Skull Quilt!

June 23, 2025 annakwilmoth@gmail.com

I bought the Pixel Skull pattern by Simpson Designs Studio last year and finally have it done!

The pattern recommends a black skull on a white background, but I am all about color. I decided a hot pink skull on a yellow background would be my favorite combination. I used up some of my scraps and bought some material to fill in what I needed.

Cutting the material for this took me several hours each day for a few days. After having it cut I had other projects to get back to, so had it set aside for a some months.

Katy Trail with Cory

June 16, 2025 annakwilmoth@gmail.com

Growing up in MO we would ride bikes on the Katy Trail. I have good memories of it and have wanted to have Cory go with me when we visit my parents. This time we had the time, Dad had the bikes, and so Cory and I rode while Dad was our pit crew. He was getting over strepthroat, so wasn’t up to peddle, but wanted to come along. He met us at each stop on our route and we would refill our water and drink Gatorade that he had in the truck. It was a lot of fun!

Mom's Garden

June 9, 2025 annakwilmoth@gmail.com

Last year Cory and I made a small flower bed for my mom's 70th birthday. This year for her birthday we added to it and also planted another (more established) lilac.

Zion National Park

June 2, 2025 annakwilmoth@gmail.com

With a roadtrip being necessary to attend the funeral for Cory's grandma, we decided to add some fun on the way. We try to do this when we have to make such a long trip as we never know when we next will have the time or be in the area. We decided on going to Zion National Park on our way home as it was our last of Utah's National Parks we hadn’t been to. It proved to be SUPER crowded as it was Memorial Day weekend(we had completely forgotten with our traveling). The radio stations were predicting 92,000+ people over the weekend in that park alone! We heard this, of course, after we were already at the park and witnessing the chaos firsthand.

Mesa Arch Painting

March 31, 2025 annakwilmoth@gmail.com

We went to Canyonlands National Park a few years ago and it has been on my list to paint since then. Mesa Arch is the place I’ve had in my to-paint folder from this trip, but I have taken a while to decide how to tackle it. I think as the process for this is different than most of the images I paint, I want to share with you the way I am going about it.

Happy Trees

February 17, 2025 annakwilmoth@gmail.com

Over the weekend I finished up four of these tree pillows (two for me, two for my cousin). I found the pattern online, altered it a little (as for me it wasn’t quite working), and made them into pillows.

After all the sewing I needed some time outdoors, so Cory and I went to the Salmon River.

Walking along the Salmon

January 27, 2025 annakwilmoth@gmail.com

Cory and I have loved exploring around the Salmon River. It’s some of my favorite forest- the river is as clear as glass, the forest mossy with large old growth trees interspersed.. Idyllic. We found a new-to-us trail on this river recently and went hiking, with plans to go back on more trails we saw while out there.

If the news feed is bringing you down, remember to take a walk in the trees.

Latest sewing project!

January 23, 2025 annakwilmoth@gmail.com

My friend's birthday was Monday so I made her a quilt! She and her family bought a house a little bit ago and she’s been working so hard on it, while working full time, that I wanted to make something to go in the new house. So, thought I would post and share what I have been working on the past couple of weeks.

Polar Bear Quilt

January 13, 2025 annakwilmoth@gmail.com

I was looking through fabrics online for the quilt I made Cory for Christmas, when I stumbled upon this polar bear panel. I had to have it. Polar bears have been a favorite of mine my whole life! I decided immediately I would make a quilted throw for winter time. I like that it works for the whole season instead of being designed around a holiday. I sketched up my plan and bought batiqs, this aurora print that was in the series with the panel, Kona solids and the pinkish purple flannel clouds that I used for the backing.

I started this quilt with a rough doodle of what I was thinking before getting to work.

The top before quilting.

Hand quilting took forever as this time I quilted swirls through the sky and border and followed along lines of major design elements in the panel.

Before the quilt I made a polar bear pillow to make it a set for us to have out in winter. It was a fun way to use my holographic thread in the quilting of the pillow top.

Christmas 2024

January 8, 2025 annakwilmoth@gmail.com

Hey all!! Sorry for my absence. I swore I was ahead on Christmas and everything I had going for the end of the year and then.. you know what they say about your best laid plans, right?

My friend Megan came to stay with us for our birthdays (hers is a day before mine) and for Christmas. We went to birthday donuts at Pip's (for the best made to order donuts around), had boxed seats at Oregon Ballet Theater's Nutcracker performance, hiked to a wonderful waterfall, had Christmas Eve mass, Christmas at our friends’ and took a day trip to the ocean. And we shopped. (Pendleton, Pioneer Quilts, and Portland Leather are kinda musts if you visit me)

All of this in a rental car as ours had some chaos going on due to a call to AAA after a dead battery.. Oh and our basement started to get water coming up THROUGH THE SLAB?!?!?! So a major reorganize, new shelving, things given away on Market Place and a panic attack later, and it seems ok? .. (Thanks Emerald for coming over last minute to help- you are the BEST and I love you)Anyway.

I wanted to share some of the things I made this year for gifts as I am finally in the clear to share them all!!

Throw pillow covers for Teresa who loves dahlias and purple! (A great excuse to use some holographic thread)

A hiking-themed quilt for Cory. It’s a super-oversized throw, almost full size I think? -Backed in Eddie Bauer flannel for extra cozy warmth. The mountain panels were a gift from our friend Megan who bought them on a trip to Alaska! The indigo is a batiq with salmon swimming all over, there are pikas, elk, topography lines with campers and Jeeps, and a leaf batiq as borders and binding. I am really proud of how this came out from the drawing I did beforehand.

I made a pair of these ship-printed pillows for my cousin Danny. He’s retired Navy and has the COOLEST house full of art (I blame Kathy for that hahaha) and I wanted to make them something as they’re some of my favorite people.

I made my friend Megan this tote after she liked this Tula bunny fabric on some other projects I had made. Technically, I gave this to her for her birthday, but it was over the holidays, so it counts.

Cory and Megan at bday donuts!

Not pictured are the three tie blankets and a small painting that were also made for Christmas and escaped my camera..

-Important side note- We made our 100 hikes in 2024 on Dec 31st! It sure was close this time, but with surgery and then the car I think we did ok!

Happy 2025 and I hope your year is full of color and creativity!

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