A UFO finish: Jelly roll race quilt done

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.

Happy Spring if you are in the Northern Hemisphere.

I have a finish to report.  I could not find this project reported on my blog, but I must have started it in 2017 sometime.  This is a Jelly Roll Race quilt, using a batik jelly roll (40 strips, width of fabric).

I followed the instructions given by Wee Folk Art.

I know the borders were added more recently, in 2024 or 2025.

 I layered the back, batting and top on my bed, and put my rotary cutting mat underneath, and pinned the quilt sandwich.  I then machine quilted using my trusty old Kenmore.  Alas, when I turned the quilt over, I found this:

How mortifying!  But I am not making this quilt for show.  So, dear reader, I left it in.

I sewed the binding (same fabric as the border fabric) onto the back of the quilt sandwich, then folded it over and top-stitched to the front.  I found a great thread in my stash, to match:

It's a King Tut thread.  And finally, a close up of a corner, showing the fabrics used:

I marked those outer quilting lines in white chalk, and some remains on the top.

Linking up with Monday Musings, Sew and Tell at Melva Loves Scraps, Wednesday Wait Loss, Put your Foot Down at the Quiltery, Nina-Marie, Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, From Bolt to Beauty, Frederique at Quilting, Patchwork, Applique, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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"Anything goes" log cabin project now a top

 Good day and welcome to my blog of quilty things.

This past week I picked up a project I started in Feb. 2025 - a set of log cabin blocks.  I used what I had available: mostly civil war reproduction fabrics but also leftovers from other projects.  Therefore, the title, Anything Goes.  

Start of project is described HERE.

The blocks finish at 10 inches square and my top now looks like this:

About 50 by 70 inches in size, plus a narrow border.

A close up:

And I am getting smarter:  I cut, pressed, and rolled the binding for this quilt.

It will have a label in that baggie too.  What project, size of project, length of binding, and date.

P.S. I saw this in a local used bookstore, in the quilting and crafts section:

Quilting is not for the weak!

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Doll quilt ready for swapping

 Every Spring, Lori de Jarnatt runs a Doll quilt swap on her blog, Humble Quilts.  I have participated for several years, and I signed up again.  I haven't yet been assigned an exchange partner, but I was excited to get going.

I have in my mini quilt collection this older doll quilt.

14 by 22 inches, a range of fabrics, the youngest being perhaps from the 1930's.

The back:

Ties hold the front and the back together.  Patches are sewn by hand, but the binding was sewn by machine onto the front, then hand sewn on the back.  In a small hole on the front I can see that there is no batting, except for what looks like a layer of coarse woven fabric, like cheesecloth.

You may have to expand the photo to see this.

I decided to reproduce this quilt, but in reproduction navy blue and shirting fabric, imitating fabrics from the mid 1800's.  I measured the size of the fabric rectangles and got going.

I quilted in the ditch and bound in a light shirting fabric.  A close-up:

I will send this out early, before our big trip to Europe.

Linking up with Monday Musings, Sew and Tell at Melva Loves Scraps, Wednesday Wait Loss, Needle and Thread Thursday (the last link up😢), Put your Foot Down at the Quiltery, Nina-Marie, Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, From Bolt to Beauty, Frederique at Quilting, Patchwork, Applique, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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Contessa Blocks in '30's fabrics: Now 2 tops

Good day, and welcome to my blog.

I am reporting the progress I made this week on my Contessa project.  This pattern is free from Moda's website.  It was the Sew a Jelly Roll pattern for 2024. 

I picked 1930's reproduction fabric and a Kona snow background, and cut and sewed with wild abandon, no counting of blocks.

Beginning of the project is described HERE.

I had a pile of blocks:

Each block finishes at 10 inches square.  I made two tops 6 by 6 blocks in size, and counted how many blocks were left.  I had enough to make two tops 60" by 80" or 6 blocks by 8 blocks, and I had 2 blocks left over!

Top #1:

And top #2:

Yes, they are different, in the placement of the fabric strips.

I hope to quilt these myself on my trusty Kenmore.  They are at a good size for charity giving.

Linking up with Monday Musings, Sew and Tell at Melva Loves Scraps, Wednesday Wait Loss, Needle and Thread Thursday, Put your Foot Down at the Quiltery, Nina-Marie, Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, From Bolt to Beauty, Frederique at Quilting, Patchwork, Applique, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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