Year in review – 2015.12.31

It’s that time of year again!  An opportunity to review accomplishments and activities during the past year, and set goals for the new year.

During 2015, I created 18 quilts.   As you can see there were a few trees, and few portraits and quite a few circle quilts.

I submitted 30 quilts to 14 juried shows.  Many were rejected, some I haven’t heard about yet, and 10 were accepted.  Of those, 2 of my modern quilts won awards!

I submitted 3 art quilts to Quilting Arts magazine for their Reader Challenges, and all 3 were accepted.

I also had work published in a book by Sandra Sider – 1000 Quilt Inspirations (7 of my quilts were included, including one of my ‘Rainy Day People’ quilts the cover!).  ‘Rainy Day Girls was featured on the cover of the Spring issue of The Canadian Quilter magazine, and I wrote an article about how I make portrait quilts for the Winter issue.

I did 3 trunk show presentations for local guilds, and taught 4 workshops.  I also created a page on my blog with the descriptions of all the workshops I offer.

I also did some quilt-related travel this year.  In February, I flew to Austin TX for QuiltCon.  In June, I attended Quilt Canada in Lethbridge AB.  In October, I spent a wonderful 5 days at the Fibre Art Network annual retreat in Abbotsford BC.

All in all, it was a busy and fulfilling year.  I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing what I’ve been up to in the past 12 months.  I’ll be back in a couple of days with information about my plans for 2016.