Stay at Home Round Robin 2025

 I decided to join in with all of the fabulous quilters for the Stay at Home Round Robin, I have not participated before and would like to try it this year. It's always fun to have friendly quilters sewing along. I looked through all of my orphaned blocks and came up with this one. 

It is rather pink and red. There are some green and white flecks that I can work with, also. I guess it is better to use this block up instead of having it sit in my dresser drawer for another 5 years or so.

I would like to have a smaller quilt completed for a mini instead of a large quilt. This is a 12 1/2" block so I will keep the piecing small for the remainder of the SAHRR. But that's ok, hopefully I can figure it out.

I will be linking up to Quilting Gail

Tiny Tote Bags for Christmas Treats

 I have not done any blogging for quite a while. So I thought I'd post a few of the items that I finished recently. Christmas has long past and we have been moving on into 2025; however, I did sew Tiny Tote Bags for my coworkers. 

I will tell that it was a bit of a time-consuming project. The pattern makes 10 tiny totes. I did sew 11 because there was some little squares left from the strip-piecing. 

I'm glad I sewed the extra one because I wanted to keep it for myself. Selfish, I know. But sfter all of my hard work, I wanted to be reminded of it each Christmas. I can hang it on the Christmas tree in future years.  Plus, the fabric is left over from a quilt top that I hope to have quilted and bound for Christmas 2025. The quilt top has been done for  probably 3 years, Deer Christmas fabric

Tiny Tote

Luckily there were 10 coworkers in my office so it made just enough. I filled the tiny tote with candy and added these fanciful "disco balls". John Travolta would be proud. I love his commercial at Christmas where he is the Santa Claus! I believe it is for Capital One.

Lining

A few of my coworkers really liked this. They commented: "it even has a little pocket". 

Linking to Sew & Tell

 

Star Pulse Bonus Quilt

 When piecing the Star Pulse quilt top, there were extra half-square triangle blocks that developed. Then, an additional small quilt top can be sewn out of the extra blocks. This is my completed quilt from the bonus blocks.

I quilted it in a cross hatch and then added these small curves crossing the center. It does make the quilte a little puffy which is nice.

I used this cat Tula Pink fabric for the backing since I had a couple of yards. 

The binding is "bubbles" leftover from a baby quilt a few years ago. I have been collecting leftover bindings in a basket that can quickly be pulled out. This binding was just big enough for this quilt. 

I am now enjoying my small quilt from the bonus blocks. Thanks to  Quilting Jet Girl for this "extra pattern". Plus, it's always great to use up leftovers. I am posting my finish to the Star Pulse Quilt Along Linkup

 

Star Pulse - Shades of Teal and Blue

I had been following along for the Star Pulse Quilt Along at Quilting Jet Girl's Blog I finished my Star Pulse quilt top a few weeks ago. I chose teal colors for the quilt top. I worked at it to get it quilted and bound. 

The quilting was done in a wave following the edge of the walking foot. It did get very repetitious but I like how it came out.

For the backing, I pieced some yardage that I had in the house that were shades of blue.

I am posting my finish at Yvonne's linkup for Star Pulse QAL. Thank you so much, Yvonne, for this fun pattern and Quilt Along. I will be looking forward to the next annual Quilt Along.