QuiltCon Community Quilt and!! Finished ( or not) Friday

 QuiltCon is over, I know.. but! Our Modern Quilt guild made a community quilt for it. I was the lucky one to quilt it. Our president designed it, many stitched it together, Julie did the back, I quilted it and our Treasurer bound it. 

Team Work for the win!

So for this challenge, there were two Color palettes that you could choose from. and then you had to design a quilt that met the size requirements. - I thought the Quilters in our Guild did an amazing job. 

I enjoyed quilting it and being a little part of it!

Even though it was finished a bit ago, I didn't want to show it until I had made sure it did it's job., So it's not really a finish for this week - but by executive decision - It counts haha!

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Week 2 of the WINTER 2026 QOV Quilt A long

 

Week 2 

of The Winter 2026 Quilts of Valor Quilt a Long

 By Quiltygirl©

Quilt Size: 60 x 76 inches

 

 

 

Week 2:  SIX RED Stars with a White Background; Each star is 8 ½ inches unfinished

There are so MANY ways to make these stars

This week I am making them the Four at a Time Method using Amy Smarts Tutorial

https://www.diaryofaquilter.com/fast-flying-geese-sawtooth-star/

I liked this method too, although my scrap system is not set up for it.  I used Scrappy Chunks of fabric –

RED (Per Block – so multiply by 6 for if you are making all the blocks the same)

·         1 – 4 ½ inch Square

·         4 – 3 x 3 in square

White

·         4  - 2 ½ inch squares

·         1 – 5 ¼ inch Square

 

1.       Take all your RED 3 x 3 inch squares and draw a line diagonally down the center.

2.       Take 2 of the 3 x 3 squares and place them on the 5 ¼ inch white square

3.       Stitch on each side of the diagonal line.

4.       Once stitched, slice down the line you drew and press the Reds out

 

 

Next take a 3x3 inch square and place it on the piece you just made like so:

Stitch on each side of the diagonal line

Slice down the line and press open – You will do this on both pieces – and when you slice open – you will have FOUR flying geese.

Mine did need a little trimming on the top of the reds – but it wasn’t too hard.

 Each goose is 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches

 

 

 

Now it is time to put the stars together- Just like last step, I laid them out:

And stitched them together. You will be making SIX of these blocks. Red Stars, White Background.

 

Here is another 4 at a time flying goose tutorial  from Quilting Jet Girl ( Our geese are 2 ½ x 4 ½ inches unfinished )

https://quiltingjetgirl.com/2022/09/30/updated-four-at-a-time-flying-geese-tutorial-and-sizing-tables/

 

I am not sure if these took less time than the Bonnie Hunter Method, but I know they didn’t take too long. Again – I set everything up the night before so that I can get at least 15 minutes of stitching in before going to work.

 If you liked the Bonnie Hunter method from last week – here is the tutorial to follow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6f6XIpd0Uk 

The PDF Can be downloaded Here: DOWNLOAD 

So for those of you in the NOCO area - I am the *speaker* at the LNCQ Guild meeting on March 2nd. If your coming, I'd love to meet you!! 

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Green .... and Blue Chunkies ( Rainbow Scrap Challenge)

 Weekends Fill up Fast around here, so I have had to tell myself its okay to stitch on my RSC projects during the week too. It's a rough job, but someone has to do it right?

I've been slowing plugging away at making the blocks and just plopping them up on the design wall as they are pressed.

After I had all of them made I decided to start playing with color placement. Funny enough - I was ONE QST short - and I make them 2 at a time, so now I have an extra for another project. This is why scraps never end.... just sayin"

I played around and hoped to move from Light in the center to dark at the edges... I sort of succeeded ..I think it will look okay. It is now in a box... I am going to a sew day, and I have it all pinned in row piles. I hope to put it together there....

Note to Self:

Slow Down and Enjoy the ride... its okay to not have the day completely full!!! ( right?) 

us... At the Valentines Day Shoot. We had a GREAT day !  It was nice weather, the horses were happy, we shot well, and placed pretty high for both of us . Our friend came to watch and hung out all day with us, super nice. 

