Once You Pop You Can't Stop

Happy Friday, quilters! I have more of the block drive potato chip quilts to show.  These first two quilts were assembled by Becky and quilted by Doris. Big thanks to those two ladies!

I love the classic patchwork look of these blocks and Doris did a great job with her quilting, as always.

I'm really fond of this yellow fabric with blue flowers on the backing. I'm pretty certain this is one of the ones my local quilt shop friend gave me when she closed her shop.

Big quilting swirls to complement the blocks. 

These last two quilts were assembled by me and quilted by Linda. I sort the block into semi random piles and then assembly line put them together.

Lovely spiral star panto from Linda. 

My parents garden is going strong now. I've been making vinegar salad with our cucumbers and taking extra strawberries to work (I don't like strawberries, but I'm told they're very good.)

I need to start freezing out excess strawberries to make pies and stuff with. I have also heard that you can freeze tomatoes whole, have any of you ever tried that? What about cherry tomatoes? What to do with all the tomatoes we can't eat is a problem every summer. I dried a bunch last summer, but it barely made a dent. 

I'm off to go pick now. Hope you all are well, and thank you so much to everyone who makes CiL a success!

Covered in Love is a 501(c)(3) charity that donates quilts to patients dying in the hospital, over 1700 so far! The Winter 2026 block drive is live now.  Check out the main post HERE if you want to get involved. 

  Linking to Finished or Not Friday

Cats...

 Sorry I missed yesterday, I'll get back on the wagon this week. Here are some cute pictures to tide you over.

Freshly flea bathed, they hate me a little bit

These two gorgeous girls are from the litter that the stray had at my aunt's house. They have gone to their new home with one of my work friends where they are being snuggled by two little girls.

Don't let the stink eye fool you. After drying off and warming up on heating pad they were all purrs.

My 4 week pottery class finished and these have now been glazed and are awaiting their final kiln fire. I did have one complete loss. And there is one on the far right that looks like a toilet bowl. But overall I'm tickled with how they've come out.

Stuart continues to be just the best boy. You can tell he's very stressed. 🤣 I have been thinking about looking a bit further afield for a home for him and traveling if necessary to get him there. So if anybody out of state wants to give him a home let me know.

Pastel Hugs from Lori

Happy Friday, quilters! I hope this weekend finds you all well. I have more quilts from Lori to show.

The ones in this post have a lighter palette and some really pretty fabrics, which I did my best to photograph.

We've started eating garden cucumbers this week, although the tomatoes remain stubbornly green. In another week we'll have more than we can eat. 

The second batch of Spring baby birds in my carport have flown the coop and a third mama bird is scoping out a nest site. 

I'm taking a 4-week wheel thrown pottery class at the local league to the arts and really enjoy it. This week we trimmed the bowls and cups we had thrown in the first two weeks and I managed to carve through the bottom of two of mine. Always humbling to start a new hobby.

I think the quilt above, with the gray and solid strips, is my favorite of this batch. This last one does funny things to my eyes, although it's not as bad in real life as in the photos.

These fabrics are really vibrant and I love how trippy the design looks. Thank you Lori!

If you are interested in more of my day-to-day (cats, quilts, books I'm reading, garden) you can follow me on Instagram @katandcat775.

Some sewing for a personal project this week

Covered in Love is a 501(c)(3) charity that donates quilts to patients dying in the hospital, over 1700 so far! The Winter 2026 block drive is live now.  Check out the main post HERE if you want to get involved. 

  Linking to Finished or Not Friday

Cactus Quilt

Happy Friday, quilters! I've been meaning for a while to you show off this non -CiL quilt I made for a friend. You know I don't make many personal quilts these days.

This is for a friend who love succulents. I started with a focal fabric with the cactus pattern, then chose solid fabrics to pull colors from time patterned fabric.  For quilting I did vertical stripes to echo the ridges on cactuses. 

