End of Year 2017 and Early 2018 Finishes

I've worked on a few odds and ends in the last few months. 




For our guild's small quilt auction in October, I made a McKenna Ryan wallhanging and I cut the pieces for two.  In December, I managed to get the second one finished for a friend who needs a distraction.

Another friend asked me in December if I'd make this hand-stitched, hand-embroidered ornament for her.  The pattern designer makes some very cute and detailed patterns!  I can't remember how long it's been since I made something like this. It took a few hours but I managed to get it done in time for the holidays.

To keep the holidays low-stress, I decided to make only one gift and it was a stuffed bunny for Brady.  He and I have a thing for bunnies and a blogger that I follow sucked me in with her post about a bunny she'd made for her daughter.  Her blog and patterns are highly recommended.  I've never made a stuffed animal before.  It went pretty well except I couldn't find the eyes in stores and embroidering them evenly was pretty challenging.  Also, I had marked the white fleece with a blue washout marker (on the wrong sides) but the blue showed through.  I ended up giving the whole bunny a deep-water bath the night before Xmas eve (after taking a deep breath).  Luckily, it dried in time and the marks were all gone.

I worked on a few projects at the January retreat although, it is not a long list.  I made a jelly roll quilt in the race, of course.  I made an Indians pillowcase for Brady.  I made three blocks from the Holly Jolly QAL, too.

I finished two stars for the Moonglow quilt (5 year project, lol).  That leaves only one star to make and I am waiting to finish the sashing and choose from leftover yardage in the kit before I make that star.  Two stars seems like pitiful progress, especially since both had components already started before the retreat. One of the stars has twice as many points as the other most-pointy star so you can imagine it was time consuming.  I also worked on the sashing for stars and it looks like they will align well with the setting blocks.  I have 5 blocks with centers to applique.

Read here for the saga of the Indians quilt.  I'm not sure why Blogger has published that post out of order.