With this post, I'll sign off for a few days. I'd hoped to practice around sewing yesterday, but slow-stitching the newest snowflake was the exclusively sewing I was able to accomplish. The residue of the 24-hour interval was spent cleaning up, doing laundry, undecorating, as well as creating lists. Also, I spent around fourth dimension going through our maps, tour books, hiking books, as well as nation folders, organizing them for our upcoming trip. The side past times side several days volition last spent much the same way, packing food, cleaning out refrigerators, packing clothes, grocery shopping, as well as the listing goes on. There won't last much that's moving icon worthy or worth telling. I'm guessing your days volition last spent doing around of those things too. Instead, I'll practice my annual twelvemonth inwards review.
In Jan of 2019, at that topographic point were 22 projects on my listing of WIPs. Dec of 2019 volition destination amongst 25 on the list. You'd recall amongst 32 quilts finished during 2019, my numbers would last better, but that's the hapless truth of it. Many of the WIPs on the listing only require quilting as well as binding, as well as and thus mayhap 2020 volition destination upwardly amongst fewer unfinished projects. Many of the quilts finished during 2019 were also started during 2019. Many were modest quilts made for challenges as well as swaps, but a few were rather large quilts started as well as finished every bit exceptional requests for menage unit of measurement as well as friends. With that picayune intro, hither are the quilts that were finished inwards 2019:
Going Bananas
a charity quilt for Quilts for Kids
started 11/24/18 as well as finished 1/9/19
38 x 44 inches
Threads of Hope
master blueprint made for Project Quilting
Season Ten, Challenge #1 Theme: "Hope Springs Eternal"
from my favorite quotation past times William Shakespeare:
"True promise is swift as well as flies amongst swallows' wings."
xvi x 21 inches
started 1/9/19 as well as finished 1/11/19
thread painting, mitt embroidery, as well as gratis displace quilting
Lucky Charm
pattern adapted from Canoe Ridge Creations
started 3/17/18 as well as finished 1/13/19
traditional piecing as well as gratis displace quilting
22 x 22 inches
Let's RV
a cross-stitch pattern from Ursula Michael Designs
started 1/4/19 as well as finished 1/20/19
12 x 17.5 inches
Feathers as well as Flurries
pattern is Tweety's Snowflake past times Wendy Butler Berns
Season Ten, Challenge #2 Theme: Red, White, as well as Blue
12.5 x xiv inches
started 1/20/19 as well as finished 1/21/19
fusible applique as well as gratis displace quilting
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Alley Cat Quilt Guild
a modest quilt from Alley Cat Tales
fusible applique as well as traditional piecing
free displace quilting
started 12/16/18 as well as finished 1/24/19
Pawtrait of Cricket
a modest wall-hanging of my grandkitten
fusible applique
started 1/26/19 as well as finished 2/4/19
xiv x 17.5 inches
Muskcat Love
pattern is Cat Butt Valentine Banner from Orange Bettie
Season Ten, Challenge #3 Theme: Bigger than a Breadbox
eighteen x xvi inches
started 2/3/19 as well as finished 2/5/19
fusible applique as well as gratis displace quilting
Emerald Isle
a tabular array runner adapted from
Little Bits of This & That (free pattern)
quilt every bit you lot become project
started 1/24/19 as well as finished 2/6/19
17 x 38 inches
Cupcake
blueprint inspiration from Melissa at Make it Yours
Season Ten, Challenge #4 Theme: Pixel Play
21 x 17 inches
started 2/18/19 as well as finished 2/19/19
traditional piecing as well as straight-line auto quilting
Hocuspocusville
pattern past times Meg Hawkey of Crabapple Hill Studios
started 7/6/15 as well as finished 2/24/19
mitt embroidery as well as gratis displace quilting
68 x 68 inches
L is for Love
pattern from Ellis as well as Higgs
Season Ten, Challenge #5 Theme: Abecedasius
24 x 28 inches
started 3/4/19 as well as finished 3/7/19
traditional piecing as well as gratis displace quilted on my domestic machine
Flamingles
from an master photograph
using the technique of Ruth McDowell
started 5/17/18 as well as finished 3/19/19
42 x 36.5 inches
Stitched Inchies Sampler
created past times Meg Hawkey for National Embroidery Month 2019
mitt embroidered as well as mitt quilted
started 2/1/19 as well as finished 4/1/19