 

It felt like a the triangles I cut should have made a bigger quilt! I guess that's always the case.

Spring is springing here. We have green tomatoes and tiny cucumbers growing but not ready to pick yet. I know soon enough we'll have more than we can possibly eat 

For the backing I used this fabric panel with some ombre fabric. I really like all the colors in the succulent blooms.  I'm happy to say that the quilt was well received and is already being enjoyed. 

Orange boys being orange. That's Stuart on the ground and Fudge climbing.

Covered in Love is a 501(c)(3) charity that donates quilts to patients dying in the hospital, over 1700 so far! The Winter 2026 block drive is live now.  Check out the main post HERE if you want to get involved. 

  Linking to Finished or Not Friday

Big Panel Fun

Hello again, friends! Louise here to share more Covered in Love quilts made from YOUR orphan blocks. This batch features panels that were donated from a local quilt shop in Kat's area.

The first two small quilts use these super sweet 18" square panels with flowers, rainboots, and rollerskates. Do you recognize the English paper pieced hexagons made by Bev? These are the last two of her blocks.

Next is a column quilt in springy colors. The panels are small and vertical, and such pretty flowers!

Here's a close up of two panels. I added fifteen 8" blocks in blues and purples to the mix. Most of these were donated as half square triangles that I put together into various classic blocks like Broken Dishes and Pinwheels.

These darling puppies only needed top and bottom rows of softly colored blocks to make a snuggly baby quilt. 

This big autumnal quilt uses strips from a single fabric between each row. I think this type of fabric product is usually used for borders, but I didn't have quite enough yardage for that. 

The design of grasses and ferns is just lovely, and I enjoyed finding blocks to play nicely with it.

This rather Egyptian looking panel has been sitting in my stash for ages. When a donation of pretty batik and warmly colored HSTs showed up, the panel popped into my mind as a good match. It's a simple design that I hope will provide comfort.

And finally, my favorite of the bunch is this wild lighthouse panel. I've been boating for a long time, but I've never seen an orange and turquoise lighthouse! I love it! It's a bit of a fever dream. Fortunately, my stash of orphan block from y'all can handle ANY color combo.

And since the lighthouse is lurid, extra-long wiener dogs in the same colors are a logical backing right? I thought so. Thank you again for all your donations. These orphan block quilts are powered by the many creative hands of our little community.

Covered in Love is a 501(c)(3) charity that donates quilts to patients dying in the hospital, over 1700 so far! The Winter 2026 block drive is live now.  Check out the main post HERE if you want to get involved. 

  Linking to Finished or Not Friday

Edna & Jeanie

Happy Friday, quilters! I have 4 beautiful quilts sent in by CiL supporters this week. Edna J sent in these first two. She always rounds off the corners of her quilts and I love that. 

This cool looking scrap quilt is actually a deceptively simple design, just alternating 9 patches of squares and HSTs. She did simple and very effective quilting with straight lines that echo the seam lines. 

Next up, a patriotic design with alternating squares and quarter-square triangles. Again, she did lovely straight-line quilting. I wish I did more straight lining! Free motion is so much faster and easier once you get the hang of it that I just don't have the patience for straight lining any more. 

Jeanie sent in these next two tops. This first one reminds me of a Hudson Bay blanket because of its color scheme.

 I love the striped binding she pieced together for it and, again, the straight-line quilting. 

Lastly, Jeanie also sent in this very cool top with a complex design to show off some pretty fabrics. I love how it looks almost woven. 

Things are good here. I am looking forward to our first tomatoes of the season and making plans for some summer travel. Staying busy as always. 

One cat towers on the porch finally passed beyond saving and I recycled some of the pieces to build the cats a new climbing structure. I think they approve.

Covered in Love is a 501(c)(3) charity that donates quilts to patients dying in the hospital, over 1700 so far! The Winter 2026 block drive is live now.  Check out the main post HERE if you want to get involved. 

  Linking to Finished or Not Friday