The Best of 2024

 

"Best of" and "year in review" lists are everywhere this week.  There are roundups of op-eds, celebrity deaths, the primary-to-convention-to-election, sports, movies and televison, theater, and music -- and my bailiwicks of quilts and books.  

I will post the Annual Reckoning (fabric used and acquired) and 2025 goals tomorrow.   

Here are my favorite quilts of 2024. Click on the highlighted link to get the backstory. 

#1   Kamala banner  

Modern Quilt Studio sold the pattern for $10 and raised $100,000 for the Harris/Walz campaign.  My banner hung next to the front door from August through the election. (The house faces due west so this faded considerably.) 

#2   MQG mini swap

I used neckties to make this 26" mini for Sara, my assigned partner in the annual MQG swap.  See the next entry for what she made for me! 

(I missed the sign up for the 2025 swap, alas.)  

#3  Monarch and Zinnia

This is what Sara sent me for the MQG mini swap.  It is drop-dead magnificent. 

#4 Morning at the Marsh 

I was one of the participants in the Villa Rosa Designs blog hop.  "31" was one of the featured patterns.  

#5  Butterfly Effect  

A 60th birthday gift for a friend.  Design concept is by Jan Mullen (Star Gazey Quilts). 

  

  

Two quilts using Bonnie Hunter's Scrappy Mountain Majesties pattern.   

#6 A   Scrappy Mountains

A commission. 

#6 B  Christmas Peaks

The 2024 AAUW holiday raffle quilt. 

#7  Round Robin rescue

I made two tote bags out of the flimsy from the 2018 guild round robin.  

#8 Homespuns

These are still flimsies. 

#9   Floral Maze

The third maze quilt I've made. Photos of the other two are in the highlighted post. 

   

 #10  Pinwheel Nine Patch

This year's AAUW spring raffle quilt.  I made the flimsy in 2021 and had it quilted in 2024.

Linking up with other quilt bloggers for Best of 2024