My New Year's Resolution

Since 2017, the front room of our house has been "the quilting room".  That's where the longarm is and where I keep my outrageously huge stash of fabric, batting and other craft tools.  

In recent years I have made very few quilts and had been toying with the notion of selling the longarm and getting out of quilting completely.  But there are projects I really want to do and, well, once that longarm is gone, that will probably be the end of my quilting career.  So I've held onto it.  

In 2025 I finished 2 only quilts.  Not a great track record.

This year I am determined to get back to work and have set myself the goal of averaging at least one hour per day of quilting time for 2026.  

We'll see how well I do.  I've set up a spreadsheet on my desktop to track my hours and we'll see...

 

 Quilt 157: Irregular Log Cabin - Autumn Colours

This quilt is made from a kit I bought in Florida in 2017 when I was visiting my cousins Toni and Beth.  Both of them have since passed away.  As I was working on it I felt them with me, especially Toni who shared my love of quilting.  

I loved putting it together and have kept the instructions for the design and am planning to make another one some time in the future. 

82" x 82" - bamboo batting - quilted on the longarm

 

Quilt 156: Christmas Placemats

 My most recently finished project is a set of Christmas place mats for my neice Meghan.  She and her husband are the ones who host the big family events these days, so when I asked her how many she wanted, she said "10".  

DONE!

One of the 10 place mats - 16"x11" - bamboo batting, quilted on the longarm (stippling pattern), polyester batting

  

 

Woops!  I'm way behind 

I was at a social function recently and met a woman who, like me, is a quilter.  We had a ball chatting about all things "stitchy" and I told her about this blog.  And...

 ...then I realized I haven't been keeping things up to date!

 Sorry!

 OK - I'm back and have been quilting but not posting.  I have a very tight schedule over the next several weeks, but will start getting back to posting, as I do have completed projects I haven't added.

Stay tuned!