Fanciful Quilts

It's been a very long time since I sat down on New Year's Eve and made a list of resolutions.  At the end of each year, I'd look for the list and it was nowhere to be found - thankfully.  Such high hopes for the new year...only to be lost along the way a few months later. So...simple goal.  Yes, I can do simple. UFQs....lots of them.  Pieced tops waiting to be quilted.  Lots and lots of them.  Pieced quilts.  Appliqued quilts.  Panel quilts.  Did I happen to mention lots and lots of quilt tops???   Okay - game on.   Here's January's.... Every quilt has a story.  It's what makes quilts so fascinating.   This one is made of a block swap  .... an online Yahoo group ..... and darn if I remember when that swap took place but I know it was a long time ago.  If memory serves me right, the block is "Prairie Queen".  Now you and I both know that a single solitary block may have more...

  2018?  What the heck happened to 2017???? Let's see....lots of decluttering happened.   Quilting Studio finally reorganized.  It will always be in a state of reorganization.  I can't help it.  I am a storage junkie.  Is there a 12 step program available???  I'll be the first to sign up. In the decluttering stage, I foolishly tossed quite a few UFQs...(that's Unfinished Quilts for those who don't know I'm not a fan of "UFOs").  Never ever ever declutter while in a state of unhappiness.     And as for the 2017 no buy....I did quite well, thank you.  I purchased backing and some FQs for  an online yahoo quilter's bingo game.  That's it.  Honest!   And so the latest off the quilting frame is a project that was ONLY three months late.  It will go in the mail today .... Despite all, I was quite pleased with it.  However, I have to divulge that one must NOT a...