I've been out of the practice of blogging for several years now, but even I know that when you're boring yourself to death with a blog series, it's time to change it up.
Because I really hate to completely abandon this idea of counting up my quilts, I'm going to write very briefly about each year of quilting. I still want to know a number.
Behold: I give you the remaining quilts of 2006!
013:
This is cheating a little bit because I don't have a picture of the actual quilt that I made, but it's just like this table runner, only the stars are all in a hand-dyed maroon fabric. It's lovely and it was a gift to my mother-in-law for her birthday that summer of 2006.
014:
This was an interesting project because it was my first commissioned quilt. A coworker of my mom's gave me lots of candlewicking blocks that her mother had made many years before. I trimmed down all of the blocks, set them with a simple sashing and borders and quilted them up.
015:
And whaddya know? My second commissioned quilt on the heels of the first! I made this as a large wallhanging for a family friend. I really loved the scrappy creams of the background blocks contrasted with the rich stars.
016:
This was a wallhanging for a family friend's wedding gift. I used a technique I learned from Alex Anderson's Simply Quilts show on HGTV in which half-square triangles are used instead of diamonds.
017:
This was a lap sized quilt that I made for a family friend after he suffered a serious fall and back injury and was laid-up for awhile.
018:
I took a day class at my LQS on how to make this Fractured Crystals quilt. We gifted it for a cousin's wedding.
019:
Awww, I still love this quilt! I gave it to a friend's baby on her 1st birthday. She's 9 now!
020:
I'm calling this quilt one of mine because I helped a friend make it step-by-step and then I quilted and bound it. However, my friend bought all of the materials - she gifted it to a nephew. Cute, cheerful and I wish I would have had better photography skills!
021 and 022:
Dum, dum, DUM! The return of the candlewicking blocks! I had enough to make two more quilts for the above referenced commission.