SAHRR Final Round

I got my final round done, AND I got my 2026 Stay at Home Round Robin quilted! 

The binding isn’t done yet, but it will be soon. I’m planning to bind it in the same fabric I used in the final border. I should have taken a picture of the back, but I forgot. I used a multi-colored swirl with a white background. 

It’s a fairly large quilt: 92” x 102”. It will easily cover a queen bed, and probably a king if the mattress isn’t really thick. It can be turned longways or sideways, so it should work for either size.

Here’s a closer view of the border: 

All those pickets about did me in. LOL. I’m happy with the way it turned out. I quilted it with a thread color called light turquoise. 

The final analysis: I really enjoyed this quilt-along. The prompts were interesting enough to spark ideas, without being rigid or restrictive. The time between clues was enough to stay caught up. Best of all, I ended up with a usable quilt instead of another UFO! So, thanks to all who hosted, and to Gail who I am linking up with today! 

Shiner Quilt Show Part 2

I realized yesterday I didn’t ever say specifically where Shiner is located. It’s a small town (population a little over 2000) about 50 miles north of me. 

It is the home of the Spoetzel brewery which is known for Shiner beer. If you are a beer drinker, I recommend you try it. Anyway, here are some more pictures from the quilt show.

This quilt was done by the lady I go on cruises and quilt retreats with. I quilted it. Her husband is an avid fisherman.

I really liked the purple and yellow combination in this one, and all of her points were so well-matched. It’s a simple design that was executed very well. Just a really pretty quilt!

It wasn’t a judged show, so the awards were all “Viewers Choice”. I can’t remember what I voted for in the small categories, but I voted for this one for large machine quilted: 

It is similar to the Barn Star quilt I have been working on. For the large hand quilted category, I voted for this one:

It was done by another friend named Donna, and she texted me Saturday afternoon to let me know she had won third place. How wonderful! It’s a beautiful quilt.

Today I have a three day class with Barbara Black called Western Sun. 

The blocks are paper pieced which I’m not fast at, so we’ll see how much progress I can make! 

Shiner Quilt Show

I went to the Shiner quilt show on Saturday. Betty went with me, and it was nice to get out of town after such a busy week. We also stopped at The Square Quilter shop in Shiner, and then we stopped in Yoakum on the way back and ate fajitas at Mi Pueblo.

I didn’t take a lot of pictures of the show. It was at the Knights of Columbus Hall, and the lighting was not very conducive to picture taking. I edited the pictures as best as I could to “brighten” them up some, but I apologize for the quality. 

Oh, this was interesting:

They have a quilt car. Apparently the guild members pieced the blocks to make the car cover a couple of years ago. It fits a large SUV. Funny!

Here are some of the quilts.

I’ll show some more tomorrow. If I’m still alive. When I was cleaning up the family room yesterday afternoon, I found this under one of the dog beds. 

I’m wondering if the dogs are planning to do away with me. I hope they remember I am the one who dispenses the food and treats! 

Scrappy Saturday

There hasn’t been a lot of sewing happening lately. Life is busy! I have been working on the Stay at Home Round Robin, and I was able to get the borders finished and get it on the frame.

I’m really trying to get it quilted and bound by March 25th or whatever the deadline is but I don’t know. ??? I know I can get the quilting done, but I’m not feeling too confident about the binding. I’ll go as far as I can. 

I’ve worked some on my RSC blocks. In fact, I still had some green strips cut that didn’t get sewn in February so I finished those two blocks. 

Then I did a red one.

I like the red. It’s my favorite color. I remember when I was a kid and my mom bought me dresses that were blue or green or worse yet, blue and green plaid. LOL. I wanted red or pink! 

I made a couple of the corn and beans block

and I hope to get a few more done. I just need to cut more red strips. 

I just feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done that I want to do! I still need to get started on the BOM from A Quilting Life. I have the pattern printed out and the fabric chosen for the block. 

