As I've been reading through the posts on the QB I've seen alot of New Year's Resolutions, I thought it would be fun if everybody shared some "quilting resolutions" What patterns have you been wanting to try, and are willing to make a resolution that you WILL do in the year 2011?

Can't wait to hear from everyone :)

Crazy Quilt

I absolutely have to work on finishing all the quilts I have started first. But I would love to do an Annie's Choice Quilt. The blocks are 12" I would like to do a 42 block quilt (6 across, 7 down) or maybe 30 blocks with some sashing in between. IDK...... but its so much fun to daydream about the next project.

My New Years resolution would be to finish my quilt and start working on my red work wall hanging :?

I will finish my triple irish chain queen/king size quilt. (This might be a pipe dream.)

My New Year's Resolution is to learn how to run my new Tin Lizzie that should be arriving on December 21st. Can't wait to finish a couple easy quilt tops so I can practice on my new "baby"! It's my first long arm, so will be an adventure learning how to load the quilts, etc. I'll probably be asking for lots of advice on here!

My New Year's resolution is to quilt on my new Sapphire 735. I bought it with a Handi Quilter 10 ft frame when I thought we were building a sewing room addition this fall. Hopefully it will happen next summer so after the holidays I am going to set it up in my husband's shop.

My new years resolution is to practice, practice practice! I've been working on my machine quilting (just my regular sewing machine)....and would really like to gain confidence in that.

I think everything I want to try is already in motion. Maybe a crazy quilt or something simple like repeated schoolhouses in red and white... or a pickledish! New York Beauty! A Baltimore Album!

Oh, no. Ideas are occurring to me. I thought I was satisfied.

Curved seams! And more applique.

I wnat to do one of a dog sled team...and I have a picture of my grandaughter crawling on the beach that I am hoping to tackle.
I am sticking to picture quilting...piecing is definitely not for me...I have a bargello lap quilt sitting on my sewing table right now getting quilted...it doesn't lie flat, is going to have some wrinkles, and doesn't look like a bargello either...no more piecing for me:>

My resolution...Hmmm. I have 6 quilts in progress...some more than others. I would really like to finish at least two of them in 2011 plus start one for GD who is a freshman now. Figure if I start it now, I may have it finished in 3 more years. It is my own pattern/idea so is a challenge. If I can keep watch of this post by year's end '11, I will let you know how I did. :-)

My mom started one for me before she passed, I want to finish it along with other UFO's.

What patterns have you been wanting to try, and are willing to make a resolution that you WILL do in the year 2011?


Ok, it is funny you ask, the bargello is one I really want to do. I did the ocean wave this year. Met my goal.
Now Bargello, Purse Pattern from Buggy barn, for my one granddaughter.
and on and on...

I have soo many quilt tops stashed away..2011 I want to step up and start quilting and finishing them

I just got the fabric to do a French Braid. Have had the pattern for a long time but not the nerve. Will jump in after Holidays.

I'd like to finish all my ufo's!

In 2011 I want to get an embroidery machine. I also have quite a few projects already started that I want to finish. Would love to try a bargello, a log cabin and any new techniques I can learn would be fun. I am game to try most anything.......just don't care for the hand work stuff. lol

Once I have finished my sisters quilt which is all applique and will be hand quilted (still have 6 blocks to go!!) I am definitely, definitely going to do a Mariners Compass even if its just one block to use as a wall hanging!!! Of course I still have my Dresden Plate (just started) and Farmers Wife and ........ to complete!!!!

Oooo....good luck with the Mariner's Compass...those are really cool when they turn out like they should. I'm not that brave just now, lol. It's almost like an inside-out dresden plate. How exciting!

Well...I'm already starting to plan the quilts for NEXT Christmas! LOL

I have a quilt for my husband to make that will be completely my design and a LOT of appliqué. I just started one for my baby boy that is snowball blocks, haven't decided what else I'm going to do with it yet. I think I'm going to make a Bento Box quilt for ME in black, red and white. I'd like to try a OBW, but may not get to it. I'm collecting fabric for a quilt for DD. I want to do a Harley Davidson quilt for FIL and an Eagle quilt for my step dad for Christmas(mom and MIL got quilts this year). For the quilts for the Dad's, I'll probably work from panels, so they should be pretty simple.

Otherwise, I just want to try new block ideas and learn learn learn! I'm still pretty new to quilting, so I'm trying to broaden my horizons. :)
I'm also making a commissioned quilt early in the new year. We haven't decided on a pattern yet...leaning towards Stacking Coins, but it's for a friend's baby's new toddler bed (the baby is only 8mos! LOL). We decided to wait until after the holidays, partially so I could get my Christmas projects wrapped up, and partially because financially, my friend can't do it right now. I won't be starting until I receive the first half of the payment, to buy fabrics and such.

I'm going to try to only work on what I have on hand which is many kits plus many UFO's and if I do start something
it would have to be a scrap quilt as I really like them but then there is the new Turning Twenty pattern and all of those fat quarters hmmmmmmm

I am hoping to make a Dresden Plate quilt with plates of many colors using stash. I also want to make a bookshelf quilt that is an autobiography. Then there's a black and white sampler. And...

