I do for the most part use my work days working on customer quilts and often continued on during the evenings as I do enjoy longarm quilting a lot!
Truth be told, I pretty much love every aspect of quilting and have from the time I first discovered quilting as a child.
Quilting is definitely a passion of mine. So as I was finding myself feeling a little frustrated that my personal projects were often left to the wayside and after mentioning that to a very prolific quilting friend of mine. I made a change.
She initially suggested carving out an hour a day just for my own piecing. I followed her advice and once I started allowing myself me time, my frustration disappeared and I began to see progress!
Not only was I able to reach the victory lap stage on my postage stamp quilt. (I always like to stitch a 1/8” stay stitch around the perimeter of my quilt tops that have piecing on the edges)
I was also able to make headway on my Small World quilt.
The biggest change that I made was to allow myself to piece in the evenings, not all evenings but enough.
Every evening for the last week or so I have worked on this project.
And last night I put the final seam in the piecing of the top. Once I trim it I will be ready to add the victory lap and photograph the top.
There is an additional reason that I wanted to reach this point in my piecing…I was a little generous with myself with birthday gifts to myself and I am itching to start these new projects along with a couple more projects…
June seems to have flown by! It’s my most favourite month of the year, I love all of the extra daylight we northern people are gifted with.
Speaking of being northern people I have another quilter that I love following. Her blog is definitely worth visiting if you enjoy quilting, learning about quilting and scrap quilting! She lives in Finland.
I enjoyed this post of hers this morning…
https://tilkunviilaaja.blogspot.com/2026/06/101-things-you-probably-did-not-know-about-quilting.html
There are often posts on social media about the quilt police and while I agree that we should encourage and cheer each other on in our quilting journeys, I also think that we should kindly share information about techniques and reasons behind them that help new quilters find success in their projects.
On the life side of things, I continue to work on what I called project Wendy. I have shifted some of my time on the treadmill to outside walks again and my bike is back on the road!
Wendy’s Quilting and Life 