Innov8R

I am thrilled with this thread because I have been feeling pretty enthusiastic about 2020.

I want to:
1. design and develop at least 2 new unique handmade doll items to sell in my Etsy shop.
2. develop skills with ruler quilting on my LA
3. create at least one Southwest quilt
4. maintain my sewing studio as I go. It took 10 days to clean it up this fall--not wanting to do that again.
5. Share at least 35 books with my husband
6. Make at least 3 retro quilts as close to 1930's styles as I can get
7. Purchase an original pattern from Southwest Kokopelli and make it.
8. Slow down and enjoy each stitch more.

The Quilted Cottage

I like "goals" so much more than resolutions. Much more positive! I'm enjoying reading everyone's goals.

Iceblossom, I love your comment on the sleeping bags. I so agree!

My main goal is to finally purchase a long arm and quilt the half dozen or so tops staring at me from a shelf over my cutting table. I know what I want, just need to pull the trigger. Going to Road in January so maybe I will just march my sorry tush up to the Innova booth and declare "I'll take that one!"

I don't have any UFOs to finish piecing and just a small stash. I've been purging for many years so now I'm finding I need blenders. I'll look for some at Road.

I finished the Flowerfly collage quilt I made from a Laura Heine pattern I bought at IQF in Houston. It's even quilted - yay! I made the antennae from pipe cleaners and am now wondering if adding some other 3D embellishments to it might jazz it up a bit. Embellishments now added to the Road list.

And I want to try some new patterns with the rulers and templates I gifted myself. I bought the half hexies from MSQ so now I'm cruising the web for ideas. I also bought the creative grids 60 deg mini diamond. There are so many beautiful quilts to make with that ruler/template. Love those grippies on the back, too. I think I need a few more creative grids rulers. Adding to the Road list.

I hope everyone accomplishes their goals!
Happy Holidays! Di

Jan in VA

What a great thread!

2020 will bring some "got to's" --
1. Two quilts that have been layered and basted for 3 years, for daughter and niece (they've marinated long enough!)
2. Fold and re-organize the fabric storage that is currently jammed and stuffed into the armoire.
3. Sort the notions drawers - again- by theme and label the drawers this time
4. Make better use of the Elfa wire drawers next to my at-home sewing table.

And after that, thanks to a precious friend who encouraged me to move my 36" x 60" sewing table and a machine to her marvelous studio, I will plan projects to work on at her house for the year. We meet at least twice a week for 6-8 hours each time and I'm absolutely loving the accomplishment that having a sew-buddy is bringing! Our collaborations on each other's work and projects has been so much fun and a great learning experience. Two heads are sew much better than one!
I look forwad to doing lots of embroidery on linen and wool in 2020 and working on Boro mending in a quilt/kimono/or jacket. We plan to do a star quilt together -- same pattern -- but each using our own fabrics and designing our own borders and settings. The other quilted things I plan to make are not quilts, but things like bags, sewing caddies, needle books/pincushions, jewelry (yes, fabrics & quilted), accessories, some clothing, and, for next Christmas, ornaments as gifts.
I'm jazzed for sewing in the new year --- for the first time in many years!

Jan in VA

origamigoldfish

I want to learn to applique this year, get comfortable enough with my FMQ to use it on a project, and make a quilt using nothing but my treadle machine.

I want to make a quilt for each of my parents, and use up all of the fabric I already have. I bought enough fabric for four or five projects a couple of years ago, and I haven't made them yet. Except for buying backing/binding/border fabric, I want to use all of those up before I make any significant fabric purchases.

I hope to finish cleaning out my sewing room so I have room for more than my sewing machine in there!

Claire123

My main goal is to finish some of the projects that I have started. I have some block of the months from 2016, 2017 and 2018 that I'd like to finish. I also have some other projects, quilts from classes, that I've finished the blocks but have not put them together. Beyond that I'd like to make some small projects like bags and pillows.

jmoore

Luvstoquilt, it sounds like I could take a stash buster lesson from you...what a generous thing to make so many quilts for battered women and great use of your stash.

Snooze, sounds like you have a busy year ahead and I wish you the best with your surgery in January.

Innov8r, I love item #8 on your list of goals. I made an concerted effort in 2019 to reduce my time on my Ipad (and since I don’t watch television) to allow more productive time in my sewing room (and outdoors in the summer).

The Quilted Cottage, looks like you have a lot to look forward to in 2020...especially if you get a new LA machine.

Jan, I am so happy that you have someone to share your love of quilting and a space to create. It sounds like an ideal situation and it’s nice to know how excited you are about the coming year.

QuiltnNan

My goal is to have a better 2020 than 2019 with its major unfortunate life events. I miss being a productive quilter. There are so many quilt designs I want to try. I'm headed to FL for a couple months of respite from the hard winter. I have a stash of scraps there that need cutting up for use.

rryder

My goals for 2020 are to finish some more UFOs. I’d like to finish 1 per month, but that may not be feasible since I’m also committed to working on a couple of collaborative projects. I also have some WIPs that I want to keep moving forward so they don’t become UFOs. And, I want to learn some of the nifty binding techniques that I saw at last years quilt shows.

Rob

Mkotch

I have 14 UFOs at the moment, and my goal is always to finish most of them. I did make quite a dent last year but then added a few more. I would also like to make smaller quilts so I can quilt them myself rather than quilting "by check." Besides, I'm running out of storage space. I plan to find a few new homes for some of the quilts in storage, too. Some years I've resolved to use more of a particular color in my quilts (orange and brown have each been used, and I still don't like brown that much), but this year I'm going to try shopping my stash more as I work on UFOs. This means more pieced backs.

Railroadersbrat

Since I am now somewhat permanently housebound because my sister in law and only means of transportation to fabric stores has moved out of the area, I have a coupon binder that she gave me almost a year ago that I am re-purposing and I'm turning it into a quilting journal. I found some free printable quilting journal pages online that I'm actually printing off as I post this, I'm going to pull out everything I don't need in the coupon binder and replacing it all with these pages and a few other things I found online. The pages has all sorts of goodies, tags for fabric, a do it yourself quilt kit list, retreat list, which I'll use for long trips to KC when I visit my family, to-do lists, quilt project pages so you can list your supplies, where you got them, and even an area for notes so you can even write down how much you spend.

I've been in need of something like this for a while, I put together another one years ago that serviced its purpose, but wasn't quite what I really wanted, so I'm combining the best of both journals into one and starting fresh. It'll be ready by January 1st, so that's my goal, just make a journal that I can keep track of my projects.