Last Finish of 2025

Before we rang in the New Year 2026, I was able to finish this Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) Windmills quilt from blocks made this year. It was my 31st quilt finish of the year, of which 7 were Rainbow Scrap quilts. There were probably many more, though, if you count the number of string blocks I made and added to existing fabric squares or single-colored quilts (looking at you, green) when the color-of the month produced enough scraps to warrant its very own quilt right then and there. 

Let’s start with Windmills, though, and work backwards. or in the order that Blogger decides to load them. 

Windmills finished at 48x56”. My bestie Ruby quilted it on her longarm for me when it was still early days after my knee replacement surgery. I don’t think the pattern is too visible here, but it’s a bit easier to see in the photos below. It’s a sort of squareish meander.

I loved being able to use this Tula Pink teacups print for the back, but had to supplement it with a bit of green. That’s OK to me - just that much more fabric gone. 

The previous RSC quilt I showed last week was Weathervanes. Sorry for the bad picture. This was also made from blocks sewn in 2025. Weathervanes was 48x60”.

Paint Chips, my own design, was the third and final quilt I sewed from 2025 RSC blocks. I used 2.5” squares or 2.5x4.5” rectangles to randomly sew these blocks. Actually, I’m not sure if they look more like paint chips or some sort of audio noise scale. Whatever. Another quilt that measured 48x56”.

And two of my favorite finishes this year were never given the dignity of even a meager photo when they were finished. But I do have photos of them basted. Both were the Little Bricks pattern from Sylvia at Treadlestitches. 

Both of these Little Bricks quilts, like all the others shown here today except Weathervanes, were donated to Quilts for Kids, Salt Lake City Chapter. The Little Bricks blocks were blocks made during 2022.

And who could forget the Rainbow Candy blocks? LOL - well, I did for a year or two. But these 2023 RSC blocks were finally made into two quilts in 2025. 

Both quilts were sashed with the most fabulous multi-colored print I bought on clearance at Hancock’s of Paducah and measured 42x 52.

I still have at least four sets of past years’ RSC blocks to complete into quilting tops; night flying geese, split nine-patch, and some bordered economy blocks. The fourth set is one I’m carrying over from last year - the little Switchplate blocks. To those, I am adding the Broken Wheel block, the Gameboard block, and my usual strings and crumb blocks. 

The January color for the RSC has been called as blue. I’m still sorting scraps and don’t have anything to show. In the mountain of blue scraps, though, I did discover 28 blocks cut at 6.5”. I will use those in an all-blue little quilt this month, alternating them with simple blue scrappy 6.5” blocks. I’m cutting alternate block parts now; 9-patches, rail fence, and other simple standard blocks. Going where the scrap sizes and colors lead. I’ll share that in the next week or two.

We’ve made it to 2026 folks. After the hellacious year that was 2025, that is no small accomplishment. I wish you all nothing but good health and happiness - and lots of fun, relaxing sewing time - in 2026.

Linking to Rainbow Scrap Challenge and the first Scrappy Saturday of 2026. Come and see everyone’s lovely quilts on display!