On the Frame -- Scattered Stars Table Topper

Time to get my quilting done on this project.  I don't know the name of this pattern, but I found a photo of it on Pinterest.  I'm calling it Scattered Stars.  I made these few blocks after I saw the image on Pinterest and couldn't figure out where the blocks were.  I wanted to draw up a pattern for future use and see if it would work with my Accuquilt dies.  It would look great with red/white/blue scraps.

I'm qulting it with the Circle Lord giant template board called Bubbles.

Pinwheel Progress

 I slapped some vintage blue around these pinwheel blocks.  I can now see why this project came to a halt go many years ago.  One of the pinwheels are spinning the wrong way.  Shhh.  Don't call the quilt police.  I'm totally fine with it now.  Onward...

It's about 27" square.

Bear Claw Finish -- Slow Sunday Stitching

 I'm excited to share my first try at hand quilting.  The orphan bear claw block is now a table topper.

It measures 15" square.  

I have never used these little clips for binding.  I LOVE them.  I started stitching in the living room while watching Survivor.  Reality shows of this type are my thing!

The next day I took the project to school with me.  This is a 6th grade room.  I used to hate doing a binding by hand.  Now that I have been working on my skills with various hand-stitched projects promoted by this slow-stitching group I've am re-visiting it.  I have actually started enjoying not only the stitching, but also the neat finish that a hand-stitched binding has. 

I'm linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching here.

 

I'm also linking up at the Fall 2025 UFO Club on Ravelry.  

This is my second 4th quarter finish.

I enjoyed this project so much I am starting another mini.  I found a Random Blue Block sampler in July.  I used 12 blocks in a 3x4 setting earlier this week.  I put a border around this block and it will be the project I keep in my truck.  I love to stitch while I wait on the kid...

This mini is about 20" square.  (And no, I didn't put my toe in the photo on purpose for size reference.)

Here's my Fall 2025 Ravelry UFO Club Projects:

1.  Old Town -- needs longarm quilted

2.   Rail Fence 3.5" RSC block -- 900 blocks needed/need arranged

3.  Piccadilly Circle -- Need a few more circle blocks

4.  Kite Girl -- Need one more block and sashing

5.  Folk Art Birds -- Need more birds and alternate blocks

6.  Bear Claw Mini -- Needs finished hand quilting and binding (very close to being done)

7.  Maroon Sampler -- Needs two more blocks

8.  Bit Con double sized quilt -- Needs more rows of strips sewn together

9.  Pineapple Table Runner -- Needs blocks put together with setting triangles

10.  Four Patch Fun -- Bonnie Hunter leader/ender -- Continue making blocks

11.  Blue Embroidery Quilt -- Needs longarm quilted

12.  HST -- Needs more blocks made and sewn into rows

13.  Tree of Life -- Needs more blocks

14.  Scarborough Fair -- Needs more blocks made

15.  Unity Quilt (Bonnie Hunter 2020) -- Needs blocks for the sides to be wider

16.  Card Trick -- Needs a quilt back made

17.  Acorn Harvest -- Quilt top needs assembled

18.  Sail Away crib quilt -- Blocks need sewn

19.  Fall Table Topper -- Complete! in this post 10/3

20.  Scattered Stars -- Needs quilted

21.  Fireflies Wall Hanging -- Blocks need appliqued

22.  Shirting Blocks -- Need sashing and sewn together

23.  Pinwheels -- Blocks need sewn together with sashing

24.  Bright 9-patches -- Need an alternative block cut

25.  Random Blue Blocks -- Needs a quilt back

26.  Dicey -- Blocks need sewn together with sashing and cornerstones

27.  Rainbow Ribbons -- need blocks completed and sewn together

28.  Kathleen Tracey Fall SAL -- Need more pieces cut

29.  Blue Orphan Block Table Topper -- Needs a quilt back

30.  Summit Stitches 2025 Quilt Along at Humble Stitches (25" square project)

Orphan Block Table Topper -- A Friday Finish

My son and I found this set of blocks back in July when we were cleaning the quilt room.  It is now a fall table topper.

The blocks were left behind by a quilter that had passed on.  She left a lot of things for me.  I backed it with this blue floral fabric that was also hers.  I quilted it using the Circle Lord giant template board called Bubbles.

I shared my finish with The Ravelry group for Fall Quarter Finishes here.

This is my first 4th quarter finish.

