2017 in Review!

It was a great year at my house!  Between family activities, the day to day stuff, and quilting, I am pleased with how it all went.

I always try to do a year in review on my quilting.  It is mostly for me as a record, but feel free to read along.  Those who are avid followers have already seen it throughout the year.

First off, I got my first two wonderful grand babies.  Meet Ira and Arie.  It has been such a joy to see my daughters as mothers.  I love watching how much they truly enjoy motherhood.  

Below is Newborn Ira

He is a little cowboy!

This is 5 month Ira.

Here is newborn Arie.

This one is 4 month Arie with her mommy.

I have enjoyed weekly email correspondence with my son who is serving a church mission in Germany. I can't wait for July 2018 when he returns from his two years of serving the German people.  I also have two quilt tops I want to make for him before his return and another ready to quilt.

I completed 9 quilt tops this year.

I feel most achieved in completing my Dear Jane.  It has been 7 1/2 years since I started it.  Dear Jane is such a major project!  It is half basted.

The Christmas Log Cabin quilt has been 4 years.  I thought it would never get done!  It is basted and I have started quilting it.

The other three were quilted and are in the quilted list:  Priceless Quilt for Theresa, jeeps, and cowboy.

I quilted 6 tops for myself and 10 for others.  Wow, I hope this year the tables turn with more of mine.

Mine:
I just had to make baby quilts for my grands.  The little guy will be around horses and dogs his whole life.  The little girls family likes to go jeeping in Moab.  Her mother wanted a girly jeep quilt for her crib.

The Flowering Snowball was a Stashbee quilt.  I LOVE it!  These blocks came from all over the world.  I did make more than half of them.

Out of this group of quilts, the Snowman Embroidery is my most accomplished.  It took several years of hand embroidery at my son's wrestling tournaments to finish it. I thought I would never do a hand embroidered quilt again because of the hours and hours involved, but another Crab Apple Hill pattern is really calling to me.  I actually have two Christmas ones I want to make as well as a Halloween one.

Other people's:
With the exception of three, all of the quilts below I was deeply involved in besides  quilting them.  They were family round robins of which I sewed 1/5 of.  Mom's Medallion below was not a family round robin but I designed the quilt.  There are many wonderful memories with family in the quilts on this list.

Tracy's quilt below is my favorite quilting I achieved this year!  I was just very pleased with how it turned out.

Today's linkies include:

Crazy Mom Quilts

Can I get a Whoop Whoop?

Finished or Not Friday

TGIFF

Show off Saturday

Deana: 2016 in Review

I enjoy reviewing my quilting accomplishments each year.  This was a slow sewing year for me in comparison to many other years, but that is ok.  I do what I can.

Generally I set quilting goals each year but I did not for 2016 because I knew it would be a busy one.  I realize that I get so much less done when I don't set high goals, but then, other things are more important like family and employment.  

Here are the quilts I quilted in 2016.  None were for me, but I enjoyed doing them just the same:

1.  Aunt Joann's Quilt

2.  Becky's Braid

3.  Becky's Windmill

4.  Apple Core Quilt for Aunt Joann

5.  Shimmer fabric quilt for Mom

6.  Scrappy Quilt for Mom

7.  Brielle's Braid

8.  Linda's Flowers- I didn't get a quilted photo before giving it away.

9.  Chelsea & TJ's Flowers

I didn't finish many tops this year and honestly, two of these still need a border:

1.  Stashbee's Sweet Cherry Orange

2.  Block Lotto Winning Quilt

3.  Periwinkle
4.  Linda's Flowers
5.  Mom's Horse Quilt

Patterns Written:
1.  Family Mystery

19 StashBee Blocks made

5 Block Lotto Blocks made

10 Dear Jane Blocks complete

I am linking up today with:

Monday Making
Main Crush Monday

Deana's quilty year in review...

Good-bye 2016!

Goodbye to Dearest Grandpa Winkler and loving father-in-law Doug.  Good-bye to Heather Jacobson and her young son Broc.  Yes, they are all on the other side of the veil now and are missed.

Good-bye...not really good-bye... to two wonderful daughters who got married, but hello to two new son-in-laws.  Along with the weddings, good-bye savings (ha ha, it was worth it).

Good-bye to my old Adult Ed job and hello full-time junior high teacher.  Hello math.

Isn't it amazing what changes can take place in a year?

Here is my quilty year in review:

I love keeping track of my progress monthly and annually.  For some reason it keeps me moving forward and getting things done. 

My goal was to finish a top a month and quilt and bind a quilt a month. Here is a look at 2015.

Finishes for me:
1.  Jan "Autumn Flowers"
2.  Feb "Jessi's Medallion"
3.  Mar "Birdhouse Picket Fence"
4.  June "Dana's Hexagon Pleasure"
5.  July "Shimmer Braid"
6.  July "Dorinda"
7.  Oct "Stars and Barns"
8.  Nov "Jolynn's Medallion"
9.  Dec "Deb's 30s Chain"

Quilting for others:
1.  July "Mom's Black N Gold"

UFO Tops done for me:
1.  Jan "Grand Illusion"
2.  Feb "Storm at Sea" family round robin
3.  Feb "Shimmer Braid"
4.  Mar "Quilter's Garden"
5.  Apr "Snowman Embroidery"
6.  July "Flowering Snowball"
7.  Oct "Stars and Barns"
8.  Oct "Brielle's Braid"
9.  Oct "Jolynn's Medallion"

Progress on other projects:

#1.  26 Stashbee Blocks

#2.  11 Block Lotto Blocks - I won 48 blocks in November as shown on my design wall!

#3.  6 Dear Jane Blocks

#4.  Family Round Robin Quilts:  I did 1/6th of the work in each of these quilts.

5.  Table cloths and hay covers for daughter's wedding

Patterns written:

1.  Quilter's Garden
2.  Americana Row Quilt
3.  Spring Row Quilt
4.  Shimmer Braid

Quilts Designed but patterns not written:

1.  Bear in the Woods
2.  Scottish Dancers

I think I am very tired from looking at all that work!

I am linking up with:

Val's Tuesday Archives
Fabric Frenzy Friday
Can I get a Whoop Whoop?