Happy New Years Eve Eve!

Kirsten here.  2024 is almost over.  We did so much this year.  Astrid and I just finished our wall-hangings.  They are both machine-pieced, but totally hand quilted and bound, with a little bit of embroidery. I thought I would never hand-quilt another quilt, after the one I finished in 2020, which took me more than a year to get the hand-quilting done.  But there is a new stitch in town, called the long stitch.  Plus, I started doing more embroidery this year, too.

Astrid wanted to try doing the hand-quilting, so we decided to do primitive type wall-hangings, because they are not so large as regular quilts are.  We used up a few of our ever-growing piles of scraps.  It was fun to get together and sew without one of us lugging our sewing machine to the others' place.  This is a great travel project!

Jane Creates an Old-Fashioned Looking Quilt

Hi, Jane here.  I have all these old fabric scraps, and someone recently gave me some old nine-patch blocks which are amazing looking.  I decided to get scrappy and use some strips and include some of those large nine-patch blocks.  I did throw in a couple solids around the four-patch border to keep it from being too muddy looking.  Strange as it may seem, it all came together pretty well.  I just finished it up before Thanksgiving.