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Friday, May 15, 2026

Week 6 - Villa Rosa Designs Challenge

This is week 6 of the 6 quilts in 6 weeks challenge with Villa Rosa Designs. Wowee! I made it all the way through! Villa Rosa announced the challenge HERE You can see all the quilts on their facebook page HERE .

Here is my week 6 quilt. I made it from scratch this week from the Discovery pattern, it wasn't a UFO.

I free motion and ruler quilted it with Glide lavender thread and Bottom Line gray thread in the bobbin. It finished at 44 x 58 . It has 80/20 batt and a pretty fleece on the back.

I'm sharing my week 6 quilt with Villa Rosa on their facebook page

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Friday, May 8, 2026

Villa Rosa Challenge - Week 5

Who knew I would get this surprise push to quilt up those tops I put together last year? I thought they would languish on the hangers for a decade. Then along came the Villa Rosa Designs challenge to finish 6 quilts in 6 weeks. I have a weakness for taking on a self-challenge.

Originally, I thought I would be making these quilts from scratch until .................. I remembered these tops. Well I have made 3 new Villa Rosa patterns for this challenge, but I also had 3 Honey Bouquet tops just waiting in the wings to be finished.

So, for week 5 I quilted up this darling top made with the Honey Bouquet pattern. It is all flannel pieces and the backing is also flannel. I used a Pellon 80/20 batting and an Omni buttery yellow thread quilted with loopy loops for a fun and quick finish. The binding is also flannel.

Here is the back .....

I'm sharing my finish on Villa Rosa Designs facebook page and also joining these lovely linky parties this week. Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

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Saturday, April 18, 2026

RSC for Pinks

I made this quilt top last year from a bag of flannels donated to me by a quilter friend who doesn't like to work with flannel. Lucky for me, I find no difference working with flannel. There were all sorts of flannel prints in the bags, so I tried to group them into batches that might work together.

This is a version made from the pink family. The areas that appear red in the photo is really a dark fuscia pink. Pic was taken indoors and I am still not very skilled with photography. I don't know if I used a pattern, a photo from the web or just worked with what I had. It finished up at 30 x 35.

Here is the back - also assembled from pieces of flannel.

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week. Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday - soscrappy

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Friday, April 10, 2026

6 Quilts in 6 Weeks Challenge - Week 1

Have you seen the new challenge instigated by Villa Rosa Designs? Look at me getting myself into all this trouble trying to participate in all the challenges. I can't bear to avoid them. You can find out about this challenge on this post Join the 6 Quilts in 6 Weeks Challenge Today! Won't you suffer along with me?

I was hard pressed to get this one done this week with so many errands and appointments in our schedule. Yesterday afternoon I devoted to making the top and today was quilting a binding. I pulled some fat quarters which all had a space theme and added some yardage too. It is very lively. Ha.

I quilted in a cross hatch style to save time this week. It finished at 35 x 45 and will be donated.

Here is the Villa Rosa pattern that I used to make this quilt. You can get your own copy here Search: 2 results found for "cabin fever" – Villa Rosa Designs. I love to get the digital copy because I get it right away but mostly because I can print it out enlarged on a full sheet which makes it easier for me to work from.

I'm sharing on the Villa Rosa Facebook page where you can see what other users of their patterns are sharing and also at these lovely sites sharing their linky parties.

Quilting Patchwork Appliqué

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Saturday, January 10, 2026

Valerie's String Quilt # 3

A small finish for this week, one of Valerie Osborne's donated through Heartstrings tops now quilted and ready for donation to The Hope Center, a clinic for new-to-be mothers.. It finished at 37" square. I quilted it in a continuous circle with a mint green Omni thread top and in the bobbin. The backing is also from a donation given to me last year from a generous cyber friend. What a blessing to be able to pass these gifts forward. I have 2 more tops from Valerie now pin basted and ready to quilt on.

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week. Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday - soscrappy

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Saturday, January 3, 2026

RSC26 - Honey Bouquet Blues

So it's the new year of Rainbow Scrap Challenge and everyone is anxious to dig into their blue scrap bins to create new projects. I dived into my blue bin and found lots of large chunks that needed used so I chose the Honey Bouquet pattern by Villa Rosa Designs. It is published as a 6 block baby size quilt. I added 3 more blocks and turned them on their side to make a kiddo quilt 45 x 54. This is just the flimsy. Lots of machine quilting to do yet this year.

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Saturday - soscrappy

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Saturday, November 8, 2025

A couple baby quilt tops

I don't have alot of wonderful things to share this week. I have been keeping very busy. I work on a mountain of microwave bowls in the early morning, then I loose a bunch of time on the computer. Then I try to machine quilt in the afternoon. Of course, we all have to work around many errands and appointments.

I did finish 3 easy placemats from the pumpkin fabric line (no photo).

Here is the project I've regrettably been microquilting which has taken forever. I've pressed on because I want it ready for the holiday displaying. I regret not quilting arcs and curves and all kinds of fun things in the petals. It would have been pretty and so much faster do finish. I began this project last October, then it sat uncompleted for several months. I finally gave it the push needed to move it along. I want it done this year!! Crimson Christmas | Krista Moser

I was also recently given a couple bags of flannel scraps and pieces and even a few large enough for backings on baby quilts. I couldnt resist cutting them up into large bricks. I've made 2 "Honey Bouquet" baby quilt tops and have a couple more in the works, tho I've taken a detour over to christmas projects.

These are 36 x 45 each. The girl quilt is okay but I'm not happy with the ones in greens for the boy, too much light colored rectangles. I may have to do some large applique on top to deter from that light.

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week. Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday - soscrappy

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Saturday, October 18, 2025

Elmo's Q4K

I prepped this 'strippy' style quilt last year. These kits are great when you need a quick finish. They are all quilts-for-kids size at approx 48 x 56. It's also a great playground for practicing new free motion quilt designs.

