Goodbye 2024! Welcome 2025! A new year with overly ambitious plans as usual. We are off to a slow start but I did put together plans for January. I have not really thought about what I would like to accomplish in 2025 other than quilt & bind 12 quilts. I want to turn those quilt tops into finished quilts.
I will be linking up with Carol at Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday link up. Thank you Carol for hosting.
Under the Needle Last Week
I spent 30 minutes here and 30 minutes there working in the sewing room this week. I have almost sewn up everything I have precut.
I was able to:
- Finish assembling all 4 dragonfruit corner units. Two this week and two last week. This the Block of the Month with Fat Quarter Shop – Dragonfruit.
- Finished a third tree unit for my tree/car block of the Bring Home the Tree quilt by Lori Holt from her Vintage Christmas book.
- Finished assembling another leaders and enders block – this orange churn dash and started another one.
- (not pictured). Worked on labelling and organizing pieces to fuse for Blooming Snowflakes
January Goals
We finished discussing what I did and didn’t get done for December so I see no need to rehash old news. Let’s take a look at my top goals for January 2025.
- SAL: 2024 SJ Temperature Cottage Quilt: Finish December cottage. Start on border
- SAL: 2024 Venti AG Sunprint FPP quilt: Assemble center of top. Cut border. Start assembling border
- SAL: 2024 TP Dragonfruit FPP quilt: Finish assembling corner sections from Month 1 & 2. Cut Month 3 blocks. Assemble Month 3 blocks.
- SAL: Leaders & Enders Churn Dash blocks. Make 2
- SAL: Steven’s Rail Fence: Sew 2 strips. Cut 12 blocks from sewn strips.
- EPP: Farmers Wife 1920: Finish block 48
- EPP: Ruby’s Garden: Start Block 25
- Applique: Finish Blooming Snowflakes
- Applique: Start Year in Words Valentine
- Applique: Start & Finish February Gnome
- Small Project: Finish Patriotic tablerunner
- UFO: 2022 Bring Home the Tree: Make 6 car/tree blocks.
- UFO: 2017-2019 Halifax HST Temperature quilt: September 2018
- Long Arm: 2021 Sunshine quilt – quilt it
This Week’s To Do List
- Work on finishing Blooming Snowflakes. Step 1 fuse shapes to background.
- Assemble 2024 Venti AG Sunprint quilt top center
- Cut month 3 Dragonfruit BOM blocks
- Cut 4 rail fence blocks from strip set
- Cut two car units for Bring Home the Tree
- Sew 1 tree unit for Bring Home the Tree
- Work on Farmers Wife block 48
- Continue working on L&E: churn dash block
- Stay focused🐿️
Afterthoughts
I decided that this year I am not going to put out a 2025 UFO list to work on. It hasn’t worked for me for the past 5 years. For now, I will let it go. Instead, I will focus on monthly goals for myself and see how it goes. As I mentioned in the opening, I would like to finish completely 12 quilts this year. I have enough tops ready to be quilted to make this happen. I would also like to final finish a few small projects that have been hanging out in my sewing room – tablerunners, placemats, project bags, and wall hangings. I made a nice dent last year and want to continue that trend.
The UFO goal will be to finish one project each month.
Here we come 2025!
Wishing you a happy creative and productive week. Thanks for stopping by.
Peggy Stockwell in San Jose, CA
30 mins here and there can sure make a difference! Good job at getting things done! Good luck in Jan, tho I’m not sure you’ll need it! 😉
I’m glad you and your kitties are far away from the wildfires! Your Dragonfruit project is beautiful, and I love your churn dash blocks (one of my favorite blocks). Good luck with your goals!