I keep seeing other bloggers looking over their previous year and thinking that is kind of neat, but I don't have enough to put together. I looked through my flickr photstream and was quite amazed at my finishes and the new things that I tried. Hopefully, I can remember to do this each year.
I'm making this bag as part of a friendship bag swap. I have the bag finished; now I have the next couple of weeks to work on goodies to put inside the bag. I have a few ideas, but I'm not positive what else is going in . . . yet.
I wanted to try out the Happy Zombie's pattern for Christmas tree pants and overall I'm pretty happy with it. I made this for my parents and wanted to go with more traditional Christmas colors for them. I did some free motion quilting on here as well.
Dutchcomfort sent me these coasters and a Halloween themed mug rug and she doesn't even celebrate Halloween in her country. It is so fun to receive the international swaps - I end up learning the neatest things. 
I love the whimsical side of Halloween. I've also enjoyed watching more and more quilting projects incorporate crocheting. Once I finished these coasters, I just thought they begged for a crochet border. Hopefully, my partner thinks so too!!
I've been wanting to try out Amy's pattern (During Quiet Time blog) for a while. Since I signed up for the Scrappy Bits Swap and my partner wanted the colors that I had out, I decided to make the Rosy Wedge Bag for my swap item to try the pattern out. My partner had several dresdens in her mosaic, so I also decided to try my newest rotary guide out too. These are the 2'1/2 inch wedges. Overall, I love how it turned out and hopefully my partner does as well.
This began from a free pattern from my LQS; however, I changed the dimensions, added hand quilting and applique and here we go. I like how it turned out and hope my partner does as well. Some of the scraps are from when I first started quilting 13 years ago.
Posts
All Comments
