Project Update: 16.09.2025

Hello Friends and Welcome Back!

After a month of cleaning up and packing away, our house is finally ready for the market! The listing hasn't been posted just yet, but we are hoping to have it up by the end of the week, then the house will be ready for tours!

Though it's been an exhausting process so far, I'm excited to see where this move takes us!

And even with the staging keeping me so busy, I still found time to work on some of my ongoing projects! I can't wait to share them with you!

Ice Cream Soda Quilt

Hand stitching is easy to pick up during little moments of rest, so I worked on Ice Cream Soda the most throughout the packing process!

My mind was pretty preoccupied during that time, so I wasn't very focused on taking photos to document the process, however the little moments of stitching slowly added up and the leftmost third of the quilt is now in one piece!

There are still a few pieces I need to fill in around the edges to square off the shape, but most of my coloured remnants got packed away, so I won't be able to finish it off properly until I've had a chance to visit my parents.

And though the assembly is pretty much done, there's still some basting stitches to be removed, so I'll be spending a little more time with this chunk of the quilt before moving on to the central piece!

I'm still loving every stitch of this quilt and can't wait to see it continue to grow!

My Ice Cream Soda quilt is based on a design by Jodi Godfrey of Tales of Cloth.

The Generations Quilt Project

With my Ice Cream Soda quilt at a good resting point, I decided to switch my focus back to the Generations Quilt!

Sometime in August, Mom said that she was appliqueing her last block, this means everyone is just waiting on me so we can move forward!

We'll be going to visit Grandma again at the beginning of October, so I'd like to bring all our Generations blocks together so we can lay a few of them out and start putting some quilts together!

Personally, I'm leaning towards an en pointe layout since that results in a larger quilt than a straight setting with the same number of blocks.

But I'm getting ahead of myself.

I finished appliqueing another three Dresden Plate blocks yesterday and have another one basted and ready to stitch!

In addition to those four blocks, I've got pieces for a few more Dresden appliques and backgrounds cut and partially assembled!

I'm excited to continue putting these blocks together and to seeing how they look alongside Mom's, Grandma's, and Great Grandmother's blocks! Look forward to a Generations Quilt project update soon!

My Generations Quilt is based on the traditional Dresden Plate and Six Pointed Star blocks, using templates drafted from extant blocks by Valerie Anne.

Midnight Circus Sample Quilt

Moving along to a machine project, I'm a little disappointed that Midnight Circus wasn't finished for the pattern launch at the beginning of September, but getting the house sorted out was a little more important at the time. There's always next year!

For the start of the quilt along, I had only finished assembling the central row, but since then the quilt has grown a bit:

Since this quilt along is also being run at my quilt guild, I did my best to have a mostly completed Midnight Circus quilt to show as a sample!

There's a few triangles missing around the edges, and there should be a background border to give the pieced design a little breathing room, but it gets the idea across pretty well!

What you may not be able to tell from the front is that the quilt wasn't properly sewn together, there are a few seams where it was only basted.

I'm planning to carry on with the quilt as you go technique I'd been working on before I got too busy, so having the quilt just basted means I can take it apart pretty easily to do the quilting!

I can't wait to get back to work on this project soon!

Midnight Circus is my own original design, by Valerie Anne of the Fibre Arts blog.

Potato Chip Challenge Quilt

Of all the quilts in this update, Potato Chip, sadly, has the least amount of progress to share.

Voting for this challenge took place last Wednesday night, but my quilt wasn't put together to share and I was sick and couldn't attend the meeting. Fortunately, that guild posts photos from their show and share and challenges to their private Facebook group, so I was able to see what other members had created!

Everyone went a different direction with their challenge quilts; some were very scrappy, some were more organized, and a few made mini quilts with tiny rectangles! Now that I've seen their quilts, I'm excited to finish mine so I can show it at a future meeting!

I started out in the centre of my quilt with an all white block. Though it's a scrappy style quilt, I wanted to plan out fabric placement so no matching prints end up beside each other.

It took a few tries before I reached an arrangement I was happy with, but I'm really glad I took the time to plan it out!

With one block pieced, I wanted to try lying out a few more!

Since we were in the midst of packing at this time, I couldn't lay out the whole quilt, so I settled for doing it a quarter at a time.

But with only a quarter laid out, I really couldn't tell if I had gotten an even transition from the light centre to the dark corner, so I put the fabric away and decided to work on a diagram instead!

I broke down my fabric into five values; white (shown in pink), light purple (shown in light purple), medium purple (shown in dark purple), dark purple (shown in dark blue), and black (shown in light blue). Some rectangles fell into more than one value area on the diagram, so I left them blank.

For those blank rectangles, I'll have flexibility for which value I want to use!

That's as far as I've gotten on my Potato Chip quilt, so I definitely didn't complete the challenge. However, they have another challenge for next year that I'll be making inquiries about, and hopefully I'll get started on that one a little earlier!

My Potato Chip quilt is based on a design by Brenda Logan of Conquering Mount Scrapmore.

Despite how busy I've been over the last few weeks, I've managed to get a lot of work done on several of my current projects!

There were a few that fell a little short of where I wanted them to be in my seasonal goals, but since things have changed a little from the beginning of the Summer to now, I'm not really that upset about it. There's always a chance to try again next time and I plan to just keep trying!

Friends, I would love to hear what all of you have been up to as well! Please share your current projects in the comments below, by email, or by tagging me on Instagram! I find the work of other creators so inspiring and always look forward to seeing your projects progress!

And, with Summer coming to an end soon, I'll be taking a look at my seasonal goals next week, I'd love to have you join me!

Until Next Time Friends, Keep Creating!

~VA