Having done this for 2025 for quilts and other makes, I’ve gone back in time and done this for 2024, however as there was only one quilt in 2024 I’ve combined both updates.
The year started with lots of English Paper Piecing patchwork with Tula Pink fabrics, and by July I was sharing the sewing machine mat which I hadn’t even set out to make at the start of the year! Since then it’s appeared unintentionally in many of my photos, and it still proudly sits underneath my sewing machine.
To coincide with my blog’s eleventh birthday, and completely unplanned, I finally got around to making some lavender sachets - spookily eleven. That’s not too bad going as I first saw, and fell in love with the pattern back in 2014!
By March I was making use of some of the Gelli Prints I’d completed on the course I’d attended, and trust me, the gelli printing is slightly addictive - and me being me, well I keep the offcuts too as you never know…
In April I was crocheting, or more precisely finishing a crochet project. I’d made the intricate rainbow squares back in 2020 and after rediscovering them in our house move I was determined to finish this project, and boy, I’m so glad I did.
Isn’t it gorgeous?
I also started my next course run by our local library, and this time it was bags. I started by making a pincushion and two pouches for starters, which I’m still using - though I’d clearly like to use my sunglasses case even more!
Within a few weeks I’d made a zipped pouch and a bag from old curtains, which is my ‘go to’ bag for quilt shows. It’s strong, holds a lot (and I mean a lot) and when I bring it home it doesn’t look like I’ve shopped hardly at all - always a bonus!
Then I started to embroider the Indian Block printing I’d done on yet another adult learning course. My first makes were two sets of bunting, one for my great niece with her name on as she has an out of the norm name, and another for my dad who was celebrating a milestone birthday, neither of which I shared on my blog at the time - though I have since shared dad’s birthday bunting a year on.
In September I was scratching my head and working out how to repurpose a cycling top into a drawstring bag, like you do! I’m not sure if it’s particularly spider-proof but it is used to store a cycle helmet in our gym. I impressed myself with how I managed to incorporate the logos, some of the reflective panels, and more from one of MOH’s first cycling tops.
Then, just as summer was ending, I got my act together and made four cushion covers for cushions for our garden chairs - well, they were ready for the following year’s use! Though given my previous fear of everything zipped, this was a major undertaking for me - and all thanks to that bag course that I went on, where as well as making some lovely bags and pouches, I conquered zips!
And having conquered zips, in October on came the pouches - and to be honest, they haven’t stopped since!
It wasn’t until November that I completed my first, and only, quilt of the year - and it was shortly after this my ‘stretch' project idea started to form. The Flying Geese quilt also informed another project I’ve had on my Quilt list for 2025, but didn’t get to so it remains on my list for another year.
But there were more pouches to end the year.
Although I didn’t share the completed embroidered heart here until February the following year, it was all done by Christmas - and a gem of a present to myself, and again it was one that developed as I embroidered. At the start I had no intention of adding the creamy beige lines, but now I can’t imagine it without them.
I ended the year by sharing the pouch love, with hand made Christmas presents in various shapes and sizes for some of my family. That’s also something that’s ongoing, whether or not they think they need a pouch or not - I’m on a mission to convert them!
Quite a year of makes, and yet, quite a different year of makes to the year that follows!