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It's 23 degrees this morning at Wilder's Last Resort.  The snow that fell yesterday is now frozen solid.  All pathways and the driveway turned into an ice-skating rink overnight.  We will hunker down inside the cabin until all of the Flat-Landers check out of their Airbnb's and drive or skate their way out of the mountains. 

We have to walk over to our woodpile which doesn't look big enough to get us through the season.  We have another woodpile closer to the cabin.

Usually, I greet the first snowfall with child-like anticipation.  This year ...

It is January 1, 2024. First day of the new year - one day to reflect and introspect before the onslaught of work and responsibilities.

A review post is always tricky. What do I include? What do I leave out? And how do I say it? Should it be just quilting? But my feelings are so entangled with the threads of my quilts. Can you really keep your work and thoughts in water-tight compartments?

Unable to separate my feelings from my work

I will try to focus on my quilts and if my feelings seep in so be it. Here are ...

Well, it's almost the end of 2023 and it's time to look back at what I've achieved this year.  

My biggest achievement this year was my 5 week trip to Europe.  I loved every moment of it, but it did mean that I didn't make as many quilts as usual.  

That's OK because my goals for 2023 were to:

• finish what I'd already started

• use what I already had

I think I did quite well on both of those goals. Here's what I made in 2023.

1.  Good Fortune - Bonnie Hunter Mystery quilt ...

It is New Year’s Eve today. Lots of people are looking back at their year and thinking forward to the new year. When I think of last year it makes me tired. We worked so hard to get our house ready for sale, listed and then sold. Planning the move was done by my husband but yikes, it was a lot of work! Then settling into the new house, getting things set up and figuring out life up here. It certainly wasn’t a year for loads of sewing, at least not in the first half of the year ...

It's the end of the year, so it's time for my end of year wrap up.  At the end of each year I like to look back on the goals I set myself at the start of the year.  

Here's what I planned to work on in 2022:

1. Licorice Allsorts Block of the Month from Wendy Williams

I've finished all the embroidery, and pieced about 40% of the blocks.  These blocks are tricky! But I love it and am keen to finish this quilt in 2023.

2. Ruby Star

I've finished this quilt and ...

A new year begins. I am looking forward to what the new year brings but before I dive in I am going to do a quick look back at some favorite posts. One of the favorite posts was for the Scrappy Glass window quilt I made for the release of Kelly's book "Scrappy Improv Quilting".  You can read about it HEREAnother favorite was the Quick Curve Ruler quilt I called "Grow'n Up"You can read about it

It is the “Best of” season in the quilting community. Cheryl hosts this party each year and while I haven’t participated the last year or two, I thought it would be fun to do so this year. When I started to sketch this post out in my mind, I thought it would be a tough one. It felt like I had done very little sewing. But guess what? That isn’t exactly true! After going through my posts, I actually got quite a bit of sewing time in! Let’s take a look at the crazy year of 2021 ...

Hello friends! I hope you had a wonderful weekend and a beautiful Christmas if you were celebrating last week. I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I am to share today’s post, my Quilting Life Year in Review: 2021 Quilts & Projects. I’ve been doing a year in review round-up style post for several […]

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 Hello all, and welcome to the end of 2021! I hope your holiday went great and you're ready to take a look back at the year that was along with me. It was a different kind of year, in a mostly good way. Certainly less trauma, along with much more fun, interspersed with bouts of bad pandemic news. But I got a vaccine (or three!) and was able to meet my granddaughter who was born during lockdown, and to see my parents, my kids, and several of my siblings and nieces and nephews. That alone makes 2021 a much ...

Hello, friends! We are nearing the end of 2021, and so I’ve been reviewing content here on the blog, on my YouTube channel, and on our podcast in preparation for working on new things for 2022. It’s always super interesting to me to see the most read, viewed, and listened to posts and episodes. I […]

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2020 was a year! Everyone has their own thoughts on how things have been and every state was impacted differently depending on their governors, some good, some bad. It was a year in more ways than one. On the positive side, I have accomplished loads of quilty, sewing, knitting, and crocheting projects. I also finally caught up on my binding which I was way behind on for a multitude of reasons.

 January

January started off slow. I only completed 4 snack mats, but I made progress on other projects while subbing for a friend full days and half days until ...

Hello, friends! It’s always kind of bittersweet to write the final blog post of the year: Normally there are lots of fond reflections on travel and gathering of which there was little this year. However, I’m ever an optimist and do feel blessed to have been surrounded by close family and to have had a […]

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 Hello everyone, and welcome to the end of 2020! I'm so happy to say that, aren't you? What a year. There's no reason to go through the litany of why I am so glad to see this miserable year come to a close, is there? I'm betting that many of you are feeling the same way. I was going to say "we made it!" but of course that isn't true for too many families. Instead, I'll just say that I'm grateful that my husband and I remained healthy this year, and my parents ...

Hello, friends! Today I’m sharing my Quilting Life Top Posts 2020, and this is truly a blog post I look forward to each year. When I looked at the numbers according to page views there were actually a few posts from previous years that ended up in the top ten…and several of the Saturday Seven […]

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Hello friends! I hope you had a wonderful weekend and a beautiful Christmas if you were celebrating last week. I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I am to share today’s post, my Quilting Life Year in Review: 2020 Quilts & Projects. I’ve been doing these year in review round-up style posts for […]

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As we look back over the past twelve months, we’re simply amazed! We were touched by the love from our followers, the support of our customers, the kind hearts of each and every one of our hardworking team members, and the selflessness within the quilting community. Despite this challenging year, we’ve been able to accomplish so much together.

Thanks to you, Missouri Star is celebrating yet another great year of quilting! It’s been filled with inspiring stories from quilters all around the world, brand new products created with you in mind, exciting tutorials that have inspired many ...

Hello and happy New Year’s Eve! Its usually a quiet one here at A Quilting Life with small family get-togethers. I usually try to work on some quilting during the day and in the evening do some handwork and watch a little television. Pretty low-key for sure! Today I’m sharing the A Quilting Life Top […]

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