2024 Annual Review
Most significant achievements:
24 Karat Rondure -- continued its show circuit
Juried into these 2024 shows:
Road to California (only 20 quilts in the category...super honored to be there)
Mancuso - QuiltFest - South Carolina -- organizers asked me to move it into another category indicating they thought it would compete better. Hmmm. Since I didn't attend, I don't know, and it didn't place. But someone I knew when they were in high school (I was a bit younger) happened to be at the show and noticed my quilt. How fun!
pic courtesy of Mark and Cheri Young
Mancuso - Pacific International Quilt Fest, Santa Clara, CA - attended myself!
Mancuso - Pennsylvania - (RIBBON: Best Interpretation of the Theme)
Being displayed at: Tri-Cities Quilt Show
Ribbons received:
1st place - Minnesota Quilt Show! People's Choice at Odessa Quilt Show (Spring Fling)
Lincoln County Fair - Superintendent's Award and a blue ribbon
Best Interpretation of the Theme WSQ Spokane - 2nd Place in its category
Pennsylvania Quilt Festival
Commissions
Wedding Quilt
front side -- blocks made by family members backside - pieced coordinating blocks
Commission using spoonflower bicycle themed prints to make a bedspread.
Bicycle jersey commission
NEW DESIGN - Super Honey Beehive and made two as a commission for a client in Oregon.
Stay tuned for a new acrylic ruler --coming soon!
Basketball themed shirts (for the most part) for a Laker's lover!
Banner for Colorado organization representing their surroundings and including their logo
T-shirt quilts -- one for a son; one for the mother
New Patterns - find all the patterns here
New designs w/Island Batik fabrics
Prairie Stars
Fireworks Display
a re-work of Winter Bright ....this version is Poinsettia Window
a re-work of City Shadows ...called this quilt Flower Boxes
Four Placemat Table Topper - using Northcott's Autumn Gathering fabrics
New, Completed Projects
Picture Perfect Layer Cake and some coordinating elements. One LayerCake made both of these quilt tops. I sorted them by geometric vs. florals.
Super cute Gnome themed Christmas season fabrics ...this is the Advent Calendar. Got my mom to do the pocket basting, and then I quilted and bound it.
A fun birthday present for someone who loves Mackenzie-Childs
Seatbelt Protector - for a dear friend recovering from breast reduction surgery
also served as a sample for byAnnie campaign
Project 2.0 bags - samples for byAnnie campaign
Taught at Sew Expo 2024 -- including a couple of trunk shows.
a bit of a deviation but this diamond art is so fun! Took this on vacation with me and was a great evening activity.
Machine Embroidery work
Now offering Embroidered Labels for your quilts.
New WIPs - 2024
Boondoggle Ruler - Rainbow Runner - class sample at Sew Expo
Crazy Heart - class sample for Sew Expo 2025 - using EZPiecing foundations
Compass - class sample for Sew Expo 2025 - using EZPiecing foundations
Two secret projects ---- for Island Batik 2025
From 2023
Tulips a row from the Row by Row 2023 event
The Jr. pattern for this year's Row by Row event
2024 Bloggers Color Challenge
WIP - Really Old! - PROGRESS
Out of the Darkness - Pam Bono -
OLD LIST, once upon a time was publicly listed as 'next items' but never got started and there are too many piles of fabric destined as possible projects to list here ;-)...ha!:
- Snowflake/blizzard --except that I used some of the snowflakes as inspiration for the Cool Penguin design and in my "Protection from the Storm" several years ago
- 2007 Shop Hop the Blues - bow ties?
- 2009 Shop Hop the Blues - fall leaves?
2014 list- OWN - next up is the last large block
UNCERTAIN COMPLETIONS from 2015 list:- Lucky Pot of Gold or Ode to Ireland (a Mi Amore shamrock version) applique still to add.
2016 UFOs:- Train set - with IB Sea Salt Sandy and some other background -- an IBA challenge that I want to incorporate into something bigger. #Accuquilt dies (rentable in the classroom) were used to cut these.
- Little cars - with IB Fire Island -- an IBA challenge that I want to incorporate into something bigger. #Accuquilt die (rentable in the classroom) was used to cut these.
- Umbrellas -- an IBA challenge that I want to incorporate into something bigger. #Accuquilt die (rentable in the classroom) was used to cut these.
- Raindrops --an IBA challenge that I want to incorporate into something bigger
2017 WIP List
still needs some applique elements.
2019 WIP - Commissions
Tie quilt - awaiting progress payment from client (ready to quilt)
2021 WIP PROGRESS
2. Five pointed Star templates from Off the Wall Quilt.
From 2022
- Dancing Waters at Grand Coulee Dam (Shop hop Block)
READY TO QUILT
from 2023
from 2021
- One-Block-Wonder (OBW) using a Serendipity Panel into triangles
- William Morris Spring Honey Bun
Seaside Adventure Quilt-Along
from 2017
- Lone Star piecing (2009 class w/Eddie Walker) --thinking about quilting it by hand
from 2016
- 2016 North Central Washington Shop Hop - Come Fall into Love
from 2015
- Four Patch Flip- a spring result, but has been sitting there waiting for me to work on it. - now ready to quilt! Finished Piecing - 4/12/18
- Metro Rings
from 2014
- Electric City - a new 1892 Rondure version, stalled in 2015 --most got going in March 2017, still needed to do 3rd round. 3rd round completed May 2018. Borders added October 2018.
- Baskets - WW Valley Quilt Guild 2006 BOM (pictured years ago! and my quilting designs for it continue to evolve)
Joint Projects (ready to quilt)
- Cool Penguin, partly pieced by Julie Tapley - Country Register Pattern Sample (or add snowflakes?
- Humpty Dumpty's Wall/Poppy Dance Party/Dogwood Branch --designed by me; (Humpy Dumpty) pieced by Betty Baerg - INCORPORATED INTO GARDEN PARTY COLLABORATION QUILT
Joint WIPs:- Camouflage Canopy (waiting for tester to return it)
- Barb Kelton's pieced Emerald --thinking I need to make two more to represent my mom and my sis
- Row by Row 2018 Junior version - Piano Keys and made leftovers -- gave to mom
Totals:
Completed: 27 + 1 joint project, some just sewing projects and additionally some embroidered labels
Started the year (2024) with WIP: 26 + 6 joint projects
New WIP in 2024: 5
Ended 2024 with WIP: 30 + 5 joint projects
Note: projects for others, I quilted 69. All were hand guided, some were also bound. Lots of photos at http://www.facebook.com/kissedquilts. Or check out the 'Quilting Examples' tab on this blog. Albums have been updated.
TOTAL: 91 quiltings
Still undergoing renovations on our new larger space, I'm hopeful for a move in 2025.
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