2010 Projects

Projects With Detail Pages

Finished Quilts

I retired in May 2010 and that completely changed everything about my life and gave me much more creative time. I devoted a lot of that time to fabric dyeing but I also worked on a couple of big projects. On the quilting front I seemed to complete a lot of tops and a few quilts. I participated in an art quilt group called Fiberactions and I finished a horrid cross-stitch project called Maggie the Messmaker. I immediately found a new home for it among my blog readers.

Quilted For Others

Maggie The Messmaker

If my life goes to plan this will be the last cross stitch piece that I ever do.
EXACTLY 9 years after I started (7/18/01 – 7/18-10). It has approximately 55,000 stitches.
I’m not sure why I finished it because I really dislike (hate) it. But I have learned a valuable lesson about starting projects on a whim. I bought this kit because it was only $30. I never considered the hundreds of hours that it would take to complete. The gold stitching on the sewing machine took about 3 hours and the couching of the mice and backstitching on the linen took about 5 hours. I bought it because I had a print of the original artwork and thought it would be “cool” to have the matching cross stitch. I didn’t want to hang it in my house because I had already moved on from the original art. I had a blog drawing and gave it away to a blog reader who framed it and hung it in her sewing room. She says she still loves it.