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 It was a good year for me - but not so much in quilting.  I got a lot done but not like I used to do many years ago.  I am so surprised how much I got done when I worked full time.  How did I do it?

So here are the quilt finishes for this year. 

Bonnie Hunter Mystery 2024/25

Diamond Gardens

Laundry Basket Blizard (This was a pre-cut kit--way to go with all these angles)

Fig Tree Mystery

Hodge Podge (This was a kit)

A simple 5" square quilt with chenille to make it look like plaid.

Flower ...

 You never know how much you accomplish until you have to put the pictures together for the year end review for your blog.  I'm happy to report I had a good year.   To make the post less picture heavy I put 9 projects per page and kind of sort of sorted them by type.  Quilting, Machine Embroidery and Cross Stitch.  I know I missed a couple embroidery projects so I'll post them at the end.  I will also do a WIP parade on a separate post, time permitting.  Thank you for looking.

 Here is my 2020 Goal list of quilt.  I updated in red.  It was not a good quilting year for me.

ow sleeves I started 2 years ago.  (February)

Even with this being the crappiest year, I have surprised myself on how much I did get done.  I had 13 items on my 2019 Goals list and I was able to finish 8 of them.  (Orange Jamestown Landing, Good Fortune BH Mystery) Black/Tan Idol quilt, Guild mystery, Moda Blockhead, Consignment Blue quilt, Trick or Treat, Material Girl Challenge-curved leaves) 

Cross Stitching has been added to my hobby list which was a blessing to have since I spent a lot of time sitting in a hospital and rehab with my dad.  So without any further ado...

The Quilts...

The Year in Quilts 2010 was really about processing what my first three weeks of study with Nancy Crow were all about. 

The Year in Quilts 2011 is about the beginning of several essential explorations—you might call them series—that continue to be part of my practice eight years later.

In 2009, we purchased an almost 100 year old cabin in McCarthy, Alaska a small mountain village located in the Wrangell St. Elias National Park. 

Over the years, I have tried to document that landscape in my own way.

This documentation has resulted in the workshop Abstraction through Color ...

No, that’s not a typo. I sat down this morning to write the blog post The Year in Quilts 2019.

The first step was to see how I had structured this blog post in the past. I went to my ABOUT page and typed in Year in Quilts.

In my mind, I have been writing a Year in Quilts blog post since the beginning of this blog, which began on December 27, 2012. Seven years ago! 

This morning, I discoverd that I have actually only written a Year in Quilts blog post twice—in 2013 and 2017.

The rules ...