Okay, good I know I said I was signing off for a few, but I uncovering myself way ahead of where I sentiment I would last amongst our preparations, too thus I accept fourth dimension to bring together inwards the Best of 2019 linky party hosted past times Meadow Mist Designs.
The political party has already started, too you lot know how I loathe to last left out, thus here's my contribution. I decided to await commencement at the posts that received the close comments. From those, I tried to selection around that were illustration of my favorite things: cats, quilting, embroidery, cooking, photography, travel, too gardening...not necessarily inwards that order. Here's what I came upwardly with:
1. End of the Hop. Heading way dorsum to January, this postal service combined go too quilt shops. I simply dear a expert quilt shop, don't you? I'd visited many quilt shops before getting an sentiment to start collecting prints from each store that represented something going on inwards our travels, or else the house nosotros were traveling to. After collecting them for many years, I sewed them all into a quilt called "Shop Hop." This postal service was written when I'd finished the end row of shops. The quilt is withal inwards the Quilts-to-be-Quilted pile, but I'm hoping to teach it finished old inwards 2020.
2. Every Blooming Thing inwards the Desert. We were really fortunate to teach downward to southern California too witness a super bloom inwards the Anza-Borrego Desert. This postal service combined go too photography. The flowers were stunning. Super blooms are somewhat rare, too nosotros timed our trip perfectly for this one.
3. Circling is around other go too photography related post, but there's around kitty activeness hither too. We celebrated our May birthdays amongst a trip to Bandon, Oregon, to run into the Circles inwards the Sand event. It goes on all summertime inwards Oregon whenever the tide is low. There was thus much to run into on this trip, too nosotros actually enjoyed this piddling birthday getaway.
4. A Big Finish was perchance my favorite complete of the year. My boy Matthew traveled to Republic of Guatemala before inwards 2019 too came dwelling amongst around beautiful hand-woven fabrics. I worked feverishly to complete this quilt for him. The fabrics were his gift to me, but the joy of textile is inwards the making too the giving. When I pose it to him that way, he was happy to teach this quilt from fabrics he chose himself. It's a overnice memento of his trip to Guatemala.
5. Heavy Lifting. This end postal service got a lot of comments, too thus I've included it. It variety of covers the gamut of kitties, cooking, gardening, canning, too flowers. We dug out an overgrown iris bed too thus built a novel raised bed for around peonies. I've wanted peonies inwards the garden since ii houses ago. This side past times side spring, I'm hoping I volition accept some. Maybe inwards my overstep 5 for side past times side year, I'll last able to present you lot around blooming peonies. They've been given a beautiful house to grow, too thus fingers crossed for a big bloom inwards the spring.
There is withal much to create to teach laid upwardly for our trip. Now I'm dorsum to non blogging for a twenty-four lx minutes menses or two. Unless I do.