Last year's Murder Mystery quilt is finished! Last year was a Viking mystery, and as we were making the ship parts it was pretty obvious there was going to be a ship on the quilt. I did not use the exact layout that was suggested, but it's close.
This year the murder mystery is set in Greece, and although the layout comes out in December, I am pretty clueless as to how this years blocks will merge into a cohesive quilt. I've been working on Christmas presents, so I don't have the November units done yet, but I still have time!
I'm going to be taking some time off of mystery quilts for a bit. I'm not doing this year's Bonnie Hunter Mystery, and I'm not doing the 2025 Murder at Machu Picchu quilt either. I'm sure I'll do other mystery quilts, I'm just ready for a break from them.
The Viking quilt was finish #37 fo 2024, and my goal for the year was 40 quilt finishes. I've got just over five weeks left to finish three more. I don't usually count table toppers as a quilt finish, but since the huge hot pad I'm making DD#2 is the size of a baby quilt, I will count it as a finish. That is the next in queue for quilting, so after that is done, I need to finish two more quilts. I still have some Christmas projects that aren't quilts but do need quilting to finish, so we'll see how things go. I have two BIG quilts basted, one queen, one king, but who knows, I might just baste a couple smaller quilts so I can hit my goal of 40 finishes if I'm running out of December.
I've been thinking about next years goals for a while now, and I do want to keep the UFO finishes going, but my main new starts will either be deadline quilts for gifts, or non quilting sewing projects. I have big plans, but how much of those are hard goals, and how much are just wishful thinking I haven't decided yet. Of course, even when I do decide, life may decide to get in the way and derail my plans anyway.
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