HELLO 2025!

Happy New Year!

I will soon return home from my Holiday beach vacation. 

I’ve been visiting with my son for 3 fabulous weeks.

My gift to me…and hopefully to him. 

That being said, who else is looking forward to

another creative, successful year.

I am not big on making New Years resolutions but clearly

there is excitement building in my sewing room.

It’s cold in Ohio but I have this fabulous quilt coat to keep me warm! 

Thanks is to Patty Estadt who helped me make it last November. 

I’ll be sure to wear this at the Annual Kwilty Girls Retreat in January. 

Then I have some trunks shows and/or workshops 

to prepare for in February, March and April.  

I also have these WIPs on my radar. 

My radar changes often, but gotta start with a list!

This is my next Ghastlie quilt.

I am almost ready to roll out A Ghastlie…Trunk Show!  

I need to finish the 21 STAR blocks which is more work

than I had anticipated. So it’ll be a if I feel like it. 

I am chomping at the bit to get this one sewn and quilted.

It’s all cut and marked. I luv me some zen Chic.

Kim Hensley gave me the Layer Cake and pattern a couple

Years ago…time to just do it!

A mini Plaidish needs finished  before February/March when I teach this

Workshop to make The Plaidish.  It’ll be my 3rd Plaidish. 

Fall Breeze is all cut and ready to sew.  I need a stong BREEZE blowing

against my back, to finish this before the maple leaves FALL again! 

This one is in the planning stage to use with Christmas charm packs.

I want another RWB quilt and pulled fabric for Brightly, by Cluck Cluck Sew.

Might happen, maybe ! 

This one just keeps getting shoved away.

I cut these Flea Market Fancy scraps several years ago…

Time to finish now that I have some white squares to go with it. 

Maybe I can talk Kim Hensley to do one like this 

for our next Sewcial Distamce quilt.

That always motivates me !

This one has been staring at me for awhile. 

I just can’t decide the fabrics I want to use !

But I know it’ll be Zen Chic. 

I do want to make the By Annie ‘Everything Bag’.

I have all the supplies.  It seems overwhelming. 

I believe it will be quite Ghastlie. 

Sew enjoy your 2025 creative journey…I know I will! 

2024 MY CREATIVE JOURNEY

Here we are wrapping up 2024 

and I hope you have had a creative and fun journey.

I know I did.

Here you can take a peek at some of my '2024 makes"

January

The year always begins with a

 Kwilty Girls Retreat

Tutorial - Mitre seam binding finish

Tutorial - Diagonal Quilt Folding.

Pattern Testing - Peaks Pattern 

February

Infinite Hearts Quilt

March

Quilt Con in Raleigh NC

April

Upcycled Jacket

May

Roadrunner Bag

Summer Picnic

June 

Love Chains

Feelin Sheepish

Card Making

Editorial Pattern Test

July

X and Plus Quilt

August

Love and Peace Pattern Test

Kwilty Girls Summer Retreat

Gemma's Rail Fence

September

Holding Hearts Pattern Test

Bookmarks

October

Charity Quilts

Cardmaking

    

November

Classic Cork Carryall Bag

Aunt Hattie's Quilt V.2

Pillows for Eric

December

Crayon Challenge

Bag Making Explosion

Batik Charity Quilt

Evergreen

I have not posted about these scarves  I made it this year!

Soft and supple cowl

Assigned pooling yarn fir this great scarf 

I'll see you soon with some of the projects

that are catching my eye for 2025

Happy Holidays!

A BEAUTIFUL BROKEN HEART FULL OF LOVE

I have the best quilty friends.

Huge hearts, sometimes broken, that know the meaning of giving.

How to pay it forward…in times that’s aren’t easy! 

I say that because this year one of them donated

SEW MUCH FABRIC to CHARITY!

Her name, Susan Blalock.

This photo was at a party I hosted a few years ago. 

Susan recently downsized from a home 

she shared with her husband for 42 years.  

In 2023 she lost her husband and now resides in a condo. 

She asked me if I could help her find the fabrics new homes.

OF COURSE!  I can't imagine how overwhelming her

life was during this time.  She not only lost her husband to Parkinson’s 

but after years if living him and caregiving she 

sold the home they shared home and 

had no where to keep years and years of fabric hoarding. 

 I was happy to help her.

She made 3 trips to my home, 

with several bags of fabric in each trip.

Each time my porch looked beautiful.

I sorted thru all this and divided the treasures for different charities.

If fabric was t suited to quikting I donated to

A thrift store, who feeds  the community, thru their sales 

Some went to friends who also do charity sewing.

Look at all these batiks.

Over 100 FQs ended up at Stitching Sisters.

And over 100 traditional print FQs 

With Susan' permission I kept a few things back for 

my two nieces who are learning to quilt. Christmas prints

are usually not appropriate for charity donations.

 I loaded a cart in Joanne's Fabric and Craft Store

with mostly children's novelty prints.

Those fabrics went to Project Linus!

She had a lot of unfinished blocks in the fabrics she donated.

I decided to finish them and make a quilt for charity.

This finished top will go to Stitching Sisters. 

Sew its SUSANS BATIKS that will warm

a cancer patient when the quilt reaches their lap.

I had enough fabric for the top, backing and binding.

Susan doesn't know that I actually took some of her

donations and made her a quilt top.  She had started this work

and I found a way to finish it.  

I now have some backing sew I think I’ll quilt it first her before she gets it back. 

It’s the least I could do...I think she'll be very surprised.