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 2024 Annual Review

Most significant achievements:

24 Karat Rondure -- continued its show circuit 

Juried into these 2024 shows:

Road to California (only 20 quilts in the category...super honored to be there)

Mancuso - QuiltFest - South Carolina -- organizers asked me to move it into another category indicating they thought it would compete better. Hmmm. Since I didn't attend, I don't know, and it didn't place. But someone I knew when they were in high school (I was a bit younger) happened to be at the show and noticed my quilt. How fun!

 pic courtesy of Mark and Cheri ...

 2023 Annual Review

Most significant achievements:

24 Karat Rondure -- a collaboration between myself and Nancy Cargo was juried into all 5 AQS Shows and will now be at Road 2 California in 2024.

Ribbons received:

2023 - "Eternal Hope" - a 365 Block Challenge, colored in my own way with an extra border receives Envy Award at Tri-Cities Quilt Show

2023 - Lincoln County Fair - Best of Show (mid size quilts) - "Midnight Garden"

Since receiving my Gammill Optimum+ machine on November 12, 2009 ...I've written a recap each year to show the highlights from a business perspective of how I've used the machine. Since some of my personal journey has made a difference for some of you, I'm sharing a few other endeavors, too.

Customer Quilts (CQ): CQ895 - CQ957

Joint Projects
CQ905, CQ907, CQ908, CQ909, CQ910, CQ911, CQ941, CQ942, CQ943, CQ944, CQ945

This Year:     63 Customer Quilts

84% Pantos, 16% Custom

53 pantos;  10 custom

Pantographs : 4.4 (#/mo)    Custom : 0.83 (#/mo)

Business to date: 957 Customer Quilts long-armed ...

2022 Annual Review

New, Completed Projects

Zen Garden - NEW PATTERN - an Island Batik fabric collection and a revision to my original Woven Braid pattern

Floral Flourish - a revision to Dark Room, using a Northcott Fabrics collection - Modern Love/Bliss
Some fabrics still available here. Kits sold out.

January blocks from Stitching Across the Nation Virtual Shop Hop set as 'Snow Flurry' - quilted with Dancing Snowflakes panto. Scrappy binding. Fabrics are Northcott Toscana available here. Backed with White on white flannel available here.

Placemats with Tula Pink True Colors charm pack and some Linework accents. All available here. Modified Tealicious pattern ...

From two locations and thirteen years total of professional long-arming, it has been quite a ride.

Here is a brief recap of the past year.

CQ818JP, CQ821-CQ894

This Year:     74 Customer Quilts + 1 Joint Project
91% Pantos, 9% Custom
68 pantos;  7 custom

Pantographs : 5.67 (#/mo)    Custom : 0.583 (#/mo)

Business to date: 894 Customer Quilts long-armed + commissions/memory quilts, etc.

 2021 -- Annual Review 

REVEALS FROM 2020

Mosaic Jumble -- a single block colored two ways - several elements are fussy cut.
Island Batik - Celestials collection - available soon at a quilt shop near you!
Patterns available now.

Double Sparkle - and this version I called Regatta.

Island Batik - Sail Away

Kits coming soon!

Patterns available now.

Sintra Entrada - a jelly roll friendly quilt.

2021 New, Completed Projects

Mosaic Heart -- fabrics available here.

Design ...

I had so much going on, I failed to take a moment earlier this month and do a recap on year 12.

Here is my annual year in review for 2020

2. A new design released at Fall Market - Island Batik fabrics - Citrus Sun - Pattern to be released soon!

Pattern: Sintra Central - inspired by my trip to Portugal Oct 2019.

 

3. Holly Berries in the Snow (two items) - pattern to be released soon!

Made with Island Batik fabrics - Holly Holiday; Pattern includes 8" and 12" block sizes.

4. Lots of masks! Craft Passion style pattern. Ear Loops, Head loops, ties, or combination.

Pellon911FF 60" wide and ...

Wrapping up 11 years of my long-arm as part of my business. Here is a little recap of this year's work on my machine and a few other endeavors.

Combo of freehand in the border and a panto fill in the panel with motif work of the main element.

Double batt:

yes...a 3rd cross-stitch panel of the same design

panels for this ...

Here is my annual year in review for 2019
Last year when I wanted to make the Peppermint Candy Table Topper (PCTT), I had curated fabrics sitting in a pile waiting to make scrappy Holly blocks from a 2007 WWVQG Block Lotto. Some of the fabrics would be ideal for the PCTT. I had made one and won a few, so needed to make quite a few more to have 16. One of the 'won' blocks had an off-white, so decided to add 3 more and make those the center blocks. In order to make use of these curated fabrics ...

Wrapped up 10 years of my long-arm as part of my business. Here is a little recap of this year's work on my machine.

This Year:     72 Customer Quilts
88% Pantos, 12% Custom
64 pantos;  8 custom

Pantographs : 5.3  (#/mo)    Custom : 0.67 (#/mo)

Business to date: 677 Customer Quilts

As I did so few Customer custom quilting jobs this year, just want to show them off here: