Oh wow, how did I not ever post in 2025? I seriously did not plan on that! I did finish a couple of items in 2025 that I should have posted and I worked on so many things last year!
I finally got back to quilting on the long arm and finished working on my Crowning Star quilt. Almost the entire thing was done with ruler work and I loved how it turned out. This was completed in February 2025, took almost 2 years if I remember to complete it – EPP for the entire center!
I did complete a special gift for Cassie’s birthday in March, I had originally intended it as a Christmas present! It turned out really nicely, I used my Scan and Cut to add the footprints all around the frame. She loved it and at some point I’m going to do one for myself using the Hufflepuff colors (she’s a Gryfindor!).
At guild meetings I issue short monthly (or a couple months) challenges. March last year was a color by number challenge – I had saved it for a long time and decided it was time for everyone to do it. We did have a lot of people do the challenge, using various sized squares. Mine used 2.5″ squares and I love how it turned out. It’s currently hanging in the half bath on a wall that needed a little bit of color!
I worked on various quilt tops for Honor Quilts at guild. We gift quilts to veterans in our county. Various people work on the tops but they need people to quilt them. Since I have the long arm it’s easy for me to do, I just have to take the time to do it.
In August or September my favorite EPP designer, Elise Baek created a design to make a tree skirt all in EPP. So what did I do? Decided to make both the kids tree skirts for Christmas. I don’t know why I thought it was a good idea, but to my surprise I was able to do all the work for both quilts in 3 months and get them completed finished just 8 days before Christmas. Cassie’s was entirely out of Harry Potter fabrics and Alex’s was out of all kinds of plane fabric I found on Ebay.
I also finished 19 Diamond painting canvases, too many to post pictures here! I even did 2 of them for a gift for my brother-in-law of his 2 favorite football teams. I need to get back to working on them this year!
I’ll try and be around more, it might help me to work on projects!