Spring Ravelry UFO Challenge 2026

One removed as finished from the Winter quarter. I think this was one of my oldest UFO's. It is very happy to be a finished quilt. 

In it's spot I added the Graduation quilt of bear paw blocks. I really thought I had more of these made! Yikes, I better get moving on those. I'm guessing he is going to get it well AFTER Graduation!

 The list of UFO's -

 1.) I know I have at least one more cut somewhere to fill that open spot for a 7x6 setting. *** found the parts in a baggie!  These are hand pieced.... and might need a little fixing along the way on some of those middle joins. From Inklingo lemoyne stars.  The blocks are 4.5 inches.

 

2.)  I think it's a 6.5 inch cut center of greys and 2.5 inch strips. Finishes 10 inches. 

3.) Midget Applique quilt from Sentimental Stitches. I need to add more flowers and leaves and the vines... and the last border. Hand pieced and hand appliqued. Started January 2015 as a car line project. One block a week.

4.) triangle pyramids. started June 2024. I need to find these!

5.) Midget block collection - I started these in Vermont in 2010! I have a light blue for sashing.

6.) Erin's Butterfly - I made the wings in 2021.  Need to add one more set of wings... thinking 9 is a nice number? These have been machine stitched onto the background. Need to add body and antenna to each. Also need to add 1 block in another color.

7.) Flying Snowballs - hand pieced shoo fly and flowering snowball blocks in blue, purple and green from 2025. Will plan to machine piece them together into a top about 84x84.

8.) Aidan Graduation requested quilt... for after college as he wants a queen size Bear Paw in civil war style green and blues. 

9.) I forgot I had this. It is a cute birdhouse wall hanging but is foundation pieced, which I dislike. Maybe I can deal with it enough to get this done? Or rework it?

10,) This is a kit I purchased mid-90s - butterfly's. I think all the parts are there and I did start arranging them.

11.) Quilters Patch. A sew along that I completely did not meet my goals on in 2022. One block is done.

12.) Alternate BITA blocks from RSC 2025 collection

** I need to get a photo of these

13.) 16 patch blocks from 2.5 inch squares

** I need to get a photo of these.

14.) chicken blocks... these have not had much love this year.

15.) Bittersweet Briar - pattern in Kim Deihl's book and kit of fabric.

16) Brimfield Awakening EPP. I did start this and have the first fabric thread basted in purple!

17.) Bonnie Hunter Mystery - On Ringo Lake - maybe step #2?

18) Bonnie Hunter Mystery - Grassy Creek (2020) Think I am on step #4.

19.) 30's log cabin tulip quilt.

Quilt Tops: 

20.) Birds in the Air block collection - this is now a top and loaded onto the quilting frame at a 90x90 size.

 21) Ella Maria Deacon Blocks. Hand pieced, machine stitched together into a top. Patterns from Sentimental Stitches.

 I need to measure and see if it is happy with it's size or now. All my quilts seem to have a mind of their own!

22) Vermont Quilt Festival Booth Hop from either 2008 or 2009.  it is 71x71.

23.) Y2K Joann's BOM - quilt top

24.) 1857 Quilt Along Top - This one is in the hoop for hand quilting as of December 2024. ** Might unpin this one so it doesn't rust and do something smaller first with the big BITA on the frame...

25.) Spring Hexagons - not sure if this wants to be bigger or not.... 

26.) Triple Irish Chain - green. 80x80 I think. I did find both fabrics extra with it... Might need a green or cream border first or both... Made in the early 2000's. circular feathers in open spaces.

27.) Hexagon flowers on a black background. These are a stack of blocks I hand pieced a few years ago then hand appliqued to the black background a couple years after that!  

This is rolled onto the boards for pinning with the batting and backing.

28.) String of Beads is a top. I do want to add green circles to the meeting points of the green peels I think as well. The yellow ones really helped the colored parts of the peel flowers. I need a new photo of this one as I did get it to a top on 10/5/25. I promise!

Last Sunday in March

I made a bunch of progress on the cross stitch this week. The yellow quilt block part was added and a bunch of the grassy area below the wagon. 

