At the end of every year, I like to look back at the quilts I’ve finished. I do this over several posts. In this post, I’m looking back at the smaller quilts I’ve finished this year. This includes anything from minis to larger wall quilts.
Have a great day!
The top is done and ready for quilting! My goal is to finish this before the end of the year.
I always have great ideas for quilting, until I get a quilt on the frame and then it all flies out of my head.
Ugh! The clock is ticking!
Have a great day!
At the end of every year, I like to look back at the quilts I’ve finished. I do this over several posts. This is the first post taking stock of the hand quilting I’ve done.
I only hand quilted three big quilts last year, but this first one required a lot of hand piecing as well, so I’m happy with that. I started piecing these vintage GFG blocks together at least 25 years ago so it is a particularly sweet finish.
This top was purchased at a local antique mall. I finished it with a pastel variegated crochet thread with a big stitch. I love how it turned out!
This last one was a Facebook Marketplace find. The top had been minimally quilted at a later date. I took it apart and requilted it.
We shall see how much I get done this year. Have a great day!
This was on my UFO list for this past year and I really want it finished before the New Year.
Little by little, it’s taking shape.
Looking at photos always makes me wish I could go back and move blocks around. I know, I still can, but I hate ripping!
Wish me luck and have a good one!
I finished quilting the Churn Dash and I’m on to the binding!
I decided to use up some leftover binding pieces and make it scrappy.
I did much of the hand stitching over Christmas while watching movies. Hubby had two surgeries last week, so our holiday was pretty low key.
Someone asked how I resolved the border corners with this quilting design. I’ve done different things in the past, but this time, I just ran the design off the edges at the top and bottom.
I hope this makes sense.
Have a great day!
Here is another one to cross off the UFO list!
Once again, the quilting made all the difference.
My continuous curve in the hexies is not great, but it hardly shows. The parallel lines in the background really puts the emphasis on the hexies.
I love doing this border treatment as well. Here is the back.
And….oops….looks like I missed a few spots.
I was on the fence about the green, but I’m glad I went with it.
And here it is hanging in my hall.
Have a great day!
Hope of all hopes, dream of our dreams,
a child is born, sweet-breathed; a son is given to us: a living gift.
And even now, with tiny features and dewy hair, He is great.
The power of leadership, and the weight of authority, will rest on His shoulders.
His name? His name we’ll know in many ways—
He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Dear Father everlasting, ever-present never-failing,
Master of Wholeness, Prince of Peace.
His leadership will bring such prosperity as you’ve never seen before—
sustainable peace for all time.
This child: God’s promise to David—a throne forever, among us,
to restore sound leadership that cannot be perverted or shaken.
He will ensure justice without fail and absolute equity. Always.
The intense passion of the Eternal, Commander of heavenlyarmies,
will carry this to completion
Isaiah 9:6-7 The Voice
Merry Christmas! I thank you for your friendship.
I did the bare minimum as far as decorating this year. We celebrated with Daughter #1 and her family yesterday. I took these pics before they arrived.
I wasn’t going to put up a tree, but I decided at the last minute that I would put this small one.
Years ago, Daughter #3 helped me make the paper ornaments from pages of an old damaged book. I still love them.
I love to hang my stockings, one for each member of the family. I still need to get the newest one embroidered for our new daughter in love.
And that’s it! I’m rather enjoying the simplicity of it all.
Have a Merry Christmas and forget not that Jesus is the reason for this season.
It took me forever to figure out how to quilt this! But I’m finally making progress. I started with this….
But then I doubled up.
Much better.
I tried many different ideas for the blocks and ended up with a crosshatch. Nearly everything is rulerwork, except for the cornerstones. It’s slow going, but beginning is half done!
Have a great day!
After a lot of playing around, I finally got a bit of direction. Hmmm…. I like this.
So I played around the old fashioned way with paper and pencil.
And I think I’ve found another solid that will work better.
Stay tuned. Have a great day!
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