2007 Quilting Stats

Here is a picture of my empty thread spools.

I decided to tally up some stats from 2007 regarding my quilting.

1. I used at least 282 yards of fabric

2. I emptied 57 thread spools, most of which were standard size and full

3. I made and sent 240 string blocks to Heartstrings

4. I made and donated 13 kid's quilts to a Family Crisis Center (quilted by a friend)

5. I finished and gifted 6 projects, from tablerunner size to king sized

6. I made 139 flannel baby bibs

7. I made 33 quilts for homeless shelters (most quilted by a friend)

8. I made and sold 2 baby quilts

9. I made 10 purses

I hope to use at least the same amount of fabric in 2008.

Step 2 of Mystery completed.

I finally finished step 2 of the quiltville mystery, all 200 nine patches. Remember, I am making two quilts at the same time.

Here is a picture of some of them already pressed.

And here are the rest of them. I'll get them pressed in stages.

I started step 3. I haven't looked at step 4 yet. I am waiting until I finish the third step.

With the new year fast approaching, I am getting back into the groove of sewing. I have all my UFOs organized and hope to get a number of them done this year.

This is my goal for quilting this year....

1. wedding quilt, needs quilting

2. birthday quilt, needs quilting

3. baby girl quilt, needs quilting

4. baby boy quilt

5. Christmas quilt, needs quilting

Those are my personal gift goals this coming year. In addition to those, I would like to make at least a dozen kid's quilts and a dozen full sized quilts for a homeless shelter.

Wish me luck!!

Here is wishing you all a Happy and Prosperous New Year!!!

Darlene

I thought you might like to see some pictures of my family. This is me with my son, Stephen. (I'm the short one) LOL
This is my beautiful girl, Lydia. She is my Sweet Peach. She has two, 8 week old puppies in her lap. They had just left their mother the day before. While sleeping in Lydia's lap, it was the only time they weren't whining.
This is my husband, Rick and my 17 month old grandson, Stephen Jr. Don't they both have a great pout?

These are some of my rail fence blocks done for the mystery from Quiltville. I went a little overboard and ended up making 200 instead of 100. Guess I will make two quilts instead of one. Now I know how I end up with so many UFOs. I get zooming along with my machine, and before I know it, I have twice what I need. Hence, a new UFO is born.

I am well on my way through step 2 of the mystery. I have been sewing strips and sub-cutting the different units since Thursday. Just counted and have amost all I need for the next block segment. At this rate, I may have them done by next weekend.

While I am working on this mystery, I am using as a leader/ender project some string blocks that I am turning into stars blocks. The string stars will be another quilt for the homeless shelter. No surprise, again, I have two string star quilts in progress at the same time.

I am going to try and figure out how to put lists on the side of this blog, eventually. I would like to list the UFOs that I would like to get done in 2008. I cannot list all my UFOs. There would not be enough space. LOL

Darlene

I'm not THAT old!!!

Okay, I fixed my age in the profile. Somehow, I had myself listed as 1,944 years old!!! That would make me older than dirt!!! LOL

Darlene

I took the plunge!!

Well, I have done it. I have created a blog. Bear with me over the next few weeks as I figure out what the heck I am doing.

Started this to keep my progress on the mystery quilt from Quiltville. Along with the mystery progress, I plan on sharing my quilting life, family life and whatever else comes along.

Thanks for stopping by for a look.

Darlene