Tuesday, October 7, 2025
2025: Midnight Manor, Pumpkin Mug/Candle Mat, Autumn Nights, and Autumn Bloom
2025: Pumpkin Pillows
2025: Wandering Star
Completed quilt top September 3, 2025
Audiobooks: The Lion Women of Tehran – Marjan Kamali
A Week in Winter – Maeve Binchy
The Once and Future Witches – Alex E. Harrow
To Die For – David Baldacci
We Used to Live Here – Marcus Kliewer
The Piano Tuner – Daniel Mason
The Great Circle – Maggie Shipsted
Wandering Star was my second quilt class at the 2025 Cedar Chest Quilt Retreat. This was much more complicated than I had first thought. I had to use my library for the room to lay it all out. It measures 90” x 90.” I had not planned to make it so big, but I got carried away.
The fabrics are mostly Botanical Journal by The Smithsonian Institute for Marcus, a palette of soft greens, raspberries, purples, and golds. The backing is AMAZING – a botanical floral from the same line.
2025: Pick n' Mix
Completed quilt top August 31, 2025
Audiobooks: The Edge – David Baldacci
This pattern was published in the June 2025 issue of American Patchwork & Quilting. It is a very simple design; I used my mid-century fabrics which gives the quilt an energetic and nostalgic vibe that brings back memories of vintage kitchens and cheerful gatherings. Yes, I am a member of the Baby Boomer generation!
2025: Red and Gold Churn Dash
Quilt top completed June 2, 2025
Audiobooks: The Diamond Eye – Kate Quinn
I have been wanting to make a red and yellow quilt for some time when this pattern showed up in my magazine. The Designer Challenge pattern for the June 2024 issue was a simple churn dash. In Joanna’s version, she turned the triangle-square corners around to make it look like a circle. I pulled out my red and yellow stash and worked up a beautiful lap quilt.
Monday, October 6, 2025
2025: Butterscotch Baskets
Audiobooks: All the Colors of the Dark – Chris Whitaker
A Calamity of Souls – David Baldacci
The Day Shelly Woodhouse Woke Up –
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
The Beekeeper of Aleppo – Christy Lefteri
Brain Damage – Freida McFadden
Person (Jack Reacher) – Lee Childs
Sundays at Tiffany’s – James Patterson
The Other Einstein – Marie Benedict
A Week in Winter – Maeve Binchy
I got myself and a friend in trouble with this BOM. Offered by Stitchin’ Heaven from Texas, I just could not let this one pass me by. And neither could my California partner in crime.
2025: Dealers Choice, A Brown Bag Mystery 2025
Designed by Karen Montgomery of Nine-Patch-A-Day Facebook page
Evvie Drake Starts Over – Linda Holmes
Personal (Jack Reacher) – Lee Childs
The Other Einstein – Marie Benedict
The Once and Future Witches – Alix E. Harrow
I have explained in several other Brown Bag Mystery Quilt (BBMQ) posts how this mystery works, but to refresh: I choose a brown bag, which is stapled shut, and a strip of fabric is attached to the handle of the bag. Other than that little hint, I have no clue what the fabrics will look like, and no clue as to what the pattern will be. All I get for instructions are what and how to cut the fabric. That’s it. Clues are sent every two weeks over several weeks beginning in March.
This year I discovered the bags at The Christmas Goose booth at the 2025 Cedar Chest Quilters Guild Annual Retreat in Cedar City, Utah! I was so excited about the mystery quilt and explained to my friends how it worked. The next day they all bought a bag!!! Must warn this shop we will be looking for bags at the next retreat in February 2026!!
I chose a strip of fall colors on a black background that looked like a batik. To my surprise, this quilt has a black background, something I have never done before. It is very colorful with orange, teal, and deep wine. Fabrics are “I Dream in Color” by Jason Yenter, “Shadow Blush for Quilters,” and Basic Grey Grunge by Moda in dark charcoal. I decided not to add a border on this one.
2025: Civil War Mini Quilt Sew Along 2025
Designed by Kathleen Tracy (not my sister-in-law!)
Personal (Jack Reacher) – Lee Childs
2025: Civil War Stars with Fence Rails
Designed by American Patchwork & Quilting at allpeoplequilt.com.
Audiobooks: Personal (Jack Reacher) by Lee Child
I purchased this kit on a shopping trip to Meeting House Fabrics. I was drawn to the simplicity of the pattern made with reproduction fabrics.
2025: Andromeda
Designed by Melissa Corry
This was a quilt class at the 2025 Cedar Chest Quilters’ Guild Annual Retreat in Cedar City, Utah in February 2025. Because this is a contemporary pattern, I decided to use more modern prints. As I thought about the look I wanted, I asked my son what he envisioned his house to look like eventually. He described a clean industrial look, much like the house my fellow quilters stayed in at the retreat. I combed a quilt shop in California for the fat quarters I needed and found the perfect background fabric at one of my “local” quilt shops. I chose a wide back of maps of the world. The result is a clean, unfussy quilt in neutrals.
2025: Simple Whatnots IV Mystery Stitch-Along by Kim Diehl
Completed top February 22, 2025
Audiobooks:
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
2025: From the Linen Cupboard Mystery Quilt 2024 BOM
Completed quilt top January 11, 2025
Audiobooks:
The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by Laura Pearson
A Killer in King’s Cove by Iona Wishaw
The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir by Jennifer Ryan
The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff
An Elderly Lady is up to No Good by Helene Tursten
Never Go Back (Jack Reacher) by Lee Child
All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Eruption by Michael Chrichton and James Patterson
Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness

















