2025: A Quilt Odyssey - Hearts and Hands Quilters Guild Quilt Show

Since I've been quilting quite a bit more lately, I decided to dust off my blog so that I can use it to keep a record of the quilts that I've made. At some point, I'll do a post or two of the quilts from the past few years, but first is post about the quilt show that I went to on Saturday. It was in Sanford, NC, about an hour away. This year I won a door prize! Here are photos of some of the beautiful quilts from the show and my haul.

Barn Challenge Quilts

Quilt Show Entries

Best in Show

A friend from my quilt guild made this quilt and it won a 3rd place ribbon!

My door prize

I couldn't resist this bag, and it's reversible!

This Moda Nantucket Summer FQ pack called my name!

And I got a small FQ bundle of Civil War fabrics. 

 Review of my 2020 Quilting, Knitting and Reading 

Quilting

The only thing needed on this quilt was to hand sew the binding, so I finally got that done and my husband hung it up in our living room.

This quilt top had been stuck for ~5 years, so I finally managed to get it done. Next month I'll send it to my fabulous machine quilter.

Knitting

This year I finished 4 shawls and 2 hats. Project details on Ravelry; I'm Carolina22.

1. Traveling Woman

2. Curie Shawl

3. Fractal Danger

4. Hitchhiker

5. Basic Hemmed Hat

6. Fisher Hat

Reading

I met my goal and finished 148 books!

My top ten:

1. Thin Ice by Paige Shelton

2. A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn

3. Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain

4. A Conspiracy in Belgravia by Sherry Thomas

5. A Spear of Grass by Deanna Raybourn

6. The Awkward Squad by Sophie Henaff

7. All the Devils are Here by Louise Penny

8. A Beautiful Corpse by Christi Daughtery

9. The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley

10. A Girl Called Justice by Elly Griffiths

Hellooo... is this thing on? Time to dust off the blog with a review of 2020.

January: We started the off the new year with dinner at a friend's house

February: Celebrating our 8th wedding anniversary in Williamsburg

March: Our last dinner in a restaurant celebrating my husband's birthday with his identical twin and his family. Who knew the world would shut down less than a week later. . . 

April: The new norm: everything by Zoom

May: Another new norm: cutting our own hair

 

May: Lots of walks on our neighborhood trails

June: the library opened curbside pickup! 

July: Enjoying sitting out on our deck

August: Preparing for the arrival of our new [furry] family member

September: The sweetest pup in the land joined us on September 12th

October: Tired, but oh so happy

November: voted

December: Charlie with his cousin Lovey, the Coton de Tulear who started it all 

Currently {September}

My favorite time of year is when school starts, even though it's been a long time since I was in school! It's my favorite season and it feels like a fresh start after lazy summer days, even more so than on January 1. 

Reading: I got a coverall on my Summer Book Bingo!

Right now I'm reading the latest Louise Penny Glass Houses, and it's so good!

Knitting: Plugging away on a few projects, but I also fell down the Miss Babs gradient rabbit hole this weekend and bought this set:

Anticipating: Hopefully a few days at Myrtle Beach with my family.

Enjoying: I've recently started taking flute lessons. I haven't played in 30 years!