Wow I remember this same thread last year at this time. We were going to finish 1 ufo a month. How many actually did that? I still have my 2 even though I have worked on them on and off all year. Now I am looking at them and wondering if I can finish by Christmas, ( insert eye roll, belly laugh and smirk)
I will tell you all that they are not my own but I inherited them from my grandmothers. I finish mine from start to finish. What I want to do this year? A quilt for my son, in circles, a harder pattern, and I do not know. We will be moving this summer so I will probably loose 3 months of sewing. Will have to piece by hand something. Oh yea a wedding ring quilt for my friend that asked for one.

I am looking for the last fabric for a Warm Wishes quilt. I also want to make a Rail Fence using a layer cake and jelly roll. (saw the MSQC video). I want to finish my Chinese Coin wall hanging.... lots to do. :)

de stash de stash de stash
......and work on some interesting patterns/templates I bought at last month's Quilt Market/Festival
.......and decide on what to do with those 65 one yd cuts of a new batik I bought.
.....and learn how to use my new Accuquilt Studio.

I want to make a Cathedral Window.

I have several paper piecing quilted wall hangings that are on my to do list for next year - and a snowball quilt for one of my sons - and a square one that I saw here on the board that I need to block out on graph paper..

But I haven't decided what one to make for my bed.... I'm sure it will grab me when I see it. I have bought enough books to last a lifetime so something in there will spark my creativity :)

Ditto. I figure if I get it on my list NOW, it might have a chance of being done by THEN.

I want to make three quilts for the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative. They want very small wall hangings to auction off every month to help fund alzheimer's research. This is a great thing.

Read the rules and help out!!!!

One out of five people have been diagnosed with AD (Alzheimer's Disease). My husband is one of them. He is only 67 and only 10% of those diagnosed with AD are this young. (I don't think that includes those with "early onset" AD. They can be diagnosed as early as 40.)

As the baby boomers age, this is becoming an epidemic.

Read about this project at this web site: http://www.alzquilts.org/

Thanks from the bottom of my heart for any quilts donated for this cause.

I plan to make a log cabin quilt for my son in blues/brown, finish repairing GM Garden quilt (one of my first -- made with one fabric that didn't hold up so appliquing hexagons over damaged ones), and finishing a top begun by my grandmother in the late 1930s -- plus anything else that catches my fancy

want to make a disappearing Four patch quilt in two-color families. Maybe two of them, even. Have made a couple of blocks just to see... addictive.

and also a Disappearing pinwheel quilt

a Thinking out of the Block quilt

a purse (bought a pattern by bailey - quilter7x inspired me)

a Nine Patch Pizazz quilt

a puzzle quilt

there are more, but I should stop there... lol...

lone star, double irish and a triple irish chain

I'm working on a crazy quilt right now. Hope to finish it in the new year

My resolution: Use up my stash and do an attic windows quilt.

What I hope to accomplish in 2011?

Hmmm.... too much............!

Actually I have quite a list:

1) My Queen Size Nevada Star- (Started)
2) The New Glacier Star
3) A Bargello Quilt(Started)
4) A French Braid
5) Start Quilting for hire/others
6) Quilt My McCommas Beauty
7) A Stack n' Whack (just received the books)
8) PP'd Wedding Ring
9) Quilting of many more Project Warmth Quilts
10) many more to be added Im sure..............
Maybe if I get it in print I will be able to cross these off next year at this time.....

I really want to try a Bargello :!:

2000 was the year I decided I was going to learn to hand applique. You know how it goes you find a pattern that is far beyond your capabilities. But you love it, just have to make it, so you sign up for the block of the month.
OK, do you remember the chicken block of the month from Maggie Walker called A Country Journal? This was what I wanted to make for my first attempt at hand applique. The first month's block arrived in the mail. I worked and worked on it. Most of it came out pretty good for a beginner. Everything but the feet. I sewed them on and took them off so many times that I nearly wore out the background material. My solution was to just give up and sew them on by machine. So, my first chicken has flat feet. I was just catching my breath from the first month when the second month 's block came. OMG it had 2 chickens on it. Needless to say they too have flat feet. I think I stopped in the middle of the 4th month. It has been my resolution every year since then to finish the quilt. Not really sure what I'll do with it when I'm done. I just hope one of the kids will want it and they not bury me with it.

Log Cabin

I want to finish my UFO's if possible. Last year I made a resolution that I would not start something new until I completed one of my UFO (one shouldn't be too hard right) well correct finish one is easy but then I got side tracked and started new things. I want to start and hopefully finish a Colorado Log Cabin this year and also attempt to finish one of my other UFO's (only 9 more to go).

Hey ABORNING AGAIN I just got my Tin Lizzy in July love it once I got past the fear of it. I could make it work at the store but at home I paniced. However do not fear there is a website go to "Tin Lizzy' and they have tutorials and all kinds of info. One day I spent a full 8 hours going from my sewing room to my computer just to make sure I had loaded a quilt properly it was not a good day for me as I could bearly move and was in a fog, but got the quilt loaded and quilted the quilt which came out beautiful. I have done three so far only because I had to stop in order to get my Christmas sweatshop going. I am very fortunate in that I have 15 grandkids and decided to make every Christmas a special sew time and not purchase any gifts all are handmade. I am also fortunate in that the dealer I purchased my Tin Lizzy from has an open LA Forum the second Saturday of every month where several LA quilters meet to discuss techniques etc. I also have an 800 number directly to them should I have questions or need supplies. I can drive there but some days I can't drive so I have to call. I live 180 miles from my dealer but I feel like they are just downtown when I need assistance. They even come to me if need to. Congrats on your machine.