Finished Friday

Well, not fully finished but I did finish machine stitching the binding on RRCB 😁. It’s all ready for me to hand stitch the miles and miles 370 inches of binding.

I finished preparing the bindings for Quadrangle and Starfire.

And whilst procrastinating on baking biscotti, I started in earnest sewing the blocks for Starfire together and leader/endering Celtic Solstice units.  I’m down to needing 16 more blocks of Birthday Girl and 30 of 54-40 or Fight.

And here’s my sewing machine still life.

I’m linking up with Quilty Girl’s Finished (or not) Friday. 

I’ve also managed to keep my cutting table cleared off……..and I did finally make the biscotti 😏 so life is good.

Cheers, Cherie

Loaded and Binding

When I unfurled RRCB from Sophie, I loaded Scrap Confetti so it’s a ready when the quilting mood strikes.  

My friend Jan, The Colorful Fabriholic, explained how she handles large quilt binding….by making an octopus. Here’s mine 😁.

 

I got the quilt label made because it gets sewn down with the binding.

I mentioned I love the green backing fabric that is a Kim Diehl design. I didn’t have enough so there’s a red and a pink fabric on the back as well.

I cut the binding for the Starfire quilt, hoping I get motivated to get the blocks together. I need to find some backing fabric for this one too.

Oh, and I got the backing pieced together for Quadrangle!

Funny, I didn’t think I had gotten much done, lol.

Happy Quilting, Cherie 

Roll, Roll Cotton Boll Quilted!

On the 5th day of December 2025 I finished quilting Roll, Roll Cotton Boll. She’s a big one, coming in at 85” x 100”.

The first thing DH said was it has frogs 🐸 , lol. And it does, frogs and polka dots, oh my!

RRCB is my oldest UFO with the top being pieced at least 14 years ago. This was the 2010 Bonnie Hunter Quiltville mystery quilt. It’s on my fall UFO list so I’m going to do some quilt wrangling to get it trimmed and the binding sewn on.

Linking up to Alycia’s with Finished (or not) Friday.  

Cheers, Cherie

Potholders & RRCB

I had a couple comments about my potholders so when I pulled several out of the dryer, I thought I’d share the older model and the new style. The ones on the left were sewed and turned right side out which I could manage because they have one layer of batting and one layer of Insul-brite. They work okay as you can see they’ve seen some use, but I wanted to add another layer of batting, thus the ones on the right that have binding. They washed up quite well.

The layers are stacked and pinned and I am ready to add the binding to the new ones.

Sophie and I have been busy quilting Roll, Roll, Cotton Boll and the end is in sight!

I think I can finish this quilt before year end, yes, I think I can 😃

Happy quilting, Cherie 

Catch Up Post Thanksgiving

 We hosted family for Thanksgiving with everyone bringing food so it was pretty stress free. DH cooked the turkey on the Big Green Egg and it was fabulous…..moist & tender. Yum! So many things to be thankful for this year.

I have finished the 12 cheddar solids blocks and can sew them together now. Then it’s just waiting for The Fat Quarter shop to get back to me on the correct Bella colors.  

I received a request for jar covers to keep dust and fruit flies out of the kombucha. I’m waiting on delivery of the elastic but these are ready to go otherwise.

At Thanksgiving it was noticed I made our potholders (um, yeah, lol) and I thought I’d use some crumb blocks to make some that family members can take at Christmas if they want to. I used corduroy to back the last ones I made and really like it so that’s what I’m using on these. Below it’s the checked pieces in back along with binding leftovers in front.

For the group below I’m using grey corduroy.

I layer the backing, batting, insulbright, batting and the top. Then I sew the binding on the front side. I hand sew the binding down and put a simple star stitch in the center through all the layers, no other quilting. So far, we like this model the best.

Currently, we have a steady snow coming down with probably 4-6 inches accumulated so far. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! 

‘Tis the season! Cherie