It's time to share my November PHD progress. Can you guess what it looks like?
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| Linking with Ms. P Designs PHD program |
Yep, pretty much the same as last month. It's killing me that I'm so far away from the PHD right now. But I have made progress on many projects this year. I added the approximate years I started each project in the chart just for fun.
I did create a new quilt from start to finish in November. I call it Flying. I even wrote up a postcard-style pattern for it that I sent out to my longarm quilting mailing list and listed in one of my Etsy shops.
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That leaves just one new start for 2025 that I haven't yet finished, the Linda Hahn class.
As far as the actual PHD portion of my list, I have made progress only on #11 and #14. I've completed the last of the blocks for the race car quilt (#11) and just have to sew them into rows and columns and add a border in between the rest of the quilt and those. Then quilt and bind it.
I have two patterns repeats left for #14, the knitted baby blanket I started in 2017. It looks the same as it did last time I wrote about it, so I didn't bother with a new picture.
I'm wrapping up this year's quilts, hopefully this week, so maybe I can knock out a few more of my own projects by the end of the year.
Here are the quilts I've worked on since last week. First is Hannah's, quilted with Echoed Swirls. I still need to bind this plus one of her others that I previously quilted. Side note on Echoed Swirls--this design is very dense! This is as big as I can get it. The lines are no more than 1/2" apart.
Next is Jeri's, quilted with Interlocked Orange Peel. I've written about this quilting design several times before. This quilt is a throw and it took me several days of work because the pattern would not line up no matter what I did. I ended up having to use every other row of my backup file to try to get close to alignment. Although I love how the design looks, this is the last time I will be quilting it for someone else. It's just too much hassle to get an end product I'm happy with.
I quilted Maureen's Oak Leaf on Kayle's quilt. In my opinion this design stitches out best at a larger scale like Kayle chose.
Kayle selected Stardust for this quilt. This quilt pattern is adorable and I love the pops of neon.
Annie picked Radio Waves for this one.
I quilted Bubble Glitter on Mary's quilt. This quilt alternates between this pieced part and large white swaths. It has a combo of high-thread count sheet and pieced parts on the back.
I got the binding sewn onto all of Jeri's quilts.
Speaking of Jeri, her box of missing quilts was finally delivered. The box was completely ripped open on one side and had been taped closed with two different types of tape. Thankfully the quilts were fine. We are going to switch to UPS for this group and also add an AirTag so we know where they are.
Moving on to some fun things of my own, my small guild is doing an advent box where the participants each provided one purchased and one one handmade item to the hard-working organizer. She wrapped the items and made cute little bits of a story that are included in each day's items. She let me know Saturday night that mine was ready. We were in the middle of a snow storm, but my husband decided he'd drive me to her house to pick it up. I guess you can't take the Michigan out of him. 😏
As we were driving back into our neighborhood, we saw lots of flashing lights. Oh yeah, we forgot the fire department's Santa parade was driving through our neighborhood that night. I felt bad for the Santas standing on the back of the fire engine in the snow. Here's a totally lousy picture I took to send to the kids and urge them to hurry and open the front door to wave. After the Santa excitement, we watched Freakier Friday. It was fun. I loved that the original cast returned. My daughter doesn't remember watching the 2003 version though I'm sure she's seen it before. My son and I watched it a couple weeks ago.
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