It's a mystery, part 4

This week's clue had options on whether to make pieced blocks or not.  There were different piecing options included as well.  I went with the lazy woman's way and didn't piece the blocks.  This option will still give me great color variations in my quilt but also gave me time to finish up the previous clues!

Here are my "blocks" for this week's clue:

I was also able to completely finish off my red 9-patches (all squared up) and my green half chevrons (also all squared up).  Both of those sets are also at the correct numbers I needed.

I also worked on getting my blue HSTs (half square triangles) squared up and counted and the green HSTs that were "buddies" from the half chevron blocks.  I haven't finished these yet, but hopefully by this Friday's clue I'll be all caught up.

Here are the blocks that I have totally done:

You can see how everyone else is progressing, including some cool alternative color choices, at this Monday's Link Up!

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

It's a mystery, part 3

Well, part 3 was released this past Friday as usual.  I did make a start on the clue.  This time, we were using greens and neutrals.  This block also has a "buddy block" (made as a result of these).  Here are the few of the main block that I got completely finished.

Here are the even fewer buddy blocks that I got done - these are even squared up!

This is definitely proving to be a mystery.  While I've done 3 clues, I don't have a clue how these are going to come together!

See others who are working on this at the Quiltville Monday Link-Up for the mystery.

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

It's a mystery, part 2

I'm so proud of myself!  I finished cutting and stitching all of the pieces I needed for clue #2!  I still need to
iron and square them up, but I'm ahead of where I expected to be on a Monday.

Here is a sample of my "blocks" for clue #2:

I was surprised by how many blues I ended up with.  It was either 14 or 17 different fabrics.  I'm going for ultra-scrappy on this one.  lol

Hopefully, by the time the next clue comes out on Friday, I'll have ironed and squared all of the blocks from clues 1 & 2.  I adjusted my ironing board so that I could sit down to use it in order to save my back some grief.  It seems to be working so far!

See others who are working on this at the Quiltville Monday Link-Up for the mystery.

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

It's a mystery!

Hi All!

Thanksgiving is over.  Hubby and I had an enjoyable trip out-of-town for the day.  We were non-traditional, we had prime rib!

I've survived decorating our house and shop for Christmas.  I love doing it, but it does a number on my back.  Thankfully, I've gotten back into yoga so while I still hurt, I was able to walk upright the next day!  Since I've only been back at my yoga for a couple of weeks, I'd say it's definitely improving my life.

The day after Thanksgiving, Bonnie Hunter started the clues for her Good Fortune Mystery.

I've made a start on the pieces for this first clue:

Because my current cutting table is too low for my height, I alternate between cutting and sewing.  That means I've only got about 25% of my pieces done so far.  I'm hoping to get the rest done before the next clue comes out on Friday.

ETA:  I'm planning on building a cutting table for my height (5'9½" - very long legs!) but I'll make due with this one for awhile.  I've already drafted plans for my new, custom, cutting table!

I am using the recommended color palette.  The variety of colors is more than I would normally use in a quilt, but so was last year's mystery and I ended up loving it!

If you want to see all of the other participants' progress, you can click here:  Monday Link-Up.  Not everyone is using the same palette, so it's great to see how different something the same can look with just alternate colors.

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

Quilt top finish

Whew!  I finished a quilt top (aka a "flimsy") last night.  It's a zipper or cobblestone quilt, though zipper seems to be the preferred name.

Of course, with any form of quilt, a cat has to get involved.  Say "hi" to Spooky.  ;-)

Most of the time, you will see this quilt pattern use whites for the squares.  I happened to have a lot of black squares so I used them instead.

The squares are 2" (1½" finished) and the bricks (rectangles) are 2" x 3½" (1½" x 3" finished).  There are 20 square/brick sets across the width and 61 rows.  Finished size of the top is 90" x 91½".

I'm thinking that I won't put on any borders and I'll bind it with a black & white binding.  That will probably be awhile from now.  I've got so many flimsies that I need to layer, quilt, and bind before this one.

I wanted to get this one finished and off my design wall so that I'd have room to work on Bonnie Hunter's upcoming mystery.  For that, you can find information at Quiltville.  She has the fabric requirements posted and the first step in the mystery will be posted on Black Friday, November 23rd.

