The green zig zag quilt progress

No messing about last evening! The top is sewn together! I have enough of one of the green fabrics that I will use it for the backing.

Tonight I will trim the top and hopefully start pin basting it.

1st quilt finish for 2026

The t-shirt quilt is finally done! It finished 64" x 77".

I had made a trip to the store Friday after work and chicken breasts were on sale for $1.99 a pound! What a deal! They had the skin and bones, but the regular price is at least $3.50 a pound these days. To say the least, I stocked up. Sunday I spent a lot of time cooking and deboning chicken. I still have two packages of chicken to cook. There are 3 very large half breasts in each package. Tonight I will vacuum pack the cooked chicken into two pound packages and freeze them so it will be quick to put meals together. In between processing chicken I sewed the binding. I have a question, do any of you press the binding toward the raw edge after you machine sew it on? I don't remember when I started doing this, but I like the crisp look it gives to the binding on the front.

I also got a few rows of blocks sewn together on the green baby quilt. I would like to get this done by the first of March because I will be over at the home office and I will be seeing the lady I am making this for.

Quilting done but not without a goober

Yes the t-shirt quilt is finally quilted! I even found the black Kona I will be using for the binding. My goal is to get it bound and shipped this weekend.

So I finished the quilting, turned the quilt over to trim threads and found this goober of lint and thread! What the what?

So I had to carefully mess around, clean that up and requilt the area.

Have a great weekend!

Getting so close!

One more t-shirt is quilted so I am now 97.4% done with the quilting; that is how the math works out! LOL!! I did the smaller shirt last night. I was having a hard time seeing since there wasn't any natural light.

I only have this shirt to finish quilting and then I will be on to the binding!

T- shirt quilt almost quilted, a thank you card, and an old movie

The t-shirt quilt is now 95% quilted. I quilted this shirt which wasn't as hard as I thought it would be

Then I got the top area of this shirt quilted

This is the last shirt to quilt

I found a lovely thank you card on my desk yesterday. This was a card with a token in it for fixing those ski pants. The lady wrote a lovely note inside and was very happy with the job I did.

Since football season was almost done except for the Super Bowl, last Saturday I flipped on TCM to have whatever movies they were playing to keep me company while I sewed. The movie "Door-to-Door Maniac" was on; it was in black and white. I had never seen or heard of this movie. I didn't even see the beginning of it, but I looked at the guy on the screen and it was Johnny Cash. He was playing a bad guy. So as I would glance at the movie there was a lady that was calling her child for breakfast. Who pops up on the screen but little Opie Taylor aka Ron Howard! He had to be all of six years old and just as cute as ever! I wonder if Ron remembers anything about being on set with Johnny Cash?

T- shirt quilt - more progress and pecan bites

I worked real hard last evening and managed to get three more shirts quilted. I now have 90% of this quilt done with only the three black shirts to quilt.

Before I sat down to quilt, I made a batch of pecan pie mini muffins. These are so easy to make. Not too sweet, and nice and chewy.

Here is the recipe. I got this from blog Crafting Memories with Molly, but I added vanilla and salt which were not in the original recipe.  Don't fill the mini muffin cups to the top.  Leave about a 1/4" space for the muffins to rise.  Let them cool a few minutes in the pan then knock them out to cool completely on a rack if you can wait that long.  So far at work I have gotten a very good from everyone who had eaten one ... or two!

T-shirt quilt progress and the green baby quilt top

I am still not feeling great, but I did manage to get some work done. The T-shirt quilt is now 83% quilted. I outlined the shirts that still need quilted.

All of the green strips have been sewn and cut to size. The blocks are now arranged on the design wall. I changed out the fabric for the final row at the top from a very bold print to something more subtle.

I have more than enough blocks left over to make another baby quilt.

I ended up with a stack of the end pieces that I will sew together and make 4-patches out of them.

My goal this week is to get the quilting done on the t-shirt quilt, get it bound, and mailed.