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It's my 11 year blogiversary! Eleven years ago today I put out my first blog post. I started out sharing about a wider variety of crafty and creative projects, not just quilts. In the early years I started quilting more and shifted to that being the primary focus of my blog, and in 2016 or 2017 moved to my own domain where I am now at www.sarahgoerquilts.com. I've been teaching improv piecing to quilt guilds since 2017.

2024 was a slow year on the Sarah Goer Quilts blog, but I'm happy to be back in the swing of things. My blog and my newsletter will be my biggest focus for staying in touch this year. I'm hoping to have more finished projects to share and more behind the scenes and process photos to share with you.

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Here's a peek at what's on my design wall this week. Since I'm nearly done with my first improv house quilt top, I've started a second color way with this first house block. The other two bits at the top are random pieces from previous samples/challenges. And the rest of the blocks are my paper pieced trinket blocks (pattern by Alison Glass) set into 10 1/2" squares with Alison Glass sunprints. This project is one of the six projects that I selected for a 2025 UFO challenge that I'm participating in. There are 40 blocks total. 26 are on the design wall and the other 14 have the borders cut out and ready to piece. Hoping to make this into a finished quilt top soon!

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We moved home (post remodel) and my sewing studio really needs some TLC. I'm in the middle of building my new cabinets to store all the things, but I took a break from building to haul one of my design walls upstairs so I could work on a project yesterday. I have two 4-foot by 8-foot insulation boards covered in batting. I don't have enough wall space to have these up in a permanent location, so I like the versatility of being able to move them around. Typically I have them blocking the closet. I digress...

In January at All-Star Review I sliced into some beautiful Cherrywood fabric for my Planned Improv: All About Angles demo. I love the color palette (Meadow 8-step bundle + Indigo) and I've been itching to get back to this one. I'm still adding to these units and building new ones, but I'm very pleased with where this is going. This section is about 4' wide. I'm tentatively aiming for about 80" square for the final quilt.

What are you working on this week?

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