Happy New Year's Eve

Can you believe it's the last day of 2019? As another year is coming to an end, many bloggers are reviewing their progress and accomplishments and linking up to Cheryl's "Best of 2019" linky party so I thought it might be fun to join in. My blog indicates that I had a grand total of 20 finishes this year and I am proud of that (we will not mention that my December UFO goal was not accomplished... it goes on the list for next year!) 
Although it was hard to narrow down the choices, these are my favourites:

1. First Finish of 2019

It was wonderful to start the year with finishing Circle of Squares which was a Rainbow Scrap Challenge quilt in production since 2016. It used up 160 different 2.5" squares. I enjoyed piecing the RSC blocks over the years, quilting the circular design, and even enjoyed the winter photo shoot with hearty friends! 

2. String Quilt 

This project was inspired by Gwen Marston and finished in time for the "Dust off a Quilt Book" blog hop hosted by Bea. I was proud of the fact that nothing was purchased to make this quilt. Everything was left over from other projects - the strings, the batting scraps, the backing strips, and the binding. This was the perfect retreat project - no thinking required and lots of hand stitching. I am preparing another one to work on at this year's retreat.

3. Save The Bees

This quilt was a BOM pattern by Jacquelynne Steeves and is one of my all time favourite projects! We need honey and we need bees to make that honey for us. I enjoyed piecing the blocks and machine quilting with various designs.


4. Scrap Dance Tango

This was a mystery quilt from Carole at From My Carolina Home blog. It all started with the gift of HST blocks from a quilting friend and I just love how it turned out! Carole is planning another scrappy mystery for 2020 called The Twist so that will be fun!


5. On Ringo Lake

This is a Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt started in 2017. It is intensely pieced and quilted, and is very heavy. I love the change I made to the design by turned the sashing units into a lovely border and think the gold and blue combination is awesome in this quilt!

Pop over to the Best of 2019 linky party and see the amazing shares.
I am delighted that my collection of favourite finishes includes so many of my favourite quilting things - scrappy quilts, BOMs, favourite quilt pattern designers, Rainbow Scrap Challenge projects, and mystery quilts. Here's to more of the same in 2020!

Happy New Year quilty friends! You can probably guess that I am starting the new year properly... with a new quilting project!