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I can’t think of one, so there.

As with the last 4 years of my life, I have commenced the turning of the new year with a new patchwork quilt. I have done one for mum and dad, a HUGE and heavy queen sized colourwash quilt in blues, my first ever, and dreadfully nasty as an introduction to quilting. I actually started this one 5 years ago, but took my time getting to the end….

Then there was the same quilt again in the same size but with purple colourways for Benno and Claire’s wedding gift. That one was completed in 8 weeks from scratch, dragged to Tasmania on the ferry from Sydney, worked on by candlelight by a wood fire on a remote island off and island off an island, then hauled and completed from Tassie to Melbourne.

Then came my first, and highly beloved Kaffe Fassett Sophisticated Play lap quilt (minus the checkered suffolk puffs). With a bit of help from the ladies at Material Obsession I wound up with a floral twist to an otherwise deeply masculine palette, and I hand quilted it into the end of my most recent pregnancy. It kept my feet warm last winter.

I began this new year cutting my next Kaffe quilt, a bright red striped handkerchief squares number, with geometry that is simple for some and slightly offputting for me. I’m not sure when this one will be completed, it too is Queen sized and I’m tempted to send this one off to be quilted, but I do love quilting as a winter thing to do.

Today I continued working on a quilt I cut this time last year for my friend Emily’s first birthday. being pregnant and hot I gave up, and she got a frock and some re-jigged curtains for her room instead. This year, with 4 weeks to go, I’m hooking in and things are, dare I say, going well so far.

I’ll do some pics at some point, but its in oranges and yellows and some light greens, all squares in single size, and some fiesty mod-style applique is planned for the top.

They all seem to start one year, get completed the next, with each starting or ending on a new year.