Projects! That's what my life has always been about, whether I've been working or retired. Projects seem to keep me going. A member of our quilt guild posted a great worksheet for the year's planning, and I think I'll give it a whirl.
Over the years, I have been keeping a little notebook of details about each quilt I'm working on - size, date begun/finished piecing/finished, some info about the techniques. I can stuff the worksheet into my notebook although I doubt if I'll fill in the section called "did I sew this week?" which is totally absurd for me. I sew almost every day!
My main project right now is the Bigfoot quilt for Chris' birthday January 15 when I hope to have the top ready to show him. I will ask Marie to quilt it since it's going to be bigger than I like to quilt on my Elna. I am halfway around the scrappy checkerboard border now. I know it's risky to add one side at a time, but I decided that, if it doesn't work out evenly on the last round, I will put an appliqued Bigfoot corner on instead of finishing the checkerboard. Then there will be two plain borders and then I'll be finished.
After I get the checkerboard done, I may take a day off and work on a few blocks of the month, for the first blocks of Aby's "Optimism" quilt and the guild's BOM. After I finish the Sasquatch quilt, I will try to return to Dear Jane for a while. I have made and quilted half of the interior rows and would like to make the other 7 by the end of the year. There will be distractions, and that's OK.
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how many dear jane quilts have you made over the years? I remember that is how we "met" doing Dear Jane quilts - I made two and that was it for me and I don't even have my book anymore. After those two I never felt like doing another
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