Quilt goals 2025
12-27-2024, 04:44 AM
#13
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My quilting goal for 2025 is to "keep on keeping on". Even if I don't feel like quilting one week I may feel like sewing something for charity...pillow cases, kennel quilt for cats and puppies, and some tote bags. Also thinking of sewing little teddy bears for the police dept. to hand out to children.....always thingking outside the quilting frame! Of course cutting my scraps up into useable sizes and storeing them in the totes I have. Plus keeping the sewing room "straightened up" so I can find things!
12-27-2024, 10:37 AM
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My goal is to have no goals….just to make what I feel like!
I will have to finish quilting and binding my 2024 A Quilting Life BOM, and finish Bonnie Hunter’s Old Town that I’m working on.
But then, no BOM’s, no quiltalongs, no Internet challenges.
Just making what I want to make when I want to make it.
I will have to finish quilting and binding my 2024 A Quilting Life BOM, and finish Bonnie Hunter’s Old Town that I’m working on.
But then, no BOM’s, no quiltalongs, no Internet challenges.
Just making what I want to make when I want to make it.
12-27-2024, 10:42 AM
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I’m taking part in my guilds 2025 Finish It program. You list and number 10 projects you would like to finish and their current status. Each month a number is chosen and you have that month to finish. You may take one quilt and divide it into 10 sections as long as that section can be completed separately from other units. You must show your completed work at that months guild meeting to keep everyone accountable. We did this several years pre Covid and I finished all 10 items. It seems accountability works for me. And if you don’t finish them all, you still have made a start and gotten them to the finish line.
12-27-2024, 02:27 PM
#16
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There is so much on my want-to-do list that I'm reluctant to make specific designations. Mostly, I want to feel like I am managing my quilting and feeling productive as opposed to the times when I begin to feel buried under deadlines (real or self-imposed). I do have a scrap quilt sewn into rows that I will complete and bargello strips cut out so I'm pretty sure those two quilts will earn a 2025 finish.
12-28-2024, 07:29 AM
#17
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Oh, NOO!!! I just added something to my list, lol! Luckily, it's only another block (or maybe 2 smaller blocks, I'm not wild about 12" blocks with chunky pieces) each month.
I've also printed the fabric requirements for FQS's 2025 scrap buster, "Star Climber". It is 2 blocks, Courthouse Steps and Woven Star, each month.
Other than those, I have 2 things to do. First, work on getting WIP's done. Many have blocks completed - I love that part - but need tops assembled - which I do NOT love doing. Second, destashing fabrics. Putting them up for sale is such a pain, and I know it would be at a significant loss. But there is too much that really doesn't appeal to me anymore. Where I used to prefer darker, warm colors like repros and CW, I now prefer lighter and brighter.
I've also printed the fabric requirements for FQS's 2025 scrap buster, "Star Climber". It is 2 blocks, Courthouse Steps and Woven Star, each month.
Other than those, I have 2 things to do. First, work on getting WIP's done. Many have blocks completed - I love that part - but need tops assembled - which I do NOT love doing. Second, destashing fabrics. Putting them up for sale is such a pain, and I know it would be at a significant loss. But there is too much that really doesn't appeal to me anymore. Where I used to prefer darker, warm colors like repros and CW, I now prefer lighter and brighter.
12-28-2024, 07:43 AM
#18
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Last year my goal was to make (or finish) at least two charity quilts a month. I belong to a prayer quilt group and besides making my own quilts I quilt what others make. I managed to make and quilt 14 myself (primarily throw size) and quilt 7 others. Phew! So that will my goal this year as well -- 12 quilts myself and keep up with quilting for the group. Thankfully another member of the group binds them or I'd never get done. I'll get a late start on quilting as my mid-arm needs to go into the shop for repair and the shop doesn't open again until Jan 6th.
12-28-2024, 07:59 AM
#19
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I've added a new goal -- be more careful about how much I attempt to do, so I don't lose days at a time recovering from what I've done, LOL.
I would like to strike a balance between working on longer term projects and taking on new, simpler and non-scrappy ones so I can continue using the larger pieces I have in my stash that mostly didn't work out for borders, etc.
I would like to strike a balance between working on longer term projects and taking on new, simpler and non-scrappy ones so I can continue using the larger pieces I have in my stash that mostly didn't work out for borders, etc.
12-28-2024, 10:22 AM
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Maybe I’ve missed it. But…..
what are your quilting goals for 2025…… subject to revisions?
Mine;
1) January 15; get ready for entries to guild quilt show
2) February; Attend classes at AQS Daytona
3) March; guild show
4) #? Medallion quilts
5) more TBD
6)During trip to California take quilt seminar
what are your quilting goals for 2025…… subject to revisions?
Mine;
1) January 15; get ready for entries to guild quilt show
2) February; Attend classes at AQS Daytona
3) March; guild show
4) #? Medallion quilts
5) more TBD
6)During trip to California take quilt seminar
6) quilt an art quilt. And maybe 2 more
And the list grows
