2024 Quilting Goals
 

I don’t know where this year went but it sure did leave me in the dust! I did not even come close to my goals last year, not even one! It wasn’t for lack of anything but time! I was obviously very over optimistic as to what I could accomplish and this year I am going to set the bar much lower!

1: Still EQ8 I will not even go there! I will see how this year goes and perhaps add it to 2025.
2: Continue organizing fabrics and rehoming scraps after each project.
3: Get back on Etsy! This means round 2 of fabric reality.
4: Pick one quilt kit and finish it.

I am hoping for a much calmer 2024 and I know many of you feel the same way! I am looking forward to hearing your goals and finding inspiration from everyone!

Move some fabric out.

I have come to realize that acquiring fabric was more fun than actually using it.

My goal is to re-home fabric that I haven't used that I've had for a long time. Make a list of the quilts I really want to make for people. Clean out my sewing room and get rid of things I rarely use, gadgets I bought and forgot I had. Donate my scraps to my friend who makes tons of scrappy quilts. My biggest problem is that I play golf five days a week and that takes up a lot of my time. I need to find a balance between golf and sewing.

This is going to be a scrap year. I love scrap quilts and, belonging to two guilds, there always seems to be a need for community outreach quilts. So scrappy they will be!! My goal is one top a month. We shall see how I do.

And I would really like to get back to entering things in the local fairs...

I'm still working on 2019 Goals, can't even think about next year's goals. Right now I'm just hoping to finish my sofa throw pillows before the end of the month so I can say I got 2 projects done this year. One major project and one minor project. My brain is already frazzled with thinking on next year's projects for the house. Good luck to those that can make their goals realized.

My big goal is to get a long arm set up and then to finish off some of the many tops I have ready to go. I have a big enough space now, wish my budget for the machine was a bit bigger and could include robotics, but a frame and a stitch regulator will let me do what I want.

I got a great tip from Sewbizgirl- practice FMQ ten minutes a day. It works! I'm getting better and better ( except for lately bc I had my second knee replacement.) I finished a quilt right before my surgery and am now more confident about my FMQ so my goal for 2024 is to finish a LOT of tops!!! :D I have way too many in my sewing room.

I didn't meet any of my goals this year, so my only goal for next year is:

Do more quilting! LOL

Happy Holidays everyone.
Rob

My goal is to make projects that *I* want to make.

The last few years I get caught up in every online BOM or sewalong or quiltalong. This year I just want to sew what I like.

This month I got shelves in my office. Today I moved my rainbow of fabrics into my office from totes in the garage. I got to pet my fabric.

I like LI diva’s goal; “ make projects *I* want to make.*
2. Finish some UFO’s.
3. Finish twin quilts for women’s restoration house

I already have the fabrics ready to go for three projects:

1. Queen size Tiny Tiles quilt without batting, just a flannel sheet as the backing. White background with bright scraps for the tiles
2. Strippy QAYG for the sofa. Just four gorgeous fabrics, 2 meters each, each cut into long thirds. Hand quilt the six panels separately using big stitch quilting, then join them
3. Two removable lampshade slipcovers for the living room

This past year I finished doing 'Konmari' on my stash. It was a very difficult process. But I did it! I'm proud of myself, and now each time I look through my fabrics I feel happy because I only kept fabrics I truly LOVE and that literally make me smile.

The two huge things I learned from doing Konmari? First, I like minimalism. Both the 'look' in terms of aesthetics for my home, and quantity. When I had a huge stash of stuff for 'someday' it gave me decision paralysis and nothing ever got made.

Second, as much I love quilts and admire all kinds of different styles, I don't much like the process of making a quilt. I adore beautiful fabrics!! And I enjoy dabbling in hand quilting, applique, and embroidery. But I immensely dislike doing intricate piecing and machine quilting. So I'm sticking with projects that require minimal piecing and can easily be done as QAYG.

It's okay to stick with what you love. I love simplicity in my life. I'll get my fix for complex quilts from going to quilt shows and admiring pictures on the internet.

This year my goal is finish up that bin of waiting to be finished quits and projects. I know I can do it if I just stay focused.

These are all great goals and wonderful ideas! I will be thrilled if 2024 is the year I finish quilting a full-sized quilt. However, I will be happy just having some sewing time no matter what I start, add to, or plan for. I will stay on the fabric moratorium wagon. Hopefully, I won't acquire any more sewing machines....

