End of Year Quilt Report

Oh my! I spent some time yesterday going over my 2025 archive of quilts and was surprised to find that I made 25 quilts, 2 quilt tops, 18 placemats, and LOTS of projects installed on stretch canvases.

Note that you can find detailed information on each of these projects on the blog posts for the year.

Here’s my first quilt of 2025: Pot Pour 5: Crosses:

Here’s my last quilt: a donation quilt made for a Charleston Modern Quilt Guild “color” challenge that is due in January 2026. I will post more on this quilt soon as it has a story.

I had such fun making this year’s quilts, and it is hard to pick out a favorite, but if pressed, I’d say it is “Under the Maple Tree,” designed by Rachel LaBour (Stitched in Color blog) and made during a fall sewalong she organized.

Here’s an example of the 18 placemats–made using 2-inch cut blocks from that bin with the “leader-ender” process.

Here’s my largest stretched canvas piece, which is hung in my home. This piece emerged from Tara Faughnan’s Blocks2 yearly online class with a block idea she called “Gridwork.” I am deep into this year’s Blocks3 class.

I worked on two quilt series: one with 4 quilts and one with 3 quilts.

Here’s a quilt from the 4-quilt half-rectangle block series, made with playing with Latifah Saafir’s “Hurty” ruler: “Dancing Hourglass Diamonds.”

Here’s my favorite quilt from the 3-quilt series made with the Cat’s Cradle ruler, but they are all 4 very handsome quilts.

I made a quilt top for beloved neighbor who fell in love with a local quilt kit featuring iconic Charleston “Rainbow Row” houses, and after it was quilted by a longarm quilter here who also installed the binding, I hand-sewed the binding.

AND, I have a small quilt top that I’ll put on the longarm later today–made from the Blocks3 class block: “Star Brite.”

I made and gifted 4 new-baby quilts to my neighbors here, made and donated 5 quilts to the outreach work my two quilt organizations do, and gifted 4 quilts to friends and family. That is 13 quilts, or close to half I made.

“Scrap Cabin” was such a gift–made to one of my oldest friends who visited in May. This quilt is another Rachel LaBour (Stitched in Color blog) pattern and online sewalong.

I stored 7 quilts for my grands to get someday, and I have here 3 quilts made this year to give away when someone claims them.

Two small table topper quilted projects will stay here with me–LOL–for the moment anyway. Like “Garnish,” made in my Blocks3 class this fall and hand quilted.

I am so grateful for this work that I do. And that I have the time and the health at my age (81 in March 2026) to do this work. I fully see these life gifts for what they are–a chance to create beauty and many quilty hugs.

Now, Happy New Year everyone! And on to 2026!