Have you heard the New Year’s Day superstition that what you do on New Year’s Day will be what you do all year long?
We spent New Year’s Eve with our daughter and her fiance. I don’t like family out on the roads New Year’s Eve with all the parties and drinking and driving that goes on, so we had them spend the night. Because my daughter missed our traditional
“Wife Saver Breakfast” on Christmas morning, because she had to work, that is what we had for breakfast on New Year’s Day morning. After breakfast, my daughter had to head off to work, but it was nice having her here for New Year’s Eve and then breakfast the next morning.
After breakfast, it was time to focus on how to spend the rest of the day.
Linda and I discussed this issue on New Year’s Eve and decided that we definitely would not be doing laundry or housework! We knew we wanted to focus on quilting, but which aspect of quilting did we want to focus on? In the end, we decided to touch on as many different quilting aspects as we could manage to fit into the day.
The next project I worked on was something that could be considered a reward–something quick to finish that would bring instant satisfaction of accomplishment. I purchased a table runner kit on a blog hop in June 2006 that has been sitting safely in its plastic sleeve since that time. I decided today would be the day to work on that project. This was an old project, not really a UFO since it hadn’t been out of the plastic, that needed to be finished. This one is now finished to the flimsy stage. This runner finishes at approximately 50″ x 20″. I love how this one turned out!
In September 2009, I purchased the fabrics to make Terry Atkinson’s, “Got Stripes?” quilt. This quilt is comprised of two blocks–a block made from striped fabrics and a star block. I made the striped blocks right away and then set the fabric and pattern on the shelf.
When I took this one off the shelf to work on it, it took a bit to remember what fabrics I had decided to use where on the stars. Only some of the fabrics for the star blocks had actually been cut. Further confusing the situation was a navy blue batik fabric that I had also purchased at the time I bought these fabrics. At the time, I thought I might make the star points navy blue. I remember not being able to decide between the brown and the navy blue. I ended up buying both fabrics and decided today to go with the brown.
I think this was a very successful New Year’s Day!
– I stared the day with a wonderful meal together with my family.
– I managed to keep activities for the day related to quilting.
– I worked on using my existing stash.
– I resisted buying new fabric–even though there was a 50% off sale today at a local fabric store.
– I never did any housework or laundry.
2012 is shaping up to be a great year!
My brother and sister-in-law have wanted one of my bed sized quilts for quite some time. The marking of 25 years of marriage seemed like the perfect time to present them with a quilt. I didn’t want to promise that I would make them a bed-sized quilt from scratch because I wasn’t sure exactly how long it would take to finish it with all of the other commitments I have. So, I went to my stash of flimsies and picked “The Simple Cross” to quilt and gift to them. Although they saw the quilt top on September 2, 2012, it wasn’t until June 22, 2013 that they were presented with a finished quilt.
This is a picture of the quilt on the bed at my brother and sister-in-law’s house on the evening of the day that the finished quilt was presented to them.
