Summed-Up 2025

 The year 2025 is completed and "in the books", and before I shelve mine completely away on the very long bookshelf that is this blog, it's time for another yearly summing up. Fair Warning: this is quite a long post.

The 1SE video for 2025, all six minutes or so of it, shows a lot about how I spent my time all year. One second per day. Looking back on last year, it's pretty representative, showing the daily studio work, all the family/pets, gardening, and so very very much traveling. Not that I'm complaining about getting to travel of course! It's just been a year of being out and about and away from my workroom, more than is usual.

I published 17 Wandering Wednesday posts about all these travels. Non-local travel locations included  Tahoe, Chemainus Canada, San Juan Bautista, San Francisco 2x, Spokane 5x,Copenhagen, London England, Ashland, Portland.

I'm going to use the same format as I did last year to look at what all got accomplished in my studio.

Finishes

Sky Structure for the Sister Artists exhibit.

Our Mistake for the Stretching Art & Tradition 25 exhibit.

Spring Speaking to Summer for the BAMQG exhibit at the SMCF.

Slopes

Metro Twist

Running Out of Raincloud

Trinket

Another year of participating in Index Card A Day

Made napkins out of toweling fabric.

Big Steps Completed

Pieced the blocks and assembled the top of the Old Town Mystery Quilt

City Sampler Backing and binding done and the quilt is at the long-armer being quilted.

Almost to the center of my Kawandii

Finally found the right background so I can start my Circle Sampler

Made the Bohemian Wife Backing and binding.

Pieced many more blocks for the Y.E.S. coat.

Made 11 more Stamp Quilt blocks and cut out 11 more.

Made several parts of the paper-pieced Candy quilt.

Made blocks for the new BAMQG BOM 

Actually started working on the Oxbow Tote!

Pieced the blocks and sashing for Patchwork Palooza

Pieced the first clue for the new mystery quilt Lupine & Laughter.

Community Giving

7 Blocks

Made and added the binding.

Made and added the binding.

Made the Postage Stamp and HST blocks from the pre-packs and sewed into a top.

Sew Day group project blocks

Seven Postage Stamp blocks

Oh my goodness, that's quite a lot really! I was feeling a little poky and a bit down about my production for the year given all that went on in my non-creative life this year. As per usual my productivity continues to come on in fits and starts throughout the whole twelve months. Not a surprise as a lot of this is still very dependent on how I'm physically doing which changes a lot from month to month (and day to day!). And with all of that traveling, and helping my mom through her move it feels like it's been a decade in a year. Thus, this has been a very good exercise for me to go through every year here on ye olde blougue as I also discovered over the last two years. I think I'll continue this going forward.