An End to 2009

Hardly seems possible for this year to be over already.  I've got to start writing 2010 now.  I wonder how many times the date will be written as '20010' before we all get our fingers retrained!!

Today is when all the news media - and others - are doing year in review stories.  Top sport stories, the top ten disasters, top 100 songs, best and worst of . . . whatever they can think of.  Some of which we'd prefer to forget!

So . . . . . . . .  Of course, I had to do some kind of year-in-review.  Don't worry.  I'm not choosing top, bottom, best, worst, or anything else.  Just pictures.

My Dolls:

1.  Yolanda 2. April-May 3. Carmen 4. Madame Rossignol 5. Seraphina 6. Natalie 7. Valentine swap 8. Fuscia 9. Aengus 10. altoid doll 11. Wonderland swap 12. Zenobia

Fabric postcards:

1. March 2. December 3. 4. November 5. October 6. July 7. April 8.  September 9.  February

and other Projects:

1. Quilt Guild challenge 2. Quilting Arts Rock 'n Roll challenge 3. Cafe Anniversary 4. calendar box 5. Ellie's Quilt Place BOM 6. Halloween wall hanging 7.  Stuffed hand UFO 8.  Pieces of Friendship swap 9. Quilts of Valor 10. Stack 'n Whack quilt 11.  Creative Boxmaking class 12.  Take It Further (TIF) book.

Just in case anyone wonders . . . .  This is NOT the kind of post you throw together at the last minute.  Just to have something to post?  Not!  I don't have an automated mosaic maker and then I looked all the links up individually.  Goal for next year . . . photo mosaic software!

A Farewell to 2007

This is the project I've been hinting at for the past week or more. I made a box to hold my Dayplanner pages for last year. I am a compulsive list maker and my day planners tend to have a lot of information in them. I can't just toss it away! And for those who doubt, I have gone back to confirm a date in previous planners.

So, last year I decided that just stacking them on a shelf with rubber banding is not acceptable. I created my "annual" New Year's project. It counts as annual after the second one, doesn't it? I used a stiff interfacing like Vilene or Timtex and started with a piece of plain muslin this year. I stitched the letters with a piece of craft foam behind so they stand out just a little. Then I scattered snippets of fabric around the letters and covered with a piece of tulle. The fun part is all kinds of free motion stitching. Multiple times and colors! Once all six pieces were finished, I hand stitched them into a box using a buttonhole stitch. Last year's was assembled with the sewing machine which is definitely quicker! I used my braiding around all the edges and added some beads and there it is! Taking a decent picture was almost as much work as making the box in the first place! We had some bright sunshine this afternoon, so I took advantage of it!

Now that I've put 2007 to rest, I am ready to really get into this year's projects.