What I’m Working On: March 2nd, 2026

I wasn’t in the sewing room much this week. I had a lot going on…Anders was here an extra day and I had company from Wednesday through Saturday evening. Happily some sewing happened when I had company. Let me tell you about it all.

I told you earlier in the week that I was making plans to sneak in a spider web string quilt. It’s destined to be a gift for my great-nephew when he gets married in May. I asked Kelli if she wanted to help with it, and then we could give a joint gift. Kelli was totally on board.

We are making a variation of this…

Kelli was coming and staying overnight over the weekend, so I was determined to have everything ready for her arrival. I prepped all the paper and then started rummaging through the big bag of patriotic prints that Doreen gave me. There were quilt sections like this in the bag.

I ended up cutting them out like this so they could be used in the blocks.

Before Kelli came I sewed on a few blocks.

String quilts are SO messy. BUT, the mess is totally worth it!! I got enough triangles pieced to see what the blocks are going to look like.

I’m liking this!!

I managed to squeeze in a few Twirl Around blocks in between the Patriotic Spider Web quilt.

But then my daughters, Kelli and Kayla, came. It was time for the BIG PUSH on the Patriotic Spider Web quilt.

I took up residence at the machine. Kayla knitted…and Kelli slept. She had worked the overnight shift.

Once Kelli woke up, it was full speed ahead. She did some math to figure out how we planned on changing the quilt.

Kayla became the ironer.

We had quite the set up going.

We ended up getting all the strings pieced. I still have a full pile of papers to pull off. Kelli started sewing blocks together…and then our time ended. They left me in a really good spot. I can finish it on my own, or Kelli said she’d help me finish it on a different day. Either way, we are in striking distance and in a good spot to be able to finish it in time for the wedding.

I ended up working on it Sunday morning.

A couple of weeks ago I said I was interested in making this cat quilt for my grandson Gannon.

Ila messaged me after I said something. She said she had cat fabric that would work great for a backing. She wanted to send it to me. I said YES!!

Isn’t it cute? Well, in true Ila style, she couldn’t let anything travel alone. She sent some other fabric too. All are fabulous and enough for backing or on the top of the quilt with all the same background fabric.

You can imagine how loud I squeal when I saw she also sent a wonderful stack of reds/pinks. All are half-yard cuts.

Oh my goodness. I love it. Thanks so much Ila. You are so sweet to me.

I’m not sure what I’ll be working on this week. I’m hoping to get some longarm time in. I have a few quilt tops that need to be longarmed, and typically, I like to keep the longarm working.

I’ll tell you more about my weekend in an upcoming blog post.