Now that the last year is finally in our rear-view mirror , it's time to look forward with anticipation and hope. I tend not to make resolutions but choose to call them goals.
My big quilting goal for this new year is to finally finish the oldest ufo in the room, Quilty 365. Hoping to work on the hand quilting for at least an hour every day, and beginning with good intentions I started working on it again yesterday. It may take most of the year since my hand quilting progresses slowly, but slowly is definitely better than not at all!
My goal for the month of January is to set all the sunflower blocks for my Diamond Jubilee quilt into their backgrounds. I worked on the first one today, my least favorite of the 13 total (in case it turned out to be a disaster - which it nearly was).
The background is just a tad lighter than the photo would indicate. There was only a smallish piece of this fabric, and the ONLY thing in my stash that even came close to being a good background for this particular block. And, I was planning to cut a big circle out of the background and inset the sunflower, pin baste and stitch it all down on the old Singer 201. Of course I read the directions for the circle cutter template wrong and my first cut out was an inch too large! So, trimming up the remaining pieces of that fabric I stitched a frankenblock from three pieces (wouldn't our great-grandmothers have done the same?) and recut a smaller circle. Lots of pinning and slow stitching later this is the result. Needs a better press and a bit of squaring up but I'm pleased overall with the result. Now, on to the more fun blocks! Maybe one or two per day until all 13 are finished, then we can move forward to all the surrounding flying geese sashings in February.
I'm joining Patty at Elm Street Quilts again this year by linking this post to her
One Monthly Goal linkup for January.
I hope you're enjoying this first day of a brand new year with better weather than we have right now. We're expecting freezing rain over the next 12-18 hours, our area is expecting around 1/2 inch of ice before it warms up sometime on Saturday. That will probably mean loss of power over wide areas of the state, so my husband powered up the generator to be sure everything is in working order when that happens.
Til next time, or when the power comes back on,
