Virtual Quilting Weekend—April 17-19, 2026
 

Time for another VQW. I’m just returning from five days in Charleston SC so have some laundry to catch up on. Saturday I will be painting a barn quilt. I’m looking forward to that! Tomorrow I will do a little organizing in my sewing room—that I’m not looking forward to! I quilted and bound several quilts since our last VQW so I feel like I’m getting some stuff done finally 🙂

So what are your plans for the weekend?

Next months VQW will be May 8-10.

I'm trying to finish the blocks for my Scrappy Burgoyne Surrounded quilt. It will have 25 squares, and I still have the last 4 to make. I have all the sashings and cornerstones made and ready to sew, once I finish all the blocks. This is a big undertaking for me!
There is a new Boom Swap starting, and we will get our packages of F8s next week sometime. I'd love to have these Burg Surr blocks done before the Boom fabs arrive. Let's see if I can get it done.

I am in this month. I couldn’t decide what to work on so I pulled some donated blocks out. There are enough Sunbonnet Sue blocks to make 2 quilts. They will hopefully get done this weekend and head off for charity.

I'm in too. Still trying to decide what to pull out to work on. I have a long list to pull from but I can't decide which project. Decisions, Decisions!

Count me in. I'd been working on a quilt top using two of Lori Holts lines of fabric, but then a three week bout of bronchitis and the medicine they gave me for it gave me hives, then I broke my toe, so I wasn't sewing much. But yesterday I felt good enough to mark and then sandwich the quilt and it's waiting for me to start quilting. Now all I need to come up with is the binding.

I'm in, will be doing some clean up! Since we are having a friend for dinner on Saturday, I need a quick clean of the house. I just finished 2 quilts and they are on their way to their new homes. So time to clean up scraps and get them where they belong, and I have a few blocks left to sew to clean up some BOM projects. Then I need to clean up my sewing room. But first I guess in need to bind the donation quilt from our church group yesterday. Since we are moving this year, I'm not starting anything new! Just clean up and finish. If my thumb feels good I might do some more hand binding on a UFO that I put aside.

Well, today, I'll finish pressing the last of my starched fabric, then finish cutting the background fabric into 320 triangle pieces plus binding and borders. Then start arranging the triangles up on the design wall because my sister and I couldn't decide which of the 8 fabrics should go where on this pattern called A Cog in a Wheel. Also, I'll be doing this in paper pieced mode. I have all the papers printed and separated as the page came with 2 patterns each. There's 8 sections per block, 20 pieced blocks plus 16 outer blocks. Some are just plain blocks and 8 of them have a snowball on one corner. I've decided to do HST on the 4 outer corner blocks as I didn't think I had enough of the background fabric at the beginning of all this. I also changed the border and binding fabric to what I'm using on as the backing fabric. I'm also going to use the leftover scraps from the 8 fabrics for the flange on the binding. I've made the flange binding once before and really liked how it looked. Here's a photo of the pattern I'm working on today and thru the weekend. The recipent asked for metal type fabrics so I'm using light grey for the background. A multi colored fabric with copper, silver, gold, grey and black, then the rest of the fabrics follow in darker greys, black with silver, copper, copper with gold, gold, etc. The backing is a mottled black/grey.

I'm in! small "Beauty and the Beast " quilt on longarm to finish and hopefully attach binding, a QAYG project that I started using leftover binding strips, (I'll be glad to see that one done!) have a couple ongoing piecing projects. Happy sewing/quilting everyone!

I've been in a bit of a lull... but I have done quite a bit of my always on-going clean-up and sorting.

I'm trying to improve my paper piecing skills (which are very low!). I have a queen sized project that will require some blocks, but first I have a small project of pieced Pandas to go with some Panda Fabric. I have a block pattern, I have white and black for the pandas, and a golden batik for the background. The inspiration fabric I'm using came from one of my thrift store hauls, it was bundled in with a bunch of what looked like souvenirs from an Indonesian trip. It was brand new, still in the sealed bag and had been made into a simple girls sundress, with a hem at the bottom and an elastic top. I have cut the Panda Family motif into (8) 10.5" blocks. I'll be alternating the pieced blocks with the printed ones.

I need to make some more copies of the pattern. It is from a book (Painless Paper-Piecing), the name of the block is Su-Lin by Marjorie Rhine. She uses the technique where you bend the paper and not sew through it but I want some extras!

Wow! Lots of exciting projects happening this weekend! I need to stay-stitch a quilt top that was given to me to finish for donation. Then I want to choose some fabrics to make more small pillows for Hospice donation. These are the ones I made previously, they are only 6” as per their request. We will see what happens.