Here's my Fall 2025 Ravelry UFO Club Projects:

1.  Old Town -- needs longarm quilted

2.   Rail Fence 3.5" RSC block -- 900 blocks needed/need arranged

3.  Piccadilly Circle -- Need a few more circle blocks

4.  Kite Girl -- Need one more block and sashing

5.  Folk Art Birds -- Need more birds and alternate blocks

6.  Bear Claw Mini -- Needs finished hand quilting and binding (very close to being done)

7.  Maroon Sampler -- Needs two more blocks

8.  Bit Con double sized quilt -- Needs more rows of strips sewn together

9.  Pineapple Table Runner -- Needs blocks put together with setting triangles

10.  Four Patch Fun -- Bonnie Hunter leader/ender -- Continue making blocks

11.  Blue Embroidery Quilt -- Needs longarm quilted

12.  HST -- Needs more blocks made and sewn into rows

13.  Tree of Life -- Needs more blocks

14.  Scarborough Fair -- Needs more blocks made

15.  Unity Quilt (Bonnie Hunter 2020) -- Needs blocks for the sides to be wider

16.  Card Trick -- Needs a quilt back made

17.  Acorn Harvest -- Quilt top needs assembled

18.  Sail Away crib quilt -- Blocks need sewn

19.  Fall Table Topper -- Complete! in this post 10/3

20.  Scattered Stars -- Needs quilted

21.  Fireflies Wall Hanging -- Blocks need appliqued

22.  Shirting Blocks -- Need sashing and sewn together

23.  Pinwheels -- Blocks need sewn together with sashing

24.  Bright 9-patches -- Need an alternative block cut

25.  Random Blue Blocks -- Needs a quilt back

26.  Dicey -- Blocks need sewn together with sashing and cornerstones

27.  Rainbow Ribbons -- need blocks completed and sewn together

28.  Kathleen Tracey Fall SAL -- Need more pieces cut

29.  Blue Orphan Block Table Topper -- Needs a quilt back

30.  Summit Stitches 2025 Quilt Along at Humble Stitches (25" square project)

Random Blue Blocks Progress

I made it a point to get in thirty minutes of sewing last night.  I put together this set of random blue blocks:

It will be a charity crib quilt.  I could have probably done better with arranging the two with the royal blue backgrounds.  I'm going to leave it as is.  Now I'll have to search the blue bins to find the right backing so that I can add it to the to-be-longarmed pile.  Hopefully since it's small it will be quilted before the cold weather comes and stops me from quilting in the unheated quilt room.

2025 Four Patch Fun Progress (Bonnie Hunter Leader/Ender Summer 2025)

I stuck to the pink/yellow/neutral color scheme.  Can you tell that I am using vintage sheets as my neutrals?  It think they are super fun!

I only made ONE block this month.  Oh well...

I'm excited about the 2025 Four Patch Fun Leader/Ender Challenge led by Bonnie Hunter.  I pulled some more pinks, yellows, and neutrals.  Get all the details on this challenge at Quiltville's Quips & Snips!

I don't know how big this quilt will be.  I will continue to make Leader/Enders until about May or June.  (Bonnie Hunter usually starts a new leader/ender in July.)

I don't expect to make too many of these blocks in October because I will be putting quilt blocks into rows and then flimsies as leader/enders this month.  Happy sewing!

FALL 2025 Ravelry UFO Club

 Now that it is summer I hope to finish a few projects.  Motivated by Joy at The Joyful Quilter, I'm going to sign up with her Ravelry UFO group.  Here is my project list for the SUMMER 2025 (Ravelry) UFO Club:

1.  Old Town Mystery (Pattern by Bonnie Hunter 2024-25)

I made the back.  It needs quilted next.

2.  Rail Fence 3.5" blocks

I need 900 blocks for this quilt.  I have to count them and clip sets together.  

 

3.  Piccadilly Circle -- Very stale project due to lack of interest.

I started making this quilt in 2014 for the RSC.  In 2021 I made only three of the border pieces (yellow, light green, and dark green).  I made one yellow and one dark green Piccadilly Circle blocks in 2022.  I still need to make circle blocks in dark purple and lime green.  I also need the other border parts.

4.  Kite Girl

All of the Kite Girl blocks are made.  All of the embroidery of the flower stems and kite strings are complete.  This quilt will have an antique look with mint green sashing.  I plan to work on it during the month for light green.  The inspiration for this quilt appeared at Q is for Quilter. I believe I started this project for the RSC in 2014.

5.  Folk Art Birds -- very stale project due to lack of interest.

I need to locate the paper bird template for this one.  It could be with another bird I had made.  This was a 2016 RSC project start.

6.  Bear Claw Mini -- Excited to see this finished soon.

I am learning how to hand quilt on this small project.  It should be finished soon.  I don't know what I haven't decided if/how I'm going to stitch the aqua border.  I think it's small enough to not quilt.

7.  Maroon Sampler -- Stale project due to lack of interest right now now. 

This quilt is a combination of different sampler quilts.  I want to say this was around 2013ish for some of the first blocks.  I need to count to see how many I have and go from there.

8.  Bitcoin Double Sized Quilt

I have cut strips in multi-colored fabrics (fabrics that are more than one color and don't fit into a specific color family bin for sorting purposes.) I have several strips sewn together in anothe strip bin.