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

Antique quilt

I know that technically, this quilt might not be "antique" (100 or more years old), but it's close!  The top was made by my great grand aunt who passed in 1945, so at the very least, it's 73 years old.  The pattern is Grandmother's Flower Garden.

My backing fabric is a tone-on-tone white, 108" wide piece.  I did launder it before I started.  The batting is Warm & Natural, off the roll from my local quilt shop.

The fabrics are cottons, flower sacks, and something silky.  That's just in the bit that I've quilted.  Who knows what other fabrics are in it?  I guess I'll find out when I get there.  Some of the hexies are even pieced with seams running through the middle of them!

The yellow centers and the two surrounding rows are what forms a "flower".  The green hexagons (hexies) are the path between the flowers.

I don't have a photo of the entire quilt...yet, but here is a shot of it as I was loading it on my quilting frame.  The bottom edge wasn't pinned yet which is why it looks wrinkly.

I've started on hand-quilting it and have made 2 complete "passes" and started on my third.  A pass is filling in the available workable area from center to left then center to right (or vise versa).

The first pass, took care of the bottom yellow border and some of the green path hexies.  I'm using Meandering Leaves as the stencil for the yellow border and I'm stitching with a green from Essential Threads.  For the green hexies, I'm using the 6-petaled flower from the Dritz stencil Cornered Feathers 4" and I'm using Gütermann thread in a variegated yellow.

For every green hexie, I'm putting money in a jar.  A penny each for the first 4, the 5th is a nickel, then pennies until the 10th which is a dime, the 25th is a quarter and so on.  The money that I save up will go toward my new quilting studio (see previous post for more info).

The flowers are getting quilted in simple arcs which creates 12-petaled flowers.  I'm using the yellow Gütermann thread for these, too.

I've completed 3 of the 5 flowers on the first row of the quilt and I'm getting close to the last of the green hexies heading left from the center.  It will be nice to get to the left border just for a color change.

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

Quilt Studio...it begins

Months ago, I was trying to move some shelving (the kind on wall brackets) to an alcove in my upstairs sewing room.  Hubby came up to help me as I was having issues that I figured couldn't be overcome (no studs in the side wall).  Unfortunately, I was correct and the shelves would have to stay where they were.

As he was heading back downstairs, hubby suggested that I turn our "back room" into my quilting studio.  He's a darling man, I'm definitely keeping him.  We've just been using that room as a "dumping" area for stuff.  My office does occupy about 1/3 of it, and my piano is the only thing in the other 2/3, apart from the "stuff".

Just a couple of days after hubby made his brilliant suggestion, my father-in-law moved in while recovering from foot surgery.  The 2/3 of the room became his office and bedroom.  My piano got pushed into a closet area and all the other stuff got removed from the room.  This past Saturday, after 4½ months, FIL moved back to his own house!

Now that all of FIL's stuff is back at his house, I have a blank canvas to work with.  It's going to be a looonnngg process!  Here's my starting point:

You can just see the edge of my desk and chair in the foreground.  Everything from there to the piano will be my quilting studio!  The piano will end up staying in the alcove (former closet).  First up, painting!  Since I'm going to put in new flooring, it makes sense to paint first so that I don't have to worry about spills or spatter.

The brownish ceiling will be first and it's going to be white.  There is only one window in this room and one exterior door so there isn't much natural light.  I'm going to paint directly over the paneling in a soft white.  The piano alcove and the interior of the closet to the right will be light, beachy tones.  Probably a blue or green sea-glass tone.

Okay, I said painting was first.  It's not.  I have to clear out the rest of the room as best I can in order to paint.  I'm making a start, but as hubby would put it, I'm puttering at it.  ;-)

Will post updates as they happen!  Don't hold your breathe between posts though.  I'm only going to do things as I can pay for them in cash.  I'm not going into debt (no credit card purchases) to do this project!

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

Blogger's Quilt Festival: Charmed

I had such lovely feedback on both of my quilts in the Blogger's Quilt Festival last time, that I thought I'd show 2 quilts this time as well.

The second quilt, I call "Charmed".

I made this for my dear friend, Megan.  She and I have been friends for 39 years.  I don't know how that's possible, since neither one of us is over 29!  

I call this "Charmed" because it's similar to the old charm quilts.

"Charm quilts are quilts that are made using a different fabric for each piece of the pattern." 