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A T shirt Quilt and!! Finished ( or not) Friday!!

Happy Friday!

We finally got some snow - not a lot - not even an inch, but!! Wednesday we had such high fire danger, and then there were fires, not just here but in Texas and wow - Its very damaging. So when I woke up to some snow Thursday morning, I was pretty tickled! 

I have been working on Memory Quilts and T-shirt quilts for some clients - this one was so fun!

Her family has a history of making HONEY!! So cute!

We found Fleece that had Honey Bees on it!! it was a perfect compliment. I got to take it back to her, and! Of course - you have to love the smiles.

We had some fog this week too - can you see the Rainbow?  Fog and sun is a cool combination!

I am pretty happy to be ticking things off my To-Do list, but I have to stop adding things to the bottom haha!!  

What did you get up to this week? 

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Week 1 of the 2026 Winter QOV Sew Along

 Welcome to Week 1! (click here for PDF version) !!

I hope a lot of you are joining in!! I am ready for some stitching!

Week 1:  SIX Blue Stars with a White Background; Each star is 8 ½ inches

There are so MANY ways to make these stars – This week I am doing them with the Easy Angle and Companion angle.

If you have not used this method before – Bonnie Hunter has a great Tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6f6XIpd0Uk 

 

BLUE:

·         Cut 6 : 4 ½ inch squares (Center of the star)

·         Cut 24 PAIRS of wings –

o   I cut 2 – 2 ½ inch WOF strips and used my easy angle to cut the pairs

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHITE:

·         Cut 24 : 2 ½ inch Squares (for the corners)

·         Cut 24 : Geese  

I used 2:  2 ½ inch WOF strips to get the geese – this is also in the same tutorial as above.

 

Make 6 Sets of 4 Flying Geese Units  - Each Flying Goose will measure 2 ½ x 4 ½ inches. I did trim mine – I had very little to trim, but I like to check just to make sure.

Then lay them out like so:

and stitch together:

I stitch them like a 9 patch – into three units, then press and nestle the seams. I try really hard to press to the dark, but What I really want is a Flat unit. So that being said – have fun! Haha

You will be making 6 of these stars:

 

Notes from Me!

I am trying to make this a super easy Quilt a Long - these 6 stars didn't take me that long, but I get 15 minutes of stitching time each morning before I go to work, and I set everything up the night before. That way I sit down and have a solid 15 minutes.

There are MANY ways to Make the Flying geese units - so next step I am going to try a different method and see if I am just as fast. 

These are two that I have found: 

• 4 at a time Flying Geese from Quilting JetGirl
• Fast Flying Geese from Diary of a Quilter

The PDF for this Step Can be Found here  Week 1 PDF

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A few little finishes - and !! Finished ! ( or not) Friday

 It has been a week!!!

if you don't follow my blog during the week - A new Quilt A Long was released Wednesday - and yep! it is A Quilt of Valor ... Check it out.

I met a lady in town, and she was telling me about her Chickens, the lack of eggs, and how much she wanted them to lay. For some reason, I came home and decided that she needed Chicken Pot Holders . I went to my Stash to see what I could find - Lookie what I came up with:

Green is the RSC color for February, so I tried to finished up the Purple hat I was working on and add some green to it.  The one on the right - its all the little tiny balls you end up with that don't make a whole item. Since I only know how to make hats - I combined it all!!!

Someone asked earlier if Looming hats is easy - yes - Yes it is - because I can do it! The looms can be found HERE  And I used the LoomaHat tutorial on You tube.

We had to haul horses this week, If we load them slanted we can get more in the trailer... but Ms C here.... she got scared she was going to be left alone and she got stuck!! haha

Not really , once I untied her we walked right out, but she stuffed herself up there and we just laughed at the expression on her face. 

She was not amused. We also learned - she should be loaded last, so she can get out first ... goofball.