9.  Pineapple Table Runner -- Excited about this one.

While sorting in the longarm room I found this Pineapple Table Runner.  I think I found all of the little pieces t AND the instructions!    Looks like it needs a good pressing to start.

10.  Four Patch Fun -- Bonnie Hunter leader/ender (continue to make blocks)

11.  Blue Embroidery Quilt, top completed Summer 2024 (needs quilted)

12.  HST Quilt, Three Six Nine RSC22 -- (needs more HST made and rows completed)  -- Losing interest due to the fact that some of the rows are together and I don't know where I am exactly on the pattern.  

13.  Tree of Life Quilt -- I only have three blocks completed, (orange, aqua, and yellow)

 Tree of Life block in orange was made this week.  This is a die from Accuquilt.  

14. Scarborough Fair -- more blocks need to be made.

15.  Unity Quilt (Bonnie Hunter 2020 Quilt Along). I still can't figure out how I want to make this quilt larger and finish it.  I may just do a 3.5" scrappy neutral border and call it a flimsy?

16.  Card Trick -- needs a back made and then quilted.  This quilt has been missing in my quilt room.  I found it this weekend!!! 9/27/25!!!

17.  Acorn Harvest -- Stalled because I'm afraid to cut the pieces apart.  Embroidery is done.

Photo from the front of the package:

18.  I finished cutting all the HST for Sail Away crib quilt.  It is now a complete quilt kit.  I'm still interested in this project, but I'm saving it for a rainy day and winter piecing.

19.  Finish this little fall table topper.  These blocks were left behind by a quilter that gave me all of her things when she passed away.  It is in memory of her.   -- Could be a fast finish once it's on the longarm.  Great colors for fall.

20.  Scattered Stars

I found this idea on Pinterest.  I made a few sample blocks to test the Accuquilt dies to see if they would work for the pattern.  I think this pattern would look great in red, white, and blue scraps.  I'm still going to finish it and use it as a table topper in the living room.  Since this isn't my favorite set of scraps put together, it will be on a table that seems to get a lot of spills.  It will all work out and be useful protecting the table.

21.  Fireflies Wallhanging

I started this 9/22/25.  It is a simple applique project that will be in my sew-to-go kit for school.  Background fabrics have been selected and cut to size.  Other fabrics have been selected.  Stem pieces have been cut and sewn into long strips but not sewn onto the background yet.  Scrappy blues have been selected for the rail fence blocks but not cut yet.  HST's will be a constant gold that matches the flower center and flower bud.

Here's one of the stems sewn...  It seems kinda thick.  I cut out the leaf and petal templates 1/4" to accommodate a size that I think would better work.  Here's a stem I did in one of the gifted 2nd/3rd/4th.

22.  Shirting Blocks (need sashing and sewn together)

23.  Pinwheels

There are only four blocks complete on this.  I think it could be a cute thing to hand stitch that would fit easily in my sew-to-go bag.  

24.  Bright 9-Patches

For some reason I have an odd amount of 9-patches.  I just need to put them together and call it a day.  :)

25.  Random Blue Blocks

I believe this project stalled because the blocks aren't all the same 12.5" size.  I need to slap them together with some sashing and cornerstones and get it to the done pile to make room for more projects to finish.

26.  Dicey

I made these blocks so that I could do a few things -- learn how to applique circles using my Applipops, use miscellaneous neutrals, use the Accuquilt chisel die that I seldom use.  Mission accomplished.  The next step is to iron out all of the Frixion pen applique placement marks, cut 1.5" sashing strips.  This will be a 6x8 layout.

27.  Rainbow Ribbons

Wow, this is a blast from the past.  This was a guild project.  We would make circles and applique them onto a square.  Then we could cut them into quarters and sew them back together.  I know this was abandoned because the pieces don't match perfectly.  This was a group project that ended up in my take-home bin because I was ambitious back then.  LOL.  We'll see how this goes.  It's on the list none the less.

28.  Thimbleberries Fall Mini Quilt Sew Along 2025 Darting Birds Quilt by Kathleen Tracy

I cut the little pieces for this mini QA.  I was excited to use fabric I won from  Rouge Quilter, Janet.  She blogs The Rouge Quilter.    The dark pieces are cut.  I still need to cut neutrals and maroons.

I started this project 9/28/25.

29.  Blue Orphan Block Table Topper

The Random Blue Blocks (#25 above) I found in July was a set of 13.  I did not use this one in the 3x4 layout, so I added a border to it.  I plan to hand quilt it since that is one of my new forms of entertainment.

30.  Humble Quilts Summit Stitches 2025 Quilt Along

Might as well add just one more after seeing Lori's post at Humble Quilts.  The first instruction is to make 80 four patches using 1.5" squares...  Well, I have more than that already made in a tote!!!  Let the games begin.  This quilt is an official start 10/4/25.

Thank you, Joy @ The Joyful Quilter for inviting others to join this challenge.  I'm linking up at the Fall 2025 UFO Club.