- antiquequilthistory.com

Mine isn't quite that scrappy.  Since I used a four-patch, I did duplicate each fabric - once.  Each four-patch has 2 fabrics, one pair of each fabric.  However, the fabric pairs in each four-patch are not repeated in the quilt.  I also used just one black and one white fabric for all the sashing, cornerstones, and borders.

I think I need to make her a new one though.  Last time I saw this quilt, it was well-loved and quite faded.  Hmm, I've always wanted to make a French Braid quilt, maybe I'll do a purple one for her.

Edited to add:  I don't know if Megan even knows I have a blog so no idea if she'll see this or not.  We do talk and "see" each other on FB.

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

Blogger's Quilt Festival: Bull's Eye!

The Blogger's Quilt Festival was so much fun last time, I thought I'd join in again!

This is one of my favorite quilts that I've made...well of the finished ones, anyway!

The blocks in this quilt were part of an internet exchange.  Everyone made one 11" unfinished block, then whacked it into quarters, kept one of their quarters, and sent the other 3 to the exchange hostess.  That means that at least 1/4 of the block in this were mine.

I played with different layouts before I chose the one above.  Here are some of my other options:

This one was fine, but it didn't really "speak" to me.

I liked this one a lot even though I didn't use it.  I'm planning on making another one just so I can do this layout!

I did end up hand-quilting it.  Here's a photo of it on my Grace frame:

...and here's a close-up of the actual quilting:

I used Essential Threads, primary colors (red, yellow, blue).  The black border has an oak leaf stipple, the white border is a simple chain, and the body of the quilt is a rose stipple.

For anyone interested, I do have a tutorial for the block here.  Here's what one complete block looks like before and after "whacking" it.  Seeing it like this, helps explain the Bull's Eye name:

 

I hope you like my quilt as much as I do.  It was so much fun to make and it's definitely one of the cheerier quilts I've done!

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

God Speed progress

Hello Everyone!

Yesterday, I finished page 12 on God Speed from HAED!.  This girl has some really long hair and, boy, is she a carrot top!  ;-)

You can also see some of the other knights that are just outside the portcullis.  When I was stitching them, they just looked like dark blobs.  It's amazing how a few lighter stitches around the edges can bring something into focus!

Next project chosen by my randomizer app:  Sistine Chapel.  It's been awhile since I've worked on this one.  I will be working on page 7.

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

New start progress pic!

I started a new project!  I had my largest scroll frame open after I finished La Belle Dame Sans Merci so I chose something that would make the best use of the size:  Supersized Farewell to Anger MC from HAED.

Before you ask, yes, I am crazy.  Oh wait, you want to know what Supersized and MC mean?  Okay.  Supersized means that the longest side, in this case the top/bottom, is maxed out at 999 stitches.  The overall size is 999 x 660 for a total of 659,340 stitches.

MC stands for Max Colors (or Colours for my UK readers).  On this chart the MC means 240 colors are used.  See, I told you I was crazy!

It gets better (or worse)!  In order to fit this on my 30" (76.2cm) scroll frame, I did the calculations and figured out I need to stitch it on 40ct. to get it to fit without stitching it sideways.  Yes, I've done that before and it's not hard, but I did want to keep the finished size manageable so I wouldn't have to spend a fortune on framing.

Sunday night, I finished the first page!  Only 90 more to go!

I meant to put a coin on the fabric for a size reference but I forgot to grab one.  The stitched area is 2" (50.8cm) wide x 2.45" (6.22cm) high which is smaller than a standard sized business card.

I should mention that I'm doing this in half stitches with one strand because, after all, it is 40ct.  I did start out doing full crosses but I found it too hard to see where the missing stitches were so I restarted in half stitches.

Since I finished this page, that means next up in my rotation is God Speed.  

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

Little Bee Eater progress

I finished another page on Little Bee Eater [retired] from HAED!  This makes pages 1-3 and 7 finished (4-6 didn't have any stitches).  Next up is page 8.

This is the project that I work on if I have free time during the day (business hours).  Work has slowed down a bit so I've had time.  In the evenings, I'm currently working on SS Farewell to Anger MC, also from HAED.