Last Sunday

today

Thursday night was a busy one. I had the girl inducted into their HS National Honor Society. Her brother is also in it and was running the evening as VP. She then went and changed quickly into her uniform for the Senior night of guard performance. Three local schools were there and celebrated their seniors and then did a run of their show before the final Competition. Her brother stayed to watch and finally saw her perform. He was impressed!

I am planning to relax today! It was a long day at FFCC Competitions yesterday in Orlando where I was shuttling 4 girls on the teams from our local High School. Both teams performed well and increased their scores at the final competitions with great performances. Varsity took 1st place and JV were 6th out of 16 but increased a good 5 points from the last competition. All the performances were fun to watch and all should be proud of the jobs they did. 

I treated myself to this salted caramel frappe after 8PM to watch the final hour of performances. The sugar kick was nice as I had been awake since before 5AM.

Emily and her team. 

This week - the boy is off to Jacksonville for the week and will be competing in Skills USA in the engineering area with a friend. I hear lots of 3D printers are working right now printing their parts needed for Tuesday's competition. They made changes to the design Saturday and now they are modifying the presentation piece.  Their final run in this competition before heading off to college next year. 

Time to grab some lunch and decide what I feel like playing with today.

Linking up with the Slow Sunday Stitchers.

RSC Chickens

 I had a lovely unscheduled weekend and was looking through my block collections... once I found the boxes they were in! 

I decided to add a few chickens to the flock in red and green for this month and last. I had plenty of blue ones already.

Yes, three of the purples are a different size, since I turned the chicken body on the wrong side and then just went with it the first month I made them. The pattern is free at Sew Inspired Blog - Chicken Quilt Block.

. That will be fun to fit into a quilt! I might need to add eggs and a coop! We will see. Looks like I need to add some orange, black and white and brown birds. The red polka dot one makes me smile! 

I'll link up sometime on Saturday with the RSC.  It will be a busy day for me as I'm chaperoning and driving a group of kids to FFCC Championships in Orlando. It worked out both groups are quite the timeframe apart, which should work out to see both programs and awards despite being about 30 minutes from each other as JV is performing at a different school from Varsity. It will just be a very long day - 6AM until Midnight with the getting ready, driving and standard perform and wait for awards time.  Knitting will go with me in my backpack. That was easy to do while watching and waiting last competition. 

Slow Sunday

 I've been making good progress on the cross stitch. I forgot how much I enjoyed doing it after a 20 year hiatus. This was my last post last Sunday

I've been stitching this week! This is where it stands this week. This is the second page of the pattern. I still need to do the first page but I wanted to start towards the middle on this which was the quilt part. I think I'll alternate between working on the 'quilt blocks' and the grassy area below the wagon. The pumpkin was fun to stitch. This is the October Quilts For All Seasons book by Paula Vaughn. I did the months of August, September and started January back in the 1990's.

When I went to the front room to photograph progress, I saw these guys out the front window! One of the flocks of turkeys in the area. This one has 2 toms and 4 ladies. 

He is missing some feathers, so I know which flock he is with.

A question for you all. How do you juggle multiple projects? Knitting, cross stitch, sewing, hand quilting, hand piecing? As the mood strikes? Finish one before moving onto another or work a little on each throughout the week? 

Linking up with Kathy and the Slow Sunday Stitchers. 

Little House Sew Along from Melva Loves Scraps

 I managed to sew up blocks 3+4 today. The basket and the shoo fly blocks. Looking at the photo, I wish I would have done a second lighter purple on the basket instead of a medium, but it is done so it's staying! 

Here are my four blocks so far. I believe there will be nine in total. We will see how long the jelly roll lasts! My blocks are a little bigger and finish at 18.5 inches. 

Linking up with the Sew Along as I wait for the next block release.

RSC red houses

I was able to play a little in the sewing room this morning and finished off 4 houses so I have a set of six now to join the green and blue ones. I'll have to cut more chimney and roof parts so I am all set for next month's houses. Linking up with the RSC.

It feels strange to have nothing planned for the weekend. After a nice sleep in and a walk with Bear I enjoyed the puttering in the sewing room. I think I'll head back in after lunch and catch up on my Little House Sew along as I need to do block 3 still and I think block 4 is out as well now. 

