Happy New Year!
Quilting, Scrapbooking, Gardening and whatever else catches my fancy
2025 Finished Projects
Here are my finishes for 2025.
Riley Blake’s September Door Banner of the month from 2024
A review of my last 2024 WIP list.
This was the last WIP list from 2024 and I wanted to see how much from this list is done. I removed all the commentary from that post as it’s unnecessary for this post.
1. Christmas in Paris – top done!
2. Tuella and Friends – not done and not worked on in 2025
3. Judy Neimeyer’s Double Wedding Ring – started Jan. 2020 – not done and not worked on in 2025
2022 New Starts
4. Ornaments – not done and not worked on in 2025
5. Prairie something…. not done and not worked on in 2025. In fact it’s tucked away somewhere safe. Meaning I have no idea where it’s hidden in my craft room!
6. Mountain Mist: Apple Blossom (November 2022) – Not done but worked on sparingly in 2025
2023 New Starts
1. Quilty Pleasures 2023 Saturday Sampler – not done but worked on regularly during retreats and I’m hoping for a finish in 2026
2. Kit from Texas trip – 2013
…Donated to my guild for someone else to finish
3. Tula Pink’s Butterfly 2.0 – not done but worked on regularly during the year.
4. Kimberbell: Candy Corn Quilt Shoppe – not done and not worked on at all in 2025
5. Alaska Quilt by Edyta Sitar – top done actually at the end of 2024 but never posted until 2025
2024 New Starts
Happy quilting friends
Melanie
Happy Heavenly Birthday
happy heavenly birthday to my dad
SFVQA 2026-27 Opportunity Quilt – finished top
Next step is to find a quilter…
Quilt on my friends,
Melanie
Quilt in Progress: QP Saturday Sampler
Started: January 2023
I was able to work on this project at the last mini retreat.
I’m getting to the finish line and the excitement is growing.
Cheers!
Melanie
Previous blocks completed:
Monthly Door Banner – January
My focus over the last few weeks has really paid off. When I’m home on a week night, I’ve been spending some time before bed sewing my door banner together. I try to do at least 15 minutes but once started I have been going way more than 15 minutes. As such, I finished one of the three remaining banners and I’m thrilled with how cute this is.
Once it’s quilted I hope to stitch on a couple of buttons for its eyes. I have 2 more banners left:
October – Cut and ready to be pieced.
November – still needs to be cut
Here are the ones that I’ve finished and posted about before:
So I’m almost done!
I still need to do
October (cut and ready to be pieced)
November
Happy quilting
melanie
Gamer Nouveau, an update
Gamer, my main squeeze
Happy Stitching!
~Melanie
Quilt In Progress: 250 Years of Jane Austen
I had the first 3 sets of pieces done. And then started my assembly line…
First, I traced all the templates required on to the interface and then cut and pinned them to the corresponding fabric. Then cut the pieces from the fabric.
Then I started sewing on the line.
I had my little 330, my travel machine, and it does not have a knee lift. I got tired rather quickly using the hand lift at the back and put everything away after the second piece. I decided that my bigger machine with the knee lift would be a better option. And will either do this at home or bring my bigger machine to the next retreat or sew day.
Started: October 2025
Kit purchased from Quilty Pleasures
Keep on quilting!
Melanie