It is hard to believe that 2018 is coming to an end. This weekend Christmas decorations will be taken down and packed away until next December. Can you even believe that I’ve started organizing/gathering information for working on our Federal/State Income Taxes??

I thought I’d just add some notes about the past year.

1. Attended 2 Quilt Retreats
2. Went to one Quilt Show
3. Made 3 Tops for Fabric Cafe from Donna’s newest book – Fast and Fun 3 Yard Quilts
4. Made 12 Small Kennel Quilts for the Capital Quilts Cares Community Outreach Program
5. Made 15 Small Scissors Cases for Camelia’s Spring Quilt Retreat Participants
6. Made 12 Mug Rug/Name Tags for Camelia’s Spring Quilt Retreat
7. Made 15 Luggage Tags/Name Tags for Camelia’s Fall Quilt Retreat (working on a Tutorial to post later)
8. Made a Coloring Tote and 2 Christmas Mug Rugs, Fabric envelopes for Christmas Gift Cards
9. Made a small tote bag to use with a walker while I was recuperating
10. Started a number of projects – including 2 quilt tops, 1 wall hanging, 6 placemats
11. Made various small projects – drawstring bags, pillowcases/travel pillowcases & zipper pouches
12. Completed the Donation Quilt for Spirit Wind Ministries in Floyd, VA, to be Raffled off in support of their Christmas Retreat for families of Fallen Military (more on that later)
13. Got to see our Grandson several times and had a nice vacation on the Outer Banks in North Carolina
14. Completed Corral #1 & #2 of the Mary-Thon to be active 30 minutes, 5 days a week (each Corral was 26 weeks), as well as finishing 4 Challenges to do at least 1 mile per day for 26 days. I have registered for the 2019 Mary-Thon. If you are interested, it begins January 14th. Learn more about it Here.

I haven’t blogged as much as I would have liked, but have made notes of a few blog facts.

• I wrote 45 Blog Posts in 2018 (I’ll try to do better in 2019)
• My 2012 post, Travel Pillowcase Tutorial was the most viewed for 2018 – 417 views. This is actually the Most Viewed Post ever with 971 views
• Second most viewed post was 2018 Project Linus Mystery Quilt – 272 views
• Third most viewed post was from 2017 – Tops for Fabric Cafe – New Book – Easy Peasy 3 Yard Quilts which had 178 views
• In 2018, my blog was visited by 2,954 visitors from 42 countries looking at 4,018 pages.

Well, that’s enough looking back, now is the time to start moving forward into 2019.