The finishes continued in August, starting with the 2023 Quilters by Hearts Desire President’s Challenge.
- Started 2023 Finished 2024
- 18″ x 24″
- Glide 40wt in Strawberry Blond
- Overlapping Crop Circles
- Legacy 80/20 batting
- Mine, hanging in my Quilt Studio
I made another Double 4-Patch table runner as a shop display. This one from Wild Wander and Grunge.
- Started 8/24/24 – Finished 8/26/24
- 12-1/2″ x 48″
- Thread – unknown
- Straight line on the domestic machine
- Legacy 80/20 batting
- Mine, currently hanging in the shop
I bought the leaf blocks and background fabric at the Guild auction. The blocks are set inspired by Bonnie Hunter’s Dancing Nine-Patch. I call this quilt Falling Leaves.
- Finished 9/4/2024
- 55″ x 69″
- Glide 40wt in Strawberry Blond
- Edge to Edge – Ground Cover
- Legacy 80/20 batting
- Mine
This Field and Furrows layout of the Brandon Quilters 2024 Block of the Month was the first of 6 layouts that I finished for a presentation on block layouts.
- Started 12/9/2023 Finished 9/5/2024
- 74″ x 74″
- Glide 40wt in Magic Mint
- a variety of computerized motifs, ruler work and free-motion
- Legacy 80/20 batting
- Mine
The 2nd BOM I finished is So Sweet. When I took it off the machine I kept saying this is “So sweet”. It was inspired by Scott A. Flanagan’s “Sail Away Sampler” in Annie’s Quilting Mix & Match Sampler Settings.
- Started 12/9/2023 Finished 9/7/2024
- 72″ x 93″
- Glide 40wt in Cotton Candy
- Edge to Edge – Fresco Feathers
- Legacy 80/20 batting
- Mine
This is “A Modern Twist”. I spotted as similar layout on the blog PolkaDotChair. I found a great E2E design from Urban Elementz.
- Started 12/9/2023 Finished 9/8/2024
- 74″ x 74″
- Glide 40wt in either Linen or Cream
- Edge to Edge – Square Cut
- Legacy 80/20 batting
- Mine
I had a a dead-line of September 9th for the Block of the Month quilts. 2 more are quilted, but did not get bound and I had a 3rd which still needs to be assembled. So, it was a relief to work on something new a the quilt retreat.
The pattern for these little bags are the Helpful Heifer Tinker Bags from The Quilted Cow. My kit made 4, but after making 2 of them, I decided I’d rather use the fabric for a Laura’s Little Notebook cover. These were made September 21, 2024.
This is Laura’s Little Notebook Cover, another Helpful Heifer pattern. They work up quickly you can easily get 4 from 2 fat quarters and if you are careful you can get 5. I also made this September 21, 2024.
The morning of October 14th one of the quilt shops in Kansas City posted a picture of the Quilted Sneakers. By noon, I had located a class “near me” – 350 miles away — and was signed up. I took the class on October 26th where I finished the first shoe. I finished the 2nd shoe after I got home the next day – October 27, 2024. Naturally I showed them at the Mississippi Quilters Association’s Fall Gathering and both guild meetings where there was a lot of interest in them.
So I made a second pair and will be teaching two classes at Ritzy Quilting Company on March 28th a& 29th. I started this pair on December 15th and finished them on December 26th.
That’s 18 finishes for the year 2024.
Also during 2024 I did 2 presentations to the quilt guild – one on Orphan Blocks and another on Block Sets (thus the multiple BOM quilts). I finished making all the HST for Riviana, but misplaces 60 of them! I started another BOM, but got hung up on how to set it so that’s on this years UFO list. And I finally figured out how to set the snowmen blocks. I didn’t quite get the top finished, but it was close. It was my first finish of 2025.
