Herringbone Quilt Finished!

It has taken longer than I'd hoped, but I finally have my first finished quilt of 2026! This is my Herringbone baby quilt.

Herringbone baby quilt

38.5" x 45"

For the second year in a row, our quilt guild is having a UFO (UnFinished Object) Challenge. Last year we could work on whichever project(s) we chose each month, but this year we each turned in a numbered list, and a number is assigned as the project to be finished by the next meeting. I was very happy when #8 was pulled at the January meeting, because I've been eager to finish this little quilt.

Herringbone quilt center before borders

The center of my quilt was assembled in July of 2024 as part of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Our color of the month was aqua, and I decided to pull out all of my scraps in the blue-green family, aqua, teal, and turquoise, plus some accents of lime green. These are my favorite colors for quilting, and my stash reflects that preference. My pattern was inspired by the design on a box of Kleenex!

My UFO goal for this year was to add a border to the quilt center, then get it quilted and bound, and those steps have all been done. I'm happy with the way the border mimics the angles of the quilt center, and I was pleasantly surprised by how well the mitered corners turned out.

Making scrappy quilts like this one is always a wonderful trip down memory lane as I revisit my fabric scraps. This quilt has some fabrics that date back to my early days of quilting in the late 1990's, and they look great next to more modern fabrics.

I almost forgot to include a photo of the back. I love these beautiful prints, but wasn't having much luck finding a way to use them in a quilt top. They worked out perfectly for the back of the Herringbone quilt.

The quilting is very simple, with stitch-in-the-ditch in white along the seams of the quilt center. For the border, I decided to practice free-motion quilting straight lines along the seams with a ruler in order to avoid the constant turning that would have been necessary otherwise. They're not all perfectly straight, but I did get much more comfortable with the ruler by the end.

I'll be taking this quilt to share at the guild meeting today, which is also when we will find out the number for our next UFO project. I hope it's another small quilt, because the next month is going to be a busy one.

I'm  linking up with:

Wednesday Wait Loss at Inquiring Quilter

Needle and Thread Thursday at My Quilt Infatuation

Finished or Not Friday at Alycia Quilts

Brag About Your Beauties at From Bolt to Beauty

 Rainbow Scrap Challenge at So Scrappy

Oh Scrap! at Quilting is more fun than Housework

Happy quilting everyone!

Julie in GA