This was — mostly — a kit that I picked up on a whim because it was so cute and I wanted a quick project. It’s machine appliquéd and machine quilted and will hang in my sewing room. It measures about 13.75″ x 16.75″.
Blog post: Quick Project
Category: Quilts
Coffee Break
This was a block of the month sponsored by Wonderfil Threads and was a lot of fun to make. It was paper pieced and machine quilted, and it now lives with one of our daughters, who happens to have a coffee corner off of her bedroom. 🙂 I completely forgot to measure it before giving it away, but it’s a small lap-sized quilt.
Blog posts: Latest makes, The Coffee Corner is growing, Exhausted, Block 10!, Coffee Break
Message from Heaven
This quilt was designed by Krista Moser, and I made it as a gift for a family member. It is machine pieced, using a specialty ruler, and machine quilted on my domestic Bernina 790Pro. It measures approximately 65″ x 74″ and was finished in January, 2026.
Blog posts: Time flies!, Ready for gifting
Birds in the Window
The Wonderfil thread company issued a series of paper-pieced blocks in 2024, though I didn’t find them until early 2025. The quilt measures approximately 41″ x 52″, and I finished it in July, 2025. I free-motion quilted it with leaves and vines in the background, adding feathers to each bird, as well as a feathered vine in the border. There is also corded piping next to the binding. This is a gift for the granddaughter we gained via a remarriage.
The quilt was finished in July, 2025 and measures approximately 41″ x 52″.
Blog posts: Another Project, How Does This Happen?, Four More, Final Five, Whole Flock, Birds in the Window, Birds in the Window (final)
Honeycomb Waffle
I’ve had a book by Marci Baker for a very long time and finally got around to making one of the designs in it. Using shades of colors gives a three-dimensional look to the blocks. It was a fun experiment … until I couldn’t come up with a plan for the quilting. However, Lisa Calle came to the rescue with a few suggestions, and that gave me the kick I needed to get the quilt finished.
It measures 45″ x 60″ and was finished in June, 2025.
Tee-shirt Quilt
I’d never made a tee-shirt quilt before, but our granddaughter was about to graduate from high school, where she had been on the dance team — a dance team that won a national championship two years in a row! When our son-in-law mentioned that there was a “collection” of tee-shirts from the dance activities, we decided that a quilt was the only logical answer. I started with twelve shirts and added two more to the back later as they became available. I free-motion quilted it with a different design in each block, since each block was different. The hardest part was pin basting it so that the two blocks on the back were at least mostly aligned with the two center blocks on the front! The quilt measures about 47″ x 61″.
Table-topper Wholecloth Experiment
This is a very small (17″ square) piece I did as an experiment. The design came from Lady Jane Quilting and was fun to do. I used fabric from my stash, and Grunge was probably not the best choice, since it hides much of the stitching. I traced the main motif onto the fabric and then free-motion quilted it. However, I used ruler work to do the piano keys in the border.
Blog post about this quilt: Experiment
Strip to Be Square
This quilt measures 51″ x 70″ and was made from a design by G.E. Designs. I completed it in October, 2024, though it will be gifted much later as a wedding gift for another grandson and his bride.
The quilt was machine pieced and machine quilted, using free-motion feathers in the squared-off rings and meandering borders. In the setting triangles around the rings, I used ruler work as a contrast. I did all of the quilting on my Bernina 790Pro and added my usual corded piping next to the binding.
Blog post: https://sandymike.net/blog/2024/10/21/another-quilt-is-in-the-bag/
Heirloom Hearts
This quilt measures 63″ x 72″ and was made from a design by Lo & Behold Stitchery. I finished it in August, 2024, way ahead of schedule, as a wedding gift for one of our grandsons and his fiancée.
The quilt was machine pieced and machine quilted, using free-motion feathers in the heart blocks and continuous curves along with a little ruler work in the double nine-patch blocks. I did all of the quilting on my Bernina 790Pro. I also added my usual corded piping next to the binding.
Blog posts: 1001 Little Pieces, Onward!, Quilting finished!, I forgot!
Got the Point?
This was a quick project, chosen simply because I thought it was perfect for my sewing room. It is partially paper-pieced and partially traditionally pieced. I quilted it on my Bernina 790Pro, using feathers to contrast with the ruler work straight lines filled with large-ish pebbles.
The quilt measures approximately 31″ square and has multi-colored corded piping next to the binding. I finished it in February, 2024.
Blog posts: Sew Speedy, Texture, Got the Point?