A new year.

A first for me. When hubby decided to buy some fabric, he saw some fabric panels displayed in the window of the quilt shop. This was one of the pieces he choose.

My choice was a quilt kit and one piece of fabric. He chose quite a few, much more than I did. This has never happened before.

He wants to use them as wall art quilted pieces for his study and office.

A piece of fabric with Loons on it was also part of the fabric he choose. Never a dull moment when we go to a quilt shop. Especially when they have thread too. The things he finds for fly tying is truly amazing.

Antique mall and mystery quilt.

Hubby decided to stop at the local Antique Mall, in a hamlet close by.

I browsed the different vendor stalls and saw a few antique quilts.

Always fun to see them and look at the work, the stitches, quilting, fabrics used and embroidery.

The Bonnie Hunter mystery continues.

Part seven is sewn, it needs to be trimmed before the next part is revealed. These flying geese gets sewn to hour glass blocks.

Part two for the year.

Baby quilt for the youngest great nephew.

This is the replacement quilt for the one which got lost in the mail.

Winnie the Pooh baby quilt.

A playmat quilt.

A fishing quilt.

The Birthday quilt.

Two smocked dresses finished ein early December. It has been a very busy year.

Project bags got made this year, stitching projects have been kitted up and some have starts.

Last finish for the year, the train case.

A year filled with some great projects.(part one)

Baby quilts started the year off for the first two finishes.

One playmat size and one large crib size baby quilts.

Next up a stitching finish from the advent Soedidee stitch along from December 2023.

Rhodedendron Trail is finished, it has a new home.

Fairytales and unicorns for one of the great nieces.

Dinosaur quilt for a great nephew in green, his favourite colour. Indigo Way flimsy is a finish, not quilted yet.

Serengeti Chatelaine.

This is a picture of the complete Serengeti Chatelaine, it was started earlier this year and it will be part of my projects for the next while.

This was where it was last time I worked on it, discovered a mistake and had to rip it out.

Bonnie Hunter mystery part five redone, the correct size.

Part six sewn, still needs to be trimmed.

Finding the way will be worked on again in 2025. All the triangle squares are sewn, they need to be trimmed and then sewn together.

RSC2025 is such an amazing way to get work done on all the projects, to see and be inspired hop over to So Scrappy.

Baked mince pies for christmas. Made the fruit filling from scratch and the pastry. They came out great, family loved them! Used the Mary Berry mince pie filling.

Got these little guys for cleaning the cutting board.

A Merry Christmas.

Just a few more days to go, Christmas day is almost here. We try to relax more, the closer we get to Christmas day. It is less stressful and better for us. Over the weekend we went to the cinema and watched a movie. It was something we have not done in a very long time.

While Kate and I chatted last week, a pair of socks was cast on. It will take a long while to do, maybe by Christmas next year it will be finished.

Some hand quilting happened last week. No rush, just another slow start.

Bonnie Hunter mystery part five is cut out and needs to get sewn, this morning she did a surprise release of part six. I discovered that the red(pink) in my colour way needs to be added to. So my stash will be searched today for something close in value.

Also need some extra light, there is one fabric that may work. Discovered part five the center squares was cut the wrong size, have to cut the squares the correct size and will be remaking these.

Normally we cook traditional South African sausage (Boerewors) and everyone has those on rolls with salad. This year life is just on a different timeline, it happened last night! We had a lot of snow here yesterday and overnight, it is a white Christmas. Made the pastry and the mince pie filling, it has been resting in the fridge. It will be baked today, the whole house will be smelling like Christmas with oranges, fruit and spices. Doing most of the prep today, to free up tomorrow. Christmas day will be a relaxing one.

Merry Christmas to you and your family.