I'm finished with January

I am playing along with Judy Laquidara's color challenge this year. January was Red. My mission is to use my selvages....the drawers are stuffed.

So, in January I made:

41 - 6.5" strip blocks....

111 - 6.5" I Spy blocks...

118 - 6.5" hexie blocks...

And, then used the small pieces left over to make 37 - 6.5" crumb blocks...

And now the red selvage bin is empty. YES!!

But, since there were still lots of days left in January once I finished these, I found a pattern called Lacquer Luster in a book called Great American Quilts of 2002, designed by Billie Tolmach from Mount Airy, Maryland....and made this....

I used strips...but not selvages....and it all went together pretty quickly. But, who knows when it will be quilted. haha

So, now that is it for January for me. I'll play with other things until February starts....it is an orange month. Don't have as many orange selvages.

Empty spool report for 2019

It was a slow year....haha  From July to December I emptied 41 spools

The first half of the year I emptied 51

For a grand total of 92 spools emptied in 2019.

Not my best work, but in my defense, the last 2 months of the year was spent clearing out my son's crap after he died suddenly. I hope to make better progress in 2020.

I've already emptied one spool for this year .... it's a start.