My finished quilts for 2025 are few and far between. That will change for 2026 for I am currently working on seven quilts, including mug rugs and a few wall hangings. Next year is shaping up to be a banner year.
But what I didn't accomplish in volume, I did in SIZE.
My first set of finishes were all part of this year's Project Quilting: three post cards, a pair of bowl cozies, an apron (that I love), and a wall hanging. I worked on these a week at a time between my big, king-sized project...
It was fun using up my grey and black pieces. Then the lone star
quilt took on a life of its own and I had to curtail my designs lest it get too
big to hang on the wall! I'm now trying to figure out how to finish the
corners without introducing yet another fabric. How many diamonds or
partial diamonds do I need? And how to square it? This is the
drawback of designing a scrappy quilt as you stitch it together.
Another year of blogging my adventures. Fifteen!?!
It was a quiet year - I had one big quilting project, not a lot of foster guinea pigs and some of health issues. All those things slowed down my writing topics.
Regardless... I managed to have plenty of good times with family and friends (I love you all), got out dancing (whee!), snorgled a few piggies (when can I foster baby piggies again?), and finished Winter Stars (huzzah!). I even worked on the Drapes of Doom! I am so lucky to get to do the things I do.
Thanks for reading (I'm always surprised when someone comes up to me and says "I saw that on your blog"). I appreciate the comments! I look forward to another year of sharing stories.
Merry Christmas! All sorts of things to share with LeeAnna's I Like Thursday.
Winter piggies! I fostered these two in the beginning of the year and took these pictures expecting they'd be last year's holiday cards. However, their photos where set aside when I had those stinking cute Rice Crispy boys later in the year. How nice to share these guys with you now.
I don't quite have enough batting on my design walls to completely lay out what I'm working on. It's kind of a jumble.
Case in point - there's only enough room to put up half of the lone star. But it's enough to get a feel for what it will look like. I'll use up all my remaining grey and black triangles (converted to diamonds) and will actually have to cut some additional diamonds. At this point I'm debating how big to make it and how to finish off the star. Wall hanging or throw quilt? We'll see...
I'm starting to make a dent on my leftovers of Winter Stars. Oddly enough, the one project is growing into three.
I had to scale down my original design for lack of triangle and diamond pieces. Instead of nine stars I'm down to four. Currently I'm playing with border designs before I stitch the four blocks together.
I've spent the last week or so making stacks of 2, 3 and 4-inch squares as well as stitching together lots of crumbs from a year's worth of sewing projects. Much of that was from Winter Stars. I made a nice stack of crumb pieces simply from that quilt's fabric.
