Christmas 2021

How wonderful to spend time with local family all together this year! I usually give at least one quilt as a gift, which might mean that the youngest in the crowd might get a flannel cozy. Not this year! I've been on a roll to get my tops professionally quilted, so Santa bestowed THREE this Christmas!

My daughter Kim in California received Margaritas on the Beach and has permission to actually take it to the beach!

Carrie, my niece-in-law, received Stepping Stones, a happy quilt that belongs in her home:

And my grandson Dominick. I made an enormous churn dash flannel quilt that this 13-year-old can grow in to and maybe take to college. 

Who knows what will happen in 2022, but in the meantime,

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Little Quilts

I have fallen into the world of little quilts recently. Is it not enough to make beautiful, normal-size quilts for myself, family, and friends??? Oh no! I have been distracted by the simple designs of mostly old-looking pieces; they whip up quite easily, and they give me something to do with my hands while binging on various streaming stories (but not holiday movies).

I started with Mini Mondays from Temecula Quilt Company. Sheryl, the owner, posts block projects on her blog every second Monday. At the end she will tell us what to do with all these little 4.5 inch blocks. She also has the Mini-a-Month little quilt projects published on postcards. These are not miniature quilts, just small quilts. Add some simple hand-quilting and a single-fold binding and I have a finished project to display. And then there is her Woven Reds block-a-month. She is keeping me busy for sure!

I am also working on a block-a-month project from Stitchin' Heaven in Texas called Four-Star Generals. It is a reproduction quilt made up of sets of four blocks each. The fabrics are beautiful and I surprise myself each month with how perfectly each block comes together.

I will begin the new year with Kim Diehl's 11^th Simple Whatnots Club, a series of delightful small quilts in the most luscious of fabrics in her new line Right as Rain. Be still my heart! In addition to that club, I've signed up for her stitch-along normal-size quilt called Riverside Knoll in the Right as Rain fabric line. All of this from Homestead Hearth in Mexico, Missouri.

I love retirement!!!