Thursday, February 19, 2026

A Cowboy Finish and I Quilted This!

Hi and welcome - I'm so happy that you can share my happy place with me 😊It's mid-February, the days are getting longer and this week it feels like Spring may eventually happen 😎. We all know that there will be more cold days ahead but there is hope. 🌞

A Cowboy Panel Finish

This quilt has been about 13 months in the making - not full time but in chunks of time.

Cowboy Panel Quilt 😊 finished!

Here is a quick recap. I finished most of the blocks by the end of last year's SAHRR (Stay At Home Round Robin). You can read all about the piecing process in my November 27th post (see Related links below). FMQ the quilt was my January One Monthly Goal (OMG) but I didn't quite make it. You can check out the links below but essentially I quilted-in-the-ditch, FMQ the blocks, FMQ the panel, and then FMQ the borders between the blocks.

In my last post about FMQ this quilt, I mentioned that I just had the inner dark brown border to stitch. I kept it simple with two straight lines quilted with my walking foot and just closed the line with a triangle shape in each corner. This is one of Angela Walter's ideas.

Quilting the inner border

Here are a couple for photos since the weather was perfect outside!

A quick picture at the entrance of our home

Another glamour shot

I'm keeping it short and sweet today. This evening I'll be dropping of the quilt to Alek. I really hope he'll like it!

What I learned

I had no idea that the panel I purchased was so large - that made for a big quilt. If possible, I'll try to keep my baby quilts smaller.
I really did have fun putting this quilt together. It was challenging to make some of those blocks but given my accuracy challenge, even simple 9 patch blocks are a challenge!
I had fun FMQ the Christmas panel quilt in December, so I was eager to start on this one. It was enjoyable and I'm going to try to do some FMQ every few weeks. I do have a number of smaller quilts to FMQ so that should keep me happy 😁
I don't want my SAHRR to take me 13 months to finish - so I'm really going to try to make it for the parade at the end of March. At least I don't have two quilts to make this year!

I Quilted This!

Welcome to the I Quilted This! linking party that celebrates quilting on a domestic machine or custom quilting on a long-arm. Feel free to link up and share any recent project, even if you're not quilting it! Here are the posts that included FMQ, ruler work and walking foot quilting last week. Thanks for linking up 😊 and feel free to grab the button.

Kat of Scrapbox Quilts has made some lovely placemats. The first is a scrappy spiral blue placemat, the colour of the January RSC.

Scrappy spiral blue placemat by Kat

Kat also made placemats as a refresher on making mountains block. They are in red since it's the colour of Connie at Freemotion By The River's monthly color challenge. They were made to give as a hostess gift - lucky hostess!