Grace puppet

 Rocky has a friend!

After I finished Rocky, and made good progress on Planet Adrian, this seemed like the next logical step in what is apparently turning into a series of patterns :)   FPP pattern for this little guy can be found here. 

Please note that this pattern is for personal use only.  This pattern is shared freely, but is not to be used in any product made for sale, nor can it be used as a basis for a modified pattern. Copyright, Quilted4You, 2026.

 

Planet Adrian, in progress. It needs a better version of the Hail Mary before I call it complete.

 

Rocky

 I have become obsessed with the Project: Hail Mary movie.  It seems everyone has crochet patterns, and 3-D printing patterns, and stuffie patterns. But I haven't come across any quilt patterns. So, I made one :)  Meet Rocky.

 

 He finished at just under 12".  If you want your own Rocky - for personal use only - you can find my pattern here.  This pattern is shared freely, but is not to be used in any product made for sale, nor can it be used as a basis for a modified pattern.

More Charity Finishes

 After making 36 quilties last month, I decided it was time to catch up on binding some of the larger charity quilts that were stacked up in my longarm studio.  Most of them I didn't make - I simply quilt & attach binding to what others have made. But there were a few of my own creations hiding in there.

 

This quilt was made from my red scraps. I started with red & black strings, and made HST blocks from those.  They were about 3" finished, and when I figured out that I needed about 315 blocks, I started to rethink the plan.  I made as many black/red blocks  as I could, with the red strings I had in my stash.  Then I came up with this layout, and started filling the missing areas with red crumb blocks.  And a few pink-ish ones. When I this was all done, I had used up my entire stash of red strings and crumb blocks. There are of course lots of red scraps left to make more crumb blocks, because that never ends.

This was the Meadow Mist mystery last year. I had the watermelon fabric for some unknown reason, and found the coordinating colours in my stash. Originally planning for a different quilt that never happened, I repurposed the stack of fabric for this project.

Pink spinning stars.  This was in progress for ages! It has a friend here.  The leftover blocks when into this quilt, with some scraps to make borders to increase the size up to a charity size. 

The backing (next photo) is Yoga Cats :)  Not sure where that came from, but it felt like a good choice for this one. 

This log cabin quilt was made from a pile of 1.5" strips that I pickup up from a Victoria's Quilts meeting.  Lots and lots of 1.5" strips.  I had just enough cream at the end to make the borders.

 

These block were leftover from my Bonnie Hunter Good Fortune quilt. That poor quilt had a checkered past - poor colour choices led to a complete rework. The discarded blocks went here. And these are the "extras" from the original, with some new bits, because by the time the main quilt was done I had no desire to make it full size.

 

Some Charity Finishes

 It's been a while. But I did a blitz on some of my projects the past two months, and got a ton of stuff done.  First, one of my guilds was challenged to a quilt-off, to see how many quilties (small, 24" square quilts for babies) we could each make in a month.  I decided to go all in and try to help my guild - and I made 36 quilties!!  Holy cow. And now I am so burnt out with binding baby quilts, I'm taking a break :)  But here are some of my contributions to the cause.

 

9 at a time on the longarm!!  There are a few oldies here, which have been sitting around waiting to be quilted for a while

An old One Block Wonder challenge, using stripes. I played with just a little section of fabric, because I didn't expect to like it much.  It came out better than I expected, but was about 1" short. So a super wide 1" binding around all 4 sides fixed that right up :)

The pattern is an adapation of Anita's Arrowhead. Using 19" blocks makes a single 24" block, perfect for a quiltie.

A look at the first 30 or so, ready for donation. On display at the top, among others pictured here, is a Tula Pink rabbit.  Sad to use that fabric, but given how long it's been in my stash, it was time to let it go.

These were my 4 leftover blocks from Bonnie Hunter's Indigo Way last year.

This was a short mystery from the M50 mystery at the end of last year. Added a couple of borders to the block, to make it the right size for a quiltie.

I can't recall when I made this one, but it's a disappearing hourglass block (4 of them).