If the only prayer you ever say is, "Thank you," that will be enough.
~Eckhart Toile
Quilting Review 2021
Personal matters still occupy most of my attention but there was time this weekend to pull this post together. I'm not doing anything new but I occasionally read some of your posts. They are welcome reminders! Hopefully I will be back by summer. We'll see.
Staying home again this year gave me the time to finish several long term projects. DH is delighted his Giants baseball quilt was finished in time for the playoffs. What fun to watch the games under it.
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| SF Giants baseball quilt |
And the back... because you might forget what Giants fans we are. ;-) Two-sided quilts more than double the fun. I've made a few but need to figure out how to make more.
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| SF Giants baseball quilt back |
What a delight to see the Shadow Star quilt on our bed {where the applique shows up nicely}
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| Shadow Star quilt |
and the Wheel quilt in the guest room.
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| Wheel quilt |
I quilted the baseball quilt on my domestic machine {hey, it's smaller} but sent the two behemoths to my friend, Peg Collins. What beautiful work she does.
The rest of the year focused on clearing my excessive stash by making kawandi placemats and baby quilts.
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| Kawandi placemat |
As usual there were several styles of baby quilts. When I get a new idea I like to reprise it. Small changes help me explore the usually easy designs. It's a way of slowing down even when I make several during the year.
This time, there were Hatchets
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| Hatchet 4 quilt in blue |
and Hourglasses
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| Red and yellow Hourglass quilt |
and Crosses
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| Cross quilt 3 |
and more Scrappy Trips/ Postage Stamp quilts
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| Scrappy Trip in green |
and Strings
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| String Tulip 3 quilt |
along with a new style. Is it Coins or Strings or simply a scrap quilt?
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| LOVE baby quilt |
Reading
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer is a joyfully meditative series of reflections on the natural world blending her Potawatomi heritage with her botany degree. In addition to looking at plants with scientific tools and questions, she also acknowledges them as our oldest teachers. There is much to consider in this book, not the least is viewing the abundance of nature as a gift to be treasured and reciprocated rather than a resource to be collected and hoarded. It's an excellent example of the importance of listening to multiple viewpoints.
Wishing us all a safer and more constructive world in 2022.