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Year 40 Quilt

11/18/2016

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Planning for my Year 40 Quilt {Sarah Nunes @BerryBarnDesigns}
My birthday is this week, and it'll put me just a year shy of 40. I don't get anxious about birthdays, and I'm neither dreading nor excitedly anticipating the milestone next fall, but it will be the start of a new decade and I've been thinking that I want to mark it somehow. To make something fresh and tangible to kick off a time span that I hope will be more intentional and fulfilling, and less out-of-control-career-and-kid-driven-roller-coaster ; ) 
I loved watching Adrienne of On the Windy Side create her block-a-day Year 30 Quilt, but I know I can't commit to that amount of work alongside everything else I have going on. And I thought the Milestone Quilt that Kitty of Nightquilter made for her son's first year was brilliant because she completed it slowly, just one block each month (as opposed to the zero quilts of his own that my now 2 1/2 year old has because thinking of it in terms of "big project" makes it easier to say it can't be fit in just yet... don't worry, though - he's getting one before I do!). So I'm planning to combine both ideas and create my own Year 40 Quilt, working on a block a month until my birthday next November.
Planning for my Year 40 Quilt {Sarah Nunes @BerryBarnDesigns}
Planning for my Year 40 Quilt {Sarah Nunes @BerryBarnDesigns}
I flipped through my old sketchbook for a design I'd doodled a few years back with the intent of creating a purple quilt, fiddled with it a bit, and settled on a final layout. I'm going to use the purples I mentioned in my last post, plus a solid background that I'm waiting to have arrive. I still need to add some more prints, though - I think I'm up to about 27, but I figured why not go full on with the theme and make it 40! So the quilt will have 12 blocks comprised of 40 total fabrics. I'll share my progress with you as I go!
Anyone else made a milestone year quilt before? I'd love to see!
Leave a link in the comments!

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~ Sarah
7 Comments
Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl link
11/18/2016 22:41:40

It will be lovely to watch your progress on the Year 40 quilt. I'm so curious... which color did you pick for the background?!?! I'm sure I'll find out soon enough. :)

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Julia D @ Jada's Quilting Adventures
11/19/2016 06:06:14

Wow! Love the block you sketched and I love purple prints as well! Happy Birthday to you! I am celebrating my birthday tomorrow. No milestone but I do love this idea to celebrate and make yourself a quilt :) I can't wait to see all the progress!

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Kitty link
11/19/2016 08:36:28

I LOVE that you are making a milestone quilt and I can't wait to see it progress!!! Milestone quilts absolutely don't have to be for babies, but I still encourage you to jot notes with highlights of or reflections on each month as you go. Sooooo much fun!

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Leanne Parsons link
11/20/2016 06:01:19

Happy birthday, Sarah! We are the same age :) I'm not bothered by the impending 40 either, but I hadn't thought of making a milestone quilt to mark it. Maybe I'll start on my 40th birthday...The fabrics you have chosen are all gorgeous and the block design is really fun. This will be a fabulous quilt, I think!

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Ioleen
11/25/2016 08:25:37

Happy Birthday! This is a wonderful idea. Love the block you designed. Looking forward to your upcoming posts.

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Anja @ Anja Quilts link
12/3/2016 20:30:04

Happy (late) Birthday. That's a great block you designed. Good luck!

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Anja @ Anja Quilts link
12/3/2016 20:30:47

Happy (late) Birthday. That's a great block you designed. It will look great in purple. Good luck with your quilt.

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