I’ll bet you think I’m making resolutions for 2015. Nope, not at all. I made a resolution just yesterday, and I have until the ball drops at midnight in Time Square tonight to fulfill it. That only gives me till 9:00 pm, as I live on the west coast some 3,000 miles from New York City.

So what about that resolution? Well, in February of this year I finished a quilt top that had been lingering in my stack of unfinished objects (UFOs) for five years. This is the one:

The pattern is Checkerboard Square by Alex Anderson, and the fabrics are from her line called Never Enough Romance for P&B Textiles.

My plan back in February was to make a pieced backing from the leftover fabrics and finish the quilt right away. Instead, I got caught up in other projects and, well, you know how that goes . . . no longer a UFO, now a WIP (work in progress). And a WIP it remained until yesterday, when I was reviewing my 2014 blog posts to see what I had accomplished during the year. I saw my post of Feb. 2 with the picture of this quilt — and I resolved then and there to piece a backing before the year ended.

Because of the amount of fabric I had left over, I decided to incorporate a very large Goose in the Pond block into the backing. It’s one of my very favorite traditional blocks, despite the fact that I’ve never made one before. (On my quilt bucket list is a red and white quilt, and the odds are good that I will choose this block when I’m ready to make it.)

Here is my jumbo Goose in the Pond block with two rows of sashing around it:

My Goose block finished at 37½” square. With the two rows of sashing, it now measures 50″ square. What I have here could easily be a quilt in its own right but I am committed to finishing it as a backing . . . this evening.

By the time the ball drops in Time Square tonight, I plan to be sitting in the TV room with a glass of champagne in one hand, my little cat Theodora in my lap, and my Dear Husband sitting next to me.

Thank you for stopping by my website/blog in 2014. I hope to see you next year!