What are your Quilting Goals this New Year ?
 

https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/boy.gif Happy Quilting New Year! One of my quilting goals this new year involves....Time management. Next of course is being organized enough to know what to do when I have the time...sound familiar?

Please share ways that you carve out time to work on your quilting projects. I am not retired yet and the days fly by and then the weeks and I haven't taken time to quilt. I have 2 baby quilts to make so these projects are priority.

Wishing everyone a safe and happy quilting new year!

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Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.

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copycat- I did an 8 day cleanup of my sewing room. It was long and tiring but I love the results! I know I'm going to be more productive, in fact in one day I finished 2 projects that were buried in all the mess.

My other goals this year (cleaning it was my first) are get better with ruler work and improve machine quilting. Since Covid I've gotten better at it.

My goal is to start/finish the quilts I have "kitted". I spend hours gathering fabric from my stash. I get everything ready. Then I see another shiny object, and decide that I have to work on that one first. The fabric for Eleanor Burn's Fools Puzzle, is sitting on my dining room table. Toni Whitney's Great Blue Heron's fabric is in a tote on the dining room floor, and for the 3rd Christmas in a row I did not do the Christmas Deer quilt I have all ready to go!! So many choices, so little time!! Oops...maybe a time management problem! I also have two tops ready to finish....

I'm feeling stuck right now on personal projects, but have some customer quilts to work on and know that will get me going on personal stuff too.

Improve my FMQ and get more creative on FMQ designs, learn and add ruler work to my quilting, and finish three projects that have been started for several years, but not completed (civil war quilt 1/2 the blocks are complete, double wedding ring throw ready for quilting, and a patriotic quilt that about 1/2 of the blocks are completed).

I would like to increase the number of quilts I make this year. I received a couple of handy tips from another post about kitting projects and planning ahead so I hope that will help. I normally only get 2 or 3 large quilts done each year and about a half dozen children quilts but I hope to double that this year. Maybe I should be less worried about being organized so I can get more sewing done. LOL

Never-ending goal: organizing my workspace. Thankfully, I can work among chaos.
Working on folding fabric onto magazine boards. Fold for a while, then sew for a while.
I will need a wedding gift quilt for my second cousin's wedding in May! (Yea, vaccines!)

What I plan to do is finish quilts get the basted and quilted. This season of COVID had me make 9 quilt tops that are sitting here and I only finished one. I have another that needs a binding. So finishing all these is the goal.

Hope to be busy this year. I have at least 5 hand quilted quilts planned. I also want to get rid of my UFO tops. Lots to do

This year I will just enjoy my quilting and purse making and not force myself into a frensy. For so long I have sewn like a crazy woman for hubby's charity events and making christmas and birthday gifts. It frazzles me far too much to make it fun. This year my goal is to enjoy my quilting time and be happy.

My goal is to use up more of my stash than I replace! I do not want my stash to grow any more, as it's already past my life expectancy, probably.

My quilting goal for 2021 is simply to finish some quilts for loved ones + one for me. Probably seven or eight quilts, total. That might not sound like the most astonishing or exciting plan, but it means I have to turn four UFOs back into WIPs, plus take on several new projects. I am not a fast or highly skilled quilt maker by any means, so this is definitely a stretch goal!

My goal is to try and finish some of my UFO's. My husband works seasonal work at a golf course and when he is gone I just love to go in the sewing room and have no interruptions. I am trying to put unfinished projects together in bins but everytime I see a new pattern I have to try it and then I somehow have a new UFO.

My first goal is to finish tops completed in 2020 and make an I Spy quilt for grandson's 2nd birthday (Nov 2). I took HollyAnne Knight's FMQA in Fall 2020 and along with my ruler quilting I am confident I can make a dent in them. Also goal of keeping my work space clean after each project and putting fabric/notions away.

I'm taking advantage of the Stay Home orders and the winter weather to make a big dent in my totes of quilt projects... I also have t-shirt quilts to make (2 for a friend and then 4 for my kids) and I want to make some cotton dresses for me for this summer.
And stop!!!! buying fabric that I just have to have because I like it! My stash is already bigger than my life expectancy... although my daughters and granddaughters are already deciding how they will divide up the contents of my sewing room
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Oh RedGarnet I hear ya loud & clear. Being sick a lot this past year taught me that my hobbies are supposed to fun & enjoyable not working yourself in panic mode. I am currently cleaning & reorganizing supplies, hoping that makes me less claustrophobic in my sewing room. I am one of those out of sight out of mind but I just can't have all this STUFF in my face it drives my OCD insane.