Thursday, January 3, 2013

New Year = New Goals

Sorry for my lack of blogging, but I have been having difficulty keeping up with everything that is going on. I am sad to say that I went the whole Christmas vacation without turning on a sewing machine. I am having considerable sewing withdraw! At the beginning of the year, I always like to look back at what I accomplished the previous year and set some new quilting goals.  I finished quite a few things last year, but almost half of them were not on the UFO spreadsheet that I maintain.  This is a good/bad news thing.  I didn't create more UFOs, but I also didn't reduce my number by much.  I hope to remedy that this year.  I am taking a picture of ALL my UFOs as of January 1.  I hope this will be the kick start I need to get going on some of them.

These are some of my sewing goals for this year


  1. Finish 20 quilts/wall hangings from the UFO parade (parade will be starting later today)
  2. Finish the tutorials on the FW blocks & substitutions ;-)
  3. Improve my photography skills so my blogging pictures are more exciting
  4. Limit my purchases enough so that all the fabric I have will fit on my shelves  (backings for 20 quilts should help with this don't you think?)
I hope everyone had a delightful Christmas and Happy New year.

I leave you with a picture of my simple tree this year.  I love that this tree takes about 5 minutes to put up, and 5 minutes to decorate.



2 comments:

MaryAnn said...

Looking forward to the UFO parade. Hoping that marching bands are involved.

Darling Jill Quilts said...

Loving the parade so far! And that tree is adorable!! Good luck with your goals and Happy New Year!