Channeling my inner coffee bean: Be strong and full of flavor ☕️💪
Happy Monday morning!!! Welcome to Monday Musings! Wow, can y’all believe it’s the LAST MONDAY of 2025? Where did the year go? It seems yesterday we were wishing each other a happy New Year, and here we are again!! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. It was in the 70s here on Christmas day and most of the week, and now today it’s rainy with a high of 44 – tomorrow the temp will be lower. Crazy mixed up weather! LOL 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 12/22 – 12/28/25:
- Begin piecing Secret Quilt #3. DONE!! I’m about half way through with the piecing.
- Christmas – cooking and fun!! DONE!! We had a lovely time and sooooo much food. I tell myself each year I need to make less, but somehow I never do. I guess that’s just a southern thing. Growing up my mom always cooked a lot because invariably someone unexpected would be sitting down at our table with us. It seems each year we get the same requests. I made sweet potato casserole, corn casserole, macaroni and cheese, cornbread dressing, squash casserole, and a gingerbread cake. Chicken Legs fried turkey breasts, did the ham, and baked his mom’s famous chocolate pies. We had a great lunch and the kids came back Friday night and ate again…and we STILL have food left. It goes in the garbage today! We got a family photo and my what a difference in the one from four years ago!
- Whatever suits my fancy. DONE!! I did get a gingerbread snow globe ornament made for my daughter’s stocking as they had a candy themed tree this year. And, I made a cute ITH Christmas Envelope to hold a Christmas gift for M’s fella. Two days of cooking wore me out so I vegged out the rest of the weekend.
Plans for the week of 12/29/25 – 1/4/26:
- Finish stitching Secret Quilt #3 into a flimsy!
- Hopefully get started quilting the three catalog quilts.
- Whatever cranks my tractor!
Here is some quilty inspiration shared last week!
I apologize for not making it to all the blogs last week. It was another busy week with cooking and cleaning and visiting. Here are all the entries from last week, if you would like to visit the posts!
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 just two short 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 December (will follow soon!):
– The Basic of the Month is Sparkle Elements by Art Gallery
– The Notion of the Month is Cutterpillar products
– The Book of the Month is Simply Jelly Rolls Quilt Book
– The Patterns of the Month is Wendy Sheppard Patterns
– The Cross Stitch Sale of the Month is Picture This Plus Cross Stitch Cloths
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!
I wish you and your family a wonderful, healthy, and prosperous New Year!
Have a wonderful quilty week and a Blessed New Year. Until next time…
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I enjoyed following your blog last year and I’m really looking forward this year’s SAHRR and seeing what else you make in 2026 🙂
Hi Brenda. I’m so happy I had time to link up this week. It’s nice to hear of your Christmas and see the photos of the family. What a difference time makes, but everyone looks happy and full of joy being together. Thank you for hosting us on Monday Musings and for joining us on To Do Tuesday. Happy New Year to you and yours.
Hi Brenda, this family fotos are fantastic. For you and your loveones a healthy and good new year! You did a great great job for designing the logo for the SAHRR 2026. It will be fun to be part of it again. If my fabrics I need will be delivered in time. We will see. .
You have a beautiful family Brenda. The grands sure did change, but the rest of you look the same.
Lovely family pic. You don’t look a bit different from the previous one. I can’t imagine all the cooking you did! Lucky for us our kids have taken over the hosting duties for T-day and Christmas. We all bring dishes so no one has to cook for days! (Unless they want to!) On to the exciting new year! May it treat you well.
Thank you, Bonnie! We haven’t relinquished to our kiddos yet. They still enjoy coming, so we will keep it up, though it is very tiring! LOL Have a wonderful New Year!
Happy New Year!!! Love the picture with the cups with words. Idea came to mine that it can be made into a beautiful wall hanging!!!
Love your family photos, boy how your grands have grown! You have a lovely family. Have a happy New Year Brenda!
Thank you so much, Linda! They have really grown. It’s hard to believe those boys will be 14 tomorrow!! Happy New Year to you and your family, Linda!