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

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I haven't had a chance to check out all the deals but I do buy on Amazon frequently.  We won't say how frequently 'cause that would get me in trouble with hubby.  ;-)
Happy Stitching (or Shopping)!
Stacy

God Speed progress

Woo hoo!  Last night, I finished another page on God Speed from HAED!  The page I finished was page 11 of 30.  Here is my progress so far:

This is on 25ct., and I'm stitching 2x1 full crosses.

For my next project, my randomizer app chose:  SS Farewell to Anger MC.  Since this is a new start and it was fairly late when I finished the page on God Speed, I only managed to get my fabric onto the scroll rods and about a dozen stitches in before I had to call it a night.

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

Little Bee Eater more progress

I have another page finish on Little Bee Eater (retired) from HAED!  Ok, fine, I'll admit it - it was a tiny page.  Page 7 is officially done though!  hehehe  On the left is pages 1 & 2; on the right is pages 1, 2, 7 and a tiny bit on 3.

That's all for now.

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

Charts with ALL the DMC colors?

I've seen this come up on a few online groups recently:  people wondering if there are any charts that use all of the DMC (solid) colors.  To my knowledge, there are 2.

The first is Floral Finesse.  I've listed this one first for two reasons:  I'm working on it and it hasn't been updated with new colors.  This one was charted for the DMC 250th anniversary and used every solid color available at that time.  That means it uses 390 colors.  Here's my progress on it so far:

The second one was originally charted at the same time and used 390 colors.  It has since been updated to be 447 colors (it doesn't used the 7 colors that were "merged/discontinued" in European markets).  This one is by Joan Elliott and it's the Angel of Cross Stitch.  The only reason that I won't stitch this is because I don't care for artistic representations of angel (fairies, elves, etc.).  Yes, I do believe in angels, I just don't like art of them.  :-)

I haven't heard of any chart that uses more than the Angel of Cross Stitch.  If anyone else knows of charts with over 400 colors, I will happily update this post to include them.  Just leave a message in the comments.

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

Little Bee Eater progress

I've made progress on my Little Bee Eater [retired] from Heaven and Earth Designs!  This is pages 1 & 2 done.

Because this chart doesn't have any background, there are a few blank pages in the chart.  Next up will be page 3 which is the right side of the bird.  Pages 4 & 5 which would finish the row of pages (left to right) are blank.  Page 6 which starts the next row down, is also blank.  Look at me go...3 pages done with lightning speed.  ;-)

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

FIU Challenge Update

Sorry I haven't written anything lately, life has gotten in the way a bit.

I've made progress on my list though!  I finished my bull's eye quilt!  You can see it below.

• Stitch a design for the candlescreen that I have
• Finish hand-quilting the Bull's Eye Quilt  completely finished on 17 June 2018
• Finish the log cabin star wall hanging
• Start hand-quilting my grand aunt's grandmother's flower garden quilt top
• Clean up the nook area in my sewing room - made a start, barely
• Finish the mystery quilt top I've started - finished 3 February
• Clean and re-frame my hummingbirds cross stitch
• Post all the stuff I have waiting to be listed in my Etsy shop
• Clean up my scrapbooking area
• Make a start on archival scanning of all my family photographs
• Get my printed recipes put into my recipe software (Living Cookbook)

It measures approximately 63" square.  I hand-quilted it using Essentials thread in Primary Colors (red/yellow/blue).  The black border has an oak leaf stipple, the white border is a simple Celtic chain, and the body of the quilt is a rose stipple.  I will be entering this in our county fair in August.  It's the only thing I've totally completed since last year's fair so it will be my only entry.

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

2018 FIU Update

I've finally made progress on a couple of my list items:  adding "stuff" to my Etsy shop and my Bullseye Quilt.
On the Etsy progress:  I'm mostly done with adding the cross stitch items, but I have quite a few quilting items still to add.  For my blog readers, I have a coupon code BLOGREADER which will give you 5% off any purchase over $10 (does not apply to shipping).

https://www.etsy.com/shop/XedStitches?coupon=BLOGREADER

On my Bullseye quilt, I'm about 75% done.  The way it is rolled on my frame, I can actually see the far border but am still stitching on the blocks.

