2015 Here I Come

I have so many projects planned for 2015 it isn't even funny.  I found some amazing train fabric and I am going to design a wall hanging for my Uncle Jim.  I found some beautiful Christmas fabric on sale Friday and I purchased a lot of it.  I plan on making a place setting of eight dinner napkins.  I'll make more if I have enough fabric.  I have at least fifteen paper embroidered patterns that I have picked out to create for friends this year.  I am part of a wool applique group at out The Christmas Goose Quilt Shoppe here in Las Vegas and I still have ten squares to finish from, "Summertime."

 

These are just the things I can come up with off the top of my head this afternoon.  I've been in my sewing room all morning and I'm finding more and more things I want to get started on.  Don't even get me started on all the things I have to finish....the pair of socks I'm making for Abby's father.  The Featherweight Top Down Cardigan I've been knitting for myself for months and months.

I also plan on completing these wonderful paper pieced squares.  If you do not already subscribe to Jennifer Ofenstein's blog I suggest you do so.  The purchase price for this monthly pattern was insanely affordable and beautiful.  Just go to www.sewhooked.com.

I have also joined Fandom in Stitches, The Project of Doom.   It is a Harry Potter Bookcase  Quilt Along.  I am not a Harry Potter fan but I'm not a hater, either:  I just never read the books for saw the movies.  I do, however, love the paper pieced bookcase quilt.

So, as you can see I have lots of plans for this year and I intend to try to keep current with all these projects through, "A Lovely Year of Finishes."

The End of 2014

 

I have been very busy over the past few months.  I made a Valor quilt for my brother who is a USMC veteran who served in the Gulf War in 1991.  I finished a pair of socks for my sister-in-law that were started by her mother before she passed away in July 2013.  I also had some of the sweaters her mother was working on completed by a local finisher.  They came out beautiful and all were given to Abby for Christmas this year.

Front of Sean Michael's Valor Quilt

 

Back of Valor Quilt

Laurel's Socks




 The bear below is wearing one of the sweaters Laurel started and I had finished for her by a wonderful finisher here in Las Vegas.



Laurel's Bear Cub

 I also designed and made the quilt below for my boss.  Her father was a minister and she is a very active member of her church and sings in the choir.


Denise's Christmas 2014 Quilt



 

Holy Purse Strings Batman!!

I have been working on this purse for so long now I honestly don't know for sure when I even started it.  The purse is finished now and it turned out lovely.