Happy New Year!

Happy Happy New Year everyone!! I am so excited to see who has finished a calendar quilt.. yeah you!!!

If you didn't finish and still want to continue on in 2010.. and it is SO WORTH doing believe me.. then come on over to my forum topic. I have people starting today.. you can just start on the last day you need to do and continue forward.. it's ok!
CLICK HERE to the Forum

Here is my quilt and Happy New Year from Pat Sloan!!!
http://patsloan.typepad.com/
(I'm running a giveaway today and another starting Jan 2.. come visit!)

one more day!!!

there's only one more day in 2009!!!

meaning only one more strip to go.

who's gonna be showing us completed quilts in january???

i can't wait to see.

Made It!

I've been watching eagerly as each month passes by and have enjoyed seeing everyone's beautiful work.

Now I can happily present my own November and December ... nothing like doing two months in one but done they are. I was determined to finish before the end of the year.


The last four months still require their names to be embroidered so that may or may not happen before December 31 but I'm OK with that.

Ta-Da .... the year of 2009 ... one strip for each day. I'm still amazed that I made it!



Now for sashings, borders and so on ... but that's for 2010.

Merry Christmas to all.

BLOCKS FOR OCTOBER, NOVEMBER & DECEMBER

This is for October, some shades of turquoise.... love them flowing!









Have collected few fabrics stash with large and gordie floral designs and I arranged them for November.









Definitely this one is for December.... even though had not much christmassy fabrics, but somehow it looks merrier blend together.








So all done! Yeah!!!!!!

december block finished!

now off to work on putting it all together!

SEPTEMBER'S

This dark block is for September.

Now realized that I have a lot of dark fabrics especially black.....being one of my favourite colour.

FOR JULY & AUGUST

These are for July and August

I was not true to myself for neglecting this challenge for a long time. But not forgetting to collect some strips from my stash. All 8 pieces had been sewn and have 4 more to complete the whole year.....now I am off for the rest......

11 months complete!

November is done:

11 months complete!!

the year is almost done...already!!

October block

A lot of orange and black to represent Halloween for this month's block!

The year is almost finished!

10 Down ~ 2 to Go!

That is .... 10 months completed and November and December to go!

All the fabrics are compliments of a lovely friend who was having a spring clean of her fabric bits and pieces.

I'd like to embroider all the family birthdates etc, so that might be my challenge for 2010.

Month Nine ~ September

Wow, already 3/4's of the year have come and gone. I still can't believe that I've managed to keep up. At the beginning of the year I had good intentions to stay in time, but often life takes over.

So I am pleasantly surprised to present the month of September. A number of these were fat 1/4's I received as part of a Birthday Swap ... some from my daughter for Xmas, Birthday and Mother's Day ... one as a prize ... and a few others.

I'm really enjoying the making of this quilt. How is everyone else coming along?

Thankyou Rachel for planting the seed.

Hi from Pat Sloan!!

Hi all you FABULOUS Calendar Quilt makers!!!

I just added a section for Calendar Quilt chatter at my forum. Come on over and keep each other motivated. You can subscribe to that topic so you get an email whenever anyone posts. A great way to ask for fabrics, suggestions on how to keep going.. etc.

I must tell you, as I hope this helps someone, the FIRST time (yes FIRST TIME) I tried to do this I only did 6 months.

So it's ok.. it's ok if you are not up to date as we can get you back on track.. OR.. you can continue right into next year.

Here is my BIGGEST suggestion. START OVER TODAY.. DO TODAY, not yesterday, not July, but today.. go forward. And you will be motivated to fill in the gaps.. which may happen in Jan or Feb or March.. but you can do it!

Here is the direct link to the topic at my forum QuiltMashup. Register, then sign in to post.. see you there!!
http://quiltmashup.com/index.php/board,50.0.html

August Finished

It's a little hard to see, but on the yellow strip at the top is embroidered the month of August.
Fabrics from my scraps and some fat 1/4's i've finally cut into.

I've now joined Jan, Feb, March in one long strip and April, May, June into another long strip. Of course July is above August. Now to start thinking about sashings, borders etc, hmmmmm. I'm looking forward to having this quilt top done.

It's exciting seeing how others are putting their months together also.