2022 Round up

 This year has been a rather fragmented one for me: a lot of health issues, a couple of stays in hospital, lots of appointments and the death of my sister so not as much sewing has been done.

I have continued to participate in the monthly RSC project and have added to various block stashes and made quilts from other block stashes I had accumulated. I also made a small wall hanging quilt in the Ukrainian flag colours for a family who came to live with Ukrainian relatives in our town.

I completed 12 quilts this year including 5 which will be donated to the Linus Project and 4 which will be donated to the Maternity Unit at our local hospital.

The Linus Project ones, all around 40” square.

These are the Maternity Unit quilts, all measuring around 24” square.

I am working on a lap sized quilt using most of the RSC Twinkler blocks I had stored away. I’m now hand quilting with Off white Perle threads around the stars in the centre of the blocks. It will be a gift for a young member of the family.

Last year I chose a Word for the Year which was Consider. I found this useful as it did encourage me to consider my answers before I committed myself to a new thing. I realised at the beginning of 2022 that I was starting to run out of steam and tire more quickly so at the beginning of February I thought long and hard about the Visually Impaired Group I had been leading and doing all sorts of jobs for (including treasurer) and decided that I would finish at the end of July when we broke up for the summer holiday. The best decision I made because by the end of June I started all my health problems.

I used my Word Consider in lots of other situations, teaching myself not to immediately say Yes and not to straight away to offer to help with something. In the past I have always done this but now realise that it’s time for me to take on less, not more!

This year the Word I have chosen is Energy. I don’t have much energy these days so it is important that I use it wisely. Also I hope to be able to build up my energy, trying to walk a little and have more energy for meeting up with friends. I am still not allowed to drive so that means they have to visit me or my husband drives me to their houses so more arrangements have to be made ahead of time.

So, I’m hoping for a happier and healthier 2023 and wish everyone a Happy New Year.

Joining up with Angela’s So Scrappy blog and the RSC Project.

RSC 2022 Quilt finish

 I have been making Wonky Star blocks most months for two or three years as part of the RSC project.

I’ve already used some blocks in several quilts  but decided to use a whole lot more to make this Project Linus quilt:

It measures 40” square and uses 36 Wonky Stars. I used a piece of leftover fabric for the border and joined leftover pieces of yellow and cream fabrics for the binding.

A couple of years ago when I needed to replenish my stash of backing fabrics I got 3 metres of this lovely autumn leaf fabric which I love:

A close up of some of the blocks:

My niece and two nephews have started the sad task of getting my sister’s house ready for sale and asked if there was anything I would like to keep. One of the items that I wished to have was a little quilt I made for Pat’s birthday in April 2005. It was designed to hang on her kitchen wall where it’s had pride of place ever since. Pat was a wonderful gardener hence the design I chose had that theme. It was from a book of Australian quilts which I’m sure I still have in my Quilting bookcase. Here it is on the wall of my landing, opposite my Sewing Room so every time I go in and out of there I shall think of my lovely big sister.

Light not the best today, well it’s early December, only 4C out there and dark and dreary.

Linking up with Angela’s So scrappy blog.

The embroidered words say “Planters Patch”.