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2021

I'm probably not going to finish another project before the end of December, so I thought I'd take a look back at my year in sewing and quilting. In contrast to years past I made only a few projects in 2021, and did a lot more slow stitching.

I kicked off my year by making this strip-pieced top that I sewed together on Election Night 2020 into a quilt.

Finishing this tote helped me get through losing my mom back in April.

My summer art quilt helped me cope when my favorite person left in May to work in the Pacific Northwest.

I rescued and recycled this beautiful vintage patchwork, and made my first successful lettering stencil for the embroidery.

Recycling was constantly on my mind. Making this art quilt piece into a sunglass case was fun and practical.

I tried an experiment with bargello piecing, which gave me more confidence to test my ideas.

This slow-stitched tote project let me rescue and reuse some sacking material from an old cutter quilt piece, which also gave me more ideas on how I might incorporate the old with the new.

Since I had the pandemic, loss of a parent and sending someone I love off into the unknown to deal with this year, I am very grateful that I had these projects to keep me positive. I'm also grateful for all of the encouragement and support of my artisan friends. That's a wrap for 2021.

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