• Stitch a design for the candlescreen that I have
• Finish hand-quilting the Bullseye Quilt
• Finish the log cabin star wall hanging
• Start hand-quilting my grand aunt's grandmother's flower garden quilt top
• Clean up the nook area in my sewing room - made a start, barely
• Finish the mystery quilt top I've started - finished 3 February
• Clean and re-frame my hummingbirds cross stitch
• Post all the stuff I have waiting to be listed in my Etsy shop
• Clean up my scrapbooking area
• Make a start on archival scanning of all my family photographs
• Get my printed recipes put into my recipe software (Living Cookbook)

Yes, I'm being silly with the strike-through on the list.

The scanning of my family photos might not happen this year.  My flatbed scanner died, may it R.I.P.  I loved that thing!  I'm saving up for a new-ish one.  I don't need one of the really new ones, just something a bit newer that what I had.  It'll have to work with my old-ish laptop which is why I'm avoiding a truly new one.

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

Rapunzel Update

Hey Everyone!

I have a page finish on my HAED, Rapunzel (Dawe)!  Here she is:

Now she has a shoulder and, well, more hair!

Normally, I would switch to my focus piece, God Speed, but I think I'm going to work on the quilt that I'm hand quilting.  I really want to show something at our county fair in August and I think the quilt is the only item I can finish in time!

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

God Speed progress

I haven't felt like stitching much lately.  I've got a stuck kidney stone.  Thankfully, I'm not in pain (pain comes when it moves), but I'm bloated, queasy, and just plain blech.  I do have a CT scan this afternoon.  Even though I've had 5 bouts of stones before the medical establishment needs "photographic proof" before they will do anything (sigh).

Most evenings, I can't wait to get into my sewing room.  The past few weeks, I've only felt up to it if I could spend the whole day there - so that the effort of tackling the stairs had a real reward.

Well, this weekend, I did manage to spend most of Saturday and Sunday stitching!  I also managed to finish a page (partial) on my focus piece, God Speed.  This completes the top 2 rows of pages!

Now that I've finished a page, it's time to rotate to another project.  My randomizer chose:  Rapunzel (Dawe).  Since this one only has 13 colors, I'm hoping a page won't take as long.

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

Floral Finesse - another page finished

Whew!  I thought I'd never finish this page!  Of course, I was distracted by the quilts I've been working on.

I've never been so eager to make quilts as I have since last July.  The only down side to that is my cross stitching has suffered from neglect.  The up side is I've finished 4 quilt tops (just the tops, so far) since last Summer.

Yesterday, I sat down and concentrated on finishing my current page on Floral Finesse.  I had all the cross stitching done, I just needed to finish the backstitching.  I tend to backstitch as I go, so thankfully, there wasn't much to do.

Here it is:

I finished this in the early afternoon and then switched to...a quilt top.  See!  I don't know why, but I've definitely been bitten by the quilting bug.

I have all of the individual blocks done, all 1,260 of them.  See?

I'm going to just take them out of the basket randomly.  The only thing I will check is that I don't use identical fabrics back to back.  I've heard this quilt referred to as a zipper quilt or a cobblestone quilt.

These are simply dark (black, navy, deep purple) 2" squares sewn onto light-ish 2" x 3½" bricks.  They'll all face the same way, square/brick, as I sew them into rows.  The rows will be 20 blocks wide, or 90" finished.  When I assemble the rows into the quilt, every other row will be flipped.  In other words, row 1 will start with a brick, row 2 will start with a square, row 3 will be a brick, and so on.

Here are the first 5 rows.  Each row is complete but I haven't sewn the rows together yet.  I am going to wait until all the rows are done so that I can keep identical fabrics away from each other.

I did switch back to cross stitching on God Speed (HAED) after I'd gotten this much done but I didn't take a photo.

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

2018 FIU Challenge Update

Hello!

I have progress on my list!  It's not much...yet, but it is better than nothing.

• Stitch a design for the candlescreen that I have
• Finish hand-quilting the Bullseye Quilt
• Finish the log cabin star wall hanging
• Start hand-quilting my grand aunt's grandmother's flower garden quilt top
• Clean up the nook area in my sewing room - made a start, barely
• Finish the mystery quilt top I've started - finished 3 February
• Clean and re-frame my hummingbirds cross stitch
• Post all the stuff I have waiting to be listed in my Etsy shop
• Clean up my scrapbooking area
• Make a start on archival scanning of all my family photographs
• Get my printed recipes put into my recipe software (Living Cookbook)

Here's a photo of the finished quilt top:

This was Bonnie Hunter's On Ringo Lake mystery.  It's the first of her mysteries that I've done.  I used her suggested colors because they were out of my comfort zone and it was a way to expand my personal horizons...so to speak.  ;-)

As a mystery quilt, this has been retired.  However, she does have the pattern available for purchase on her website (see link above).

