A quilty update - September 2026

Earlier in the year I set out my quilt plans for 2026, and to be honest it seems like yesterday since my update in June, but another three months have gone by and so here I am checking in with my next quilty update.

So how am I doing?

1. The teal flying geese

I have news. I have started this one, finally.

As this will be for a king size bed I decided to go with the larger size of flying geese, as I thought that too many small geese might send me seriously quackers. The fabrics are great, and although I had a minor cutting hiccup for the first few blocks, I’ve got around that with an extra seam which I’m ok with. The second cutting session went a lot more to plan and I’ve already got a steadily growing pile of blocks of four geese.

SOME OF THE ALREADY COMPLETED FLYING GEESE BLOCKS

THERE’S MORE IN PROGRESS, WAITING TO BE SEWN TOGETHER

AND MORE ALREADY CUT OUT, SO I REALLY HAVE NO EXCUSE!

I know I will need a fair few more - I haven’t counted exactly how many yet - but this project is go (maybe not go, go, go just yet - but go is good!)

2. The jeans and pyjamas

3. My floral fancy

The update for these two is there is no update, their time will come I’m sure.

4. My English Paper Piecing (EPP) blue diamonds

The small, slow-burn progress continues. I’ve started to move beyond the already constructed blue and green shapes and have started to build larger blocks around the vintage tablecloth diamonds. It’s going to look great, but it is still a project that you mustn’t hold your breath for!

ATTACHING FOUR OF THE BLOCKS WITH A VINTAGE TABLECLOTH DIAMOND

THE FIRST OF THE LARGER BLOCK CONSTRUCTS

5. Scrappy houses charity quilts

More news here, with villages 2 & 3 also now complete. Each of these quilts is different, which is amazing really as there are many common fabrics between them. They continue to be a joy to sew - as it’s a great way to experiment with patterns and colours, and I don’t think I’ve put together a house which I completely dislike yet.

VILLAGE QUILTS 2 & 3

6. Wonderland meets Moda

7. Word Star

Again, there is no update on these.

A bonus quilty update

While I missed the annual Project Linus sewing day that my patchwork group hold, I was able to donate the pile of nine quilts that have been amassing in the corner of my craft room, including all of the village quilts I’ve made so far, and the quilt that mum made which I shared in my last update.

They were very pleased to receive this stack of nine quilts, and it’s great to see that corner of my craft room again, even if it is only for a short time until more charity quilts fill that space!

So there has been quilty progress against my long list, and none of it has been a chore - I just need to work out how to do more with my sewing time, and to make time for more sewing time, though with the winter months approaching I think that that will become easier.

Village quilts 2 & 3

It’s been a few months since I shared my first village charity quilt, and back in May I wasn’t as on track as I’d wanted to be to meet my ‘one a quarter’ plan, but it’s amazing what a difference a couple of months can make, as here I am with the second and third of this style of quilts - and I still love making them so I think there will be plenty more.

But 2 & 3…

Mum came along to the July Saturday sewing group meeting with me and at that meeting I seemed to steam through topping up my house pile to make another top. I know I need 30 houses for each quilt top, so when I think I’m close and then find out I’m not as close as I thought, I put my foot down.

Anyway at that sewing group meeting I completed the top for the second quilt - and as you’ll notice one of the houses on the second row has a more modern take on the roof shape. It’s an oops, but an acceptable oops in this style of quilt, as well, not all houses look the same anyway do they?

VILLAGE 2 QUILT TOP

I enjoyed piecing this so much that over the next few days I completed the top for my third village quilt.

VILLAGE 3 QUILT TOP

I love how they look so different, but are so clearly the same design. Some fabrics are used in both quilt tops, and some will continue to feature for a quilt or two more I’m sure, while I’ve probably used the last of some in these quilts.

I decided it would be sensible to choose two different backings for these quilts, as it made sense to batch the remaining tasks. This led me to another ‘design decision’. I was keen to use the bluey/grey and white dot fabric with the yellow flowers as a backing for the final time, but if I added two borders I wouldn’t have quite enough. I guestimated that with a single border I could use it as backing, and even better I could use that material on the front too as a border, though I wasn’t quite sure how it would work as previously I’d used the cream border.

There was only one way to find out

So both quilts were basted and quilted, then trimmed ready for binding.

VILLAGE 2 QUILTED

VILLAGE 3 QUILTED

The patterned border makes them look quite different again, doesn’t it?

I like it though, and it’s persuaded me to be bolder with some of these quilts in the future. But discipline meant that I needed to finish these quilts before I’d let myself play with any future colour schemes, and I wanted to include both of these in my donation early in September.

VILLAGE 2 FINISHED

VILLAGE 3 FINISHED

I’m pleased with both of them and love how they’re both the same but also so different - and I hope that they’ll provide a hug to someone that needs one soon.

You can see my other quilts I’ve made to donate to Project Linus - a charity whose mission is to provide love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to children, who are sick, disabled, disadvantaged or distressed through the donation of new, homemade, washable quilts and blankets.

Post Comment Love 11 - 13 September

Hello there, welcome to this week’s #PoCoLo - a relaxed, friendly linky which I co-host with Suzanne, where you can link any blog post published in the last week. We know you’ll find some great posts to read, and maybe some new-to-you blogs too, so do pop over and visit some of the posts linked, comment and share some of that love.

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Thankfully this week has calmed down a fair bit, and it’s meant we’ve been able to have a bit more time at home than before. Though there were still some outings that were not to be missed, including the new Wool Show at Newark at the weekend where I was impressed at the restraint I showed and only buying things on my list. In fact I think I took more wool with me than I actually bought, which I’m sure isn’t how it’s supposed to work, but hey ho!

I also went to a workshop to make some wire flowers. It turned out to be an incredible mindful activity, and while the vase of flowers and seed heads look like a tangled mass of squiggles (which isn’t entirely wrong) if you look closely there are some different, and hopefully distinguishable, flowers and shapes in there. I think the vase will look better with less in, but as I said it was great fun, I’ll share more in a post sometime soon.

Have a great week.

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