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  As 2024 is very nearly over - and I can't say I have managed that much sewing, even less in the last month as my sewjo seems to have completely deserted me - I am looking at 2025 with great hopes but also fears that once more time will disappear before me. Anyway, it is time to join Yvonne for the #2025 Quilting Planning Party. Before planning for the New Year ahead, a quick recap, remembering that I have been at some point weeks (months maybe even?) without touching a needle or fabric. Last year I had hoped to 1. finish a few quilting UFOs, I had selected 4 but didn't progressed any 2.  make a few dressmaking pieces, but didn't make that many in the end 3. finish one cross-stitch piece and half of the other one, I am not there yet 4. progress some WIP, I managed to work on my Dear Jane a little  5. make a new bag - not even started I am not even sure what I should be planning for 2025 as I am hoping we will be able to move house during the course of the year....

  Time to reflect, time to look back before looking ahead. The year has been busy overall but very unbalanced with regards to my sewing time. Some months have definitely been better than others. One "almost finished" I am really happy with is my Modern City Scape quilt top. The quilt along started in January with one new block a week. I kept up with the schedule for a while but then fell off the wagon when I didn't sew for a long while. I was determined I would finish the top this year and not push it to my UFO list... Now it is not yet quilted (and I have no idea how I will quilt it or when) but I am very happy it is pieced completely. Linking to Best of 2024 Linky Party . Céline

  I have been wearing my new winter coat for a while now but hadn't posted yet as it is still missing its hood... Years ago, I made a neoprene coat from The Makers' Atelier. I loved it and wore it a lot, so it was time for a new one. I wondered whether to make another one using the same pattern again but I thought I'd like a hood this time. I settled on the Silvia coatigan by Schnittchen Patterns  as I really liked the shape of it. I had a beige neoprene in my stash with a lovely texture that almost looked like a woollen fabric that I thought would work for it and also found a piece of silk that my friend gifted me.  I cut all the pieces in September and made the coat then (minus the hood). I started wearing it when I went to a conference end of September.  I thought I'd made the hood as soon as I'd get back from the conference and although I attempted to I didn't manage to finish it and it is still sitting on my sewing table....  I didn't have much of the s...

  December is always such a busy month that I shouldn't really plan much. It is also the time when new QAL are posted and temptation to take one or 10 new projects is very high!!! Maybe I should concentrate on finishing a few things? Qui lting 1.   Ravenbrook Scrap Quilt Along - only January and March done... think about what to do with those blocks? 2. Dear Jane - I should really really finish row F before the end of the year... 1 block needed 3. Birthday blocks - only about 12 blocks done, maybe finish it to make a cushion cover 4. Harry Potter - a few more blocks needed to finish this top 5. Tambo star - hoping to start  this new quilt along, as I have already missed the boat. 6. Mini alphabet quilt along -  one block done, make a pouch out of it? 7. Fussy cut thimbles sew along -  new quilt along from October - 5  blocks done so far  - decide what to do with them? Dressmaking / Sewing 1.  Sew a piece of clothing for me: blouse, trousers, summe...

  I thought I had started quite well, finally finding some little pockets of time to sew after a very unproductive month and then this happened.. . on 20th, which stopped me in my tracks in some ways.... At the beginning of the month I had managed to finally finish my Modern City Scape top. And I have even taken all the papers out now! I also made 3 more thimble blocks so I now have 5 one mini alphabet letter and a little tea cup that I am hoping to turn into a pouch And nothing more really. Everything is quite challenging at the moment with this metal frame around my little finger. Hoping this comes off soon-ish but it is already 10 days... Linking to  November Furtle Céline

  I am so happy that I have managed just a little sewing this week despit my injury. Not much really but 3 more paper piecing blocks are finished. One more thimble One Mini Alphabet block, the only one so far... and a mini tea cup block Can you believe that there are 13 pieces of fabric in this piece? Linking to  Design Wall Monday ,    Midweek Makers ,  Wednesday Wait Loss ,  Needle and Thread Thursday ,  Put your foot down ,  Brag about your Beauties ,  Off the wall Friday ,  Patchwork and Quilt Céline