10.5 x 11.5 inches
Bunny Garden
wall-hanging from Lynette Anderson
started 2/27/19 as well as finished 4/11/19
mitt embroidery, traditional piecing, auto quilting
xiii x xiv inches
Rainbow Jubilee
pattern is Jubilee Lap Quilt from
the Black as well as White, Bright as well as Bold book past times Kim Shaefer
traditional piecing as well as gratis displace quilting
61 x 81 inches
started 4/8/18 as well as finished 4/13/19
Cardinal Mosaic
started 10/10/18 as well as finished 5/24/19
traditional piecing, mitt applique, as well as gratis displace quilting
41 x 41 inches
Heart as well as Home
Pattern past times Robin Kingsley, Bird Brain Designs
started 11/15/17 as well as finished 6/20/19
mitt embroidery as well as gratis displace quilting
48 x 48 inches
Pawtrait of Clementine
a modest wall-hanging of my other grandkitten
completed 6/23-29/19
fusible applique, gratis displace quilting as well as gratis displace embroidery
xiv x 14.5 inches
When Life Gives You Scraps
mitt embroidery started 3/11/19 as well as finished 7/2/19
mitt embroidery as well as gratis displace quilting
xiii x fifteen inches
Solstice to Solstice
a challenge quilt from Pat Sloan
started 12/16/16 as well as finished 7/16/19
traditional piecing as well as gratis displace quilting
86 x 86 inches
Beach Hut
pattern from Patch Abilities
started as well as finished 7/21-23/19
fusible applique, traditional piecing, auto embroidery
half dozen x 12 inches
Sew with a Merry Heart
pattern from Jenny of Elefantz
started as well as finished 7/21-29/19
mitt embroidery, traditional piecing, auto quilting
8 x xi inches
Bakkery
upcycled mug carpeting from a pouch that contained staff of life mix
from Erick Schat's Bakkery inwards Bishop, California
8 x 11
Quiltemala
made from hand-woven fabrics my boy brought from Guatemala
from a pattern inwards the majority past times Kim Schaefer
Black as well as White, Bright as well as Bold.
started 5/22/19 as well as finished 8/7/19
traditional piecing, gratis displace quilting
84 x 64 inches
"Z" is for Zebra
pattern past times Tartankiwi
18.5 x 18.5 inches
started 7/22/19 as well as finished 8/9/19
paper-pieced as well as gratis displace quilted
Modern Teal
a mug carpeting for my partner inwards the Teal Mini Swap
a fundraiser for ovarian cancer research
nine x 8 inches
quilt-as-you-go
started as well as finished 8/9-10/19
"U" is for Unicorn
pattern from Robynie.com
17 x 17 inches
paper-pieced as well as gratis displace quilted
started as well as finished 8/12-14/19
Home Sweet Home 2.0
pattern past times Bird Brain Designs
10 x 17 inches
mitt embroidered as well as straight-line quilted
started as well as finished 8/11-26/19
Wine Country
vintage embroidery transfers from Aunt Martha
mitt embroidery as well as gratis displace quilting
started 5/25/16 as well as finished 10/23/19
58 x 73 inches
It's Raining Cats as well as Dogs
a pattern past times Bunny Hill Designs
started 12/12/13 as well as finished 11/27/19
fusible applique as well as gratis displace quilting
55 x 62 inches
Semper Fi
started 10/23/19 as well as finished 12/11/19
89 x 102 inches
traditional piecing, gratis displace quilting
So ends this quilter's 2019.
I'm taking enough of projects along on our trip, as well as and thus at that topographic point volition last around progress made on those pesky WIP's. It's sometimes difficult to practice much sewing though since everything has to last dragged out as well as lay away inwards the same day. It agency nosotros require to last stationary for a few days amongst no sight-seeing on the agenda. Traveling along amongst us volition last a zip-lock pocketbook of one-half foursquare triangles, a few kits I've had for a long time, as well as around smaller projects already started. In other words, I'll cause got enough of sewing to popular off on me busy during idle hours.
Matthew volition last staying at the job solid spell we're gone, as well as that ever gives us peace of mind. Our travels volition cause got us S as well as west...wherever it's warm as well as dry. We'll caput out on Sunday, as well as you lot should withdraw heed from me in ane lawsuit to a greater extent than soon later that. I'd tell happy novel year, but I'll last checking inwards in ane lawsuit to a greater extent than earlier that. In the meantime, I promise all your Christmas wishes cause got come upwardly true. I'll last dorsum inwards a few.