Yeah, I’ve not been good about keeping up lately and I apologize for that. I realize that I’m nearly a year behind at this point, so I’m just going to kind of rapid fire to try and catch up.

Last June, i took up watercolor painting. When I was a kid I remember really enjoying drawing and playing with cray-pas. Anyone remember them? They were oil pastel crayons. I still have them 40 years later. I had been playing around with the Inktense Pencils that my Mother-In-Law gave me for Christmas last year and had posted a few of the doodles on Facebook. One of my friends suggested I join a watercolor group, so I did and the rest is history. I have found that I really enjoy the painting and even had a friend ask for a commissioned piece. I was nervous, but I did it! It turned out well and my friend was pleased with it, so it was a win for both of us.

You can see more of my paintings on the “artwork” tab of my website.

I completed four more quilts in 2019 as well. Two were scrap quilts for my nieces Mady and Claire. These were made from scraps saved over 15 years of their childhoods. All remnants of things that I had made for them at some point. I sent these to them in Texas for Christmas.
Here are some pictures of Claire’s quilt.

And here is Mady’s.

My nephew, Andy married his lovely bride in the fall and I made this quilt for them as a wedding gift. I had to do a little snooping, but i learned that their favorite colors are purple, navy and gray. It was a step out for me as these are just not my normal color choices, but I’m pleased with how it turned out.

And the birth of my new great-nephew, Rylan, prompted this quick little baby quilt.

My great-nephew, Ethan had a birthday and I created this fun little play mat for him. I designed the vector graphics in Inkscape and had it printed at Spoonflower. It has a drawstring around the edges so that when play time is done, you put the little cars in the center and draw up the drawstring and it’s easy to put away.

And the year was rounded out by two little dresses for Evie and Quinn. Both made from the same pattern. Bristol by Little Lizard King. I love the way that both of them turned out. The blue one went to Quinn and the other one went to Evie.

So, that’s a pretty good catch up. I will probably write another post about the quilt show that I participated in in September. But for now I’ll leave it at this.