15 Minutes to Stitch Week Four

 It is going to take me some practice to remember to post my progress on the 15 Minutes to Stitch challenge every week.  I have been stitching every day though.  

I've shown you some of the quilting from this month already on the blog:

• The Project quilting challenge #1 where I made An Open Space to Breathe (I originally wrote that as A Quiet Place to Breathe, which is also a good name)
• The project Quilting challenge #2 where I made Change
• The bunkbed blanket I am repairing
• The peacock made with leftovers from the Lupine & Laughter mystery
• The Lupine & Laughter mystery

Since then, I have made a little more progress on each of the unfinished projects aforementioned.

But that's not all.  I found a group on Facebook that is making a Jane Stickle block a week, and I've made a couple of Jane Stickle blocks with them.

I have also started a small mystery quilt by Kathleen Tracy. I am very tempted to start a lot of quilts, but have been resisting, but I think this small quilt shouldn't take too much time. Plus it uses the tiny extra fabric from the Lupine and Laughter mystery quilt. The tiny blocks are the Valentine's mystery quilt and the bigger HSTs are from Lupine & Laughter.

• 15 minute days/Jan = 24/24 days
• 15 minute days/2026 = 24/24days
• Success rate = 100%

Linked with Kate's Life in Pieces 15 Minutes to Stitch.

15 Minutes to Quilt Week Two

75 Day Soft Tracker

• Met every goal / Jan = 1/10 days
• Met every goal / 2026 = 1/10 days
• Success rate = 1%

Okay that looks awful, but I am still just trying to ramp up to follow all of the things every day.  So far, I have been pretty good at doing a lot of the things, but I haven't been able to do it all, except for Jan 1.  I've just been pulled in all sorts of different directions, motivation-wise. I am doing more than I did last month, and I will get there soon enough. My plan doesn't require me to be perfect every day.

15 Minutes to Quilt

This week, I worked on turning the peacock  I made using leftovers of the Lupine and Laughter mystery quilt. I sewed the peacock and the lace onto the background.  This quilt keeps calling me, and I think this will be a maximalist quilt with lots of embellishments and embroidery.  We will see how it turns out.

I also made more progress on making the blocks for the Lupine & Laughter mystery quilt. I am piecing the flying geese border blocks and am focusing on finishing the blocks with the kitty ears. I haven't made all the half rectangle triangles so I will work on those blocks after I am finished with the ones that are ready.

That blanket that Zoey is sitting on is my childhood blanket.  It is no ordinary blanket though, because it is a quilt that my mother quilted. She made two, one for each of the bunk beds. I just washed it and spread it on my couch, and forgot that Zoey stays off the couch only when it isn't covered.

I used the scraps from the Project Quilting quilt I made, way before today's deadline, I might add, to fix some of the damage in the bunk bed quilt. I am going to keep adding scraps until all of the damage has been covered.

• 15 minute days/Jan = 10/10 days
• 15 minute days/2026 = 10/10 days
• Success rate = 100%

Linked with 15 Minutes to Stitch