My goal for January was to reduce the mending pile and I fixed 15 items. (hip hip hooray!) My DD’s jeans above were patched on one knee early in the month, but by the end of January as you can see, the other knee is in need of a patch as well. I might have seen that one coming.

I added the resolution to finish one UFO per month as well, so here is Mariposa, done with reverse appliqué, sashiko quilting and beaded fringe.

At January Moonlighters we had mini workshop/demos and learned different ways to make quick stashbuster quilts from strips, how to pin baste a quilt top that is not flat and square in order to make it flat and square, and one of those flippy techniques for making curves. That reminded me of my Cathedral Windows quilt that I started way back when. This is probably my first ever quilty UFO sighting. At right you can see how far I got. There are hundreds left to go. I don’t remember it being all that difficult, so I brought it out again.

To make a long story short, I don’t remember how I did it, and the book didn’t help either so I took all the Cathedral Windows pieces, a bunch of Double Wedding Ring pieces and templates from another pattern in the same book, along with the book itself and deposited the whole lot at the Sew What table at the January CBQ meeting. Wow! Did that ever feel good to get those off my hands and let somebody else worry about them. You can be sure I will see them completed at Show and Share one day.

Coming soon: My Quilt Green recycled quilt is finished as well as some knitting and crocheting that I need to take pictures of. And you thought I’ve only been looking at other people’s quilts.