Quilt News 2026, Hand Quilting My HST Medallion Quilt with Borders in Red, and Snowball Blocks with Sawtooth Borders Small Quilt, Scrap Piecing with Batiks, Winter Color

I'm piecing saturated batik scraps for hot pads for the kitchen.

HST Medallion hand quilted in Baptist Fan pattern.

My Snowball Blocks with Sawtooth Borders inspired by Farm & Folk Quilting.

The two unfinished hot pads, to the left and top, will soon have their binding sewn on.

My red Amaryllis with this year's blooms 2026.

 

 

Happy New Year!! 

Here in the valley we have freezing temperatures and sunny skies!

I've been hand quilting 2 projects, it keeps my hands 'in shape.' My HST Medallion Quilt with Borders in Red is hand quilted in Baptist Fan pattern, the center medallion. The borders are next up.

Also I'm handquilting my red and white Snowball Block Quilt with Sawtooth Borders in cross hatch. The design is inspired by Sara Larson Buscaglia's book Farm & Folk Quilt Alchemy page 127, Hand-Quilting Tool Roll. Sara made her Snowball Blocks into a tool roll. I used different colors for my version, red and white, and added a Sawtooth Border for a small art quilt for table or wall. Sara has an excellent Snowball Block tutorial on her blog.

Going through my scraps and leftovers I found some saturated batik fabric scraps and decided they would brighten up a kitchen and decided to use them for hot pads/mats. I put a layer of Insul-Bright in the middle plus two layers of batting for heat protection. Finishing piecing I started machine quilting them and will finish up with binding and then into the kitchen, they make good gifts too. My scraps are getting used up!!

And a photo of my Red Amaryllis 2026 blooms. It was not a sunny day for the photo but the blooms are still magnificent. 

That's the quilt news, I hope you're enjoying your winter and are managing to stay warm!

I'll be by to visit.