biggest success: cleaning sorting tossing and donating fabric. fabric organized on boards for easy filing. Projects are in 18" square plastic boxes with labels on them. Now as i work on swaps and blocks of the month projects I can put them away together and find them next month. Scraps from quilts are promptly cut down with my accucut into strips or stamps or charms ready to swap or work on scrap quilts.
Now that I have enough home quilts, I peruse the "request" section of this board and donate to charity quilters. I am slowly reducing my stash and making people happy. Baby quilts for the NICU make me happy to make and donate. (I noticed the only type of fabric I never accumulated was quilt of valor , red white and blue....primary colors never interested me....and here I am making QOV blocks for our veterans. Ha, never say never!).
Biggest failure: All this quiltmaking has reduced my ability (time wise) to hand quilt. I am sending the big ones out to the LAer, and the small ones , I am learning to FMQ on one of my spare machines I have set up permanently for this operation. I feel like I might have "lost" my ability to hand quilt. Worried, but no time to go back now.
Merry Christmas, all