My goal is to make lots of scrap quilts. I love scrap quilts and have tons of scraps, but somehow I forget to use them.

I plan on quilting less and less in 2024. My husband and I are getting older and having hip and back problems. Need to change my little sewing room on the main level back into a small bedrooom so we don't have to climb the 17 steps to go upstairs to bed. Our 3 season sun porch has a large heavy duty glass table that I can set up as my sewing table when I need it. Will be lselling my quilting frame to someone local hopefully and then I can move on from there. Planning on selling off the majority of fabric also. I'll still be sewing and a limited amount of quilting, but nothing that requires as much "stuff" as what I have now.

2024, Ready or not, here it comes! :)


At the top of my list is to go through fabric that I was gifted from a friend when she moved into a retirement home. The fabric is in totes and fills my closet. I will keep only the fabrics that I like and gift the rest to guild members making charity quilts.


I will make a baby quilt for a granddaughter due in Feb. It involves using templates to trace for a rainbow. I seem to avoid starting it because it is something new for me and so I've procrastinated.


Start piecing a Christmas quilt I've cut out and have ready by Christmas 2024! I have a little over a year so I'm hopeful!


Learn more about my embroidery machine and how it can be used to make quilting designs. I do make labels but that's it.


Wishing one and all Happiness and Joy in your quilting adventures in 2024!

I love the phrase "community outreach quilts" so much more than "charity quilts".

My goals are to continue to have fun making queen size quilts. I like working from start to finish on them. The one I'm working on now will probably be finished in early 2024. Then on to the next - which is also in the planning stage at the moment, a Grandmother's Fan quilt - all pieced blocks and no applique.

My secondary goal is to make seasonal stove front quilts 36 x 36 to hang from the oven door. My oven glass spontaneously exploded without warning - the oven was not in use and noting hit or bumped the glass - the entire front glass covering the oven door just exploded out into the kitchen - found glass over the area from just in front of the oven across to 10 feet away. I want the entire 'new' glass to have something hanging in front of it, so if it happens again I don't have to worry about flying glass all over the room (still finding pieces of it months later). Mfg. said that the glass that exploded probably had a slight defect in it during mfg. and probably just let go. Very scary and loud. Stove/oven was just over one year old. Thankfully no one was injured, including the cats. I have some fabric panels that I plan on using that will make nice pieces for making these small quilts. Bonus, I can also use them as wall hangings!

I acquired a sit down longarm, no bells or whistles, but my goal for 2024 is to become more proficient in using it. Ten minutes a day sounds doable. Was there a plan or design you used. Or did you just wing it and do whatever you felt like that day?

One day at a time is the best I can do! Mom's palliative care takes a lot of my time. I have more ideas than time!

• I made a kit of the Fairy Frost fabric for a large "Pink Seashell" pixel quilt. Then realized that I did not choose a background, so must order from same fabric line.
• Planned colors and ordered batiks for my "Nautilus Shell" pixel pattern, also neglected to select a background! I want an "all batik" quilt!
• After this Seahorse Pixel quilt, I'll need a break from sewing tiny squares into rows. I have my Temperature Quilt ready to trim and join rows, now that more fabric arrived for finishing.
• I am not impressed by my Color Wash quilt. Not enough scraps to make it larger, so the flimsy is baby quilt size. Not sure what, but I want to make it into something.
• It occurs to me by writing this that I need to improve my ordering/planning skills in 2024.

Today all I can say is ..... I want to do a good wander through the sewing room and collect the UFOs and schedule them out monthly. I am pretty good at being calendar driven. I am tired of always playing catch up on some quilt for someone. I want to make more of what "I want" just as several others have mentioned.

1. Finish one UFO per month. (Many fewer than last year this time!)
2. Get 6000, 2.5" squares out of my sewing room and into quilts for PL (Yup, I do keep count just for the fun of it. About the same as for 2023.)
3. Use some of the beautifully weird fabric I was given two years ago that I am afraid to cut.

Anything else is just icing on the cake!

top of my wish list is to move everything from South Dakota to Georgia - and after that I expect my top goal will be to set up a sewing area. Things still have not been decided if we'll be staying with DS, or finding our own place.

