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Monday, October 20, 2025

A Finish Finally

The Little Owl quilt is a finish!

Pulling off the cover of big Bernie was the answer,

and I had a wonderful evening stitching up lots of pink.

The quilting ran along the straight horizontal strips,

and finished up with a rough outline of the Little Owls themselves.

Notice how nice and poufy it is?

I used a bit of my remaining high off poly batting

to make it soft and comfy.

The back also used up a majority of the leftover pink flannel strips .

Added to the nobly wide white strips I was gifted,

the flannel strips and minky bits made it a really cozy back.

A few of the leftover strips even made it into the binding!

This little quilt is nothing but pink.

There was one Little Orphan owl who really needed a place to be.

It would have taken me a while to find another project to add him to,

so he found a place on the back.

It will be a nice surprise for the future owner of this quilt,

to flip it over and find yet another owl.

Big Bernie is also performing well after the trip to the shop.

So far the push button needle threader has performed

eight out of 11 successful trips to the needle,! Yay!

An update on the stash too.

This finish moves the numbers!

47.5 YTD Purchased

8.5m Jan- Jun

Used 5 m donated, 6 m ( 1 +1 baby quilts)

6m ( twin) 6m ( twin)

27.5 total meterage added YTD

Stay safe and sew on!

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Monday, October 6, 2025

Owl Quilt is a Hoot!

A little owl quilt is turning out to be quite a hoot!

The strips of flannel were given to me in a bag of scraps

from one of the guild's charity groups.

There was a wealth of blue and pink flannel scraps.

The little owls were part of a grab bag at a quilting garage sale.

The mention of a quilt needed for a new cousin

by one of my DILs, made my brain

jump into action and the cuteness of the

little owl print squares did the rest!

It came together right on the design wall,

with no written plan, so the spacing of the owls

is very random.

It turned out well and now

the same is happening with the back.

A white strip of donated knobbly minky,

combined with leftover strips,

then widened with some leftover yardage,

and some more pink flannel strips,

are going together to make a nice pieced backing.

This top may or may not end up with batting

as the weight of the flannel and the minky

could make it cuddly enough without a batt.

That will be decided at the pinning stage.

~~pin, pin, pin~~

This little quilt definitely needs a batting.

The different weights of the minky and the flannel

will be evened out by a batting.

Oh the pinning was fun!

We'll see the finished quilt in a few weeks!

It was definitely a hoot!