The other day I got an email that I needed to renew my
LauraSewsStuff domain name and I realized that sure enough, it has been a year
since I started sharing my life here on blogger. I had actually started on Wordpress a couple
of days before, but I really did not find it to be as user friendly as blogger,
so I moved over one year ago today.
When I look back at what I have actually accomplished in the past year, I am amazed – there have been more finished projects in a year
than I have probably done in my entire life combined. I even graduated from college with a Bachelor's Degree last month at age 55! There is something about sharing your
successes and failures that keeps you going – before I had mostly failures I
was embarrassed by, but now, I hope that my failures help someone realize that everyone makes mistakes and they can learn
how to do something right. At the same
time, I hope my successes inspire others to make or learn how to make something
– maybe like a quilt! Hey, if I can do
it, anyone can!
So to celebrate my first anniversary, I have my favorite
wall hanging all finished – I had made it prior to starting the blog, and I
actually finished off the binding a month or so ago, but I have been washing it
to get a nice texture appearance to it – I think I have washed it 6 times
now! I still don’t have it blocked out
perfect, but I love it just as it is-
This was the first Quick Quarter Quilt I made, about two
years ago. Janet did the long arm
quilting on it about two months ago. I
used the border fabric to bind it. The
really funny thing about this wall hanging, and this is a perfect example of
one of my silly boo-boos, is that when I made it, I had intended the side with
the four prairie points to be at the top, and when I was binding it, I wasn’t
paying much attention! But it’s okay – I
still love it, even hanging upside down, and it is above my bed. It is hanging from a thin piece of bamboo,
which came out of the garden department of a major hardware store. I may add a couple of pieces of bamboo just
for some interest.
The colors of this quilt just sing to me – I absolutely
love orange. I really don’t understand
why some people don’t even like it a little bit. It’s so happy. In fact, while I working on the binding, I
kept looking over at my fabrics and I kept noticing how many oranges I have in
there and then I started pulling them out.
I also love the Quick Quarter Quilts, so even though I keep saying I
really need to finish all of the tops waiting to be quilted, I just may have to
throw together another wall hanging just so to showcase all these beautiful orange
fabrics!
Thanks for helping me complete a great year!
Love it!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Chrystal - you are a great cheerleader! :-)
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