After a year and a half I'm picking my blog back up. True to form I haven't started right on January 1..I'm nothing if not a procrastinator. I've actually been ruminating for the past ten days on what my quilting goals for the coming year will be and how I plan to get there.
This is what I've come up with for my goals
- I'd like to experiment with more improvisational quilting. Last year I bought the book Quilting Modern by Jacquie Gering & Katie Pedersen and I'd like to delve into some of the techniques they describe.
- I'd like to become better with choosing colors for quilts. It's been easy for me to use precuts because they come "pre-matched" so to speak. And it's been easy for me to stick with monochromatic color schemes. I'd like to get a firmer grasp on the color wheel and why certain color schemes work well together. I recently purchased the Fat Quarterly publication Quilt Color Workshop and believe working through some of the projects will really help the concepts gel.
- I want to join a quilt swap this year! A mini or doll quilt swap would be perfect. I have a couple ideas.
- Continue progress on my Tula Pink City Sampler. I never finished it, primarily because I'd decided to make it scrappy and didn't have a sufficient range of colors in my scrap bin. Now that I've got more, I can pick it back up again. I'm about 1/3 of the way through the blocks.
I'll continue to add to my goals, I'm sure. That's the way growth happens, and it doesn't just happen on January 1st.
Here's what I've been working on this week:
This is a little tumbler table runner I bought the fabric for last spring. The pattern is from Missouri Star's Block magazine, and probably one of their YouTube tutorials. It's easily made with the mini tumbler template, and that's what I was looking for: an easy, quick project for the week.
I'll close with some photos of some of the projects I finished last year:
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| A little paper piecing for St. Patty's Day |
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| A Mother's Day table topper for my mom. |
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| I went crazy with 8-Point star blocks! |
I also had a year of pillows, as evidenced by the following:
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| A birthday cake pillow I made from Lori Holt's pattern on her blog. |
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| A cute little ruffle I added to cover the zipper. |
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| I made this for my daughter's birthday...the little scientist. Pattern was from borsedigaya.com. |
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| I just love the fabric here, with all the chemistry figures. |
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| This might have been the piece de resistance! I made it for my brother for Christmas. The pattern was from SewWhatSherlock...in case you're not familiar, it's the leg lamp from A Christmas Story. |
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| I made these early in the year when my daughter and I were on and I were on a Sherlock jag. |
This is just a sampling of things I finished last year. I also made three baby quilts -(I may post photos of one or more, later) - and a few smaller projects. In looking at the bulk of my work, however, I only finished one large quilt. I'm going to rectify that this year.
