2023 A YEAR IN REVIEW

2023 another year another quilt...well ok a lot of quilts and other fiber inspired projects

I finished the Churning 14 top but didn’t ' really like it.

I donated it to charity, knowing it will find a new home.

I made this Infinite Hearts quilt for me

but my Son loved it and it now lives with him!

Charley Harper Winter Birds flew into my nest!

Immediately followed by a GROVE of Charley Harper scrappy birch trees.

As spring rolled into view...

sew did these kitchen table toppers.

This is Picnic by Cluck Cluck Sew

I love this Sassy Garden quilt

Avalon Pattern and Jane Sassaman Fabrics.

I resized The Perry County Flamingo! 

Laura Heine Collage

Wyndjammer Red 

My last quilt top is PEAKS a pattern test

for Frannie B Quilt Company 

And these two tops w/backs and bindings were just finished 

And ready for the (longarmer(s)

X & + By Zen Chic

Ruby Star Society Picnic Quilt

I made a bunch of  bags this years.

Cute Kwilty Girls baskets for retreat.

You know I love these girls if they get

something I made using my Ghastlies Craft fabric.

A quilted pillow cover for the sofa.

I only finished one speckled Hitchhiker shawl.

 Productive year but..

I also provided lots of love and care to my sweet husband who had pneumonia with complications;

Followed by an operation to insert a shunt into his head to eliminate ‘water on the brain’ and rwo years of him falls at.  And then,right afterThanksgiving he caught COVID for the first time.

I had a health issue that is resolved but it scared the bejeebies outa me,

I am OK

A couple fun things did happen…I attended a couple Kwilty Girls retreats

Visited my son 2 times at the beach !

And had a solo quilt show that featured 14 pieces of my art

 at Inniswood Gardens, Westerville OH

I am ready to say enough of this stressful year on this day known as 

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BAG IT UP!

I started with a pile of ideas in the form of fabrics hat will become bags.

I like to pull fabrics and patterns and work thru the bags in my

own time.  I cut many out in one day, add batting and quilt another day,

add zippers another day and sew on!

This was a tiny zipper pouch I made for my niece Gemma.

Too cute!

I have lots of novelty prints for yarn / knitting.

And I finished 3 zippered project bags.

And there was fabric for a fun Christmas zipper bag.

Love this one!

I have had gnome fabrics for awhile and what better print for a zipper pouch!

Florals are always a big hit for zippered bags.

I like to rework projects too.

This was once a table topper, already quilted.

and now its a generous size zipper bag.

The next knitting project bags are fun LLAMA prints.

The pattern is a Japanese Knot bags.

And when  Japanese Knot bags are closed

they looks like this...FUN!

Sew most of these have been sold or gifted

and I saved a couple for me!

And oh yeah, I always add my labels.