Wednesday, July 2, 2025

The Guest Blogger(s) - Vol. 60 - Debbie Goes to the Beach

Welcome to Volume 60 of The Guest Blogger(s)!!  Yesterday, I received an email from Debbie M., one of my Get Messy Art membership friends.  She's been busy with her TABLE SCRAPS Challenge inspired the Life's a Beach prompt for the June TABLE SCRAPS Challenge.

Here is what she had to say about it...

Here is my June challenge piece. This piece was so fun.  I used to live near the Hollywood, Florida beach.  We spent every minute we could enjoying our time on the beach.  The quilt piece is going to spend the summer on my dining room table.

I replied:

Super cute, Debbie! What a great reminder of your time spent in Florida.

Here's the accompanying photo that Debbie sent:



Give Debbie some quilty love in the comments below.  I'm SEW happy to share her appliqued entry with all of you.  I know that you enjoy seeing her work as much as I do!  Thank you for sending the photo for the blog, Debbie.  It's lovely to be able to post your project (and anyone else's without a blog.)  Quilters are always looking for ways to USE the scraps from our cutting tables!

Link Party REMINDER...

The June 2025 Link Party opened on  Friday, June 27th @ 12:01 AM.  There's still time for YOU to join the scrappy fun!  Small projects are quick and entries can be added until Wednesday, July 2nd @ 11:59 PM (EDT).

Until next time...
USE those (table) SCRAPS!!!

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Spring 2025 (Ravelry) UFO Club - The Results

Welcome to another edition of Tidy Up Tuesday here at The Joyful Quilter!!  I'm coming to you with a quarterly report on a 15 year venture within the Quilters Knitting group on Ravelry.  Since I'm the coordinator of the UFO Club, I like to reveal updates here on the blog, as it's the very reason for my blog's existence.  The program has resulted in more than 800 UFO finishes in the last 5 years and nearly 2000 UFO finishes since its inception 15 years ago!  YOU are welcome to participate, as well.  (Find details for membership at the bottom of this post.)

The SPRING 2025 UFO Club is now CLOSED!!  Participants MUST have listed (at least) FIVE projects. Photos should have accompany the list.  Sign-ups ended at midnight EDT on April 7, 2025.

NOTE:  All qualifying finishes must have been posted BEFORE midnight EDT on June 30, 2025!!!

Membership (29):
basketcase9702: 2 completed projects
tallgrasscrafter: 2 completed projects
GirlReaction
fairfaxknitter: 2 completed projects
amalberti
monicarose51
Cindiknits
doris7264: 4 completed projects
peregrineknit
dzirin: 2 completed projects
Momma2abunch: 2 completed projects
Lallison79
gathersnomoss: 1 completed project
siberspinner
djaquilter
tjsayers: 2 completed projects
BethCtoo
MissCarlotta: 2 completed projects
amayzingrace: 5 completed projects
spyndragon
WildcardFiber
robobeagle: 4 completed projects
MorganLaFey
statsgeek: 7 completed projects
Stacy
aerieiris
sk2p
montricot: 2 completed projects
bookwormdjibouti

Session Totals: 13 quilters have completed 37 projects

Congratulations to Statsgeek who completed SEVEN (7) projects during the term our Rock Star this time around. Congrats also to Momma2abunch who earned the title of Queen of the Last Minute with her two finishes posted mere hours before the deadline. 

Thank you to all of our participants and to those who cheered us along! We truly appreciate the support. Congratulations to all of our finishers and hopefully those of you who weren't able to complete a project were pleased with whatever progress you were able to achieve!

My contributions to that total???

TWO (2) donation quilts for my local quilt guild's community outreach programs.

The Big RED Race Quilt:

40" x 47"

And...

Short Track RED Race Quilt:

40" x 43"

REMINDER...

The Summer 2025 (Ravelry) UFO Club is OPEN for sign-ups at THIS LINK YOU are invited join in the finishing fun.  Members must list 5 (or more) projects for participation. Sign-ups will close at Midnight (EDT) on Monday, July 7th!  Please drop me an email, if you find that you need help with the process.  (Join Ravelry. Join the Quilters Knitting group, go the UFO Club discussion thread and state your intentions for participation.)

Until next time...
Mark another UFO off the list!!!