Gone To The Beach: 01.07.2023

Saturday, January 7, 2023

Quilts and Projects 2022

Hi everyone! It's hard to believe that just a week ago was New Years Eve. Seems like the holidays were eons ago. We have been having grey but warm-ish weather all week, low winds too, most important weather factor here. My bones are hurting though, I think a cold front is lurking.

I've been looking back at quilting and other projects today, sorting through photo files. I always think quilt round up posts are a bit braggy, the Oh look at me, I made 5000 quilts this past year aspect, lol. But I find the posts are a useful tool when I'm searching for photos of projects, so here it my year, 2022. Low output, it was a less than fabulous year for me---poor vision and eye surgery in late January and long healing process; double vision never resolved. Then a flare up of extreme joint pain in May, which I thought was improving but on a day like today my optimism falters.

I made no large quilts from scratch. Finished/ almost finished two antique tops from eBay and FB Marketplace.

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Small quilts:

Tiny Trees, a late Christmas project finish.

Version two, Candy Cane Lane, made and not gifted to a tiny girl whose 2022 Christmas was cancelled by Covid. I love this , would like to make a full size version in these pastels.

Lori/ Humble Quilts antique orphan block challenge:

One finished,

One still in work:

TQC's handpiecing challenge quilt became my Zinnia Garden quilt. Hand pieced, hand quilted. Inspired by my deck garden pots of zinnias.

A sweet little doll quilt for a friend's child:

I finally finished finished Best Friends, begun many many years ago and set aside when my first pug passed away in 2009. Machine pieced, machine applique, handquilted.

A gifted mini: TQC Postcards quilt: "October". Simplified and enlarged but still tiny.

"Gather" or Welcome Pineapple top completed and sent to my quilter.

I finished Mo's Rainbow sweater and completed a large modern project of a batik duvet cover and pillow cases.

And a last minute request for one of my angel dolls resulted in the creation of Estrella, who made it to Texas for Christmas, for one of my long time and most favorite customers/ supporters. I ll post a story soon on how I made her.

I did some painting and journaling, newly rediscovered hobbies for days when I cannot sit and sew.

I loved doing these digital paintings, but sadly the app disappeared from my computer, ending my fun.

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Looking forward, I hope to finish sewing the top of Winter Marsh.

Hand sewing and hand quilting for summer will be Giraffe in Egypt

and the Sarah Sporrer hand appliques.

I also got this wonderful Pennsylvania Star top in the late fall and immediately set it aside. I hope to at least evaluate its issues and create a plan to finish.

And Mo and I will pray we do not get Covid and we'll work on ever longer walks again. Happy New Year! Thanks to everyone who visits here, I love my reader-friends. You are truly special to me.