At the beginning if the new year it is good to look back and see how many things I did accomplish. It was quite a tough year in my professional life (I was promoted to a new position, there was a mass reduction in my workplace, not affecting me, but definitely affecting my mood, and my boss, whom I really liked left during the year) to let out the extra stress. So the net result is the abundance of quilts and some moderate progress on the stitching side.
9 Quilts:
- Christmas birdies
- Falling leaves
- Simplified Love Entwined
- Grandpa's scrappy quilt
- Skill Builder
- Scrappy Blue and Scrappy Red
- 2 Baby Quilts: Owls for Berci and the Universe for Elza
I had 2 little cross stitch finishes with herbs, thyme and oregano.
I was working on 2 major Chatelaines:
I have started Pomarium at the end of 2016, and I almost managed to finish the 1st quarter by yearend 2017. The other was Winter Watergarden, what I started to stitch in 2016 March, and I finished 3/4 until September.
There are 2 other WIP in my basket, the holiday piece from Victoria Sampler (Heirloom Nativity Sampler), which is almost ready, and the Stitches around the World, which will be a forever UFO most probably.
In 2018 I would like to finish Winter Watergarden, and start one or two Chatelaines, depending on my stitching bug's behaviour. The sad news of the yearend that Martina Weber, owner and designer of Chatelaine passed away, so there will be no new such beauties what she created. She was an extraordinary designer, it is such a loss that she is not with us anymore.
Quiltingwise I would like to sew a bedcover for my godmother, and some smaller ones for friends and family. I do not have any specific thing on my mind, I will see what grabs my attention. I already put together a yellow-green scrappy one.
