Getting started on 2022

 It has taken me all week to think about and get organized for what I need/want to work on this year, particularly for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  I'm carrying over several quilt projects, but, of course, have ideas for new ones, too.  Isn't that a quilter's life?!

One big goal of mine is to get this one quilted!  Remember the Rainbow Jungle?  I made all these blocks in 2020, and I think I finished up the top sometime early in 2021.  And it has been hanging on my quilt rack under other things ever since.

I'm going to splurge and have this long-armed! It will be my Christmas present - just a little belated.  I need to figure out the backing and call the quilter my local friends have recommended. 

Carryover projects from the 2021 RSC include:

Full Stop, which is in row form.  I've got a plan for it, and have been slowly adding background fabric to help things fit together.  Here's how it looks at the moment.

Crumb Hearts - adding borders.  It's 48 inches wide right now, and I'll be adding top and bottom borders to get it up to 60 inches long.  They'll be a combination of the Kona Aruba and the Tula Pink Fairy Dust that is in between the heart blocks.

I'm thinking of adding some appliqued vines, leaves, and flowers to the aqua borders.  That would be a big hand stitching project for me,  and probably take all year.  Still thinking about that one!

Easy Breezy - blocks have sashing and cornerstones attached, and now I'm sewing them into rows.  This is going to become a baby quilt for Jack's Basket, and will need a small border to make it 36 x 36.  I think I'll use the Kona Alegria that is the cornerstone fabric.

Chandelier blocks  - still making blocks.  Not sure yet how many I'll make each month, or if maybe I'll turn this into a tablerunner.  I have to find a fabric for the setting triangles, too.

These are the 6.5 inch size.

Except, oops...

I guess I have a date with the seam ripper!

New project ideas for this year: 

I enjoyed working on Trip Around the Rainbow so much that I knew I would need a new hand-pieced project to work on periodically.   (I also learned that there won't be a Hand-Pieced QAL this year, so another reason to start my own.) I decided on 9 patches that form plus blocks, with the plus being our monthly color and the background being white with black prints.  Two made so far!

We like to use cloth napkins at our house, and I haven't made any new ones in a long time.  On our Thanksgiving road trip, I found these fun food prints at one of the quilt shops we visited, and I think they'll make great napkins.  This month I'll use the apple print.

I really enjoyed participating in the Table Scraps Challenge that Joy of The Joyful Quilter sponsored last year, so I'm definitely going to join in again for 2022. There's a place in our house that can use some seasonal utility mats, so that's what I'll be making.  I've already got a start on the January mat - and it includes snowmen and red!

And one last thing.  (At least for this post!) I've purchased Sew Preeti Quilts' Masala Box pattern and plan to make a rainbow version of it.  I haven't gotten started on it yet because I need to decide if the background fabric will be one consistent low volume print, or a scrappy mix.

Thanks for sticking with my long post!  It feels good to have my thoughts and projects a bit more organized.  There are a few more unfinished projects in my sewing room that I haven't included in this list, and I'm sure I'll start other new things as the year goes on, but this is a good start.

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