Project Quilting 17.1

The fun has begun with this week’s challenge:

“Your project should represent 2026 creativity starting from a clean slate. You get to interpret what that means. Start fresh, stay loose, and listen to your muses.”

If you click on the logo above it takes you to the post where Kim and Trish share the details and you can find the linky party

I sat at my sewing machine, working on an UFO from this past year, thinking of the challenge.

I thought of a clean slate and was looking at the shelves by my machine table when I spotted this:

I’m sure we all have items in our sewing spaces that have treasured memories attached to them. This mini quilt rack was gifted to me by one of my students. It had belonged to her Mom and each of the little quilts were from printed material.

I noticed the mini quilts were fading:

So I thought I’d start my year by giving my little quilt rack a refresh. One of my goals this year is to use up any leftover bits orphan blocks instead of adding them to the scrap bin.

I finished doing a pattern test for Kathryn Mykel of Dragonfly’s Quilt Design Studio a couple of weeks ago and had all of those pretty HST offcuts leftover.

So began a new goal for the year: have a clean slate after I finish a quilt, by making a little mini quilt for my sweet little quilt rack. It will remind me of my student, her mother and fun projects I finish as the year goes by.

I simply have to thank Kim and Trish for the fun challenge and causing me to do my second finish of 2026.

I enjoy project quilting challenges. They are a true example of DrEAMI (Drop Everything and Make It) or squirrel projects. It’s one time I refuse to even try to control Samantha, my inner squirrel. Instead I let Sam run rampant and follow where she leads when taking up a new Project Quilting Challenge.

Thank you for stopping to read my post. If you leave me a comment, I’ll be thrilled and do reply to each one. 😉 Carol

Linking with Kim and Trish on Project Quilting 17.1