Here's a link to a blog post from 2011. (link) That's when I cut apart the big top and added a border, and sent it off to donate to Bastrop relief. Then in 2016 I took the rows that I cut off of the original top, added some blocks and reformed it to look like this. You can read about it at the end of the 2016 wrap-up here.
Now in 2022 it's finished. It's small, good for a kid. I'll put it in the grandkid pile for now, until I have some grandkids.
I wanted last year to be another quiltwrapup year, a year in which I "wrap up" one unfinished quilt a month. That didn't work out too well. I finished two quilts, which is great, and I made some progress on a few more, but I didn't come close to finishing one quilt a month. So of course this year I'm going to be even more ambitious and finish 22 projects. They don't all have to be quilt projects, and I'll include projects that I abandon forever. Abandoning projects is very unusual for me, so that's a legitimate rule. So here is project #1. It's pretty awesome, and we've been sleeping under it all winter long. Soon it will be time to put it away. It's a crocheted granny square afghan using acrylic yarn, joined with the continuous flat braid chain by Cypress Textiles. I started it in 2021 even though I had vowed not to start another afghan until I found a job. I had an interview with Amazon in October and I didn't make the cut, so I drowned my sorrows in yarn. To add insult to injury, I set a goal of creating and joining ten squares a week. This made the process stressful. But my bedroom looks like a beautiful storybook now, so it was all for the best.
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