 Next week has a National Honor Society induction (Emily) that Aidan has to lead as VP since the President has a game that night. It also is on the same day the Friends and Family presentation of the Winter Guard (not color guard this is more dance with the colorful flags, riffles and sabers) performances, since all competitions are at least an hour away. The final competition - FFCC Championships is next Saturday in Orlando and I'll be driving a bunch of the kids to the competition. The JV and Varsity teams are at different schools, about an hour apart but their time for performing and awards are spread apart so I think they can go to the others performance and awards. Just makes a very long day!

We had quite the wind gust at our house earlier this week that was in front of a cold front going through. We had 2 nights of freezing temps! In March in Florida! Unheard of.  It took the metal awning we have over my car for a whirl. Unfortunately, the metal bar scraped my driver's side door and pulled up the trim by the window on the drivers side. Hubby pulled it off and ordered a new one. Hopefully he will take the mirror off today and get the new trim piece on, so it won't leak with any rain. I can deal with the scrape later. They also need to put the new cover on the frame and put it back, right side up so I can park under it again and protect the paint on the car from the Florida sun. We don't have a workable garage. 

Since the kids were off this week and Aidan needed an oil change on his car and mentioned the grinding sound on starting and I noticed brake issues - it went to Honda for service and a check. We had them do a bunch and then took it to Meineke for the brakes as their labor cost was loads less. A $21 part and $700 in labor was a bit ridiculous I thought from Honda. So, $5,300 later the car should be good for another 100K miles! It has 190K now. The AC is working again and an oil leak is fixed, the grinding sound on start is fixed and the belt got replaced with the break pads and routers and a rotate on the tires and the oil change of course. Things got cleaned out and everything is running smoothly again.

Time for a quick lunch then back to sewing. Maybe I'll prep a quilt for quilting this weekend as well. We will see. 

Slow moving Sunday

Today I plan to putter and do some relaxing things while recovering from Saturday! On tap is some grocery shopping and making my little house block with Melva's sew along. Some slow stitching will also happen with a few threads added to the cross stitch. I did finish off a knitted dish cloth Saturday that I started this week while watching some training sessions on Teams at work. 

I started the brown part of the wagon by the wheel the last few days. I think I'll fill in the half stitches in blue above that next. This was the last photo from Wednesday. Not much but every stitch counts!

The knitted dish cloth. I finished this while watching the guards perform Saturday. I have a huge spool of this yarn when Joann's was clearing things out. Linking up with Kathy and the Slow Sunday Stitchers.

The rest of this post is Winter Guard and my Saturday as a Chaperone. 

 Saturday was a long day! We arrived at school before 6am for call time. Varsity needed to run through since they had one person away and one broke her toe Thursday night. A little modification was needed. We left around 8 on the school bus to the comp about 2.5 hours away. The JV team (the team my daughter is on and is co-captain of) had a great run and got first place in their class of 7! First time in their history.  The Varsity did well later in the day in their class and also took home 1st place.  The last competition is Championship in 2 weeks. We arrived back to school around 11pm. We got home about 11:40. I got 10k steps yesterday despite 5 hours on a bus! I was very happy to sit with the JV's bags in the auditorium while they went with the Varsity for their body warm ups through all warm ups and then  put down and pulled their floor for their performance. That is about an hour of time, so I got to watch all the teams perform in the Varsity grouping. Everything is timed down to the minute and there is a mark down if they run late on any part. I've learned a lot about guard the last 2 years. This is my kid ready to perform. 

After they got their 1st trophy with the team. They had performed a few hours before awards ceremony so everyone got to change out but the captains and the senior on the team since it was her last non Champions competition. 

This is their performance from Saturday if you'd like to see. Lots of hard work went into this.

Wednesday

A little stitching to fill in the sashing on the quilt. It is easier to do the blocks once the sashing is stitched.

Saw these guys on our morning walk. The camera allowed a nice photo from afar.

 The boy handed the girl her acceptance into the schools National Honor Society today in one of her classes. He is the VP of the chapter but the President has a sporting game on the 26th induction ceremony so he gets to lead it that night. How did the below 2 get to be a Junior and Senior in High School?

 

Spring 2013. Ages 5 and 4.