Stitching Stuff: Week 12 of 2026

 

My apologies for not getting this post up earlier today.  I've been dealing with some back issues this weekend. Sitting in front of the computer wasn't comfortable at all yesterday.  I slept in this morning because I was feeling a lot better.  So the post is a lot later than I planned.  Stitching time still happened, but not nearly as much as usual.  

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/Mar = 21/21 days
• 15 minute days/2026 = 80/80 days
• Success rate = 100%

I'm hoping the back issue is managed for now and that I can get in a good day of stitching.  Getting older is definitely not for sisses.  

How was your week with needle and thread? 

  

Week 152 Photo Challenge: Flowers in Bloom

The photo challenge card for week 152 was perfect for this time of year.  Maybe not easy, but definitely doable.  

All three of us were able to get photos this week without having to fudge on the parameters.  

Kate: Redbud Blooms

The cold temps early in the week pretty much killed the blooms on the Bradford Pear trees, but the Redbuds were still blooming.  Maybe the freeze didn't affect them as much as many of the trees didn't have full blooms. You can see from my photo there are still lots of buds that haven't bloomed yet. 

My Guy took his photo before the late weekend freeze.  

My Guy: Pathfinder Plum

   

He caught these plum blooms at just the right time in the day.  It's hard not to love that soft lighting.  The hard freeze pretty much killed the plum flowers too, so he timed his photo just right.  

Being a working girl has made it harder for My Girl to get photos most weeks.  She did make it work this week. 

My Girl: This is Why I Can't Have Real Flowers

If you could see the very edges of this Lego bouquet, you'd see tiny little bite marks. Queenie, her cat, enjoys flowers. Mostly to eat, not to look at. My Girl learned pretty early on, no fresh flowers in the apartment.  So she makes do with the Lego variety.  

We all enjoyed this week's challenge card as it was one of the easy ones. Next week's photo card is going to be a challenge.  

We actually have a skate park here in town. I'm sure there is one somewhere close to My Girl.  The problem is taking photos of people, particularly children, that don't know you. It makes people very uncomfortable.  So not sure where we'll each go with this. This challenge make take a few weeks.    

To Do List for the Week of 3/17/2026

March started with three quilts that needed to be finished tops before the end of the month. Those three have been my priority since January and have been on my to do list every week. I made good progress on at least one of those last week.  

To Do List for 3/10/2026

1. Scenic Waypoint: Finish block and quilt assembly ✔

2. Kate's Choice: Finish binding ✔

3. SAHRR: Work on final border blocks and quilt assembly- progress

4. Magnificent Mystery: Work on block assembly ✔

5. Wild and Goosey: Continue working on blue blocks ✔

A finished quilt and a finished quilt top.  That's probably the best week I've had all year!  This week's too do list will be a lot shorter.  Hopefully that means I make good progress on the two remaining projects with deadlines. 

To Do List for 3/17/2026

1. SAHRR (Quilting Gail): Work on borders.  

All the blocks from this year's prompts have been sewn into a center panel.  The plan is to add some additional borders to get the size up a bit.  The quilt parade is a week from tomorrow, so I need to get moving on that.  

2.  Magnificent Mystery (Meadow Mist Designs): Work on block assembly

The quilt parade for this mystery is 2 weeks from tomorrow. This project won't be my priority this week, but I kept one block in the works at the machine while I was getting Scenic Waypoint put together. The plan is to do the same this week while assembling the SAHRR. It's slow going that way, but at least it keeps the project moving. 

3.  Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter): Continue working on blue blocks

I had to stop and cut black triangles last night so I could keep making the blue blocks as my leaders project.  I also need to cut some more lighter and medium blue scraps. What's left in my triangle bag is mostly darks at this point.  

Finishing up two projects really shortens the list. Hopefully next week's list will be even shorter.  I need to get back to the guild BOM blocks.  If I get another three BOM blocks done and the instructions written, I'm good till July!  

Linking up with the Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday.

Stash Busting Progress

Winter came back yesterday.  Spring will show up for midweek and then we'll be in summer by the weekend.  My Guy and I joke that spring only lasts about 2 weeks here. This year, it's been a day here and there, with winter in between. I'm not looking forward to 90+ days, hopefully we'll get more spring after that. 

Oh well, the nasty weather (cold, hot, and stormy) have kept me in the sewing room.  Even so, I've slipped pretty badly on the time line for the quilts that have deadlines.  Scenic Waypoint was supposed become a finished quilt top by midnight Wednesday.  That didn't happen.  The last two borders got added yesterday. 

I'm pretty happy with how it came together.  Scenic Waypoint was the project I picked to sew along with the Meadow Mist Designs Stash Busting Quilt Along. The bright polka dot fabrics are from a Connecting Threads Quilter's Candy fat quarter bundle purchased between 2011 and 2012.  The black background is another Connecting Threads basic. It's probably not quite that old, but it's been the stash a while. Definitely time to move these oldies, but goodies out of the stash and into a quilt top.  

The other deadline sewing that got done was finishing up a donation block for the guild's veteran's quilt program.  

The pattern for the block was handed out at the February guild meeting, so I don't know the name. It's an 18" block. It won't take many to make a quilt or two. The striped fabric worked out really well, it adds a lot of motion to the block.  All the pieces for this block came from my scrap strip bins. Being able to pull pre cut strips made the cutting part go really fast.  I have strips pulled for a second block. We'll see if it gets made before this month's guild meeting. Not a lot of stash out with this one, but I at least used my scrap bins!    

Linking up with the Meadow Mist Designs Stash Busing Quilt Along Parade. Also linking up with the normal Monday linky parties: Patchwork & Quilts and Sew & Tell Monday.  

Stitching Stuff: Week 11 of 2026

It was one of those winter/spring weeks.  Winter a day, then spring a day, then repeat. My sinuses aren't happy with the wild shifts.  The forecast says we'll have another week of that in our future.  It's definitely made hanging out in the sewing room more attractive. 

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/Mar = 14/14 days
• 15 minute days/2026 = 73/73 days
• Success rate = 100%

So not surprising it was a good week on the time front, not so great on getting things done.  It's not from lack of trying, but I bit off more than I could reasonably do this week.  I still have the better part of two days to make some head way on my to do list.  

How are you doing with your stitching stuff this week?  

1. Gretchen 2. maggie fellow 3. Melissa G 4. Julie in GA

5. Karen 6. Andrée at Quilting & Learning 7. Quilting Gail 8. Shelina at Quilt and Color

9. Bonnie Stapleton 10. Frédérique 11. Marsha's Spot

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