are done. Their turn in the UFO closet is over, and, they need to be finished one way or another.  

I finished 2  ufos in May

 kaleidoscope - is finished

74 x 74

fancy fox -  My one monthly goal for May is finished

52 x 62

 I worked on these older Ufos to finish them

scrappy twirl -all the borders are done, I need to trim it square and decide what I want for a border.

 hollow nine - rainbow scrap challenge from 2023 that needs the border Which I intend to applique. fingers crossed.

 broken dishes made with civil war fabrics I am not sure I am finishing this.

holy toledo

My May PHD report

scrap cutting

I have added another goal to the 5 quilts project. I want to take one day a month and cut scraps. I will have plenty to choose from since I really didn't cut any for 2024, and the bags of uncut scraps are piling up, all over the fabric room.

I cut a big scrap bag for May. The original box weighed 9 pounds 13 ounces of shirtings scraps. The cut pieces weighed 1 pound 4 ounces which is 4 yards of useable fabric. 2025- totals so far 16 1/2 yards of useable fabric  

quilts to be quilted: 

1. wedding ring I have had this ready for a few years, but, I am afraid to quilt it myself. I want it to be special and I don't do special. So I will work to talk my self into it..... some day

chunky churndash

Looking forward to May - finally adding a few new ufos to the list

 scrappy twirl

 hollow nine

 broken dishes civil war

 zipper blocks

 holy toledo

halloween panel kit plan and beginning

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creations

PHD

oh scrap sunday

wednesday wait loss

rsc23 super saturday

My quilt infatuation

kaleidoscope finish

I am so excited to have kaleidoscope finished. I took a guild workshop in 2016 with Mary Huey. It was a great class and I was really looking forward to finishing this quilt. It was in the UFo closet until 2024, when it returned as part of my  5 quilt project. It was lost for a minute, and I had to figure out the border. I hope I can make another one someday, as I really like the circle illusion it creates.

74 x74 = 16 yards

I made a scrappy binding with leftover fabrics from the quilt. And I still have enough for another quilt. A new quilt isn't on the horizon, but I would like to put the fabric away together for another adventure.

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PHD

oh scrap sunday

wednesday wait loss

rsc23 super saturday

My quilt infatuation

kaleidoscope borders

I finally figured out how I want to make the borders for kaleidoscope using Marti Micell's template. I needed to take apart the border pieces that were already sewn and add the top triangle before sewing the unit together. When I made a new row, I could do it right in the first place.

I added the top border.

altogether, I added 3 borders and I have one to go before it was time to leave the open sew. I really like how this one looks. I have decided that I don't want a darker outer border.

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oh scrap sunday

wednesday wait loss

kaliedescope blocks

I have all the blocks made that I need for my kaleidoscope quilt ufo project, and hooray, I can start to sew them together. I am doing an even number - 8 x 8 so I can start with twosies. There will be 3 points to match along each side. I have used a Marti Michell template to cut, which makes the sewing pretty accurate. Although anyone can have an off day. We will see. I do think I have used a more or less equal amount of all the fabrics. I am ready to start assembly.

This is an older ufo called kaleidoscope from 2016 when I took a workshop with Mary Huey And is part of my 5 quilt project

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monday musings

kaleidoscope quilt

I have had a chance to open another older ufo project box and peek inside. I took it with me to Friday sewing. My notes are sparse, and I wasn't sure what I would find. If I want an 8x 8 layout I would need 64 blocks. There were about half of that, but, lots of partials and pieces cut. I took this class from Mary Huey as a workshop when she spoke to our quilt guild in 2016.The workshop was for making the block and not a quilt with them. That will be determined later. In the box is a collection of fabrics that I don't remember where they came from. I am guessing leftovers that someone gave me as scraps. This is now on the top 5 of my 5 quilt project.

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more letters

I definitely overdid the letter quilts this year, But I have had a great time with them, and I am not done yet. I feel like all I blog about are letters. I made yellow letters....

and purple letters....

I have more blue to do.
I am slowly putting some of my quilt show purchases away. I have this bundle of homespuns. They may be not trending now, but I like them and everything comes around again.

I bought these paper pieced kaleidoscopes and all the papers printed.

For now, I will put these treasures away for someday.

rsc19 super saturday

oh scrap
UFO busting

Fall ing behind

We have had a week of dreary skies and rain. The temperatures have dropped, and every joint is responding by saying ouch. I have a hard time focusing on any one project, but I want to at least do something. We have my husband's hand surgery hanging over our heads and still no actual date. We really can't put plans in place for the holidays or anything else, until this is over.
So..  I am still slogging through green hourglass blocks for the leader/ender challenge. I need to cut more neutrals.

I'm still cutting for my kaleidoscope quilt. I have 280 of 350 done. I want 81 blocks and there are 4 in each block of the dark and 4 of the light and 4 of the corner triangles. And I want as big a variety as I can get. I've been through all of the fabrics I had pulled and now it is time to scrounge around for a few more or repeat my favorites.

I have been sewing the offtrack pieces into blocks. I need 35 for a throw. I used a jelly roll, and wouldn't you know, random wasn't random enough. The last few were a bit disappointing, so I want to recut just a couple and resew them.

Assembling should be easy -lol- there are no sashings or borders.

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