Alright!!! 

Lets move on to YOU!!!

What did you finish? What did you move Ahead? Dare I ask what you started????

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2026 Winter QOV Quilt a Long

 As you can tell - I have NO NAME for this quilt. All the Stars and Stripes and Patriotic names have been used ( in my mind) and I don't want to repeat - so! As of this moment... It is Nameless...

Here is the NEW Quilt we will be Stitching - and the Fabric Requirement are in this Document.

I am going to make the stars with the White Backgrounds all Scrappy so I can use some of my chunks of Patriotic Fabrics. At this moment I am planning on making all the white stars backgrounds the same as the Half Squares that surround them... but who knows... As I get going, I might have an Epiphany!!

You are welcome to sew along, or sew ahead - either way - I will be releasing One Step A Week.

I am going to try to keep those steps to an Hour or less. And I think I planned out 6 steps. Each Wednesday < until we are done> a new Step will be released. 

PDF Version CLICK HERE

if you want to join in on the conversation and photos of others working along - join us at :

https://groups.io/g/MysteryQuilts4Military

Hope you will have fun and join in!! I would love it if you wanted to share on your blog too, just please link to this post - not the google doc.

 I would love it if you would send people here to get their own copy  and not share the actual Patterns on your own blog ;-)  Thank you so much!

Enjoy!!!

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The First February QOV presentation

 Saturday was national QOV Sew Day... How many of you played along?

I did, but at home. We had had our QOV sew day at the end of January - so.... some of us played along from home. I got Two Kits cut out... AND!!!

The pattern finished for the next QOV QUILT ALONG!  We are going to do it as a Quilt a long again, instead of a mystery. So many people liked that so much better... and I liked it too, as I could stitch along with everyone too.

If you are interested - the QAL pattern will be shown here on Wednesday and the Fabric Requirements, and then - the next week - we will get started ;-)

We also had a presentation last week. Our group was invited to the Keenesburg American Legion to award 5 Quilts of Valor  - such a COOL group of people. Its funny to me, that in larger town some of these organizations are shrinking, yet in Rural towns - they thrive. 

As you can see - we had Veterans in Cowboys hats - SO proud to say we wrapped them, and didn't knock a Hat off!!! Go us!!

4 Army and 1 Marine

A fact we learned - This American Legion was a POW location in the 1940's for and its main meeting hall, was the mess hall of the Camp/ It was pretty cool to learn about that history.

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Memory Quilts are DONE!! and!! Finished ( or not) friday

 I have finished all the Memory quilts for my friend!! She has them back, and!! at is planning on gifting them to her family soon. I am quite happy with myself - I got 8 quilts done... DONE!! in a month!

Go me!!

I also made a little count of the 1st Leader/Ender Blocks... 

  I use these, and my Chunkies as L/e while I made those quilts.. Not too shabby!!

Reba!!! He was NOT happy with me. It was cold, and we got that below freezing weather that everyone had, and I was LATE with his grain... Oh my!

The days are getting longer.... yay.. just a pretty sunset!

it is NOW Your turn!!

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it's not easy being Green....

 Said Kermit the Frog

But I am having no trouble finding green scraps and pieces in my stash!!!

For the month of February Green is the RSC color!!!

This ( above) was about mid organize of the Green Ziploc bag. I should have take one to begin with - but.. it wasn't pretty folks.... I spent a lot of time organizing and trimming and bam ⤵

I have sets of 4 pinned for my Chunky churndashes. someone called them chunky  monkeys and I like that!!! And I have strips ready to make the rails... and I even got a few made

Then!!! I had a GREEN epiphany.... because Blue and Green are friends, what happened if I made the alternat blocks green and white, with my Blue Chunkies - and Voila!!!

I love it. 

My husband thinks this means that I am predicting the Seahawks to win the Superbowl.... What say you? Am I predicting, or just making a good color choice haha!

See you Friday for !!  Finished (or not) Friday!!

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