End of Year Review

2025 has come to an end and it's time to review how I did with my long list of projects posted in January.

#1. The fabrics for the Fire Island Hosta Queen quilt have been washed and pressed but then nothing more happened. Hopefully '26 will be the year piecing actually happens.

#2. The Blueberry Pie flimsy was completed in 2024 and is hanging in the 'to be quilted' closet. He's in the queue for hand quilting but that won't happen until the relief sale quilt is finished.

#3. Elegant Garden is a flimsy and is stored in the to be hand quilted closet. I have a plan for this quilt when she's finished so she will probably be quilted before Blueberry Pie.

#4. Garden Party  Garden Party is designed by Bonnie Hunter and the pattern is found in her Addicted to Scraps book. The 'flower' blocks have been pieced and the chain blocks were pieced at a quilt retreat in November. The plan is to piece the half chain blocks at a quilt retreat in January. Maybe this quilt will be a flimsy in 2026?

#5 Relief Sale Quilt is in the hand quilting frame and is in the process of being hand quilted. It will be donated and sold in the 2027 Michiana Mennonite Relief Sale.

#6. Teal Stars -

#7. Log Cabin Hearts -

#8. Quadrangle -

#9 was a project from one of the many projects I have selected fabrics for and stored in a bag. This project didn't happen. 😉

#10 was a quilt from the Red & White Gatherings book designed by Lisa Bongean. I made a small quilt with the Love Triangle pattern. It's not quilted and I'm not sure when that will happen. The light colored background cries out for custom quilting. I'm not capable of doing that with my machine and I have so many quilts waiting to be hand quilted.

I really like the star design and I can envision several of these stars made into a quilt . . . using blue fabrics of course!

#11. Blue embroidered blocks  I appliqued blocks for the corners of this quilt. This flimsy has been delivered to Calico Point for quilting.

#12. Lavender embroidered blocks  I used the same idea as the blue embroidered blocks, four blocks were appliqued for the outside corners. This flimsy has also been delivered to Calico Point for quilting.

#13 - Four Patch Around the World was pieced early in January and a complete finish in February.

#14 Embroidered Crib Quilt

Two Compassion Quilts

#15 - Hand quilt an Amish Crib Quilt

#16 - 2025 Designer Mystery BOM  . . . This mystery quilt started in June and runs through 2026. 

#17 - I quilted Book Adventures or Peter Rabbit on my home sewing machine in May.

Several compassion quilt flimsies were pieced and will be quilted next spring to be donated. Overall, I think I accomplished a lot in 2025 and managed not to get sidetracked by squirrels. Next week I'll publish my 'to do list' for 2026 which won't be as intensive as the 2025 list. 

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2nd Quarter Check-In

It's time for the 2nd quarter check-in of 2025 and time to check in with how my project list is going.

#3 is Elegant Garden. She is a flimsy! No, I didn't add the half star blocks for the outside border but I doubt Edyta Sitar is going to show up and complain. She is hanging in the 'to be hand quilted' closet waiting for her turn in the quilting frame.

Three quilts flimsies for granddaughter Joanna were pieced in the first quarter. They have returned from Calico Point with the quilting completed.

Teal Stars was #6 on the project list.

#7 is Log Cabin Hearts

#8 is Quadrangle

#14 - The blocks in this little quilt were embroidered by granddaughter Miriam. Now it's finished!

Two Compassion  (along with several others) quilts are quilted and delivered to Goshen Hospital to be used in the cancer center.

#17 - Book Adventures or the Peter Rabbit Quilt was finished in May. I machine quilted it myself with my sewing machine.

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Quadrangle Finish

The last of the 3 teal quilts for Joanna is back from the quilter. This quilt is called Quadrangle and I posted about the flimsy here.

The grass was too damp to display the quilt so the rest of the pictures were taken on our bed.

I had purchased a jelly roll to use in making the stars for Teal Stars but I didn't think they blended very well. I used strips from that roll for  binding this quilt, a lot of those fabrics also make an appearance in here.

I had purchased this border fabric several years ago, I knew someday I would be making quilts for Joanna and I didn't have many teal fabrics to work with.

All of Joana's quilts are square quilts, this one finished at 91". I didn't start out intending to make them all square but that's how they turned out.

Calico Point did the long arm quilting, this is the design I selected.

I never remember what the names of the quilting designs are. They keep a record on their computer so I can refer back if I want to use a design again.

Quadrangle is a free pattern by Moda. This is a very versatile pattern, I can see making this quilt again but making the squares larger. I used a variety of different teals in this quilt, both blue teals and green teals. They all seem to blend together just fine. The touches of purple add a nice contrast of color.

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Quadrangle

I started the 3rd quilt for Joanna right after I finished Log Cabin Hearts. The pattern I used is Quadrangle, Quadrangle is a free pattern from Moda. I first saw this pattern when Becky, from Quilted Twins, showed the quilt she made from this pattern.

Fabrics left from the first two quilts were used in this quilt, those were blue-teal fabrics. For this quilt I've added the 'seafoam teal' fabrics from my stash. I actually have more seafoam fabrics than blue-teal fabrics. As usual, I made the quilt larger. My finished flimsy is 93" square, it seems all the quilts I've made Joanna are square quilts. And, for some reason,  Blogger wants this paragraph centered. Of course there is no arguing with Blogger. 😳 😉

First I sewed foursies then added the sashing. Even though I kept counting, I still made too many four patches. Most of the sashing is the dark teal used for the border of the Log Cabin hearts quilt. When that fabric was gone, another dark teal was substituted but it's a shade lighter. That's okay, this quilt is about using it up. And yes, some purples popped in there also.

I had purchased a teal jelly roll before I made Teal Stars since I knew those stars were made from 2.5" strips. When I unrolled the fabrics, I thought they were too random and didn't really blend well. They were perfect for this quilt though, there is an assortment of varied teals in this quilt.

Not all the strips were used in the quilt, there were enough strips left to become the binding.

The outside border is fabric I had purchased several years ago when I knew I was going to be making teal quilts someday. I like the mix of blue/teal and green/teal in the flowers. There is also some touches of dark blue in there.

When you looked at the pattern, then look at my quilt, you see my sashing is different. I must have had a brain freeze because I thought there was actually cornerstones between all the 4 patches! I realized that after I had them all pieced, oh well. I used them anyway, why not?!

This isn't a hard quilt to piece. Someday I will probably make this pattern again, perhaps I'll experiment and cut the 4 patch squares larger.

This flimsy has been delivered to Calico Point for long arm quilting.

Quadrangle was #8 on my long list of quilts to make this year. I know I said I planned to make the 2024 BOM's patterns from A Quilting Life but I also reserved the right to change my mind to patterns. What is important, is all 3 flimsies are finished and at the quilter.

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