In the mean time, I want to continue finishing up UFO's. I want to complete as many as possible before moving.

I've decided not to set any goals for 2024. It drives me crazy that I can't complete the ones I have now. I shall just let it happen on it's own time and enjoy the process.

Write down my UFO's, start working on the one's with the least amount to do first. In other words, Get-R-Done.

My goal is to have a new job. I am going to get up get dressed and go to work in my sewing room. I am employing myself. I got up and went to work for decades so why not go to a job I love with all the benefits I want.

So very true! And now that I'm teaching my 21 year oLd AutistIc Grandson how to use the long arm, it's even more fun!

But to be honest, I only sew to have an excuse to buy fabric.

One of my first projects for the new year is to make the Seed Packet quilt . I bought the kit from MSQC when it was the kit sale day.
total: $147.67
It will be for me. Simple and pretty.
https://www.missouriquiltco.com/prod...k&_ss=e&_v=1.0

I made a small I Spy quilt for my sister's friend's grandson. I really enjoyed making it. It's been several years since I made one (although I have lots of I Spy charms). In 2024, I'm going to make more I Spy quilts just for the fun of making them.

bkay

Lena, I've played around mostly doing meandering. What I'm finding is that I'm building muscle memory and am just more relaxed about the whole thing now. I'm so grateful for her advice!

First, I want to make 3 Quilts Of Valor for DH and 2 of his brothers. Have started gathering my fabrics. Next, get my Pro-Stitcher Designer operational, take a class and start using it. Going to the shop I bought my long arm from next week and they're going to help me. And continue to use up my stash of quilt kits - some bought and some I made up.

I only sew to have an excuse to buy fabric.[/QUOTE] Boy! Do you have my number!!!
Some time ago I purchased a bundle of 1/3 to 1-1/4 yd. end-of-bolt pieces of batiks that I want to make into placemat sets. Many of them married together perfectly while others will work beautifully with my current stash, reducing it. Winner, winner.

trying to clean out sewing room. Finishing up some burrito pillowcases for gifts. Got a string quilt in progress.

OK, I responded to this question a few days ago and good gracious! Since then I have been asked to make two baby quilts, one toddler quilt and it I recalled a promised compass star quilt for a friend's husband. Yikes, making what I want may just be disappearing over the horizon. But.... I will be getting yardage out of the sewing room.

I responded already too, but one thing I forgot is that I hope to join a second quilt guild in 2024. It's the Valley Quilters in Hemet. When I lived in Oregon I belonged to three guilds, and all had something different to offer.

Merry Christmas to all! Hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season.
In regards to this past year, I didn't get nearly as many quilting / sewing related projects finished as I truly thought I would due to a lot of previous family related things that came up along the way. This coming year, I will be busy finishing up a couple of quilts that I truly want to get longarm quilted (they have been sitting in my ufo pile for way too long), also I will be working on helping my mom with a few crazy quilts, a sea tapestry quilt, and a couple of art dolls for the Christmas holiday.
Happy Quilting. Hugs Katie

Since I quilt for my own pleasure my goal is to enjoy my hobby.

My goals went out the door when I realized I was already at the end of December, and I had to R---U---S---H to get the toy shoppe bought for my church Christmas give away. This year every child receives a new coat, pair of shoes and 3 gifts that the parents came to choose, wrap and carry home for today. We go thru the schools, so we know the kids are truly in low-income families. It's a lot of fun see the parents trying to decide what to get for their kiddos. But not even 1 quilt was worked on this month and I have 3 that I was going to give for Christmas--will get it finished in January (I hope).

My goals are:
1-buy my new house
2-Get moved by March
3-Get the 3 quilts during the first quarter.

I've been working on a Laura Heine collage since October. Made a few smaller things like fabric gift bags in the middle, but most of the time I've spent avoiding working on the collage. I hope to put pedal to the metal and finish it in January. I hope never to do another again!

I’d be very interested in the rainbow pattern you have chosen if you would like to share.
I too have a grandchild (my first) due in Feb and I need to finalise a pattern before I start even though I have some fabric already!

My goal is to try to get rid of fabric as I don't quilt as much anymore. I can use that space where I have fabric for other uses. All in all I probably have one tote I could fill up. Not bad after reading some of the stash you gals have..