2014 - a year where I stretched those muscles of creativity

New Years is always a good time to reflect on the year that has passed and hope for the year to come. On reflection, I realised that 2014 has definitely been a year of creativity for me. I've created a collage to show off the quilts that I completed in the year and was pleasantly surprised to realise that despite teaching full time, I was able to complete 5 quilts, one of them being a queen sized quilt! How did that happen?

I don't think that I ever mentioned this on here before, but I also took an etching course in the summer of 2014, where I learned a new skill. The result is the following prints that are now all framed and hanging on our walls. My husband will testify that I have constantly moaned about not being the artistic or creative one in my family, but I seem to have proved my self wrong this year.

 I'm hoping to continue the creativity streak into next year - 2 quilts being designed as I type. I was the lucky winner of a fat quarter pack by Lewis and Irene (I had already bought the exact same pack) so I'm hoping to make myself a quilt using that. The other one is for some tricky customers - my parents, who know what they want, it's just that they don't want the same thing. I think I have come up with a solution to this though.... Still in the design stages for this one.

For the sake of a full summary: 17 novels completed in the year. Not too bad!