Happy Blogoversary to ME!!

Today is time to celebrate!!

I am TWO years blog-old!!

This second year has been amazing! I practiced many new things, learned a lot and accomplished enough to be pretty proud of myself.

Let's put it down in numbers and pictures!

Numbers:
- 140 posts (about 1 every 5 days!!)
- > 80000 pageviews
- 315 followers (between GFC, Blogloving and Pinterest)
- 104 original patterns created and shared for free on this blog (22 still untested!) - about 1 new pattern a week!!
- 1 pattern shop closed (issue with Craftsy)

So what did I made in this second year? Here are some pictures!
(click on the picture if you want to see it bigger!!)

If anyone is interested in pattern/instruction for a specific project, just drop me an email!! :)
All of them have been shared during the year, but sometimes it's hard to find things in blogs.

Color of the Year wall hanging, Cardinal pillow, Grocery bag, Music & Downton Abbey pillows, Xmas decorations, Bibs, Convertible bag, Evil Eye Wall hanging, Grocery bag 2, Dachshunds pot holder and pouch, Ties pillow, Convertible bag 2, Xmas coasters, Xmas table runner.

On the right - All the blocks received in my Block Swap Adventure.
On the left - blocks made for the Block Swap Adventure + 3 blocks (lower right corner) made for Jennifer @ Sewhooked for charity quilts.

Triangle QAL (baby quilt), Celtic Solstice + Celtic Sunrise (baby quilt), Topolino (twin size), Rainbow Starburst (twin size) & Message in a Quilt (twin size)

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And now let's stop looking at the past... and let's look at the future!!
I already posted the list of projects I have for 2015 (see the complete list here), but by now I already added several things to the list and I want to highlight few of the main projects I will focus my attentions on:

I will be running a monthly series of tutorial to learn new techniques or new tricks to known techniques ;) we have a pretty cool list of authors for the different tutorials.

Check out the SYS 2015 page for more information.

Bea @ beaquilter.com is hosting a Peanuts BOM with my patterns! I am not sewing more of them myself, but I designed new patterns because people seems interested in making bigger quilts with these characters! 

I will follow some QAL because I plan to collect animal blocks to make some quilt tops for charity. No specific plans for that, except that I want to use several orphan blocks that I have, so I need to make my collection larger!

I also run a weekly link party (MOP Monday) and I post every Thursday about my weekly Tangle (in the My Tangle Thursday series).

So yes, this following year will be busier than the previous one!!

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I want to conclude this post with an Happy Blogoversary to me... and a huge thank you to YOU ALL.
With your comments and support you fuel my passion for sewing and you gave me so much inspiration!! If you promise to keep the support going, I promise to keep sewing and sharing!!

The LIST (2015)

Today is the first day of the year so let me list all my "ongoing" projects...
the ones that I may want to complete by the end of the year.

I said "may" because many of them are for myself so if something else comes up and takes the priority I won't be disappointed (I declare this up front so I will be ok for the whole year ;) ).

So this is the LIST, with the current status of each project.

1. Xmas tree decoration for 2014 (ehm... a little late, but my tree is still there ;) )
   This is my project for "A Lovely Year of Finishes - January"
2. Pumpkin's play mat
3. the SK project - 20 blocks done, no overall design, no idea how many blocks I want
4. Tea Towel challenge and PPV BOM - 13/34 blocks done
5. Reversible sewing machine cover - 4/8 blocks done
6. College Days Blog Hop blocks for tote/grocery bag - 1 block done, no pattern picked for the bag, no idea how many blocks I will need
7. Alice in Wonderland quilt - 6/15 blocks done
8. As You Wish - 8/16 blocks done
9. Happy Halloween wall hanging - 13/32 blocks done
10. Crazy optical illusion - 1 "row" done
11. Bonnie's Hunter Grand Illusion - grabbed some fabric, but no actual selection done yet
12. Color of the Year mini - designed, fabric picked, ready to start!
13. D wall hanging - to be designed
14. B quilt - to be designed

The list doesn't look too overwhelming...
And aside from this list I will have at least 10 finished projects from our wonderful SYS 2015 tutorial series (Stretch Your Skills, if you want to know more click here).
So I think that by the end of next year I will have plenty of Xmas presents ready to go ;)

It looks like I am going to have a very creative and productive year!

How about you? did you make your quilting resolutions?
Let me know in the comments! I would love to hear that!