I went to the Shiner quilt show today, and I will post pictures as soon as I get them uploaded from my phone to Google. They had it at the Shiner KC Hall, and the lighting was not at all good, so I will have to do some editing.

I Was Confused

You won’t believe what I did! I looked at the wrong week on my planner and thought I had bunco yesterday. I fixed sandwiches and drove to the location. I got there a little early because I was a hostess, and there were no other cars. I looked at my watch, and the date was the 12th. I have Bunco on the 19th. It turned out I had nothing yesterday and nothing today. I might actually get some of my stuff done!

I got the side borders made for the SAHRR, but not sewn on yet.

I hope I can do it this evening. I am so close to finishing; I plan to add one more border after this one, but it won’t be pieced so it will go fast.

I also worked on binding on a couple of baby quilts.

The back: 

And this one:

The back is Shannon cuddle.

These are both Rhonda’s. I have a couple more to finish for her. The quilting is done, and I just need to do the binding. I hope to get it done today. I still haven’t worked on the red RSC blocks—maybe this evening.

Making Progress

I was hoping to get at least one side of the next border added to my Stay at Home Round Robin, and I did! It has taken more time than I would like to admit but I’m finally seeing some progress. 

I laid it out on my family room floor—I like to take pictures there because 1) it’s a pretty big room, and 2) I have skylights so the lighting is pretty good. I took this picture after dark so not so good lighting, and the top has gotten so big, I am running out of room. Here’s a closer view:

Yes, I’m standing on it! I still need to get the two sides done, but it’s coming along, and I’m happy with the progress so far.

I have been totally neglecting my RSC blocks; I have a few red strips cut, and I hope to get some blocks made before the weekend. But if it doesn’t happen, oh well! There is always next week. 

Tomorrow is bunco, and I signed up for sandwiches. I’m thinking turkey and Swiss. I will need to go by the store today and pick up fresh bread. Rye would be good. A friend I haven’t seen in a while texted yesterday to see if I wanted to meet up today for lunch, and of course I said yes. I’m looking forward to catching up. 

Weekend Update

Oh my, where to start? Betty and I went to garage sale Saturday. We normally don’t go to garage sales, but her sister texted her and said they had a lot of fabric. Well, ok. Off we went. I bought a bag full for $4.50. I failed to take a picture of it; I’ll do that later today. 

I worked on the picket fence border I want to put on my Round Robin quilt. It’s slow going. Since I decided to do scrappy, I feel like the cutting took longer than I had hoped. I have been putting them in stacks of ten. 

I need around sixty total. I want to get to the point where I can at least get a side sewed on so I can see if I am going to like it. I’m pulling colors from the focus fabric. The one in the star centers.

I straightened up my sewing space a little and found this:

Two tops I made and never finished. I think I got stalled out on borders. They are really too small for anything except baby quilts. I’m a little more motivated to make some bigger quilts, especially since I dropped off the ones for the Day1 graduation project. I feel like I want to get a few more made while my motivation is high. I ended up using the two small tops to make one pretty good sized top.

It’s currently 54” x 72”, but I want to add a couple of borders. I got the inner border cut out. It will be black solid, and the outer border will be a black and white print. I want to get the borders on this week. I found another top that I want to finish, but it will also need borders to make it bigger. 

I think I will remove that dark pink strip between the panel and the charm squares and replace it with a strip of orange. I’m still thinking, though.

The best news: It rained yesterday! It was supposed to rain Saturday, and it never did. I had a splitting headache all day—that happens to me with extreme barometric pressure changes—so I thought sure it would rain, but it didn’t. Sunday morning it was thundering a lot and rained a little. I checked the rain gauge and it was about 1/8”. My dad used to say “We got two inches of thunder, and a half-inch of rain.” Haha. He said a lot of funny things. Later in the day, it started raining hard and rained quite a while. I had 1-1/2” in my gauge. Thank God for that. We needed it so badly. We could use quite a bit more, and maybe will get some Wednesday, but probably not enough to alleviate the drought conditions.