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...

but!! Here is the 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. 

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 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!

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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!

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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!

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Hot Pads and!! Finished ! (or not) Friday!!

 I have been working on the memory quilts and am almost  done!!

As I am quilting them I had a little bit of backing left on the frame, so!! 

I popped on a few orphan blocks, and another layer of batting and!

Voila!!

A few cute little hot pads for something!!

I have a few more blocks.... I may do those too!!

How did your week go? What did you get to Finished., or on the way to Finished?

Did you see we had 36 finishes Last week!!! Go us!!!

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A Blue Wrap Up for January

 So the challenge was to see how many Chunky Churndashes I could make with my little 2 1/2 inch scraps. I think! I could have made more.... but! This is what I turned up with!

63 Blocks!!! and Ms Cherie... Might have contributed haha!! These mysteriously appeared!!

But they added such fun to this little pile of blocks!!

We are also doing our Knit Hats for Operation Christmas Child this Year. M's goal is 1000 hats - oh boy!! So I pulled out some blue and knitted a few.

Remember - I don't know how to knit with needles - so I use the Loom? its kind of relaxing. But I also have a baby loom , so I had to try one of a small size  ↓ 

Isn't it SO cute!!!!

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And now... to wait and see what the February Color will be!!!

I wonder what block I will choose for that month? or!!! Will I stick with my Chunky Churndashes???

Oh!!! and I read a book - this is a fiction book, but! It's about a lady who leaves England for France and then finds herself *Stuck* there because of WWII . Its a good read. 

It's not super political or war ish - but its was an interesting perspective and a light read of WWII.

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A Cold, Snowy and Windy QOV presentation

 Sunday!! the day for our QOV presentation - turned out to be very yucky!!

A lot of quilters wanted to cancel, but! I don't always have ways to reach the Veterans that are coming , on short notice - so 9 of us showed up to quilt. And then!!

4 of our Veterans made it out. It wasn't quite warm ( 7) and the snow had started coming down , and!! the wind... ugh - that dratted wind . But all that make Wrapping up in a quilt - much nicer!!

We had Marine and Army Veterans - and we had quite a crowd. I baked ( cookies from the cookie store) 

and we had a great time. 

Driving back home - not so much - I was the only one going east, so I don't know which direction was worse - but I went 35 in a 65 haha!!

My Daisy girl - when I told her it was time to go outside for a potty break. Maybe this is how dogs potty train themselves???

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Finished ( or not) Friday

 

Do you ever have those weeks where you wonder what exactly it was that you did???

I think this is one of them!

I have a lot of things in progress - but nothing quite to finish yet.

I have Flannel Memory Quilt

I have a T Shirt Quilt

I have Lupine and Laughter

and I have

Dogs... and Cows,...

We spent one whole day working cattle, and taking them to where they belonged.

So I have 5 new ones here -and one is SOOOO cute. I named him *Little Baby Woo Woo* haha!!

These are a few of them

The New ones are in the corrals - currently acclimating to my house. We learned that if we hold them in the corrals for a few days they get a better idea of where their water source is, and everyone is happier. 

So !! WOW !! me with your stuff... Let me ohh and ahhh over you this week!!

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Just the Scraps Ma'am...

 I might have hurt my back a little, and I might have decided the 75-90mph winds were just not what I wanted to play in, so!! I retreated to my Scrap bin.

I finished cutting up the big pieces into 2 1/2 inch squares for my Chunky Churndashes.... and then - I had bits left over - so!!

I started putting them together and this is what is became. 

I am not sure what I will use it for, or if I will add some to make it more placemat size, or???

But!! now the Blue bin is pretty put together . Not empty... but pretty put together! that's progress right?

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And another Jelly Roll Plus Quilt of Valor (x2)

I am still working on the Quilting of these Jelly Roll Plus Quilts - Got two more Quilted!

Which is Good timing, as our sew day is coming up and I Can return these and the quilters can get them bound! Whoop Whoop!

Above - Minus the girls - we had a wind free moment, so they really really wanted to fetch. I hung the quilt, threw the balls, took a photo, threw the balls... they make me laugh!

Below - they were willing to sit for a Quick moment... but then... it was back to chasing

Bella would like you to know that wind is not her favorite thing, it messes with her hair, and we all know... she is a Beauty Queen.

Daisy - is making sure I don't throw the ball while she is distracted!

I think these might be the last 2 of the Jelly Roll Plus Quilts I needed to Quilt, but time will tell. I can't remember if any one else is still working on one or not. But!! if they are - you will see it haha!!

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