HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Today, another year has passed. We are now in 2026. Hopefully, life will be good and looking forward to having an awesome year ahead. 

Patrick went golfing while I stayed in bed. Then I was up and ready to get moving. I heated up the room downstairs, and I was ready to go. 

I want to have the 2 quilt tops done for Monday. I need to get moving on the panels. I received a pattern from QOV to use with our panels we ordered. I will do that next and it will give me another panel completed. Colleen wants 2 panels on Monday as well. 

I started putting this together. I had the two sides done and wanted to at least get the border done today. I also had my game at noon, so I had little time to goof around. 

I was able to get this far and then had to quit and finish the border on the other quilt I did a couple weeks ago. 

I was able to get this far before I headed upstairs to play my game. Once that was done - an hour later, I finished this top by adding the white on the bottom and top. I folded it up and have it ready for quilting, so I didn't get another photo when I finished it. 

I got to work on the QOV panel quilt when I finished that top. 

I realized I did the flying geese wrong with the red. I couldn't believe I messed up - but then again, I'm good at that. I tend to mess up and have to figure my next steps. I yelled at Patrick to come down and check our my mess up. We talked about it, and I'm going to put the geese in the corners as planned, using these geese with a red border. Then I can put a dark blue around that. I don't know how it will look, may have too much red, but I'm going with it. 

I checked with Debbie, because we need to go get more fabric for these panels. I will try and find a dark blue that will be close to what I have. I used what I could of it up. The red is almost done as well. I will be able to border it, but then there won't be much left of it. It will be close. I want it done for Monday, and we aren't going shopping till Saturday. In the meantime, I can finish this last border and go from there. 

When I realized I "screwed up," I decided to call it a day. I was able to get a lot done, so I'm not complaining I didn't get anywhere near being lazy. It was a good day for Happy Quilting/Happy Stitching!