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I finished 49 quilts in 2025, ranging from postcard size to twin size. Most of those have now been donated, but a few are displayed in our home. Here are some of my favorites.

Quilt Drama, 63″ x 77″

I made this to showcase the fun novelty fabrics I was “forced” to buy because they made light of quilting “disasters”. I keep it on the living room couch!

Pattern is BQ2, available hereIce Cubes, 54″ x 54″

I got this design idea from a Zen Chic quilt and made this to use up scraps. I store my scraps as strips cut to uniform widths, so this was fast.

Don’t Forget the Orange, 18″ x 25″

This little quilt was a fun experiment. It’s supposed to have a companion, but I haven’t figured that one out yet. Maybe in 2026?

An Orange, Not An Onion, 57″ x 68″

I started Karla Alexander’s Blue Onion quilt but really hated her process, so I made only a few blocks and used them as the focus of this quilt.

Orange Star, 50″ x 50″

I designed this in EQ8 because I had admired several similar quilts.

Curious By Nature 2, 61″ x 61″

I liked this pattern so much I made 2 of them, then taught it as a class. This is hanging in my upstairs hall now.

Elizabeth’s Quilt, 61″ x 69″

Made from a pattern by my friend Elizabeth, using fabric she gave me.

Half a Bubble Off Plumb, 57″ x 59″

I designed this to integrate some of the blocks I made in Tara Faughnan’s block studies class. It’s probably my favorite quilt of the year.

Indian Blanket, 45″ x 58″

I made this using ideas from both Tara Faughnan and Brenda Gael Smith. I sleep under this one!

Swirl, 60″ x 66″

This was made from a pattern by Triangle Frenzy. It was easier than it looks, and so dramatic that I made 2 of them!

Whew! On to 2026!

Here are some projects my friends and I are working on, or plan to work on in the coming year. It’s not that we’re abandoning our many “regular” quilt projects; we’re considering these items as ways to try out some new things. Maybe you’ll get some new ideas, too!

One of my friends is a collage maker, and she got me going on this Laura Heine design, which is unfinished at this time.

Another friend just made this wonderful hummingbird from a Legit Kit.

This version of the Legit Kit, complete with batiks in the amounts needed, was ordered from Quilt A Bit in Greenacres, Florida (U.S.). The shop has a few kits on their website, but you can also phone and ask for Dawn to find out if they have or will make the kit you’re interested in. They use the Legit Kit pattern, which is included in their kit, but Quilt A Bit kits with batiks rather than the Kona cottons the Legit Kit people use. I’m a fan of the batik option!

Another friend has decided the solution for her EPP (English Paper Piecing) issues is to make BIG pieces! She’s cutting her scraps all to the size she needs for these hexies!

Which brings us to another larger-size EPP project. We’re going to try out the bowls in this pattern.

And here’s a book we want to try!

Finally, a couple of us found this fabric and finished the bolt. Now we have to design something to do with it.

This is one of Brigitte Heitland’s Zen Chic fabrics for Moda

Stay tuned, and please share any new ideas you have! I’m always looking for something new to learn.

This week I got out a few novelty fabrics and made a few more random blocks.

But I ALSO found this quilt I made many years ago when I felt like making random blocks. The blocks here were mostly things I found on the internet or modified from the other people’s ideas.

I had forgotten about this one. My thought now is that it doesn’t hang together very well, but I still like the individual blocks and probably will repeat some of them in the current block-making frenzy.

Quilt name: The Ultimate Scrap Quilt

Size: 60″ x 60″

Designed and pieced by: me

Quilted by: Andrea Walker

Surprisingly, I had some spare time this week, so I made a quilt top and fooled around some.

Here’s the quilt top, made to use up the beautiful fabric from the Robert Kaufman Ancient Beauty fat quarter bundle I couldn’t resist. I already made one quilt from the bundle, so I’ve done my thing. This one is intended for Flying Horse Farms, so I’ll send it to my friend who quilts those for our group.

Then I looked through a number of possible projects and decided just to make a group of blocks for fun, using some of my Alison Glass fabric. Of course I added some fabrics from other collections, especially novelty fabrics.

Here’s my favorite block so far:

My husband grew up in Roswell, NM, so I include UFO blocks in my quilts whenever possible. And for once it’s “the real” UFO, not the usual UnFinished Object we quilters are familiar with! Even stranger, I recall shelving those books about “The Roswell Incident” when I worked in the library during high school! Interesting how those things come around.