Tag Archives: Project QUILTING

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My annual tradition on December 29th is to share my top new blog posts from the year so (even though I didn't post much this year) here goes. Thank you to Cheryl of Meadow Mist Designs for hosting the Best of 2025 Linky Party. This is my 11th year participating by sharing my five most popular blog posts that were published in the current year (plus a bonus list of three more below). Big shout out to Project QUILTING, which starts season 17 on January 4th. I hope you'll consider joining us!

And since there weren't a ton of new blog posts this year, these are my three top viewed pages this year (of older posts). If you haven't checked out my Machine Binding tutorial, that's a personal favorite.

Visit my Best of 2015, Best of 2016, Best of 2017, Best of 2018, Best of 2019, Best of 2020, Best of 2021, Best of 2022, Best of 2023, and Best of 2024.

I'm linking up to Cheryl's Best of 2025 Linky Party.

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This week's Project QUILTING challenge is Follow Your Arrow. Our one requirement was to include an arrow shape. "Chevrons can be a very modern, streamlined arrow shape. You can find lots of patterns for arrowhead-and-feathered-shaft Robin Hood style arrows."

Immediately I looked for arrow prints and landed on this black and white Alison Glass print. I love a palette of black white and one color. I chose pink and decided to use 8 different pink solids. (These included Kona Azalea, Bright Pink, Pomegranate, Punch, and Watermelon. The others were unlabeled.)

I went with a simple checkerboard layout of 6 1/2" squares for my 24" x 24" NICU quilt. As of Saturday evening I hadn't sewn a stitch. I got up at 5:45am (the new time after time change) to finish up my quilt Sunday morning. Some speed choices in the interest of finishing before the deadline included: single piece of fabric for the backing, no basting quilt sandwich before quilting, minimal quilting, quilting in just one color thread: Aurifil 50wt Fuchsia (#4020) (if I had more time and more thread options I would have used a variety of pinks), chose remnant binding from my binding box, attached the binding with the same thread I quilted with, machine bound (as I usually do).

Tada!

I chose a lovely pink Alison Glass print for the back.

I'm linking up on Kim's blog for the Project QUILTING Follow Your Arrow challenge. One more challenge for the season, starting March 16!

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This week's Project QUILTING challenge is Birthstone. We were required to use the color of our birthstone. The stone for October is tourmaline. A quick internet search indicated that tourmaline can come in a variety of colors, not just the light pink we usually see in birthstone charts. I was particularly drawn to the watermelon tourmaline, which includes pink. With a Creating a Scrappy Slab lecture/demo last week for Silicon Valley MQG and another coming up tomorrow night for The Northwest Arkansas MQG I had scrappy slab on the mind.

I pulled out my pink, green and black and white scrap bins and set to pull out scraps in light and medium pink and light and dark green to start building some scrappy slab tourmaline.

I worked organically and eventually decided to build two quadrants of the stone and to raw edge appliqué it to a scrappy slab quilted background in white on black. My quilt finished at 6" x 8"

I am donating this piece to the SAQA Spotlight Auction 2025. The fundraiser auction coincides with the 2025 SAQA Conference, but you do not to be attending the SAQA conference or a member of SAQA. Bidding will be open to everyone via the Handbid platform March 26 to April 5. Today was the last day for SAQA members to complete the online submission form for donating artwork to the auction. Glad I got mine done just in time!

The SAQA Spotlight Auction mats each art quilt, so the viewable portion of the quilt is 4 1/2" x 6 1/2".

I'm linking up on Kim's blog for the Project QUILTING Birthstone challenge.

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