Happy New Year!
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| Miss J with her Farm quilt |
Today, I'm taking a look back at 2024. I finished eight projects. You can see them on this
page. Finishes dearest to my heart were the two quilts that my granddaughters had a hand in making.
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| Miss K and her string quilt |
I stretched myself taking a couple improv workshops and working with solid fabrics. I embraced Irene Roderick's technique of dancing with the wall and look forward to playing more with this type of piecing. I did finish two improv quilts.
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| "Play" an improv quilt |
I used parts from a past Saturday workshop to make a small project for the book, "The Year of Less," by Cait Flanders. Reading that book empowered me to make a better effort of reducing my stash and reducing my treasures in general! While I didn't make great gains in stash reduction this year, I will make significant gains next year. Since February, I've followed my
shopping ban. It hasn't been as painful as I thought it would be!
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| Lime Sprinkle |
I did participate in three mystery quilt alongs--
Indigo Way with Bonnie Hunter; Stars Like Spaghetti with Alycia at
Quiltygirl.com and
Secret Agent with Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle. Indigo Way and Stars Like Spaghetti will be awarded as Quilts of Valor. I was able to use my stash to totally piece the Stars Like Spaghetti top.
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| Stars Like Spaghetti |
I did use a lot of my red and blue scraps for Bonnie's mystery. One blue fabric I had picked up at an estate sale at least 20 years ago. I petted it often; but found I either had too much or too little when I went to use it. While I could have used a little more of it in Bonnie's project, I made it work!
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| Indigo Way |
Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle delivered such a fun mystery which they titled Secret Agent. I am intrigued with achieving transparency effects which is what drew me into the project. I quilted it with an all over design on my domestic machine. The all over design was a first for me to do on my domestic machine. I also used the leftovers to piece most of the back. It is a two sided quilt!
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| Transparency |
I also participated in making a group quilt from musical themed blocks Clark County Quilters guild members had made. I look forward to sharing that project in this blog sometime after March. I loved working with the other members in the group--there were six that began and five that finished.
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| Transparency back |
2024 was also a repair year for my body. In April, I had my right knee joint replaced. In July, I had cataract surgeries on both eyes. (I love the brightness of the colors now. White still seems iridescent to me!) In October, I had my left knee joint replaced. I'm not as "recovered" as I had envisioned from the knee surgeries so at times, quilting just wasn't comfortable to do!
The last day of December (yesterday), I had a manipulation procedure to break up the scar tissue in that knee. Breaking up the scar tissue would allow me to improve my range of motion and to lessen the pain I am experiencing. Coming out of the procedure, I had intense pain. Childbirth was four times easier! I also had non stop vomiting which mostly translated to dry heaves for about six hours. This morning, I feel more stable. Let's see how many PT exercises I can accomplish throughout the day. Time will tell if the procedure worked!
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| Miss A making blueberry muffins |
Our London daughter made several trips stateside so we were able to play, squeeze and hold our precious youngest granddaughter in person! All in all it was a good year.
4 comments:
You had some wonderful finishesthis year, Terry! It was fun to see them again. I'm sorry the year included some health challenges, too, although you are amazingly positive about them - I'm always so impressed. May 2025 be a year with fewer of those and lots more quilts!
Your finishes this year are beautiful!
Oh, Terry the knee procedure sounds terrible. I do hope you are feeling better and you will get the range of motion as you heal. You had some great finishes this year and how wonderful to spend great times with the grandchildren. They are precious. Happy New Year. Hugs.
What a wonderful recap!! I LOVE the finishes you had this year!!! and super sweet to get to spend time with the grandkids!! OMG - so sorry about your knee. I am going to guess your poor body does not like pain with a reaction like that - Hugs to you - and healing vibes!!!
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