2025 Yearly recap................

I had 32 finishes in 2025.  Eight of them were designated to be baby quilts and 2 are wall hangings.  I quilted 12 of them on my Pfaff 7570.  The large ones were longarm quilted by Robin Diaz.  (If you want more details on any of them, just click on the label 'monthly recap' on my right sidebar.  That will show you what month it was finished if you want to search back farther.)

I made 24 new quilt tops.  18 of them are now finished quilts and one was sold.  The best news is that I'm going into the new year with less than 20 tops (19 to be exact) waiting to be quilted.  It has been a l.o.n.g time since that has happened.  Some years I had as many as 40 waiting to be quilted and most often numbered in the 30s.

I'm unhappy with the collage maker in Picasa3, that it divided the tops into 2 sections with small on one side and large on the other.  I clicked on the 'shuffle photos' button many times but this is the only layout it would do.  I haven't found another collage maker that I like so I guess I need to just chill out.

2025 was a big year of making small items, table pieces is what I call them.  They incorporated orphan blocks or pieces of patchwork made many years ago.  I still have some of them: 4 table runners, 4 square table mats, and 11 mug rug size pieces.  All of the rest were gifted.  Some are pictured twice being both in a collage and in a separate photo.  I counted 39 individual pieces. I'm not going to redo the collage.

I don't take photos of all of the dishcloths I knit because there are usually 2 from each ball of yarn and sometimes I knit from 2 balls alike so there are 4 alike.  This collage shows some of the colors I knitted, my evening relaxing therapy during the nightly news on TV.

All day yesterday I searched for UFOs that need attention.  I had 3 that I remembered without even looking for them.  I'll show some on tomorrow's post and hopefully they will get finished in 2026.