the year in quilts

So I am back in Colorado after two weeks in Michigan. Had a great time with the family, and overindulged in hobby time, reading five novels and baking cherry shortbreads, peanut butter blossoms, oatmeal whoopie pies, chocolate whoopie pies, a chocolate cake, an apple cake, and banana cupcakes. Nonetheless, my thoughts today are not on getting back to work, but on what I should sew in the new year.

First, a retrospective:



Last year I made four baby quilts and four throw-sized quilts, which is up from 2009 where I managed only seven quilts (and mostly baby quilts).

Last year, I posited some quilting resolutions, most of which I managed to accomplish. I finished the four quilts I had planned, including finishing my quilt bee quilt. I had vowed to do less wonky and more geometric quilts, which I did. I took a few more risks with color in some of the baby quilts I made. I still am inspired by antique quilt patterns more than modern, so let that be the first item on my list for this year:

Quilting goals for 2011:
- Revisit antique quilt patterns
- More quilts inspired by artwork (like the Bauhaus quilts I made last year)
- Pixel art quilts
- More solid fabrics; especially black.