Twin Quilts

I knew I would not be able to do anything sewing related during our trip, so this was a light week.  I worked on finishing things and cleaning the sewing room.

The pink brick quilt is completely finished and I think it is a good twin match for the jungle brick quilt.  I wish I had been able to randomize the pinks better, but ...

I can't say enough how much I love this pattern.  This is my third quilt with this pattern.  I rarely repeat a quilt (except for D9P), so that is saying something!  Bricks and Stepping Stones by Bonnie Hunter.

I also finished the bike basket liner, which was a huge relief.

Since I was caught up with the big projects, I went for an old project.  I will see all three girls together next week, so I figured it was about time to finish these potholders to take.  I finished the second one that was started and I'm calling this project done.  Little S gets a bike basket liner instead.  When I saw the tutorial I thought it was cute, and it is, but it just isn't my thing.  At nearly 11" across they are also more like a trivet than a pot holder.

15 Minutes to Stitch

15 minute days/last two weeks = 5/7

15 minute days/July = 23/26

15 minute days/2025 = 204/225

Success Rate = 90%

 

The pink brick quilt is completely finished and I realized I never recorded the jungle brick quilt, so I have some good stash movement this week!

2025 Stash Totals

Used last week: 7.2 yards for pink brick & jungle brick quilts; 0.93 yds for basket liner; 0.5 yds for hot pads

Used year to date: 86.03 yards

Acquired recently: 0 yards 

Acquired year to date: 24.5 yards

Net used in 2025: 61.44 more yards used

I did not set a goal for yards used this year, but looking at this I think I will have an unofficial goal of 100 yards out for 2025!

Week of February 16

It was a strange week, and I worked on a mix of projects.  One day I didn't feel good so came home from school quickly and after a 3 hour nap I looked at old magazines to find inspiration.  I ended up finding a good project for my next leader & ender project.  So the next few days I cut out pieces to get me started.  

Seems like a simple but cute project for leaders & enders!

Over winter break I had seen this cute hexagon hot pad pattern and thought it would be fun to make for the girls.  I still had extra hexagons from the baby quilts I had made a while back and they turned out to be the right size.  On the first one I made the mistake of trying to do it in a QAYG fashion over the batting, and that did not work.  I made it work, but I won't do that again.  The pieces were just too small to manage easily.  

Halfway done!

This morning I made myself finish the first one since I had all the parts ready to go.  I was nervous about binding the angles, but it came out fine.  Next time I will make sure the binding ends meet farther away from the loop.  I have the next top ready.  These are definitely not on the front burner and once I finish the 3 of them, I pretty sure I'm done.  Super cute, not hard, but just not my thing.    

I also worked on this quilt that was made from donated squares and then set aside several years ago since I didn't really like it and didn't have anything that remotely coordinated to add borders or finish or anything.  Well, when I went to use up my Joann's gift card I found the red polka dot that I thought was close enough for a border.  

Top is intended backing, black is for another project, red is the borders and maybe binding.

When I washed the fabric I got that day, a black for another project was next to the fabrics for this quilt and it looked good together.  So I added a narrow black inner border with a black grunge from my stash.  I think it makes a huge difference.  I actually almost like this now.  I will work on the red borders this week.

15 Minute Report

15 minute days/week = 6/7

15 minute day/Feb = 19/22

15 minute days/2025 = 46/53
Success Rate = 87%

Not enough movement this week to affect the stash, but hopefully next week I'll have some finishes.

2025 Stash Totals

Used last week:  0 yards

Used year to date: 10.31 yards

Acquired last Week: 0 yards

Acquired year to date: 7 yards

Net used in 2025: 3.31 more yards used

Linking to Life in Pieces to share progress.

Linking to quiltpaintcreate to share stash movement.