2024 is FLYING!! – Honeycomb Quilts

I can’t believe we are 122 days from CHRISTMAS! I haven’t caught up from Valentine’s Day. LOL. I have made a couple of winter quilts, one flannel and one sparkly. I’m not usually a glitter lover but All That Glitters from Northcott is gorgeous. I tried my hand at quilting on my domestic machine. My longarms are busy with customer quilts and the church panel was too tempting not to get it on the wall. I finished it in a Midnight Blue tonal (Toscana) binding by hand, and happily did not end with glitter all over me. So much progress has been made since I started quilting. I can’t wait to make a quilt from the line…but that will wait for another weekend.

Every year I try to make a snowman quilt. My house is overflowing with them during the winter. This year it is Snow Much Fun – the softest flannel quilt. It was a fun pattern and is available in kits at the store.

My daughter and I took a weekend to relax at the Lake and I got a quilt designed and made. It is Dear Santa from Moda. I am not a great colorer but I tried my hand at coloring the faux redwork panel from Primitive Gatherings. I love the vintage Santa print, colored or not. It features Ohio stars in prints from the line. I quilted the store sample with ivory minky on the back, but that’s not unusual for me. Over 50% of my samples have minky on the back.

I still can’t fathom that this year is more than half over. It feels like yesterday I had 2 grands running around the store and now they are in 1st and 3rd grade. We have also added a 3rd and she is the cutest 1 year old. She loves to sew and has already put it together that the foot pedal moves the needle. Hope Hannah and Ellie always have a love for sewing (and maybe longarming in the future).

I truly love my longarming. The “making it a quilt” feeling of longarming never gets old. It’s been a trying year with lots of demands for all of us but I am so blessed to get to work on all my customers treasures and be a part of their labors of love.

Thank you and keep sharing your finished photos of projects.

Denice