Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Another Week Already? and I Quilted This!

Bonjour and welcome 😊 I'm surprised that another week is over! It was a very busy weekend with Father's Day, my son's birthday, National Indigenous Peoples Day and the Summer Solstice. We celebrated and it was awesome!😀

More FMQ Houses

I have more quilted houses to share with you. As you can see in the first image, I had the purplish pink thread out. I still have the blue star block side to stitch.

Pink house quilted

Pink house at night quilted, along with the lawn and walkway

Lawns and flowers have been quilted on two of the night houses

I took out a lighter green thread and started FMQ more of the yards. Below is a reminder of what the quilt looks like. I've now quilted houses 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7 except for the rooves. The front of house 4 is quilted and most of the lawns and yards of the first three houses, as well as those of 6 and 7 are quilted.

There are small details on most houses that still need to be FMQ, like windows and doors but that will come as I keep quilting.

A reminder of what needs to be quilted on the Rainbow Neighbourhood Quilt

June's OMG

Finishing the stitch-in-the-ditch for the Rainbow Neighbourhood Quilt was my June OMG. I've done most of the stitch-in-the-ditch and then went on to FMQ 6 of the 8 houses. Yay for me! 😎

Slow Stitching

I couldn't help it, I joined the Summer Hexie Sew Along with Mad About Patchwork - a store located on the outskirts of Ottawa.

Wednesday I spent most of the day outside in the backyard. It was pure retirement heaven.

Stitching hexies (EPP) outside

Bloomers with hexie

I haven't decided yet what fabric I'll be using to make the hexie flower ring. I tend to go scrappy but maybe my scraps could match in style or colour? They have to be different, otherwise I'll get bored...and we can't have that!😁

While I'm playing with hexies, I'll keep making hexie flowers for the Bloomers SAL that I started last year with the Quiltery. I have two hexie flowers made. Here's one of them.

What I learned

The FMQ of the houses and yards is going well. In one stitching session I can get a house and a little more done.
I'm really trying to keep the FMQ simple since I want to get it done! I just can't help it though. It's impossible for me to use an all-over design on a quilt that has so many different fun elements. That is why I learned to FMQ 😍
It looks like the rain will be back tomorrow afternoon, so I'm going to try to spend the morning outside. At the very least I can have my first cup of coffee there 😊
I'll be preparing a bag for my hexies so that I can easily take them with me.
This weekend is the last one for June. That means that I'll be hosting the Quilter's Cover QAL on Saturday. I've got and idea, fabric and an initial layout. Wish me luck!

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 consider grabbing the button.

Terry of On Going Projects finished quilting her Kaffe Challenge for her guild. The quilt, Dash is quilted using a meander in the colourful Kaffe fabric and arch lines in the solid dashes.

Terry's Dash quilt for a guild Kaffe Challenge

Lots of texture in Terry's Dash quilt

A quilter at Based on a True Story has finished a gorgeous baby quilt after finally getting a machine that quilts properly! I'm so glad that she's back on her quilting journey. Her Dogs in Sweaters quilt was quilted with paw prints and squiggles, and Dachshunds on the sweaters.

Dogs in Sweaters Quilt

Gwyned Trefethen has had to slow down while her Bernina is in the shop. We can all sympathize. Since she had to slow down, she experimented FMQ a tulip appliqué.

Gwyned's experimenting with FMQ a tulip appliqué

Melva from Melva Loves Scraps is doing a 100 days challenge. She is doing all kinds of creative projects and one of them is making hearts that she will then embellish and give away.

Melva's quilted hearts to be embellished and given away

Brenda from Songbird Designs entered her quilts in her guild's quilt show. Wow! They were both amazing! Her Peaceful Village at Sunshine Coast won two ribbons. We've seen the quilt in progress and now we see it in all of its glory!

Brenda's Peaceful Village at Sunshine Cove

Brenda's Sedona Starburst (and Miss M)

Kate from Life in Pieces finished her lovely Chilhowie quilt, a 2022 Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt. She quilted it on her domestic machine with her walking foot using diagonal lines across the centre and straight lines in the border.

Kate's Chilhowie quilt finished on her domestic

Kate's Chilhowie quilt quilted with a walking foot

Sandra from mmm quilts made a third version of her Lyra pattern for her quilt along. It's called Arabian Nights and it's stunning! You may also want to check out the Lyra Quilt Along parade.