A finish to share...

This week I finished the January mini heart quilt for my new quilt display holder - added the border, did some machine quilting, and some hand quilting around the heart, and bound it with snowy white!

After that was done, I went back to the quilting on Woven Wreaths!  I have quilted around each of the monthly designs, plus the plaid squares that are in between them.  Now I'm stitching around the outside edge of the whole panel.  

I'm about 3/4 of the way around, so there's definitely 

some left for my Slow Sunday Stitching.

Linking up with Kathy's Quilts.

 

Playing with Pink!

A pretty pink sunrise - good inspiration!

When the new Rainbow Scrap Challenge year begins, it's hard to resist getting out the scraps for the new color.  This month it's pink!  I think I've got a little of everything from salmon and coral to bright pink.

For a quick and easy block this year I'm making these quarter star blocks, so I whipped up a few in some pinks.

My typical background fabric tends to be whatever I can grab out of the low volume bin - and some work better than others!  That one on the bottom right is kind of dark, on the gray side.  I think I picked the wrong pink to go with it!

Then, while working on quilting Pieces of My Life, I started wondering about choosing a consistent background fabric for this project - and what if it was a dark blue? 

I do have scraps of the blue Grunge that I used for the sashing here

that I could play with.

I like this!

Something to think about.

Sharing at SoScrappy for ScrapHappy Saturday.

And at Quilting is More Fun than Housework for Oh Scrap!

Melva Loves Scraps for Sew and Tell Monday.

 

 

I Like Thursday #418

Happy Thursday, friends!  This week between Christmas and New Year's has been pretty quiet at our house, which is perfectly fine with me.  There's been lots of time to read, sew, and relax.  We celebrated the New Year with some of our favorite champagne - at 5:00!!!

We splurged on a couple champagne flutes 

(at the dollar store!) for our new holiday tradition.

We enjoyed the "Call the Midwife" holiday special.  It originally aired on our local PBS station on Christmas Day, but I forgot about it.  It turned out that we could watch it on the PBS app anytime we wanted to.  You have to like that!

This was my last book finish for 2024, and it was a good one.  The main character is the detective Renee Ballard, who runs the Cold Case squad.  Harry Bosch - the longtime main character of many of Michael Connelly's books has a smaller role, but an interesting one. 

I've been keeping track of the books I read every year since 2017, and this year's total is 53.  That's not as many as some years, but still averaging over one book a week.  My highest year total was 74 books in 2020 - I wonder why?!  😜

January 1st is always my day for taking down the Christmas tree and getting all the Christmas decorations put away.  January's decor for the little entryway chest is snowmen, and here's how it looks so far.  The heart mini quilt that will hang here with the snowmen is almost done - hope to share that on Sunday.

Have a great day!

Joining in with Not Afraid of Color for I Like Thursday.