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

Sweatshirt

I know, it's an odd title for a blog post.  However, it is what I made for hubby for Christmas.

Hubby has this old, ratty sweatshirt that he loves.  It's hideous looking though.  It used to be black but had gotten some bleach spots on it, so I washed it with the whites to really bleach it.  That made it turn orange.  Ugh!  It also has holes in several places.  Holes that I couldn't "fix".  I know because I tried.

The problem is the company that made it, hasn't made that style for years.  Hubby had scoured the internet looking for another one with no luck.

Well, hubby got me a very thoughtful gift for Christmas:  a Christmas addict's pack from HAED.  I knew before Christmas because their packaging is very distinctive:  a shiny, red, bubble-pack mailer.  I didn't open it until Christmas Eve so I didn't know precisely what was in it but I knew what it was.  I was so touched, I tried to figure out what I could do for him that would be as thoughtful.  Cue the sweatshirt.

I quilt, which means I sew, but I rarely sew clothing.  On the occasions when I do make clothes, I have a nice, orderly paper pattern that tells me what to do and when to do it.  I have never made anything using an existing piece as my template.  Now the nerves kicked in big time!

I knew I needed sweatshirt fleece and ribbing.  When I got to the cutting counter at Joann's (I forgot the ribbing!), I had no idea how many yards I needed.  I made a guess and crossed my fingers.  Apparently, I'm a good guesser because I had enough with a little to spare.

I won't bore you with the gory details on making the patterns I needed (it wasn't pretty).  I did follow this excellent tutorial.  Due to my paranoia over getting this gift right, it took me a full day to bring myself to make the first cut into the fleece.  It took awhile to make it.  I think it was 3 days.  I'm not sure because I was in such a state!

I finally finished it and in time for Christmas Eve!  When hubby opened it, I asked him if it looked familiar.  He said, "Yes." and promptly checked the collar for the tag!  I knew I had accomplished what I'd attempted when he did that!  He's worn it pretty much every time he's left the house since Christmas.  I doubt I'll ever give him a present as meaningful again...though I will try.

Here's the finished sweatshirt:

Sorry the picture isn't the best quality.  The sweatshirt has a double color and a kangaroo pocket.  If I get a chance to get a better photo, I will post it.

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

2018 Finish It Up Challenge

Well, this has helped me the last couple of years, so I'm going to do this again!

Here's my list for 2018:

• Stitch a design for the candlescreen that I have
• Finish hand-quilting the Bullseye Quilt
• Finish the log cabin star wall hanging
• Start hand-quilting my grand aunt's grandmother's flower garden quilt top
• Clean up the nook area in my sewing room
• Finish the mystery quilt top I've started (all clues haven't been posted yet)
• Clean and re-frame my hummingbirds cross stitch
• Post all the stuff I have waiting to be listed in my Etsy shop
• Clean up my scrapbooking area
• Make a start on archival scanning of all my family photographs
• Get my printed recipes put into my recipe software (Living Cookbook)

I might "find" a few more items to put on this list but I think I'll leave it here for now.

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

2017 FIU final progress report

Ok, here is what my final FIU list for 2017 looks like:

Here's my list for 2017:

• Put all my loose floss on bobbins
• Stitch a design for the candlescreen that I have
• Assemble my Happy Blocks quilt top
• Assemble my Crumbs quilt top
• Finish hand-quilting the Bullseye Quilt - made it just past the 50% mark
• Finish the Log Cabin Star wallhanging - need to add borders
• Hand-quilt at least 10 blocks on my Christmas Strings quilt
• Finish my Through the Storm cross stitch as a free-standing block
• Finish my green Temari ball
• Finish 1 of my Santa kits (not cross stitch)
• Make bookcases for my sewing room
• Decorate wooden "S" for my sewing room

I didn't finish as much as I'd like on last year's list but at least some of it did get completed and others saw progress.  I am going to do this again for 2018 but I'll list that in a separate post.

Happy Stitching!

Stacy