Happy New Year!
At the beginning of 2023, I compiled a list of things that I'd like to achieve in the sewing room. Less than half of them happened but that doesn't worry me. I still achieved some things, which is gratifying, and progressed quite a few other projects.
In the year, I've made:
- two baby quilts https://patchmaggie.blogspot.com/2023/12/
- some mindless sewing https://patchmaggie.blogspot.com/2023/10/
- two shirts and an apron https://patchmaggie.blogspot.com/2023/05/
- bunting for my daughter's shop https://patchmaggie.blogspot.com/2023/03/
- two quilts finally finished https://patchmaggie.blogspot.com/2023/01/
Not too bad really, considering how busy I was outside the sewing room.
And I made one more thing - one of those DREAMI projects, which I forgot to post about. (DREAMI = DRop Everythind And Make It). I just couldn't resist.
On our return from holiday this year, I wanted to do some mindless sewing and made a 1600"quilt from a jelly roll. The top is hanging up, waiting for a border and quilting and binding, but that doesn't matter. The 1600" quilt is a great way of getting a quilt top done in very quick time. Take a jelly roll - 40 strips of fabric 2 1/2"wide x width of fabric - and sew them end to end, fold the long strip in half and sew along the long edge, and repeat until you have a reasonable sized quilt.
Possible sewing goals for 2024
- Elephant wallhanging - complete the binding and hanging loops and give to my friend. It has been hanging around for more than a year (see what I did there?)
- Sundress - make one or more sundresses for my granddaughter, from a pattern that she will grow out of all too quickly
- Dress - make a dress for myself
- Hat - make cloth bucket hat for myself. I really struggle to find nice hats that fit my big head
- Pants - make some lightweight pants for travelling for myself
- Baby quilt - make a quilt for T & S's new baby due in February
- Baby quilts - cut and sew a few quilt tops ready to give as gifts when babies are born
- Quatro quilt - progress the hand piecing of the top
- Quilting - choose a couple of tops from the box and quilt them up
- Batman quilt - a Scottish friend has promised to visit us if I make him a Batman quilt so why not.....
- Army quilt - now that my husband has retired from the army, I will make a quilt from all his old army T-shirts
- Quilt record book - I have a physical record of most of the quilts and embroideries that I've done over the years, but it needs to be caught up, and I want to make a digital record as well.
