Darting Birds is Finished

The Darting Birds mini quilt is finished.  It was part of a sew along by Kathleen Tracy on Facebook for the Fall of 2025.  I love the bold darker colors I used in this quilt.  I was excited to use fabric I won from  Rouge Quilter, Janet.  She blogs at The Rouge Quilter.    This is my seventh Ravelry UFO Fall 2025 Finish.  

It measures 26" square.  It will find its home in my longarm room once I get a dowel rod to go into the hanging sleeve.  I did try a new hanging sleeve method using triangles that you can read about here.  I love the gold thread that I used in the stipple, free-hand quilting.  The binding was sewn by hand.

This is my 8th Ravelry UFO finish this quarter.

Here's my Fall 2025 Ravelry UFO Club Projects:

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

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

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

4.  Kite Girl -- Needs sashing sewn and put together

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.  Old Town -- finished 10/31/25

9.  Pineapple Table Runner -- Completed 10/24/25

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

11.  Blue Embroidery Quilt -- sixth finish 11/7/25

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 -- Binding being hand stitched in the evenings

17.  Acorn Harvest -- Quilt top needs assembled

18.  Sail Away crib quilt -- Blocks need sewn

19.  Fall Table Topper -- Completed 10/3/25

20.  Scattered Stars -- Completed 10/10/25

21.  Fireflies Wall Hanging -- Blocks need appliqued

22.  Shirting Blocks -- binding almost finished

23.  Pinwheels -- finished 11/14/25. 7th finish

24.  Bright 9-patches -- quilted - needs binding sewn on

25.  Random Blue Blocks -- Hand Quilting -- In the hoop

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

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

28.  Kathleen Tracey Fall SAL (Darting Birds) Finished 11/21/25

29.  Blue Orphan Block Table Topper -- 85 percent hand quilted

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

Quilting Complete on Bright 9-Patch

Quilting is complete with this little quilt.  I'm really loving the edge-to-edge design of my new-to-me Circle Lord giant template board calleld Wanders.  It is very forgiving in how it is lined up and quilts quickly.  I backed this quilt with a sized just right scrap of soft seer sucker.

I weirdly selected a bright green dot fabric for the binding.  I've been going out of my comfort zone here and there and I LIKE IT!  Happy sewing!  I'm thrilled I'll have another project to take with me on the go.  These fit in my bag perfectly.  

Brrr.  Quilting in the longarm room is getting cold.  I can usually quilt until Thanksgiving.  We shall see...

Bright 9-Patch on the Frame

The Bright 9-patch quilt is on the frame.  I am using bits and pieces of fleece in place of batting.  I had two customers in the past that actually preferred fleece instead of cotton batting.  My colors are bold enough that I can get away with different pieces.

Binding Making for Card Trick

Card Trick is quilted and trimmed.  Time to make the binding.  I selected this pink print.  After I made the binding I only had a 12" strip left.  It must have been the perfect fabric scrap for it.  Don't you love it when that happens?  It seems to happen to me often.  Blessed!

It will be nice to relax in the evenings and stitch the binding on Card Trick.  I'm getting much more efficient at sewing binding down by hand.

Slow Sunday Stitching -- Darting Birds Binding

 This week I focused on finishing the binding on my Darting Birds mini quilt.  This was a mini QA on facebook.  Pattern is designed by Kathleen Tracy.

Above it is in the piano lab at the school of arts.  Students at this school are talented in so many ways.  It's impressive to watch.  One side of the binding is fiished.

Next it went with me to this special K-2 classroom.  Another side was finished.

It won't be long now until this project is finished.  I also had time to work on my blue orphan block project.  I started quilting the border with just little "e's".  I thought I would experiment with a filler by putting lines in them (bottom pic).  I like the border with the filler so much better.  I didn't mark the filler lines.  I'm just experimenting as I go.  I'll just call it "organic" stitching.  LOL.

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

 

RSC25 -- Putting it together -- Blues -- Summit Stitches

 I made a ton of blue leader/ender blocks during our blue months.  I used them to participate in the QA at Humble Quilts.  Today I am assembling the 16-patches.

Linking up at SoScrappy for the RSC25.

Pinwheel Quilt Finish

 This sweet little pinwheel quilt is finished.  It is no longer just a set of orphan blocks.

It measures 29" square.  I logarm quilted it with my new-to-me Circle Lord giant template board called Wanders with yellow thread.  It is backed with a vintage sheet.  The binding was hand sewn.  It does not have a home yet.  It will end up is the "pile".

This is my seventh Ravelry UFO Fall 2025 Finish.  See what the group is doing here.

Here's my Fall 2025 Ravelry UFO Club Projects:

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

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

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

4.  Kite Girl -- Needs sashing sewn and put together

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.  Old Town -- finished 10/31/25

9.  Pineapple Table Runner -- Completed 10/24/25

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

11.  Blue Embroidery Quilt -- sixth finish 11/7/25

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 -- On the longarm frame

17.  Acorn Harvest -- Quilt top needs assembled

18.  Sail Away crib quilt -- Blocks need sewn

19.  Fall Table Topper -- Completed 10/3/25

20.  Scattered Stars -- Completed 10/10/25

21.  Fireflies Wall Hanging -- Blocks need appliqued

22.  Shirting Blocks -- binding almost finished

23.  Pinwheels -- finished 11/14/25. 7th finish

24.  Bright 9-patches -- a flimsy -- needs a quilt back

25.  Random Blue Blocks -- Hand Quilting -- In the hoop

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

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

28.  Kathleen Tracey Fall SAL -- quilted needs binding finished

29.  Blue Orphan Block Table Topper -- 75 percent hand quilted

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