The Elmo fabric was donated to me. I pulled some other fabrics that were colors in the focus print. The backing is a red fleece and cotton batting between. I free motion quilted continuous loopy circles in the printed areas and a crosshatch grid in the red and another easy design in the blue border. ( I forgot its name). A buttery yellow Omni thread on the top and gray for the blue border and bobbin. The thread just disappears in the fleece.

In the meantime, I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week. Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday - soscrappy

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Sunday, August 31, 2025

Strippie Bargello Q4K

I had pieced up these strippie=style quilts a few months ago when SoScrappy's RSC color of the month was orange. I pin basted them at group sew day last month and decided to dive in with a quick quilting plan.

They each finished at 46 x 56 and are already packaged for donation to our local community service departments for giving out at this discretion. I used a lovely Glide lavender thread for free motion quilting. They are each backed with a fun fleece print.

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week. Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday - soscrappy

Quilting Patchwork Appliqué

Sunday - Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday - Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

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Saturday, August 16, 2025

Strip Tango Q4K and a Lil Quilt Project

I finished a quilt4kids project that was started very early this year. The pattern is a free project offered by Kelly at My Quilt Infatuation. The pattern is HERE .

My Strip Tango finished at 46 x 54. I gathered up some fat quarters and it worked up very quickly. I used a silver Glide thread and free motion quilted curvvy strings with loops and occastional stars tossed in. It seems impossible to see the quilting with all these prints.

I use an 80/20 batting for everything now. The back is a fun fleece which complimented the top so nicely. Photo was taken indoors so the true colors are not quite this dark. I'm gifting this quilt to a good neighbor who is having her first granddaughter this November.

The Lil Quilt Project this week is a top donated by Cindy W. of Indiana. I've gotten so many tops to finish into quilts and I run out of steam coming up with individual names for the projects. I'm calling this one Scrappy Red Bricks.

I quilted it with diagonal straight lines going in both directions; connecting all the corner points. I used an Omni burgandy thread in the top and gray Bottom Line in the bobbin. The bottom corner is flipped so you can see the backing. It finished at 30 x 40 and will be donated to our community programs as a baby quilt.

I was a bit of a slacker in the sewing room this week. I spent more time in EQ trying to come up with wonderful borders for some special quilt centers I want to get finished.

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week. Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday - soscrappy

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Monday - Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

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Thursday - quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

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Saturday, August 9, 2025

Baby Blues Batik

I finished a quilt 4 kids this week. The center portion was made from lots of leftover pieces from some gifted jelly roll strips. I can't remember the name of the blog that sent them to me. Initially I started a top by Alycia Quilts, which is not finished.

Okay so these leftover strips were in my scrap bin and since they worked together so well, I had to dig deep in my stash to find other fabrics to compliment the light winter batiks. Found a few pieces of other lights and even a couple bluish purples...for this one I did what I could with what I had to work with, which is a perfect challenge that I don't practice often enough.

This quilt finished at 46 x 54. It has a fleece backing and I free motion quilted it with assorted designs in different areas with a Glide silver thread. It went very well and quickly too. It goes in my donation pile. I even did a lengthy feather in the long side borders, which turned out much better than my last attempt at feathers, which turned into a vine of leaves. Sometimes the brain has a mind of its own.

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Saturday - soscrappy

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Thursday - quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

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Saturday, August 2, 2025

Split 9 Patch Flimsy

Never say never certainly applies to me. I always said the Split 9-Patch block was one I didn't want to make. Still, I was encouraged to make this block, and 12 inch scrappy at that!, because of a block drive announced ages ago for the LA fire victims. They asked for 12 inch blocks, all scrappy while still keeping each color family together.

I chose 4 color families and began cutting from my scrap bins. I cut 10 blocks from each color family. My quilter friends helped me sew these blocks together in record time. I thought why on earth did I make 40 blocks; 42 or 48 blocks would make a logical layout.

So this stack of blocks sat and sat until I decided I had too many unassembled flimsys hanging around I took this box of blocks to sew day this week to lay it out and assemble. Creating a pleasing layout from a mix of blocks is not my best skill.

With one color of blocks, I began in the bottom left corner and started laying it out. Imagine my delightful surprise when it just all came together on the first try!! I love it and wouldn't mind making more. 40 blocks came out just right ........... the columns are balanced and the size is 5 x 8 grid with 12 inch blocks make for a nice twin size 60 x 96 before any borders.

Here is one half of the top, after assembly; looking at it sideways.... it is 48 x 60. This also makes a great quilt design. I could make two of these from the blocks pictured above. Another lesson learned.

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Saturday - soscrappy

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Thursday - quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

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Saturday, July 19, 2025

Purple Tops Q4K

It seems I've been churning out tops the last couple months. Time to get really busy with the machine quilting and get these moving on to their new families.

This first one I did probably in May but the fabrics didnt take well to an indoor photo, so I finally got an outside pic this morning. I think it is 36 x 40 ish - a free pattern at Storied Quilts. It truly is a 2-hour quilt. Someday I plan to experiment with a few more fat quarters to make it larger. You can get the pattern HERE .

This little topper took longer to construct but it is really sweet. It measures 42 inches square and it reminds me of buttons and bows, so I call it Purple Bows. I used dimensions shared by our friend Dee of Stashbusters group. I tried the traditional way of constructing, but dont enjoy that method, so I used the chisel die to cut my bricks with the angles cut off for me. I then just had to fold in half to find the center and trim the ends down about one inch to make them come out square. I used a pink with dotsTula print for the background and some purple.

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Saturday - soscrappy

Quilting Patchwork Appliqué

Sunday - Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday - Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

Wednesday - The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday - quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com