More quilts finished - halfway through 2026

This is my 94th blog post!  So I will likely write my 100th before the end of the year.  Amazing.  Something I started mainly as a record of my sewing and patchwork has become a "thing"!  I know not many people read my blog but that doesn't worry me.  It is for me, mainly.  My first blog post was in September 2020, so I've been blogging for almost six years.  

I've finished a couple of quilt tops this month and have progressed others.  I just keep pegging away at them and, like magic, they get finished.  😄 Not really.  When I cleaned up the sewing room during the month, the number of half finished tops, finished tops, patterns and fabric pulled together for a project, boxes of bits, etc. made me realise that I am never going to finish all the quilts I want to make.  Just not enough hours in the day.  But I will do my darnedest to get as many done as possible.  My thought is that at my wake after I die there will be a pile of quilts I've made, and people can take one home with them as a memory of me.  What do others think of that idea?  I have read of others doing that and it makes sense to me.

                 

One completed quilt sewn from scraps from two of the baby quilts I recently made.  You may remember the quilts, both in pinks with a + pattern.   Here and here are the posts about those quilts.  I will likely donate this one somewhere, or maybe keep it in case I need to give a new baby girl a gift.  Finished size:  32" x 38".  Very simply pieced and quilted as you can see.  I love the backing fabric, which I acquired somewhere and am glad it was exactly the right size for this quilt.  The binding is made from scrap bindings from my basket.  

        

I laid out my Quatro quilt again this month and worked out the order of the flower blocks for this round.  I will be starting to join the blocks to each other, into a long section, and then each section on to one of the sides of the main quilt in the next month or so.  As you can see, there are four cross blocks missing on the right hand side of the quilt.  I've run out of the paper pieces needed for these blocks.  Once I've attached one of the sides and enclosed the blocks inside the quilt, I can remove the papers to use for those missing cross blocks.  In this quilt, only the outside blocks have papers in them.  

I am really happy with how this quilt is looking but the time and effort it has taken, makes me realise I don't want to hand piece a quilt this size again.  Or possibly any paper pieced quilt! 

I've worked on a couple of quilts for Days for Girls also this month.  These next two quilts were tops when I got them (made long ago by someone else and donated to our group) and needed tidying up, backing and binding, and quilting.  One is 40" square, the other 65".  So I've used up about 4.5 metres of my fabric for the backings and bindings.  The teacup quilt received minimal quilting but I did quilt more heavily on the Thimbleberries fabric quilt.  

   

Another quilt top done and dusted is my string scraps quilt.  I added just one border (to enclose the multiple seam ends) and it will make a nice lap quilt for someone.  With so many seams in the top, it is quite heavy.  I have to work out how to deal with the bias edges distorting this style of quilt, next time I paper piece the scrap strings.  My plans to get this and another quilt actually finished and bound went by the wayside.  I'm easily distracted!  

Would you believe that I visited a local patchwork shop while away this month (in Townsville in Queensland) and didn't buy any fabric?!  I did buy some threads, but I'm still feeling virtuous.

June 2026 fabric tally

Finishes this month:   baby quilt = 2 m; Days for Girls quilts = 4.5 m

Purchases this month:  0 m   (I'm so virtuous 😇😂; I can't believe it!)

Fabric used:  - 6.5 m         Fabric acquired:  + 0 m

Running tally for 2026:  - 20 m