Spring Break Sewing Frenzy

It sure felt good to sew, sew, sew over Spring Break sewing.  I worked on a lot of things, but stayed focused on the priorities.

I finally altered the dress for my niece's wedding in early May.  I found the dress for $5 when thrifting last fall.  Everything about it was right, except it was too big.  I thought I could work with that.  The solution turned out to not be what I originally thought, but by basting and trying and unsewing and trying again I finally got it.  Having Little S home to give opinions on each step was helpful. I am not a shopper and I don't wear dresses, so even though this was not easy it was worth the trouble to me.  My goal was to finish this week come and I did!

Baby Sapphire Jubilee

I also made myself finish the baby sapphire jubilee quilt.  It only needed binding, so I just used the same fabric as the backing and called it done.  Binding actually comes right after piecing for my favorite parts of quilting!

The backing is perfect.

Next up was the patchwork hearts for the exchange for the Savannah Quilt Guild meeting Little S and I will attend.  She needs to finalize the interview part of her research project and it felt right to participate in the monthly block exchange.  A nice change of pace for me.  The pink heart will have a disclaimer that it needs finishing.

Heart Blocks for Exchange

Unfortunately while doing the top stitching around the edge of the pink heart, my machine gave a "thunk" and stopped stitching properly.  The needle will not move side to side.  I'm glad the more important things were already done this week.  I will have to figure out what to do about the machine.  Turning it on and off again - repeatedly - did not work. 

"FQs" ready for gifting

We thought it would be nice to do something for her interviewees, so I picked a variety of fabrics and made some FQ type bundles to give them.  

RSC Crayons all caught up!

I also got caught up on the RSC.  My red crayon is finished!  

I did a lot of prepping of Scrappy Spool blocks to use as leaders & enders.  It was a good thing too!  I used up way more than I imagined and will have to prep more.  Being very intentional about using the spool blocks as leaders & enders has really advanced this project.

2026 15 Minutes to Stitch

15 minute days this week = 7/7

15 minute days/Mar = 16/21

15 minute days/2026 = 68/80 

Success Rate 2025 = 85%

Worked on overdue numbers over Spring Break.  All is well.  It was important that I help my MIL eliminate some of her stash while we were visiting.  I do like having "her" fabrics to work into special projects.

2026 Stash Totals

Used last week: 4.70 yds for Baby Jubilee + 0.43 yds for Heart Exchange Blocks + 2.5 yds for 10 FQs

Used year to date: 17.79 yards

Acquired recently: 30 yards brought back from MIL in Guatemala  

Acquired year to date: 30 yards

Stash movement for 2026: 12.21 more yards acquired than used

Linking up to:

Kate at Life in Pieces

Donna at  quiltpaintcreate 

Frederique at  quiltingpatch

Angela at soscrappy