Does anyone else feel as though January has been 500 days long? At least we’re at the end of it now.
With 2024 a month ago, I’m going to start off with a quick round up of all the projects and Christmas presents of last year. I made two mini cross stitch hoops for Jade and Lindsey (LJF) with obligatory sweary label on the back…
I ended up making six Drop Zone pouches (five large and one medium) as presents for various family members and friends. I was hoping Mum wasn’t going to add anymore to the list!
My 2024 hexagon-a-day quilt tops are all finished. I plan on turning my Mood Quilt into a case or bag at some point. But it turns out I was happy, bored, tired, and confused a lot in 2024.
My Diary quilt is awaiting layering and quilting. I’m not going to be doing anything fancy with it, just backing it with polar fleece so I can have an interesting quilt to have on the back of the sofa.
Here’s my last Temperature quilt…
And this is all four of them, side by side, and laid out how I’m eventually going to put them together. Anyone else remember that mini heatwave we had in 2022?
I completed my Focus Cutting Sewalong 2024 ‘mother quilt’…
…And this year’s will be laid out in the same way, as we’re making hexagons from hexie thirds, going back through the alphabet again. Here are the first five of this year’s quilt; Anteaters, Ammonites, Astronomy/Astrology, Back to the Future and Border Terrier butts.
2025 will see me recording rainfall in quilt form. I have a rain gauge in the back garden and the highest rainfall in 24 hours we’ve had thus far has been 42mm. At the moment it is looking very white (that being my dry day fabric). I’m checking the gauge at 5.30pm each day, we had some rain overnight, so there will be a blue hexie today.
Last February, I think, I shared my layout/colours for my Tumbling Cosmos quilt. Well, twelve months later I’m officially making it.
I was taking all the blue diamonds, but was getting bored, which prompted me to work out the six sections in my design according to the original pattern. That done, I’m working on the top left section, and have made all the pieced hexagon blocks for that section.
The idea for using the low volume prints in white/grey shades is an attempt to have them look like stars. That’s the plan anyway.
But that’s not the last quilt I’m doing this year. Oh no. It’s been in the planning for some time, but I have finally started my next randomly generated quilt. This time I am letting fate decide a series of Cherish blocks. I have made the first one already…
The upright diamonds will be the same in each block, and I will be using Tula Pink’s Disco Lucy print for the other diamonds, because be it by design or sheer luck, the printed diamonds fit around a 1.5” diamond paper. Look! Perfection.
I have already made a quilt this year, from start to finish. I present my Rivers & Creeks quilt using the fabrics from Lewis & Irene’s collection of the same name…
I had originally planned a more elaborate design, but fabrics being what they can be, I had to scale back to this. But I am pleased with the result, even if it did nearly end up in the f*** it bucket multiple times. There’s a free pattern on the website for it…
I’ve waffled on for long enough now, I will, however, leave you with a cute photo of Molly giving me the stink eye for making her sit in a bag, all for the sake of a social media post…
