If you are not coffee, chocolate or bacon, I’m going to need you to go away. ☕️😜
Happy Monday morning!!! Welcome to Monday Musings! Whew, seems like we blinked and poof, another year is gone! I hope you all had a wonderful New Year’s Day. It’s been gray and drizzly here several days this week, although fairly warm for this time of year. If it’s cold where you are…y’all stay warm and toasty and keep on stitching! Now let’s move on to the good stuff!!
Here’s how my story ended for the week of 12/29 – 1/4/26:
- Finish stitching Secret Quilt #3 into a flimsy! DONE!! And, the flimsy is on the frame and half-way quilted! Binding has been cut for it, but not sewn together yet.
- Hopefully get started quilting the three catalog quilts. DONE!! I will finish #1 today and start on #2 after backing is made.
- Whatever cranks my tractor! DONE!! On Friday we had lunch at my favorite Mexican restaurant with our daughter and the kiddos. The 30th our boys turned 14, and while this isn’t their birthday lunch, it was fun to hang out with them as they went to Nashville on Saturday for their birthday trip, to the Opryland Hotel Ice Show. We will celebrate them, hopefully this coming Saturday, weather permitting.
Plans for the week of 1/5/25 – 1/11/26:
- Make backing for Quilt #2 and get it quilted.
- Make backing for Quilt #3 and get it quilted.
- Bind all three quilts and send them on their merry way to California for catalog photographs.
- Begin work on my SAHRR quilt (see below for info!)
- Whatever suits my fancy.
Here is some quilty inspiration shared last week!
Thanks to everyone who linked up! If you want to know more about any of these, click through the links in the last Monday Musings post.
Now it’s your turn to link up projects you’re working on!
Guess what’s coming soon?? SAHRR 2026!! Check out Gail’s post about it HERE. Here is a schedule for when we will begin posting. Start thinking about your center block so you will be ready on January 14th. We’re going to have another fun year!
There will be one linky party each week. The person hosting for the week will host the party, but each cohost will also provide a link to that blog for you.
January 14: Each of the co-leaders will be sharing their centerblocks (you will have to visit each of their blogs to see them). Gail will host the first linky party where you can share your center block.
January 21: 1st Round: Brenda @ Songbird Designs
January 28: 2nd Round: Kathleen @ Kathleen McMusing
February 4: 3rd Round: Emily @ The Darling Dogwood
February 11: 4th Round: Wendy @ Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life
February 18: 5th Round: ME!!! @ Quilting Gail
February 25: 6th Round: Anja @ Anja Quilts
March 25: Parade: showing all of your finished SAHRRs!
We have some wonderful sponsors again this year, so begin thinking about your center block and get it ready for the 14th! That’s less than two weeks away!!
Shopping…in case you need some quilty goodness this month!
Electric Quilt: December 30 – January 5: Sitewide Happy New Year Sale! Customers save 26% on all products at ElectricQuilt.com with code HAPPY26. Classes and membership subscriptions are excluded from sales.
Sulky Threads and Stabilizers Sulky will have a New Year’s Eve Sew Along from 12pm – 4pm ET, a live streaming event to make a new style of bag, the Lamont. Sew a sling-style bag, complete with clip-on accessories made in the hoop of your embroidery machine. All digital files needed for in-the-hoop sewing are included with the class. Sign up for the class, and get your kit separately in four colorways everything you need to complete the project – fabric, thread, hardware, and stabilizer.
AccuQuilt: There are some great sales going on currently in the BOGO Sale. Check them out by clicking THIS link! Many of the dies are buy one get one, just click the link and use the code MERRYBOGO.
Specials at Fat Quarter Shop for the month of January
– The Basic of the Month: Tula Pink Essentials Solids
– The Notion of the Month: Mettler Threads
– The Book of the Month: Simply Retro with Camille Roskelley and The Bonnie & Camille Quilt Bee Quilt and Cross Stitch Book
– The Patterns of the Month: Thimble Blossoms
– The Cross Stitch Sale of the Month: Stitching with the Housewives
Check out ALL the sales at Fat Quarter Shop HERE! And HERE you can find the daily flash sale! FQS adds new specials each week, so be sure to check them out!
Have a wonderful quilty week. Until next time…
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Well these is no “OR’s about me. I am chocolate AND coffee AND bacon! So can I lean in hard to learn of the good things you are sharing here? I am looking forward to the SAHRR and your linky parties are definitely a draw. Thanks for the invite and happy new year.
Aww, thanks so much for the kind words, Kris! I’m right there with you on loving that trio of good things! So glad you are joining us for the SAHRR this year! Have a great week.
Aww Happy Birthday to the boys. They grow up way too fast. It sounds like they had a grand time going to Nashville. Looks like you have a busy week ahead of you. Wishing the best as you check off your list. Hugs
Thank you so much, Melisa!! Yes, those boys have definitely grown up WAAYY too fast!! Have a great week, friend. Hugs.
Happy New Year Brenda. Thank you for hosting us for another year of Monday Musings. It looks like you had a sewingly good time last week and Mexican for a lunch celebration is perfect.
I had to laugh at the opening statement – I might have said that to the people in my house this morning!
Lunch with your fam at a Mexican restaurant sounds wonderful. Hope the weather holds together long enough for your family to celebrate those 14-yo boys!
Oh, Linda, it was delicious! They make their own tortillas and chips and the chips are so thin and crisp! I always bring home a bag and some of their fresh salsa when we go! I’m hoping they aren’t tied up with something else on Saturday. These kids are always busy! LOL Have a great week.